Researching Agnes Nicholl
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1566 people with the Nicholl surname? In that year Nicholl was ranked number 2121 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Agnes means "Chaste" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Agnes Nicholl on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Agnes Nicholl and the Nicholl Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Nicholl Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Nicholl family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 2513 people with the Nicholl surname in the UK? Nicholl is now ranked number 2047 for popularity in the UK. |
Nicholl Family History Databases
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Nicholl Forums
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Some Famous People called Agnes Nicholl
Agnes Rose Bouvier Nicholl
Agnes Rose Bouvier Nicholl (1842 - 1892) was an English artist noted especially for her watercolours of rustic scenes with children.
Agnes Rose Bouvier was born in London in November 1842, her father Jules Bouvier, also a painter, was born in Paris but came to live in London in 1818 and married Agnes Chalmers. Bouvier first exhibited a painting called Sticks for Granny in 1860 in Birmingham. She began exhibiting at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1866. In 1874 she married Samuel Joseph Nicholl, an architect, and continued showing at the Royal Academy the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and Society of Women Artists until around 1893. Various works have sold at Bonhams including small portraits of young ladies, A little offering and Children's tea party.
She appears in the book English Female Artists which lists the prominent English women painters up to 1876, the year of its publication.
Bouvier's brother Augustus Jules Bouvier was also a painter and draughtsman.
Source: Agnes Rose Bouvier Nicholl, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Nicholl
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