Researching George Nicholls
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 15641 people with the Nicholls surname? In that year Nicholls was ranked number 248 for popularity in the UK. |
The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
Records of George Nicholls on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for George 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 listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. 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.
Check out Parish Records for George Nicholls at Find My Past.
Study for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of George Nicholls using the FreeBMD database.
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Study the LDS Database for records about George Nicholls.
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| Did 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 Genealogy Databases
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Nicholls Forums
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Miscellaneous Nicholls Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on George Nicholls. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called George Nicholls
George Nicholls (rugby league)
George Nicholls (born 14 May 1944) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. A Great Britain and England international representative forward, he played his club rugby for English sides Widnes and St. Helens. Eventually becoming a St Helens R.F.C. Hall of Fame inductee, he also became the first player to win the Man of Steel Award, Harry Sunderland Trophy and Lance Todd Trophy with the club. With Great Britain, Nicholls also won the 1972 Rugby League World Cup.
Source: George Nicholls (rugby league), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
George Nicholls (British politician)
George Nicholls (25 June 1864 – 30 November 1943) was a British evangelical pastor, and Liberal-Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Northamptonshire from 1906 to 1910.
Nicholls started life as a farm labourer and smallholder. He went on to be Pastor at the Evangelist Congregational Church in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, from 1894 to 1902, and afterwards of Congregational Churches at Silverdale and Chesterton, in Staffordshire.
He was elected as MP for North Northamptonshire at the 1906 general election, but was defeated at the January 1910 general election.
After his defeat he stood for Parliament again in Faversham at the December 1910 general election, and in Newmarket at a by-election in May 1913, but was unsuccessful on both occasions.
He was elected to Peterborough town council in 1912, and became the town's mayor from 1916 to 1918.
He was the chief organiser for the Allotment and Small Holdings section of the Agricultural Organisation Society, and a member of the Agricultural Wages Board, of a Royal Commission on Agriculture, of the Central Agricultural Council, of the Soke of Peterborough Small Holdings Committee, and of Peterborough United Charities. He was awarded the OBE and served as a Justice of the Peace.
After World War I, he stood unsuccessfully for Parliament on six further occasions. As a Labour Party candidate in Camborne at the 1918 general election, he narrowly lost to the sitting Liberal MP Sir Francis Dyke Acland. He then stood as a Liberal Party candidate in Peterborough at the 1922 general election, in Warwick and Leamington at the 1923 and 1924 general elections, in Bury St Edmunds at a by-election in January 1925, and in Harborough at the 1929 general election,
Source: George Nicholls (British politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Nicholls
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