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John Nickell Sr (1720 - 1774)

John Nickell Sr
Born in Gortin, County Tyrone, Irelandmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 1738 in Virginiamap
Husband of — married 1755 in Stauton, Augusta, Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , , , and
Died at about age 54 in Staunton, Augusta, Virginiamap
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Contents

Biography

From: A Blakey book:. 1983.

Note about the parents of Nichols-5193

James Nichols writes, "Richard, I think McComb-261 and Nickell-2 were the parents of Nichols-5193. According to my mothers book "The Final Irony" Nickell-2 was born around 1700 in Ireland and was the Nichols to come across the pond. I'm not sure where she got the birthdate. In Chalkleys vol 3, page 563 there is an entry "373 Page 427.— 18th August, 1760. John ( ) Nicolas (Nickle) and Barbra ( ) to his son John Nicolas, £5, 250 acres on Moffett's Branch of Middle River, part of 400 acres patented to William King, 10th February, 1748, and conveyed to said Nicolas. Delivered : John Nickel, February, 1767." So he may not be writer of the 1774 will??? Still looking. Jim Nichols"

Haplogroup I2b (now called I-M223)

http://www.brian-hamman.com/ResultsForNicholsSurnameProject.htm http://www.brian-hamman.com/PatrilineageNickellParticipant210425.htm http://www.brian-hamman.com/PatrilineageForParticipant12881.htm


This profile still needs a lot of work, but much improvement has been made already.
Hollenbeck-72 23:33, 6 December 2015 (EST)
Keeps getting better. Far from right still.
Hollenbeck-72 23:27, 2 March 2017 (EST)

From Gortin

Gortin (from Irish: an Goirtín, meaning "the small enclosed field")[1] is a village and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is ten miles (16 km) north of Omagh in the valley of the Owenkillew river, overlooked by the Sperrins. It had a population of 360 at the 2001 Census. [1]

Name

Name: John /Nichols/[2]

Alternate Birth

Alternate Birth Place: Bedomy, Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland
Alternate Birth Years: 1700 and 1728
According to A Blakey book : being an account of those believed to be descended from Thomas and Susannah Blakey of Christ Church parish, Middlesex County, Virginia by B.B. Blakey, John was born about 1728. How does this square with all the facts? If he was born before 1738, I don't suppose he married before he was ten years old. Which date should we use? Hollenbeck-72 07:39, 25 December 2015 (EST)

Also Known As

John Nichols
Husband: John Nickell
Wife: Barbara McCombe
Child: Thomas Nickell
Marriage:
Date: ABT 1744/1745
Place: Augusta, Virginia

Marriage

Husband: John Nichols / John Nickell
Date: 1750
Place: Virginia, USA[3][4][5][6]
Wife: Mary Lewis
Child: John Nickell
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Thomas Nickell
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Elizabeth Nickell
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Joseph Nickell
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Isaac Nickell
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Margaret Nickell
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Jane Nickell
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: James Nickell
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Savilla Nickell
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Marriage:
Date: 1736
Place: Augusta, Virginia, United States[7][8][9]

People Enslaved

At least one enslaved person is listed in John Nickell's will. A WikiTree profile has been created for Miss Nickell using WT's guidelines for the Black Heritage Project. The WT profile refers to her as Miss Nickell until her given first and family's surname are identified.

Death

Death:
Date: 1774-08-24
Place: Stauton,Augusta, Virginia, USA [10]

Will

Find A Grave

Birth: 1720, Ireland
Death: Aug. 24, 1774
Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
Born in County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland, near Gortin where (1932) several families of this name are still settled. In 1749 he bought a plantation of 400 acres on Moffett's Branch, Middle River of the Shenandoah in Augusta County, Virginia, a Scotch-Irish settlement and about 10 miles northwest of the present city of Staunton, VA. His six sons served in the cause of American Independence in the Revolution and he was a member of the Expedition to Western Pennsylvania against the French and Indians in 1758. He granted his eldest son, John, the greater part of the Plantation in Augusta and his other children all settled on the Greenbrier River, then the western most settlement of the Colonies. He was buried in Augusta County.
More About JOHN NICKELL and MARY LEWIS NICKELL: Marriage: Bef. 1738, Unknown
More About JOHN NICKELL and BARBARA MCCOMBE: Marriage: 1755
Children of JOHN NICKELL and MARY LEWIS NICKELL are:
JOHN NICKELL JR, b. Abt. 1738, Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia; d. 1807, Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia.
THOMAS NICKELL, b. 1740, Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia; d. April 03, 1807, Monroe County, Virginia.
ELIZABETH NICKELL, b. Abt. 1748, Augusta County, Virginia; d. Abt. 1808, Augusta County, Virginia.
JOSEPH NICKELL I, b. January 10, 1749/50, Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia; d. August 18, 1829, Montgomery County, Kentucky.
ISAAC NICKELL, b. March 31, 1752, Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia; d. October 02, 1839, Monroe County, Virginia.
Children of JOHN NICKELL and BARBARA MCCOMBE are:
SUSANNAH NICKELL, b. 1756 d. 1837, Unknown.
ROBERT NICKELL, b. 1757, Unknown; d. 1838, Unknown.
ANDREW NICKELL, b. 1759, Unknown; d. October 06, 1838, Unknown.
Family links:
Spouses:
Mary Sara Lewis Nickell (1720 - 1755)
Barbara McComb Nickell (1735 - 1804)
Children:
Thomas Nickell (1740 - 1807)*
Joseph Nickell (1750 - 1829)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial: John Nickell Family Cemetery
Staunton, Staunton City, Virginia, USA
Plot: unknown [11]

John was born in 1720. John Nickell ... He passed away in 1774.[12]

Sources

  1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gortin
  2. ↑ Source: #S-859556706 Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=26447409&pid=591
  3. ↑ Source: #S-859556629 Page: Source number: 1453.052; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: . Data: Text: Birth date: 1730 Birth place: VA Marriage date: 1744 Marriage place: VA APID: 1,7836::802560
  4. ↑ Source: #S-859556629 Page: Source number: 1463.002; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 4; Submitter Code: . Data: Text: Birth date: Birth place: Ir Marriage date: Marriage place: of VA APID: 1,7836::802494
  5. ↑ Source: #S-859556629 Page: Source number: 1453.052; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: . Data: Text: Birth date: 1730 Birth place: VA Marriage date: 1744 Marriage place: VA APID: 1,7836::802560
  6. ↑ Source: #S-859556629 Page: Source number: 1463.002; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 4; Submitter Code: . Data: Text: Birth date: Birth place: Ir Marriage date: Marriage place: of VA APID: 1,7836::802494
  7. ↑ Source: #S-2052921884 Page: Birth year: 1723; Birth city: Gloucester; Birth state: VA. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=3369609&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 28 January 1723 Birth place: Gloucester, VA Death date: 1763 Death place: Marriage date: 1746 Marriage place: Dobbs, NC APID: 1,4725::3369609
  8. ↑ Source: #S-2052921884 Page: Birth year: 1724; Birth city: Nansemond County; Birth state: VA. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=3955146&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1724 Birth place: Nansemond County, VA Death date: 1780 Death place: Marriage date: 1776 Marriage place: APID: 1,4725::3955146
  9. ↑ Source: #S-2052921884 Page: Birth year: 1724; Birth city: Nansemond; Birth state: VA. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=5143296&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1724 Birth place: Nansemond, Nansemond, VA Death date: 1763 Death place: Marriage date: 1746 Marriage place: Dobbs, NC APID: 1,4725::5143296
  10. ↑ Imported only 1774 from Death Date.
  11. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #79409168
  12. ↑ A source for this information is needed.
  • WikiTree profile Nickell-221 created through the import of DE Lewis Family Tree.ged on Mar 4, 2012 by David Lewis. See the Changes page for the details of edits by David and others.
  • Source: S-1423244912 Repository: #R-1579099859 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=36105316&pid=42
  • Repository: R-1579099859 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com Note:
  • WikiTree profile Nickell-189 created through the import of Rankin-Ridgdill Family Tree.ged on Oct 4, 2011 by Elizabeth Rankin. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Elizabeth and others.
  • Source: S-2052917492 Repository: #R-2139398877 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=21058954&pid=1956
  • Source: S-2052921884 Repository: #R-2139398877 Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Note: APID: 1,4725::0
  • Blakey, Bernard Buckner,. A Blakey book : being an account of those believed to be descended from Thomas and Susannah Blakey of Christ Church parish, Middlesex County, Virginia. Little Falls, Minn.?: B.B. Blakey?, 1983

See Also

http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=550531da-6f54-4e7b-962e-d92bb66f6930&tid=36105316&pid=42
  • Ulster-Scots in Virginia, from Pennsylvania to Shenandoah, by Richard McMaster
  • Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest, by E.F. Kegley
  • A Final Irony

Acknowledgments

  • This person was created through the import of Lynch-Tree.ged on 06 August 2010. The following data was included in the gedcom. You may wish to edit it for readability.
  • This person was created through the import of LaBach Family TreeApril28_2011.ged on 05 May 2011. The following data was included in the gedcom. You may wish to edit it for readability.
  • This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. Nichols-3483 was created by Jeanine Lane through the import of Working.ged on Feb 16, 2014.




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Simmons-11603 Becky Simmons
More data for consideration I found while cleaning out things for a move today:

One is an excerpt from an in print only book that I copied but no longer have in my possession (Citation first)

  • Nickell, Carol Ann and Joseph Donald Nickell. Chronological Genealogy of the John Nickell Line: County Ulster, Ireland, ca 1728 to the Present. Santa Fe, New Mexico: C.A. and D. Nickell, 199?.

- The excerpt has been reprinted or copied to other websites like geni.com etc (which I don't use but it isn't my original writing so

"JOHN NICKEL, bought 400 Acres land from William King for "the sun of five shillings and other valuable consideretions", in November 27, 1749,located in Augusta County, on Moffett's Branch of Cathey's River. John Nickell reported his birth place as "County Ulster, Ireland. He married Barbara McCombe, who with her brother, Andrew McCombe were executors of John Nickell's estate. His sons all settled on the Greenbriar River in what was Stanton (during what was known as "the "War between the States") Monroe County, West Virginia.
"John Nickell was the head of a large family, many of whom lived in Augusta and Monroe Counties, and later migrated west to Kentucky and Missouri, among other states..."

- My notes go on to say there wasn't a Stanton but a Staunton- which makes since within the date parameters.

For the McCombe marriage question the 1755 date seems closest if not exact for several reasons, but mostly the children's birth dates and the deductions made for which issue was from which spouse.
Furthermore he writes "...John Nickell married one of the Lewis girls, with whom he had five children, one of whom (the fourth child) was Joseph Nickell, born on 10 January 1750." This date is given from another researcher as well which at least in part shows that the Nickell / McCombe marriage was after 1750.
  • The argument I was trying to decipher was more on his birth year and these two researchers were the basis for my questions so if anyone knows about either please reply:
- In 1932 Joe Nickell's "Nickell Family Chronological Genealogy" he wrote the following (for brevity&bc some of these have been quoted elsewhere online- I'm summarizing the main points&quoting exact phrases):
"John Nickell immigrated from Ulster, County Tyrone, Ireland, near the town of Gortin..." (explanation of Gortin locale in relation to Scotland and why he'd settle with community who would later be called "Scotts-Irish") to settle in Augusta County, VA ca 1738. He found "several families" near Staunton surnamed Nickell still settled in 1932.
He references the same data above re: "In 1749, he bought a plantation of 400 acres on Moffett's Branch..." but adds "(in) a Scotch-Irish settlement" abt 10mi. NW of "present city of Staunton, VA."
"John married Barbara McCombe, the daughter of Rebekah Young McCombe and granddaughter of John Young, Jr., and they had seven children (Susannah not listed)." All of the children to this union were born in Augusta and his six sons served for "American Independence in the Revolution against the French and Indians in 1758."
"He granted his eldest son, John, the greater part of the Plantation in Augusta..." and all other children resided by the Greenbrier River, then went west.
  • "Demoy W. Schulz, a "long respected" Nickell family researcher (1994):"
His (theory) in his words was "Barbara (McCombe) was a minor when they 'married' in 1755 and that John's will (dated Mar 24, 1755) was, in essence, a marriage contract. This, then, would make children John, b.1838; Joseph, b.1740; Isaac, b.1750; and Elizabeth, b.1854; (definitely) from a first marriage."
"In 1760 John Nickell, Sr., deeded son, John Jr., 250 A of his Moffitt Creek farm for 5 lbs - the land he'd willed him in 1755. It is reasonable to assume that John Jr. was 21 when his father deeded him the land. And - since Thomas Sr., his 2nd son, but not necessarily his 2nd child, was a father in 1761. According to the gravestone inscription of his oldest child, Margaret Nickell McCallister, he must have been born no later than 1743. Thomas Sr., may have married young since he evidently had problems accepting his step-mother - but surely not at age 15 or 16."
" Those two facts led (him) to the assumption that John Nickell, Sr., was born nearer 1715/20 than 1728" (per data extrapolated from Gen. Joe Nickell's 1932 work and Castle's cited above that).
He continues to expound that the 1728 date "...may have come from an article in the 5th Series of The Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. #1, which states John NICHOLAS, age 30, from Bedoney, Ireland, volunteered for the Expedition to Western PA in 1758. According to the Typographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis, Gortin is a village in the parish of Lower Badony (Bedoney)" more geographical data already in the bio explained here-
More research collected from others has shown me his assumption holds merit in that there are multiple records listing a man named John Nicholas buying / selling land in Augusta, VA concurrent to the time of "our" John Nickell residing in Augusta County.
Schultz uses this along with his derivations to assert "It was most likely John Nicholas- not John Nickell, Sr. who went on that expedition."

Pausing to gather the rest Thanks for bearing with me- Becky Elizabeth - direct descendant of the couple

posted by Becky Simmons
Nichols-2515 Raymond Nichols DD
ancestor of kels nickell whose son, willie, was killed by tom horn, former pinkerton detective.
posted by Raymond Nichols DD
Hollenbeck-72 Richard Hollenbeck
Nickell-239 and Nickell-2 appear to represent the same person because: Nickell-239 and Nickell-2 are clear duplicates. They need to be merged.
posted by Richard Hollenbeck
Nichols-2515 Raymond Nichols DD
not the father.

not my line. Haplogroup I2b (now called I-M223) http://www.brian-hamman.com/ResultsForNicholsSurnameProject.htm http://www.brian-hamman.com/PatrilineageNickellParticipant210425.htm http://www.brian-hamman.com/PatrilineageForParticipant12881.htm

posted by Raymond Nichols DD
Hollenbeck-72 Richard Hollenbeck
This is SO confusing!

I just removed McComb-261 and Nickell-2 as the parents of John James Nichols (Nichols-5193)

John James Nichols (Nichols-5193) was born in 1726 and Nickell-2 was born in 1720. This doesn't work. Haste makes waste. It has been wrong for a long time. I'll just keep working on this until it's right. I need help.

posted by Richard Hollenbeck
Hollenbeck-72 Richard Hollenbeck
Nichols-3483 and Nickell-2 appear to represent the same person because: This merge proposal is part of a much larger effort to combine/merge the many duplicate profiles for John Nichols/Nickell and and his wife Barbara McComb(e). Nichols and Nickel are common spellings for this name, but the majority of references to him are spelled, "Nickell."

The direction of this merge must be from Nichols-3483 into Nickell-2.

posted by Richard Hollenbeck
Hollenbeck-72 Richard Hollenbeck
Nichols-3483 and Nickell-2 appear to represent the same person because: This merge proposal is part of a much larger effort to combine/merge the many duplicate profiles for John Nichols/Nickell and and his wife Barbara McComb(e). Nichols and Nickel are common spellings for this name, but the majority of references to him are spelled, "Nickell."
posted by Richard Hollenbeck
James Nichols
Nickell-468 and Nickell-2 appear to represent the same person because: Better documentation/sourcing.
posted by James Nichols
Hollenbeck-72 Richard Hollenbeck
Nickell-221 and Nickell-2 appear to represent the same person because: Nickell-221 and Nickell-2 appear to represent the same person because: These are but two of a handful of profiles representing John Nickell (the spouse of Barbara McCombe) that need to be merged into one profile. Duplicates of Barbara exist which also need to be merged.

Now that the "Unmerged Match" has been removed, a merge should now be possible. Thank you.

posted by Richard Hollenbeck
Hollenbeck-72 Richard Hollenbeck
Nickell-93 and Nickell-2 appear to represent the same person because: These are but two of a handful of profiles representing John Nickell (the spouse of Barbara McCombe) that need to be merged into one profile. Duplicates of Barbara exist which also need to be merged.
posted by Richard Hollenbeck
[Living Jones]
Bill I have Miss Lewis as Mary Lewis and I have a father for John Nickell and mother in Ireland. Tamara Rose

posted by [Living Jones]

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