{"id":24844,"date":"2024-08-15T20:20:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T20:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/?p=24844"},"modified":"2024-08-15T20:20:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T20:20:40","slug":"my-mothers-maternal-shared-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/2024\/08\/15\/my-mothers-maternal-shared-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mother’s Maternal Shared Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my previous Blog<\/a>, I set out to look at my mother’s Nicholson Shared Matches, but ended up looking at both Lentz and Nicholson from her maternal match list. That Blog was successful, so I want to continue down her maternal match list.<\/p>\n

Here are the next three on my mother’s maternal match list:<\/p>\n

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Hannah<\/h2>\n

Hannah has no tree and is more difficult to place.<\/p>\n

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Justin is Hannah’s first cousin or half uncle:<\/p>\n

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As Justin is on the bottom of the Chart, my first guess would be 1st cousin. Judy is her grandmother or Aunt:<\/p>\n

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I’m guessing grandmother.<\/p>\n

Paige is her half sister or Aunt:<\/p>\n

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I’ll say Aunt. That narrows it down:<\/p>\n

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This should be the likely connection.<\/p>\n

Michele<\/h2>\n

Michele shows a Nicholson in her tree, but I have never heard of this person:<\/p>\n

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I do show this tree in my records:<\/p>\n

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Perhaps I had started investigating this line before. This seems worth pursuing.<\/p>\n

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In 1871, Frances was a servant in Sheffield:<\/p>\n

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She was born in Darnall. according to the 1871 Census:<\/p>\n

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Here is the family in 1861:<\/p>\n

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I think I see the family now:<\/p>\n

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However, the dates don’t quite match up between the Henrys in my tree and Michelle’s Henry.<\/p>\n

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Ancestry thinks her parents are Benjamin and Rebecca.<\/p>\n

The family was in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1900:<\/p>\n

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They probably married about the year 1880.<\/p>\n

Henry Nicholson<\/h3>\n

Father Henry is also in Worcester in 1900. Good news:<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, his death record does not shine a lot of light on the situation:<\/p>\n

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My assumption is that he lived alone as there was no informant listed. Henry was in Sheffield with his young wife in 1851:<\/p>\n

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The transcriber says that Ann was born in Walkley, Yorkshire:<\/p>\n

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I am guessing that Henry and Ann married in 1850 or 1851.<\/p>\n

The death record for Ann is more helpful:<\/p>\n

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Here I would like to thank Henry for putting down his wife’s parents’ information. There were two Henry Nicholsons in the 1841 Sheffield Census, so the information on the above death certificate could be important.<\/p>\n

Here is Ann in Nether Hallam, Sheffield in 1841:<\/p>\n

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The family was living at Walkley Bank. I wonder if the town of Walkley was wrong. Nether Hallam sounds familiar from my Nicholson research, so I may be on to something here. Here is the wedding:<\/p>\n

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This is from the Sheffield Indexers site, but I had to use Firefox to get it to work. Here is some more information:<\/p>\n

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Now I have another problem as I have not been tracking a Joseph Nicholson. However, I do have this Joseph on my Nicholson Web Page:<\/p>\n

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He would have been quite old in 1830 – about 63. Here is a baptism of a Henry:<\/p>\n

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Assuming the baptism was not at an independent church, this could be the Henry I am looking for. That means that this could be the right Census record:<\/p>\n

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But who is John Nicholson, head of household? This is likely Sarah and Joseph:<\/p>\n

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Next, who was this Joseph? The marriage record gives no father. My web page manetions a Joseph born in 1767. If this is the Joseph, he would have been 46 at marriage. This would be unusual for a bachelor. Here is a record from Sheffield:<\/p>\n

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This Joseph would 34 when he married. Also the baptism took place at Wortley. This is North of Sheffield and this Joseph is a labourer rather than a cutler. I’m ready to stop researching this line. I feel like the connection is quite old.<\/p>\n

Robert<\/h2>\n

Robert’s connection to my mother is much closer than Michele’s.<\/p>\n

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We already have one child of Joan on the chart:<\/p>\n

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Karen is Robert’s likely Aunt:<\/p>\n

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To confirm, Joshua is Robert’s 1st cousin:<\/p>\n

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Next 5 of My Mom’s Maternal Matches<\/h2>\n

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I added Justin earlier in the Blog.<\/p>\n

Jason is the son of Carolyn:<\/p>\n

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I’ll add him to my chart next to Heidi:<\/p>\n

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For some reason I had not entered Barbara. Here she is on lower left below:<\/p>\n

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The Nicholson family tree is rapidly expanding.<\/p>\n

Sue<\/h3>\n

Doris is Sue’s mother:<\/p>\n

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In my previous Blog, I had Doris in the 1st cousin range to Barry from the English Branch of Nicholsons:<\/p>\n

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Elise<\/h3>\n

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Elise shows as 1st cousin to Joshua and Robert and niece to Karen, so I put her as shown above.<\/p>\n

Summary and Conclusions<\/h2>\n