Nichols Family History
- Nichols Name Meaning
- English and Dutch: patronymic from Nichol. Jewish (American): Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish names.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,761,025 Historical Documents with Nichols on Ancestry
- 1,498,295 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 857,072 Census and Voter Lists
- 182,377 Military Records
- 62,380 Immigration Records
- 2,160,901 Member Trees
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Number of Nichols families
 742 - 1,481  248 - 741 |
 1 - 247  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nichols families
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163 - 324 55 - 162 |
1 - 54 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Nichols census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Nichols census records
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