Nicholas Ide

Nicholas Ide (1585–about 1620) is identified in the supplied family notes as the father of Nicholas Ide, who later came to New England. He reportedly died in Devonshire, England, about 1620, leaving a widow and a young son.

Nicholas Ide was born in 1585 and was associated in the supplied family account with Devonshire, England. The account states that he died in Devonshire about 1620.

According to the family narrative, he left a widow and a young son, also named Nicholas. The account presumes that the younger Nicholas was born in the year of his father’s death. The widow later married Thomas Bliss, although the notes state that authorities disagree about whether that marriage took place in England or New England.

The supplied material discusses a town named Ide near Exeter, Devon, and states that Nicholas Ide, who later came to America as a boy of sixteen, was born there. That statement appears to concern the younger Nicholas rather than this Nicholas Ide, who died about 1620.

The family notes also mention a Nicholas Hide, said to have been Chief Justice of the King’s Bench during the reign of Henry VIII and a landowner in Devon. No relationship between that individual and Nicholas Ide is established in the supplied material.

Historical context

The family account places the Ide family in Devon, in southwest England, and notes that the town of Ide lay near Exeter. It also describes the later migration of Nicholas Ide’s widow and son to New England, but the date and circumstances of the widow’s remarriage and migration are presented as uncertain.

Sources & research

Silas C. Ide, compiler and publisher, THE IDE FAMILY, PENNSYLVANIA BRANCH (1940), as copied in “The Ancestry of Nehemiah and Ezra Ide.”

Poole’s description of Devon, cited in the supplied family notes for the reference to Nicholas Hide.