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Nicholas Family Name

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Probable Origins & Usage

  • Perhaps Algonquin from Oka [Day]
  • perhaps Missisquoi
  • Kennebec Abenaki
  • Maliseet
  • a French name
  • found as a family name and a personal name

Spellings & Alternate Names

  • Nicola / Nikola - the Abenaki form of the name
  • sometimes Coley
  • Nicolas
  • probably Nickless
  • perhaps Nichols

Places Family is Found

  • Odanak
  • Penobscot
  • Passamaquoddy
  • Kennebec River
  • Rawdon, Quebec
  • Viger Band
  • Greenville, ME

Earliest Occurrences of the Name

  • 1724 Kennebec River
  • 1735 Pierre Nicolas had children baptized at Ft. St. Frederick.
  • American Revolution, Capt. Nicola (Passamaquoddy) listed in service
  • Pierre Nicolas, b.abt.1813 in New Brunswick listed at L'Isle Verte in 1851
  • 1819 Pierre Nicolas listed at Odanak
  • 1850-1852 Michel Nicolas listed at Odanak as being at Rawdon

Notes

A common name found in most Wabanaki groups.

The Penobscot family origins are from the village of Norridgewock at the time of it's destruction by English in 1724.

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