When Hannah Nicholson was born about October 1710, in Hatfield, Yorkshire, England, her father, Thomas Nicholson, was 33 and her mother, Margaret Raisin, was 37. She married William Moore on 17 November 1737, in Hatfield, Yorkshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 17 April 1780, in her hometown, at the age of 69, and was buried in Hatfield, Yorkshire, England.
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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