The Nicolson family were prominent landholders in the Tasmanian Midlands. Commissariat John Nicolson (1817-1867) married Marion Davidson (1827-1893) in 1847. They had seven children - Agnes (1849-1850), John Norman Marshall (1854-1923), Anne Florence (1856-1888), Walter (1857-1890), Susanna Mary (anna) (1861-1918), Edward Reginald (18762-1928) and Jessie Roberta (1865-1945). John Norman Marshall Nicolson (known as Norman) married Jessie Dodd Finlay (1862-1893) in 1885, and Margaret Amelia Finlay (1851-1922) in 1894. Norman and Margaret lived at Streanshalh, Campbell Town. Anne Florence (Annie) married Daniel Archer (1844-1921). The lived at Longford Hall, Longford.