James Hosnell Nicholson

#411, (1878-3 April 1950)
FatherJames Brown Nicholson (3 Jan 1843-16 Oct 1900)
MotherLydia Horsnell (30 Jul 1853-29 Sep 1926)
ChartsBrown family - descendants
Miller Family (Scotland) - descendants
Nicholson Family 1 - descendants
Four generations
Last Edited23 Dec 2021
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James was born in 1878 at the Sydney suburb of Kingsford.1 He was the son of James Brown Nicholson and Lydia Horsnell. His common name was Jim.2

The following is remembered about the Nicholsons:

"They came to Mount Hope on a horse and dray. Auntie Maggie (Margaret Grogan nee Nicholson) and Uncle Jim (James Hosnell Nicholson) were both kids at the time, in those times there were no roads, just tracks through the Mallie, no water. They carried a square 100 gallon tank with them for their water and filled it whenever it rained, or if they heard of a tank 3 and 4 miles off the road they would go into fill up at the tank. They travelled mostly at night to try to preserve the water and the benefit of the horses. When they eventually got to Mount Hope they first of all lived at 17 mile tank Coan Downs Station and grandfather (James Brown Nicholson) got a job working on the station for a pound a week and rations for his family which they called in those days "ten-ten-two and a quarter" - ten pound of meat, ten pound of flour, two pound of sugar and a quarter of a pound of tea. Anything else they required they had to buy from the store on the station. All big stations had stores those days.
It was a very dry time and he was ordered by the station manager not to give a traveller with a horse or pack horse a drink of water for their horse. But old grandfather gave everything a drink that came along. The station manager came out one day and caught him giving a traveller a drink for his horse and he got the sack. Well they went from there up to Central which in later years became a sort of suburb of Mount Hope and they built a bit of a shack out of timber from the bush in the paddock there alongside a row of hills which is still today called Nicholson Hills. That's where Dad (William Henry Hosnell Nicholson) and Uncle Jack (John Nicholson) were born. They eventually shifted from there up to Central itself and grandfather opened a butcher shop there and later another butcher shop at Mount Hope and then later on they had a butcher shop at Mount Allen. That was considered real big in those days, it would be like Tancreds today. From there they came to Shuttelton where dad and Uncle Jim opened a butcher shop and Uncle Jack went onto Nymagee and he opened a butcher shop there and eventually a hotel".2




He married Catherine Morris, on Sunday, 15 June 1902 at Mount Hope, New South Wales. They were married at her parents' house.. James and Catherine went on to have three children together.3,4 James Hosnell Nicholson was a butcher in 1903.2 James lived in 1910 at Sydney.2 At this time his occupation was given as retired.5

James died on 3 April 1950 at Kingsford.5,6 His body was interred at Rookwood Cemetery (Catholic section) at the Sydney suburb of Rookwood. Section: 8 Row: 27.7

Timeline

DateEventPlace
Family
1878Birththe Sydney suburb of Kingsford1
1880Name-Comm2
1902MarriageMount Hope, New South Wales3,4
1903Occupation2
1910ResidenceSydney2
Occupation5
1950DeathKingsford5,6
Burial at Rookwood Cemetery (Catholic section) in the Sydney suburb of Rookwood7

Family

Catherine Morris (c 1880-11 Mar 1966)
Children

Citations

  1. [S452] Private Nicholson Source, Genealogical Notes, unknown date NIC001 p.16.
  2. [S461] Interview, Molly et al Collins, between 1977-1990.
  3. [S3] New South Wales, Marriage Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1902 No.4447.
  4. [S338] Ancestry.com.au Ancestry.com, (http://www.ancestry.com.au/) http://trees.ancestry.com.au/tree/53686200/person/…
  5. [S759] New South Wales, Australia, Index to Deceased Estate Files, 1923-1958 Ancestry.com, Name: James Henry Nicholson; Death Date: 3 Apr 1950; Residence Place: Kingsford; Occupation: Retired; Civil Place: New South Wales, Australia.
  6. [S2] New South Wales, Death Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1950 No.11290.
  7. [S951] Sydney Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions Ancestry.com, Name: James H Nicholson; Age: 71; Birth Date: abt 1879; Death Date: 5 Apr 1950; Burial Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Cemetery: Rookwood; Section: 8;Row: 27; Inscription: husb & our father; Denomination: Catholic Mortuary 2 & 3.