William Nicholson 2

William Nicholson

 

WILLIAM NICHOLSON only surviving child of James Nicholson and Sarah Ball, was born at Nottingham, England on 31 May 1818, and was baptized at St. Mary's Church, Nottingham on 3 Jun 1818. He died at Pasadena, California on 11 Feb 1888 and was buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, CA.

He married ALICE HARDY, his first wife, on 2 Sep 1840. Alice was the daughter of Samuel Hardy and Alice Priestly. She was born on 2 Jan 1814 and baptized at Clifton with Glapton, Notts on 9 Jan 1814. She died at Nottingham on 1 Aug 1846.

William married HANNAH BRIGGS, his second wife, at the Wesleyan Chapel on Broad Street in Nottingham on 27 Jan 1848. Hannah was the daughter of Timothy Briggs and Jane Middleton. She was baptized at St. Mary's Church, Nottingham on 2 July 1821. She died 10 Mar 1893 at Pasadena, California, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, CA, Lot #2.

William was, like his father, a joiner. As a young man he worked at that trade with his father in Nottingham. Having lost, within a few years, his first wife and two of his three young daughters, he remarried and emigrated to America with his new bride and his daughter Sarah Ann, the only surviving child from his first marriage.

The new family settled first in Danville, Livingston County, New York, where their first three children were born. By 1859, they had moved to Belvidere, Illinois, where their youngest son Frederick Denning was born (Denning was the name of the Methodist minister in Belvidere). Here they lived during the Civil War, during which William is said to have built coffins for the Union Army.

In 1859 William Nicholson, then residing in Boone County, Illinois, had already begun buying land in Bremer County, Iowa, where the family moved late in 1867. The last Bremer County land transaction on which William and Hannah appeared was a sale of land to their son William J. in 1873. By 1885 William J. and his wife were residing in Los Angeles County, California, and it may be that William and Hannah had moved there with them.

Children of William Nicholson and Alice Hardy:

1. SARAH NICHOLSON, b. prob. at Nottingham, 7 Jun 1841; d. 14 Dec 1843; buried at Nottingham, grave #14105, 17 Dec 1843, aged 2 years, 6 months.

2. ALICE NICHOLSON, b. prob. at Nottingham, 24 Nov 1842; d. at Sneinton Elements, Notts., 5 Jun 1847; buried at Nottingham, grave #14105, 8 Jun 1847.

3. SARAH ANN NICHOLSON, b. at Nottingham on 21 Aug 1844; d. at Lynd, MN on 20 Nov 1931; buried at Marshall, MN; m. in Boone County, Illinois on 20 Apr 1865, CHARLES E. BANKS, who was born at Parkman, ME in 1835, son of Alfred Banks and Sarah Foster. Charles died at Marshall, MN, 18 May 1911, when he was struck by a train. Sarah lived for many years thereafter with her son Will near Lynd.

Children of William Nicholson and Hannah Briggs:

4. WILLIAM JAMES NICHOLSON, b. at Rochester, NY, 9 Jan 1849; d. 11 Jan 1910 in Pasadena, CA; buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, CA; m. in Warren Township, Bremer County, IA, 14 Mar 1876, SARAH JANE WYLAM, who was b. in Hazel Green, Grant Co., WI, 2 Oct 1855, and d. 22 Feb 1933 in Pasadena CA; buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, CA. She was the daughter of Jasper Mowbray Brice Wylam and Barbara Grace Delisle March of Bremer County, IA. Moved from Bremer County, IA, to Los Angeles County, CA, between 1879 and 1885.

5. MARY JANE NICHOLSON, (called Jenny) b. at Danville, NY, 11 Dec 1851; d. at Lynd, MN, 3 Sep 1937; buried at Marshall, MN; unmarried. She was a schoolteacher in Iowa, and lived her later years with Sarah Banks at Lynd.

6. STEPHEN NICHOLSON, b. at Danville, NY, 11 May 1854; d. at Lynd, MN, 18 Oct 1924; m. at Waverly, IA, 16 Apr 1884, MABEL NARCISSA KELLEY , who was b. at Hopkinton, NH, 15 Dec 1861, daughter of Henry Lawrence Bradford Kelley and Phebe Maria Nott. Mabel died at Lynd, MN, 11 Nov 1940.

7. JOSEPH EDMUND NICHOLSON, b. at Belvidere, Illinois, 27 Dec 1857; d. there, 5 Oct 1858.

8. FREDERICK DENNING NICHOLSON, b. at Belvidere, Illinois, 31 Mar 1860; d. at Lynd, MN, 4 Nov 1931; buried at Lynd; m. in Warren Township, Bremer County, IA, 24 May 1888, AGNES MARIA KELLEY.

 

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