“Hi Brian
I am sending you my family tree. Before I searched for my roots I thought we started in Ireland but after contact with Nigel Nicholson and his Book the Compilation of Family Trees I see that we started in The Isle of Skye. Reading the book “Clan Nicolson” by J.G.Nicholson shows the Clan starting with Eoin {John }
 Eoin {John } 8th Chief of the Clan Mac Nicol
Alexander MacNicol  9th  Chief
Donald MacNicol    10th Chief
Malcolm MacNicol  11th Chief
Rev Donald MacNicol / Nicolson 12th Chief  b   Scotland   d 1697 m Margaret Morrison 
Rev  Alexander MacNicol / Nicolson  b 1680   m Marion  MacDonald   d 1746  *more info on their children is found at the following site: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=madisonman&id=I17057
James MacNicol / Nicolson    went to Co. Down Ireland
Joseph Nicholson of Derryogue, Co. Down, Ireland  b 1747   d 1828 Kilkeel, Co. Down, Ireland  m Mary Blackwood
Richard  Nicholson of Derryogue  b 1790   m  Grace Wallace   d 8 June 1868
Richard Nicholson of Ballymagart, Co. Down, Ireland,  b1837  m Margaret Stevenson    d 9 September 1885. Kilkeel, Co. Down, Northern Ireland   m Martha Newell 17 Oct 1867
James Nicholson  b  2 April 1871 Kilkeel   m  Anne Newell
William Francis Nicholson  b  5 March  1908  Kilkeel    m Luella McKnight   d 13 Nov. 2005   Kitchener , Ontario, Canada
 Nicholson father 
 Nicholson    participant 211496
 
Hope this clears up some of the mysteries .
Regards Bill

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