Family History Notebook
Page last updated 12th August 2007

John Nicholson

Son of John Nicholson and Elizabeth Beeby of Slapestones, Nether Wasdale2

Estimated date of birth  around 1650

Married Jane5 - untraced 3

Children

John2,
Isaac4,5
Sarah

Buried on the 8th of May 1718 at Irton, Cumberland

Notes

1    Information from
            a        "The Family Forest": Margaret M. Russell. Ulpha Press 2000. P99
            b        "Nicholson Nicolson: A compilation of Family Trees": Nigel Nicholson, Rosemary Kitson. 2003. p367.

2    Elizabeth's will 1699 identifies her son John and his son John as in possession at Slapestones. It also beqeathes a trunk to John's daughter Sarah. Not in reference b

3    Referenceb suggests  John married Jane Sowerby on the 15th of June 1682 at Lazonby, Cumberland and that his son John was baptised there in 1683. I don't know what led the author of the family tree in the reference to identify John with this marriage on the opposite side of the Lake District. From the IGI there is fairly obviously a Nicholson family established in the Lazonby area

4    Mentioned in Elizabeth's will. John Nicholson's will of 1693 identifies a grandson Isaac but does not mention his grandson John. Isaac does not appear to fit into the families of Henry or Nicholas.

5    John's own will confirms Isaac as one of his two sons. It also names his wife as Jane.

6    A Jane Nicholson was buried in 1731 from Harmuth house - implying a link with the Dickinsons