See also
Husband:
James Alexander Nicol (1876-1964)
Wife:
Marriage:
Q4 1904
Ongar "Registration District", Essex, England1
James Alexander Nicol
Name:
Sex:
Male
Nickname:
Jim
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Occupation:
Birth:
22 Mar 1876
Census:
3 Apr 1881 (age 5)
29 Mildmay Road, Highbury, Middlesex, England6
son attending school and living with his parents Alexander and Julia, sister Amy, brothers Robert and Bertie, widowed grandmother Harriet Conway, and a servant. Born in Islington Middlesex
Census:
5 Apr 1891 (age 15)
60 Mildmay Road, Highbury, London, England4
son James A Nicholl working as a solicitors law clerk and living with his parents Alexander and Amy, brothers Bertie, Frank and Ralph, sister Rosa, widowed grandmother Harriet Conway, a servant, and a boarder. Born in Islington
Census:
31 Mar 1901 (age 25)
60 Mildmay Road, Highbury, London, England7
unmarried son and no occupation given living with his parents Alexander and Amy, brothers Frank and Ralph, sister Rosie, a visitor and a boarder. Born in Islington London
Census absence:
2 Apr 1911 (age 35)
Census absence:
19 Jun 1921 (age 45)
Immigration:
5 May 1936 (age 59)
to Southampton, Hampshire, England from Mombasa, Coast Province, Kenya
of no occupation travelling alone to 6 Raven Court Westcliffe on Sea on the the Union Castle Mail Steamship[ Company Limited's ship LLandovery Castle
Census:
29 Sep 1939 (age 63)
1 Dunraven Road, Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales5
a married and retired commercial traveller living with his wife's nephew John Ridgwell, his wife Irene, his widowed mother-in-law Margaret, and his wife Margaret Nicol. Born on 22nd March 1876
Death:
24 Jan 1964 (age 87)
Probate:
5 Feb 1965
Probate Registry, London, England8
of 329 Westbourne Grove Westcliff-on-Sea Essex died 24th January 1964, administration of £158 (~£2,800 in 2017) to Nora Ruby Boswell married woman
Margaret Ridgewell
Name:
Sex:
Female
Nickname:
Madge
Father:
Mother:
Occupation:
dressmaker12
Birth:
1 Oct 1870
Baptism:
28 May 1873 (age 2)
Christ Church with St. Paul, Church Road, Forest Hill, Kent, England11
daughter of John Ridgewell (coachman) and Margaret of 5 Darreds Road Forest Hill, born 1st October 1870
Census:
3 Apr 1881 (age 10)
2 St. Johns Cottages, Maple Road, Penge, Kent, England13
daughter attending school and living with her parents John and Margaret, and brothers Frederick and William. Born in Beckenham Kent
Census absence:
5 Apr 1891 (age 20)
Administrator:
2 Feb 1897 (age 26)
Margaret Ridgewell was appointed as an administrator at the probate hearing of Edward Tannar on Tuesday on 2 February 1897 at the Probate Registry, London, England
Census:
31 Mar 1901 (age 30)
73 Thorold Road, Ilford, Essex, England12
widowed head of the household working as a dressmaker at home and living with a servant, and three boarders. Born in Beckenham Surrey
Census absence:
2 Apr 1911 (age 40)
Census absence:
19 Jun 1921 (age 50)
Census:
29 Sep 1939 (age 68)
1 Dunraven Road, Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales5
married doing unpaid domestic duties and living with nephew John Ridgwell, his wife Irene, her widowed mother Margaret, and her husband John Nicol. Born on 1st October 1870
Administrator:
8 Feb 1961 (age 90)
Margaret Ridgewell was appointed as an administrator at the probate hearing of William Henry Ridgewell on Wednesday on 8 February 1961 at the Probate Registry, London, England
Death:
Q2 1962 (age 91)
Rochford "Registration District", Essex, England14
James disappears between 1901 and 1936 presumably in Africa, no trace of a marriage record, did he meet his wife there?
England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ongar 1904 quarter:4 volume:4a page:713. Cit. Date: 11 September 2024.
England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Islington 1876 quarter:2 volume:1b page:361. Cit. Date: 4 September 2024.
England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Southend-on-Sea 1964 quarter:1 volume:4a page:972. Cit. Date: 4 September 2024.
England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG12 piece:174 folio:67 page:7 schedule:47. Cit. Date: 4 September 2024.
UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:7290D page:14 line:26 letter code:XIBR. Cit. Date: 3 September 2024.
England and Wales Census 1881, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG11 piece:252 folio:107 page:5 schedule:1005. Cit. Date: 4 September 2024.
England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG13 piece:197 folio:68 page:8 schedule:59. Cit. Date: 4 September 2024.
UK Government Probate Service, UK Government Find a Will, (on-line at www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). London 1965 page:99. Cit. Date: 4 September 2024.
Ridgewell Descendents web site. Cit. Date: 14 December 2002.
England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Bromley 1870 quarter:4 volume:2a page:319. Cit. Date: 1 August 2017.
Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1923, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk). Forest Hill Christ Church with St. Paul baptisms 1854-1922 page:111 entry:887. Cit. Date: 24 September 2023.
England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG13 piece:1649 folio:7 page:6 schedule:38. Cit. Date: 11 September 2024.
England and Wales Census 1881, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG11 piece:824 folio:72 page:18 schedule:628. Cit. Date: 7 January 2018.
England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Rochford 1962 quarter:2 volume:4a page:708. Cit. Date: 4 September 2024.