When Anthony Nicholl was born in 1581, in Hertfordshire, England, his father, John Nicholls, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Cakebread, was 24. He married Rose Rebecca Brett on 1 June 1612, in Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died about 1650, in Essex, England, at the age of 70.
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England established its first colony in North America in 1585 as a way to generate additional wealth. The colony was named Virginia, after the virgin Queen Elizabeth I.
Elizabeth I signed the death warrant for Mary, Queen of Scots, on February 1, 1587, as she was found guilty of plotting to assasinate Elizabeth. Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England on February 8, 1587.
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Irish (northern) and English (Yorkshire): variant of Nichol .
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