The name Bickmore is undoubtedly of English origin, and is [also] spelled in the early records of this country "Bigmore" and "Beckmore". The name is found in Sussex and Essex Counties in England, and is the name of a street in London.
Alexander de Bykmore was elected Archbishop of Dublin in 1310. Sir Thomas de Bykemore was of Kent (1300). Many of the Bickmores of England and also of early America were sea-faring people. John Bickmore of St. Dunstans was a mariner in 1638. Some of the Bickmores who lived in Massachusetts and Maine owned their own ships and sailed the sea.
The first Bickmore that we can find record of in America was Thomas Bickmore or Bigmore, proved to be in New England in 1635, aged 34. This is the fifth great-grandfather of David Newman Bickmore. We know little about his son Samuel or his grandson Samuel Jr., but George, son of Samuel Jr., married Elizabeth Andrews April 2, 1730. Their son John was born at Milton, Maine, march 25, 1731. John moved to Meduncook, later Friendship, Maine.
David, son of John, was born December 18, 1768, at Friendship, Maine. He married Margaret Dickey [possibly Dicks] and they became the parents of Isaac Motor Bickmore, who was the first Bickmore to join the LDS church.
Isaac Motor Bickmore was born at Friendship, Maine, January 6, 1798, and came to Brown County, Illinois, when a young man. He married Martha Harvell in 1828. They became the parents of:
John Jackson Bickmore
Mary Jane Bickmore Abbott
Isaac Danford Bickmore
Mary Ann Bickmore Hardy
Elizabeth Bickmore Gunnell
David Newman Bickmore
Daniel Marion Bickmore (died in infancy)
Isaac and his wife Martha joined the [LDS] church and started with their family to Utah. He and his mother were stricken with cholera and died the same day, July 6, 1852, and were buried by the roadside in Illinois.
Martha and most of her family came on. Some of the party turned back, including John Jackson, and some went on to California. She and four of her children settled in Wellsville, where she married Timothy Parkinson. David Newman and Isaac Danford later made homes in Paradise.
David Newman Bickmore and Elizabeth McArthur were married January 12, 1865. They lived in Wellsville, where all but two of their children were born. They moved to Paradise in 1877. They were the parents of:
Martha Elizabeth Bickmore Shipley
born Feb. 19, 1866, died Oct. 1949;
David McArthur Bickmore
born July 8, 1867, died Nov. 27, 1890;
James Isaac Bickmore
born Aug. 15, 1868, died Nov. 27, 1890;
John McArthur Bickmore
born Feb. 23, 1871, died April 10, 1871;
Florinda Bickmore Peterson
born July 29, 1872;
Danford McArthur Bickmore
born Jan. 2, 1875;
Elizabeth Dickson Bickmore
born Dec. 13, 1876, died Nov. 1877;
William McArthur Bickmore
born Oct. 13, 1878;
Ellery McArthur Bickmore
born Aug. 15, 1880, died Feb. 16, 1951.
David Newman Bickmore died October 9, 1881, at Paradise, Utah.
Elizabeth McArthur Bickmore died September 21, 1918, at Paradise, Utah.