Cover image for Septimus Nichols and Family
Agency:
Septimus Nichols and Family
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Jan 1873
Description:
Septimus Nichols was the son of Charles Nichols, merchant of Launceston and New Zealand and his wife Mary, daughter of Robert Cowie of Brookstead Avoca.;;;;Septimus Nichols purchased Palmerston at Cressy in 1896. He married Mary Elvira Smith, the daughter of Launceston merchant C.H.Smith in Launceston in 1895 and their daughter Nancy Maude Nichols, the wife of Eric Scott-Young, formerly of South Australia, lived on the property, which passed to their son Robert. ;;;;Descendants still farm the property althougth the original homestead was sold in the 1970's when Nancy, widowed since 1941, moved to Launceston.
Functions Performed:
Family archives
Series Created By Agency:
NS507 Copies of Photographs of Palmerston and Nichols Family and Friends01 Jan 189031 Dec 1920