Thomas Clark Nicholls was a veteran of the War of 1812, in which he served with General Andrew Jackson. He was a member of the Louisiana legislature, and was a Judge of the Louisiana State Court of Appeals. He was a native of Maryland, who practiced law in Donaldsonville, LA, and later became a District Judge and the first President of the Temperance Society.
[Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches or Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, arranged in Cyclopedic Form (Vol. 3, pp. 367-368). Edited by A. Fortier, Lit. D. Published 1914 by Century Historical Assn.]
Thomas and his wife, Louisa Drake, settled in Donaldsonville, LA in 1814, shortly after their marriage. At that time, the Mississippi River poured into Bayou Lafourche at Donaldsonville, and the Bayou was a main distributary of the river as it flowed on to the Gulf of Mexico. During this period, and until the Mississippi was dammed in about 1904, flooding was a danger every spring when the snow in the north melted, requiring the land owners along the Bayou Lafourche to build their own levees.
Father: Edward Church Nicholls b: in St. Michaels Mount, Cornwall, England
Mother: Williamina Hamilton
Marriage 1 Louisa Hannah Drake b: ABT. 1790 in New York
Married: 21 JUN 1814
Children
Robert Welman " Welman" Nicholls b: 1815
Edward Fitzgerald Nicholls b: 1819
Josephine Williamina Nicholls b: 1820 in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, LA
Thomas Claggett Nicholls b: 1823
Lawrence Drake Nicholls b: 1826
Martha Crauford Nicholls b: ABT. 1828
Malcolm Hamilton Nicholls b: 1830
Francis T. Nicholls b: 20 AUG 1834 in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, LA
Thanks to Terri MacDonald for this information
[Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches or Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, arranged in Cyclopedic Form (Vol. 3, pp. 367-368). Edited by A. Fortier, Lit. D. Published 1914 by Century Historical Assn.]
Thomas and his wife, Louisa Drake, settled in Donaldsonville, LA in 1814, shortly after their marriage. At that time, the Mississippi River poured into Bayou Lafourche at Donaldsonville, and the Bayou was a main distributary of the river as it flowed on to the Gulf of Mexico. During this period, and until the Mississippi was dammed in about 1904, flooding was a danger every spring when the snow in the north melted, requiring the land owners along the Bayou Lafourche to build their own levees.
Father: Edward Church Nicholls b: in St. Michaels Mount, Cornwall, England
Mother: Williamina Hamilton
Marriage 1 Louisa Hannah Drake b: ABT. 1790 in New York
Married: 21 JUN 1814
Children
Robert Welman " Welman" Nicholls b: 1815
Edward Fitzgerald Nicholls b: 1819
Josephine Williamina Nicholls b: 1820 in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, LA
Thomas Claggett Nicholls b: 1823
Lawrence Drake Nicholls b: 1826
Martha Crauford Nicholls b: ABT. 1828
Malcolm Hamilton Nicholls b: 1830
Francis T. Nicholls b: 20 AUG 1834 in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, LA
Thanks to Terri MacDonald for this information
Thomas Clark Nicholls was a veteran of the War of 1812, in which he served with General Andrew Jackson. He was a member of the Louisiana legislature, and was a Judge of the Louisiana State Court of Appeals. He was a native of Maryland, who practiced law in Donaldsonville, LA, and later became a District Judge and the first President of the Temperance Society.
[Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches or Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, arranged in Cyclopedic Form (Vol. 3, pp. 367-368). Edited by A. Fortier, Lit. D. Published 1914 by Century Historical Assn.]
Thomas and his wife, Louisa Drake, settled in Donaldsonville, LA in 1814, shortly after their marriage. At that time, the Mississippi River poured into Bayou Lafourche at Donaldsonville, and the Bayou was a main distributary of the river as it flowed on to the Gulf of Mexico. During this period, and until the Mississippi was dammed in about 1904, flooding was a danger every spring when the snow in the north melted, requiring the land owners along the Bayou Lafourche to build their own levees.
Father: Edward Church Nicholls b: in St. Michaels Mount, Cornwall, England
Mother: Williamina Hamilton
Marriage 1 Louisa Hannah Drake b: ABT. 1790 in New York
Married: 21 JUN 1814
Children
Robert Welman " Welman" Nicholls b: 1815
Edward Fitzgerald Nicholls b: 1819
Josephine Williamina Nicholls b: 1820 in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, LA
Thomas Claggett Nicholls b: 1823
Lawrence Drake Nicholls b: 1826
Martha Crauford Nicholls b: ABT. 1828
Malcolm Hamilton Nicholls b: 1830
Francis T. Nicholls b: 20 AUG 1834 in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, LA
Thanks to Terri MacDonald for this information
[Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches or Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, arranged in Cyclopedic Form (Vol. 3, pp. 367-368). Edited by A. Fortier, Lit. D. Published 1914 by Century Historical Assn.]
Thomas and his wife, Louisa Drake, settled in Donaldsonville, LA in 1814, shortly after their marriage. At that time, the Mississippi River poured into Bayou Lafourche at Donaldsonville, and the Bayou was a main distributary of the river as it flowed on to the Gulf of Mexico. During this period, and until the Mississippi was dammed in about 1904, flooding was a danger every spring when the snow in the north melted, requiring the land owners along the Bayou Lafourche to build their own levees.
Father: Edward Church Nicholls b: in St. Michaels Mount, Cornwall, England
Mother: Williamina Hamilton
Marriage 1 Louisa Hannah Drake b: ABT. 1790 in New York
Married: 21 JUN 1814
Children
Robert Welman " Welman" Nicholls b: 1815
Edward Fitzgerald Nicholls b: 1819
Josephine Williamina Nicholls b: 1820 in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, LA
Thomas Claggett Nicholls b: 1823
Lawrence Drake Nicholls b: 1826
Martha Crauford Nicholls b: ABT. 1828
Malcolm Hamilton Nicholls b: 1830
Francis T. Nicholls b: 20 AUG 1834 in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, LA
Thanks to Terri MacDonald for this information
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