When Herbert Nicholson was born in 1860, in Mattersey, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Nicholson, was 30 and his mother, Deborah Garty, was 32.
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 .
HERBERT NICHOLSON was the third child of Charles Nicholson and Deborah Garty and was born about 1862 in Mattersey, Nottinghamshire. (1) He was a clerk at Derby train station in 1880, later becoming pa …
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