Nicholson, Thomas (1820-1897)

Family

Thomas was born in 1820 at Nenthead, Cumberland, to parents Edward Nicholson, a lead miner (1841), and Jane Shield. He was baptised on 28 May 1820 at Alston, Cumberland.

He married Mary Ann Grant (1824-1878) in early 1846 in the Canterbury Registration District, Kent. Census returns identify eight children.

• Elizabeth (1846-1863)                  
• Thomas Richard (1848-1859)         
• Joseph Shield (1850-1927) – a professor of political economy (Edinburgh University)
• Ebenezer Thomas (b1852)
• Mary Ann (1854-1872)            
• Martha Jane (1857-1906) – married William Johnson Shilson, a wool-stapler, in 1886
• Amy Blanche (1861-1926)
• Christiana Havercroft (1864-1952)

Thomas died on 9 February 1897 at Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Circuits

• 1842 Isle of Wight
• 1844 Canterbury
• 1846 disappears
• Albion, Kingston upon Hull – evangelist
• Isle of Wight – evangelist
• 1848 Wrawby, Lincolnshire – Congregational minister
• 1851-1880 Wroxton & Great Bourton, Oxfordshire

References

W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990

Surman Index id:20050

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers