The Hickey Family originate from county Clare, Ireland.
The Hickey Sept (division of a clan) is descended from the common ancestor IOCAIGH, Cheiftain of his Sept,
from whom comes the name O'H-IOCAIGH, (O'Hickey).

The Hickey provenance comes from OhÍceADA descendant of ÍceAD, meaning 'healer'. The name is of a medical family of Dalcassian origin (descendants of Cas were called the Dal gCais, or Dalcassians, e.g. O'Brien, MacDonnell, O'Grady, O'Healy, O'Kennedy, Macnamara, Quinn, Aherne, Malone and of course O'Hickey, making them all kinsmen).
By 940 the Norse invaders had pushed the Dalcassians back into a small area of East Clare, controlling the Shannon river estuary.

The Hickeys were hereditary physicians to the O'Briens (descended from Brian Boru, King of Ireland, who died in the battle of Clontarf in 1015, finally expelling the Vikings from Dublin and Ireland), who were not the ruling family in Thomond, but one of the most powerful in Ireland.
Some of them were kings of Munster, and some of all Ireland.

They branched into Northern Tipperary and to Limerick by the 13th and 14th centuries, and were noted more as a scholarly group rather than the ancient warriors of Munster.

The Hickeys were seated at Ballyhickey, in the parish of Clooney, Co. Clare and the name is now numerous through Munster.

Soon after Cromwell's invasion they branched to England and acquired estates at Billing in the county of North Hampton. Their more recent family seat was at Kilelton.

The Hickey Coat of Arms.
The blazoning of the
Hickey Coat of Arms reads:

"Azure a lion passant guardant or, on a chief ermine a band sable.
A hand in a gauntlet erect, holding in dexter a baton all proper."

The lion is at once one of the oldest and most spectacular charges in armory, and was associated with royalty
even before the emergence of true heraldry.

Ermine was one of the two principal furs used in heraldry
(black ermine tails on a white field).

The baton (or baston) is a bendlet couped at either end.
It is usually found borne sinister as a mark of bastardry,
particularly in the arms of royality of illegitimate parentage.
(note: The hand in gauntlet and baton
is absent on this version of the crest.)

Patrick Hickey was born in 1821 of Irish heritage and died in Rosewater, South Australia. He was employed as a labourer at Port Adelaide where a monument stands which includes his name. He emigrated from England and arrived at Port Adelaide on 24 Oct, 1854 in on the ship "Lord Raglan".
He married Mary Hickman Bryan and together had three children.
Their first son James, born 1852 County Wicklow, Ireland, married Alice Louisa Alvina Harvey on 27 Jul, 1900, and died 1 Mar, 1914 Elizabeth Street, Rosewater, South Australia.
The second child was Margaret, born 1854. She apparently died in 1854 aboard ship enroute to Adelaide.
The third child was Andrew, born Feb 1858. He died 18 Nov, 1858 aged only 9 months old.

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