When Ann Nicholson was born on 29 June 1826, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Nicholson Jr., was 29 and her mother, Maria Cawkwell, was 34. She married Charles Holland on 20 December 1846, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Brightside Bierlow, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861. She died on 7 March 1874, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 47, and was buried in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (northern) and Scottish: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Nic(h)olas or the vernacular form Nic(h)ol + son; see Nichol , Nicholas . In Scotland the name was sometimes substituted for McNichol .
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Nicolaisen or Nikolaisen , or of the Swedish cognate Niklasson, patronymics from equivalents of the personal name Nicholas .
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Possible Related NamesFootnotes as noted in parentheses ( ) at end of document. Ann Nicholson was the third child of William Nicholson and Maria Cawkwell and was born 29 Jun 1826. Although listed in family records and her …
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