Robert Carter Nicholas

Brief Life History of Robert Carter

When Robert Carter Nicholas was born in 1808, in Rappahannock, Virginia, United States, his father, Joshua Fry Nicholas, was 48 and his mother, Sarah Marks, was 42. He married Mary Monroe Cary in 1833, in Rappahannock, Virginia, United States. He died in Virginia, United States, and was buried in Virginia, United States.

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Robert Carter Nicholas
1808–
Mary Monroe Cary
1812–1836
Marriage: 1833

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  • Robert Carter Nicholas in entry for Anna Nicholas Hopple, "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939"

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World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1812 · Monumental Church Built

The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.

1844 · Lumpkin's Jail

In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.

Name Meaning

English (southwestern England and south Wales) and Dutch: from the personal name Nicholas (from Latin Nicolaus, from Greek Nikolaos, from nikān ‘to conquer’ + laos ‘people’). Forms with -ch- are due to hypercorrection (compare Anthony ). The name in various vernacular forms was popular among Christians throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, largely as a result of the fame of a 4th-century Lycian bishop, about whom a large number of legends grew up, and who was venerated in the Orthodox Church as well as the Catholic. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Croatian and Serbian Nikolić (see Nikolic ), Greek Papanikolaou ‘(son of) Nicholas the priest’ and Nikolopoulos . Compare Nickolas .

History: The colonial official and revolutionary patriot Robert Carter Nicholas was from a prominent VA family on both sides. His father was a British navy surgeon who emigrated c. 1700 from Lancashire, England, to Williamsburg, VA.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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