I think that our Wild Bills must be related, your spelling of the surname being the Americanised version.

The Cambridgeshire Hiccough was also noted for a degree or two of flatulence caused, in the main, by a diet composed almost entirely of brusels sprouts. His posterior emanations were the cause of the famous 'will o' the wisp', naturally igniting methane pockets in the fenland soil. In fact before Hiccough, the fens had been comprised of a series of hills and dales rising in parts to 250 feet. He was not only responsible for their levelling, but also for the resultant silting up of the Thames estuary.

I'm sure he would have been proud of his American cousin, who is, no doubt, still out there somewhere wrapped in his own atmosphere and causing damage to minor planets and the like.

Wild Bill Hiccough was eventually buried under 1000 tons of granite, anything less substantial proving unable to keep him down.

Don't you just love the history of our lesser known, ordinary ancestors and their trans-atlantic links.