Nicholson Family History
- Nicholson Name Meaning
- Northern English and Scottish: patronymic from Nichol.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,069,420 Historical Documents with Nicholson on Ancestry
- 1,079,356 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 731,228 Census and Voter Lists
- 101,140 Military Records
- 94,924 Immigration Records
- 1,062,772 Member Trees
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Number of Nicholson families
 2,397 - 4,791  800 - 2,396 |
 1 - 799  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nicholson families
|
116 - 230 39 - 115 |
1 - 38 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Nicholson 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
Nicholson census records
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