Brief Life History of Nicholas
When Nicholas Card was born on 11 December 1833, in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States, his father, Joel Card Jr, was 51 and his mother, Mary Toothaker, was 37.
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- Nichols Card, "United States Census, 1860"
- Nicholas Card, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Nicholas Card in household of Mary Card, "United States Census, 1850"
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World Events (8)
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1854
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Sagadahoc, Maine, United States
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English (Kent and Sussex): perhaps from Middle English carde ‘card’, an implement for teasing wool for spinning (from medieval Latin cardus) and therefore short for Carder or a metonymic occupational name for a maker of wool carders. Alternatively, from Middle English carde ‘playing card’ (Old French carte), also ‘kind of fabric’ (medieval Latin carda), which could have been a nickname given to a card player or a metonymic occupational name for maker and seller of the fabric.
Irish: shortened form of McCard .
French: from a shortened form of the personal name Ricardon, a pet form of Richard .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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