The English Ancestry of William and Anne (Busby) Nickerson of Chatham
Read about the English Ancestry of William and Anne (Busby) Nickerson of Chatham. TAG Article
Volunteer in Genealogy Research at “Nick House.”
Interested in America’s hottest hobby – Genealogy? Want to learn from professional genealogists – helping to process and research local genealogy? If you have time to give, we would love to hear from you. Computer experience is a plus. Wednesday is our office day. 2 – 4+ hours/week. Interested in the Cape’s Colonial history, life here in the 17th Century, Cape architecture, …
19th Century Saltworks Represent Yankee Ingenuity
By D. Scott Nickerson, M.D. As the Nickerson Family Association’s project to rescue the 1829 Caleb Nickerson House got underway, I noticed the biographical vignette about Caleb #219 in The Nickerson Family Part 2. I was curious about the mention in his will of “2800 feet of saltworks, store and mills.” As I investigated more, …
Per K.: The life of Anna C. Kingsbury, Genealogist to William E. Nickerson
By Debra Lawless (This article appeared in slightly different form in The Journal of the Cape Cod Genealogical Society, Spring 2013.) This is the story of the remarkable three-decade collaboration of William Emery Nickerson, who founded the Nickerson Family Association in Chatham, and Anna Chandler Kingsbury, his genealogist. In June 1897 Nickerson organized a reunion …
Bartlett’s Research on Nickerson Norwich roots continued in 1921
J. Gardner Bartlett (1872-1927) and his wife Elizabeth French Bartlett (1877-1961) were an American husband/wife genealogical research team who lived in Cambridge, Mass. They did not marry until 1927, when Elizabeth was 40 and Gardner 44. Both had lived for long stretches in London, and both spent a part of World War I in that …
The Ever Mysterious HATTIE (NICKERSON) LORD
Have you heard of her? Have you wondered how she fit in the Nickerson Family? Have you thought about how famous she has become and even is claimed to be a daughter of William1 Nickerson? Let’s go back in time and read an article in the Boston Evening Transcript of 5.NOV.1823 and we will find …
Journey with me through the Nickerson Family Association Campus
[fts facebook id=NickersonFamilyAssociationUSA posts_displayed=page_only type=page] Taking a journey through the Nickerson Family Association Campus in Chatham Port is enhanced by one of those clear, beautiful days during which everything seems more intense, more vivid than normal in this golden light. The Campus features the two NFA houses. One is the Genealogy Research Center. This house …