When John Nicholson was born on 29 November 1806, in Thorne, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Nicholson Sr., was 35 and his mother, Mary Grayson, was 39. He married Harriet Eaton on 20 November 1828, in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Sheffield St Peter and St Paul, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861.
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The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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