Tag: Nicol
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Five Doors Down
In last weeks post I wrote about my wife’s grandfather, Andrew Nicol, who, while still at home in Dynamite Road, Stevenston, in 1911, lived five houses up from Nobel House where the Nathan family were living. I was intrigued by the Nathan family, Frederic and Adeline and their young child, because of the number of…
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Andrew
You might not associate Andrew as a traditional Scottish name. However, Andrew is the patron Saint of Scotland. This is only because an English Bishop, a collector of religious relics, brought a kneecap, and finger bones, belonging to Andrew, to Fife about 1500 years ago. Andrew had been crucified in AD60, in the Greek city…
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Stevenston, New Street Cemetery
Last week I went on a field trip to Stevenston to search a cemetery in Ayrshire that I guessed might have the graves of some of the Nicol family who grew up and worked in the town for nearly 90 years. Stevenston is a town on the coast of Ayrshire that became associated with the…
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Mapping the Nicol Family
An initial chart of the Nicol family line after Peter and Elizabeth were married The family dynasty that Peter and Elizabeth Nicol created in the 19th Century with children who were directly connected or married into connections with the Dynamite Factory in Ardeer had taken me by surprise when I began to research them. Peter…
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The Nicol Dynasty
A number of things have happened since writing about Peter Nicol and his arrival in Ayrshire. I realised how little my research was on Peter and his family and started exploring in more detail. As a result I have been discovering a number of events and facts that make his life and times a really…
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Peter Nicol 1851-1928
There is something about a name that just seems to draw you to it. Peter Nicol is one of them. It is simple to say, read and look at. It has no middle name, which is slightly unusual for someone born in Scotland in the middle of the 19th Century. It would have been quite…
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Aberdeenshire to Ayrshire
After writing my short account of the book Akenfield last week it got me thinking about the occupations of many of my and my wife’s ancestors. Agricultural Labourer was a common occupation listed against many of our family members in the early Census returns. Whether it was in Sussex, Surrey, Wigtownshire and Aberdeenshire, working on…