When Frances Nicholson was born on 21 January 1860, in Hornellsville, Steuben, New York, United States, her father, Wesley Nicholson, was 42 and her mother, Martha Jane Leonard, was 31.
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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