Sons- & daughters-in-law of James and Susanna Pollard
02. Thomas Nickalls
1819-04-03
b. Ashford, Kent, son of Daniel and Abigail
(Smith) Nickalls
TNA:
RG 6/932; censuses
1828/1833
educated at the Friends' School, Croydon
A Complete List of Scholars
Educated at Croydon School from the Opening of the Establishment in 1825
to its Final Removal to Saffron Walden in 1879. 1882, London
Daniel Smith
(1848–1937), William (1850–1921), James (1851–1851), Eliza Mary
(1852–1859), Ellen (1854–1934), Charles (1855–1936), Thomas Rowe
(1857–1943), and James Pollard (1859–1884); all b. Reigate
birth certificates;
censuses; William Pollard: 'Some Descendants of James and Mary
Pollard'; The Friend;The British Friend;
Annual Monitor; www.csuchico.edu.lbib/spc/lingenfelter/N/ling_n1.pdf,
accessed 2008-08-31; GRO index
1845/1851
of Reigate
The Friend; The British Friend
1851
watch
manufacturer, of High Street,
Reigate, with his wife, two sons, as well as a
journeyman and two apprentices, and two house servants
HO
107/1599 f110 p28
1855
of Reigate
The British Friend
1857-03
one of a number of signatories to an open letter to the electors of the
Borough of Reigate, congratulating them on securing the election of Mr
Hackblock
watch & clock maker and post master, of High
Street, Reigate, living with his family, nephew Edwin Knight, a nurse, a
house servant, a shopman, an apprentice, and a post office assistant
RG 9/443 f88 p8
Children:
Samuel Ernest (1863–1950), Albert Davies
(1865–1916), John Sisson (1869–1894)
The Friend; The British Friend;
Ackworth Old Scholars' Association Annual Report, 1951;
Commonwealth War Graves Commission website
1867-09-28
letter from John Marsh of Dorking to T. Nickalls,
regarding the signing of two trust deeds by T.W. Marsh (nephew), T. Dann,
J. Robinson, J. Crosfield, J. Cheal and C. Grace
postmaster employing 7 hands and watchmaker 3 men &
3 boys, of High Street, Reigate, living with family, a servant, a
general servant, a nurse maid, his nephew, a watchmaker's apprentice,
and a post office clerk
RG 10/832 f81 p4
1871/1872
of Reigate, Surrey; owner of a share
in freehold houses and land at Beaver
electoral registers
1874
1875/1880
of Beaver, Ashford; owner of a share in freehold
houses and land at Beaver
1878-02-20
of Ashford, Kent; co-executor of the will of his
wife's uncle William Pollard
will and probate of William Pollard
1881
of Ashford, Kent
The Friend;Ackworth Old Scholars' Association
Annual Reports
17-22, 1901–3
1881
retired watchmaker, living with family and a
domestic servant at Clock
House, Ashford
RG 11/947 f61 p32
1881-06-17
NOTICE is hereby given, that the
Partnership lately subsisting between as the undersigned, Thomas
Nickalls and Edwin Knight, at Reigate, in the county of Surrey, as
Watchmakers and Silversmiths, under the style or firm of Nickalls and
Knight, was, on the 3rd day of August, 1878, dissolved by mutual
consent. — Dated the 17th day of June, 1881.
of Clock House, Ashford; owner of freehold houses
at Bird's Isle, Tenterden
electoral registers
of Beaver, Ashford; owner of a share in freehold
houses and land at Beaver
1887/1888
of Beaver, Ashford; owner of a share in freehold
houses and land at Beaver
1887/1888
of Clock House, Ashford; owner of freehold houses
at Bird's Isle, Tenterden
1889
of Clock House, Beaver, Ashford; owner of a
dwelling house at Clock House, Beaver, of a share in freehold houses and
land at Beaver, and of freehold houses at Bird's Isle, Tenterden
1891
retired watchmaker, of Clock House, Ashford,
living with wife and sons, and son's family
RG 12/700 f4 p2
1891
of Clock House, Beaver, Ashford; owner of a share
in freehold houses and land at Beaver, and of freehold houses at Bird's
Isle, Tenterden
electoral registers
1891/1892
of Clock House, Beaver; owner of a dwelling house
at Clock House, Beaver
1892
of Clock House, Beaver, Ashford; owner of a share
in freehold houses and land at Beaver, and of freehold houses at Bird's
Isle, Tenterden
1901
retired post master, of Clock House, Beaver Lane,
Ashford, living with wife and a general servant
RG 13/793 f31 p22
1908
of Ashford; qualified to vote by ownership of a
freehold house in South park
retired jeweller, living with his wife and son's family in 12 rooms at Clock
House, Ashford
RG14PN4263 RG78PN169 RD55 SD2 ED9
SN160
1911-12-20
gentleman, of Stranraer, Queens Road, Ashford;
made his will; son Samuel Ernest Nickalls, and Herbert Lee, auctioneer
of Ashford, executors and trustees, with £10 to each for their service;
to Samuel Ernest his gold watch and chain, his portland vase by Wedgwood
and the bracket on which it stands, but other than that all his bits and
pieces to his wife Eliza; residue in trust to pay an income to his wife,
and after that to be divided equally between his surviving children (all
named)
will
1912-07-22
of Stranraer, Queen's-road, Ashford; d. there
will and grant of probate; GRO
index
DEATH OF
MR. THOMAS NICKALLS.
A WELL
KNOWN ASHFORDIAN.
We regret to have to
record that on Monday last there passed from our midst Mr. Thomas
Nickalls, late of Queens-road, Ashford, but formerly of Clock House,
Beaver, at the advanced age of 93. Mr. Nickalls was a Man of Kent, born
in Ashford in the year 1819. By his death one of the few remaining links
is broken with what was to all intents and purposes a different age. He
had lived in the reigns of six sovereigns, for George III. was on the
throne at the time of his birth. Waterloo had been fought and won but
four years before, Napoleon was still alive, the railway and the
telegraph were things of the future. The Government of the country was
entirely in the hands of the well-to-do. Socialism, votes for women,
teetotalism and many another now burning question had not been even
thought of.
Mr. Nickalls' forbears
were Ashfordians for generations before he was born. Daniel Nickalls,
his grandfather, was a native of Ashford in 1740. His son (also Daniel),
father of Thomas Nickalls, was a much respected townsman for many years
before his death in 1822. He left five children, of whom our worthy late
neighbour was the youngest but one. He was educated at a school at
Croydon founded and maintained by the Society of Friends, of which he
was a staunch member. At an early age, as was then the custom, he was
apprenticed to William Knight, of Halstead, Essex, to learn the
mysteries of watchmaking, at that time purely a handicraft, and one in
which he became thoroughly proficient. Thence he went to Reigate and
took a business, undertaking also the position and work of postmaster of
that town, which he held with honour for many years. He married in 1847
Eliza Pollard, of Horsham, who died in 1859, leaving him a widower with
6 children. Later he was married again to Eliza Davies, of Egremont,
Cheshire, who now survives him.
On his retirement from
business in 1873 he came to liver near his native town, at Clock House,
Beaver, so called because of the clock he erected in a small tower in
one of the buildings near the house. When he left Beaver some 18 months
ago and came to live in Queen's-road, this clock was purchased by Mr.
Charles Norwood, and has been erected by him at his residence on
Charing-hill. Mr. Nickalls was always interested in natural history and
meteorology, and kept for some 30 years a record of the rainfall for
Symond's Meteorological Magazine. Older residents of the town will
remember his uncle, also Thomas Nickalls, as a sturdy Quaker of the old
school, who wore his broad brimmed hat so persistently that common
report declared that he went to bed in it. His was a well known figure
in Ashford 40 odd years ago. Mr. Nickalls leaves behind him many
descendants scattered far and wide over the globe — Tasmania, Australia,
Canada, the United States, Scotland and other places. His son, Mr.
Albert Nickalls, holds a position on the educational staff of Wye
Agricultural College.
Mr. Nickalls was
physically a strong man until well over 90 years of age, and might be
regularly seen on Sundays walking in and out again (a mile and a half)
from Beaver, to attend the Friends' meeting at Hempsted-street. His
mental faculties, also, were of no mean order, and he retained them
practically to the very last.
His remains will be
buried at the Friends' burying ground at Kennington at 2.30 to-day
(Friday).
probate to Samuel Ernest Nickalls accountant and
Herbert Lee auctioneer; effects £2274 16s. 4d. gross, £1322 0s. 11d net
will and grant of probate
1917-08-14
MESSRS LEE AND SON,
Are instructed by the
trustees of the late Mr. Thomas Nickalls, to offer for SALE by Public
AUCTION at the Saracen's Head Hotel, ASHFORD, on TUESDAY, AUGUST 14th,
1917, at Three o'clock, in the afternoon, in one lot, the desirable
Freehold
PROPERTY
comprising: "Clock House," Beaver, Ashford, together with about 3a. 3r.
0p. pasture land, situate within about 1¾ miles of the town and railway
station.
The House contains
three attics, four bedrooms, bathrooms, three reception rooms, small
conservatory, kitchen, scullery. There is a good garden at the side and
rear and useful outbuildings, comprising workshop with loft over,
washhouse, small stable, and coach house, lodge and pig stye. The
property is let to Mr. Thomas Cottrell on a yearly tenancy at a rent of
£30 per annum.
Particulars and
Conditions of Sale may be obtained of the Auctioneers, 9,
Wellesley-road, Ashford, and of Mr. Charles Norwood, Solicitor, High
Street, Ashford.
