Records of Frederic Nicholls on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Frederic Nicholls in your family tree. With over 30 billion records and 100 million family trees to search, Ancestry is one of the key websites to visit to help you trace your family tree back in time. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

A Moment of your Time Please...

In order to try and help fund this website, I've tried producing some music. Click the banner below to listen to my latest album on your favourite streaming service. If you like it, please consider adding your favourite songs to a playlist!

Play music by Gracie James
Country Collection
Globe Ancestry.com Global records search results for Frederic Nicholls.
USA Ancestry.com US records search results for Frederic Nicholls.
UK Ancestry.co.uk UK records search results for Frederic Nicholls.
Canada Ancestry.ca Canadian records search results for Frederic Nicholls.
Australia Ancestry.com.au Australian records search results for Frederic Nicholls.

DNA

Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. If you are lucky then you may find some previously undiscovered Nicholls ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!

Unlock your DNAHave you reached a brick wall in your Nicholls Tree?

Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Frederic Nicholls and the Nicholls Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Nicholls 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 Nicholls family tree.

Look at Parish Records for Frederic Nicholls at Find My Past.

Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Frederic Nicholls using the FreeBMD database.

Look at Genealogy BankGenealogy Bank for Frederic Nicholls records.

Search MyHeritage for Frederic Nicholls information.

Check out the LDS Database for records about Frederic Nicholls.

Research the Nicholls surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Nicholls Military records.

ukDid you know that there are currently 24509 people with the Nicholls surname in the UK? Nicholls is now ranked number 207 for popularity in the UK.

Nicholls Family History Databases

Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.

Check out the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Frederic Nicholls.

Study MyTrees for information on the Nicholls family and people looking to contact living Nicholls relations.

Look at One Great Family for Nicholls records submitted by people who are already researching the Nicholls Family Tree.

Find Frederic Nicholls from Ireland on findmypast.ie

Nicholls Forums

There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.

Research the Nicholls surname using Genealogy.com forums .

ukDid you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Nicholls surname in the USA? Nicholls is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Nicholls Databases

Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Frederic Nicholls. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

Comments

Looking for information on a Frederic Nicholls in your family tree? Why not post a question here -

Some Famous People called Frederic Nicholls

Frederic Thomas Nicholls

Frederic Thomas Nicholls (November 22, 1856 – October 25, 1921) was a Canadian businessman, electrical engineer and politician. He was a Conservative senator representing the senatorial division of Toronto, Ontario from 1917 to 1921.

In 1900 Nicholls became second vice-president as well as manager of Canadian General Electric. He was president of the National Electric Light Association of the United States in 1896–97 and brought its annual convention to Niagara Falls, Ontario, in 1897.

Frederic Nicholls was a member of Edison Pioneers and Ontario Hydro. He worked on the Toronto Power Company Plant with Dr. Frederick Stark Pearson of the Pearson Engineering Corporation of New York. The Toronto Power station was opened in 1906 by the Electrical Development Company of Ontario, led by Toronto Billionaire financier Henry Pellatt, who owned that city's Casa Loma. Pellatt hired the same architect, Edward J. Lennox to design both his home and his hydroelectric generator in Niagara Falls.

Pellatt and partners William Mackenzie and Frederic Thomas Nicholls formed the Electrical Development Company of Ontario in 1903, buying water rights from the Niagara Parks Commission for $80,000 a year.

Nicholls was one of the directors along with William Mackenzie and Wilmot Deloui Matthews to form the Canadian Shipbuilding Company with capital of $1 million in the early 1900s ($21,733,333 in 2018).

Source: Frederic Thomas Nicholls, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Nicholls

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

Knuckles Naglich Najlis Nakhliss Neklewicz Neuschloss Nicalson Niccolls Niccols Nichelson Nicholas Nicholes Nichollsmary Nichols Nicholson Nickells Nickels Nickelson Nicklas Nicklaus Nickles Nickless Nicklis Nickoles Nickolls Nickols Nickolson Nicolaisen Nicolas Nicolasa Nicolaus Nicoles Nicolls Nicolosi Nicolson Nigliazzo Niklaus Niklowicz Nikolaisen Nikolowski Nislick Nizolek Nockalls Nockells Nockles Nuckles Nuckolls Nuckols