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Anne Poole wrote: ……My name is Anne Nichols Poole, and I am delighted to have found Saponitown Forum !

I am researching my genealogy and as I recently heard someone say, I have hit the “brickest of the brick walls !” I am very interested in several things. My earliest confirmed ancestor is a William Nichols, born about 1720 in Brunswick, Va. For the past year I have suspected that we may have a Native connection somewhere, I just can’t find the somewhere ! If anyone can help me with learning more about any of the Nichols line that was in the Virginia area, especially around Brunswick, I would be so very grateful ! This William has eluded us for a very long time, and we would be so happy to learn more about this early part of our Nichols family.

I am also one of the founding staff members of The Lost Colony Group, and have been a Lost Colony researcher for many years. I was reading some of the posts and see where some of you may be connected to the Chowan Native groups. Although I don’t have specific names to share, there are some that I may possibly be able to comment on. We also believe that it is highly possible that some of the Lost Colony married into the Chowan groups, and I will be glad to share those names and info with anyone who may be interested.

If anyone can share Nichols info with me, especially if they know of first names of Henry, Richard, and William, I would appreciate learning about the information connected with the names. I am also glad to share any of the info I have regarding The Lost Colony, and also wonder if any of you may have such a history in your family !

Thanks….

Anne Nichols Poole

Welcome Anne, Blondeyelaurie has Nichols. I am not sure if she is around, but if you go to the member’s list, you can find her email. I am sure she would help you out.

As for the Lost Colony, I would be interested in what you would be willing to share.

Shirley

Anne Poole wrote: ……My name is Anne Nichols Poole, and I am delighted to have found Saponitown Forum !

I am researching my genealogy and as I recently heard someone say, I have hit the “brickest of the brick walls !” I am very interested in several things. My earliest confirmed ancestor is a William Nichols, born about 1720 in Brunswick, Va. For the past year I have suspected that we may have a Native connection somewhere, I just can’t find the somewhere ! If anyone can help me with learning more about any of the Nichols line that was in the Virginia area, especially around Brunswick, I would be so very grateful ! This William has eluded us for a very long time, and we would be so happy to learn more about this early part of our Nichols family.

I am also one of the founding staff members of The Lost Colony Group, and have been a Lost Colony researcher for many years. I was reading some of the posts and see where some of you may be connected to the Chowan Native groups. Although I don’t have specific names to share, there are some that I may possibly be able to comment on. We also believe that it is highly possible that some of the Lost Colony married into the Chowan groups, and I will be glad to share those names and info with anyone who may be interested.

If anyone can share Nichols info with me, especially if they know of first names of Henry, Richard, and William, I would appreciate learning about the information connected with the names. I am also glad to share any of the info I have regarding The Lost Colony, and also wonder if any of you may have such a history in your family !

Thanks….

Anne Nichols Poole

Hello Anne! I have Nichols. My line goes like this: John Nichols b 1636 Eng d 1706 Dorchester, Maryland (wife-unknown) son–John b 1686 d1758 Caroline, Maryland (wife- Grace Noble b-? d 1736 –son–Levan b 1730 d 1821 Bath, VA (wife-unknown)–son–Zephaniah b 1763 Kent, Maryland d 1834 Nicolas VA (wife-unknown)–son–James b 1783 Barnstable Mass d 1859 Nicolas VA (wife-Sarah Pierson b 1803 Monroe VA d 1880 Clay VA)–son–Alexander b 1815 d 1887 Nicolas VA (wife–Harriet Summers b 1819 d ?Nicolas VA–dau–Sarah Jane b 1841 Nicolas VA d 1914 IN. (She was my GG_Grandmother) Looking at the dates, my Levan could be related to your William? You never can discount anything till you know for sure. Anyway, Good Luck to you Anne Peace~~^~~Greydove

Anne Poole wrote: Hello Greydove !

Thank you for sharing your info !

I think you are going to be kin to a completely different set of Nichols ! I recognize several of these male Nichols names, along with their locations. I have a cousin in Brian Hamman’s Nichols dna study, and your Nichols are I believe in a different Nichols haplotype ! My group is actually classified as a “unique clan of Nichols.” We are in the G2 dna group, and don’t seem to fit any of the other group dna wise. There are only 4 Nichols males in the G2 group, including my cousin, and interestingly enough, the other three, whom we did not know about before the study, all go back to my 4th great grandparents, William Nichols and his wife Sarah Bowden ! However, we do have some native characteristics, with most of the Nichols having slightly olive skin, brown eyes, and dark hair. There are only about five of us who are fair skinned, blonde hair, and blue eyes. I recently learned that I have some Native characteristics, so I just really believe that there is that Native tie somewhere ! My Nichols line migrated down from Brunswick, Va., to NC, where most of us are now. Where the mysterious ancestor William in Brunswick came from, I have no idea !

Anne

Hi Anne. You’re welcome. You never know when you see someone else having a similar surname. That’s what is so nice abt having a place to come to compare family trees and especially when you suspect ndn connection. Take Care~^~Greydove

Anne,

Is your Nichols DNA project open to all?? I was curious about the halpotypes of this line. Is your halpotype G2a or G2c? I found this on Wiki…

Three commonly occurring subgroups of Haplogroup G have been identified so far: G1 (M285), G2a (P15) and G2c (M377). G3 (P287) exists but is rarely found in the G population. The highest reported concentration of G1 is in Iran, with next most frequent concentrations in neighboring countries. G2 represents the majority of haplogroup G Y-chromosomes in all countries, and a recently discovered subcategory (likely to be called G2a3) accounts for a high percentage of G in all sampled countries.

A clade of closely related Ashkenazi Jews represent virtually all G2c persons, with just three other G2c haplotypes having been reported so far: one Turk from Kars in northeast Turkey near Armenia, one Pashtun, and one Burusho in Pakistan. The extreme rarity of G2c in northeast Pakistan could indicate that G2c in this area originates outside the region and was brought there in the historic period, perhaps from further west (this area was part of both the Achaemenid Persian Empire, conquered by Alexander the Great, and then formed a part of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom). These two reported Pakistani G2c haplotypes are quite divergent from the Ashkenazi Jewish clade, and therefore do not at all indicate a recent common origin. The Turkish G2c is somewhat closer, but not identical. It remains to be seen if testing will reveal G2c haplotypes in other populations — this is some indication that G2c occurs at low levels in the Near East. Early reports that Ashkenazi G men were all G1 are now proven incorrect. There are also Jewish genetic clades within G2 and G1 whose members are not closely related to the G2c men. All G2c men tested so far have a rare null value for the DYS425 marker, (a missing “T” allele of the DYS371 palindromic STR), the result of a RecLOH event, a finding not yet seen among most other G haplotypes. Among Jews worldwide, haplogroup G comprises between 10–20% of the population. Though forming some recognizable clades, Jews today comprise a small percentage of the total number of G men worldwide.

Shirley

Anne,

I am new at this and this is my first time posting when I saw your post. I am searching for information on my GGM Rosa Nichols. The only information I have is that she was born Jan. 6, 1875 in Halifax Co. I do not know her father’s name and her mother’s name might be “Fannie” or “Frannie”. Rosa married Thomas Burchell in 1890 and they lived in Leaksville, NC (now named Eden, where Byrd was and called it the “garden of Eden”)around 1894. I came across this website because my mother’s cousin said we were Blackfoot. My grandmother always said she was Indian but I always assumed Cherokee because I did not know about the Blackfoot information. I am hoping that someone here can help me fill in blanks on my grandmother’s side.

Also, you mentioned the Lost Colony. I am from Wanchese, NC the village on the other end of Roanoke Island. (My parents lived there when I was born but because of health issues, my mother had me in Leaksville where my grandparents were.) Anyhow, I even worked at the Lost Colony play during a couple of summers as an usher. Small world!

Hi Beeleaf!

Small world isn’t it!!! I spent a number of years living in Leaksville, then changed to Eden, when I lived there with my grandmother who was a Burchell. Her parents were Thomas Burchell, b. Sept. 1862 in Horse Pasture, Va. d. sometime between 1910-1920 (don’t know the exact date). He married Rosa Nichols in 1890. (I posted about Rosa above.) That is all the information I know about either one. Sadly, as it oftens happens, we want to know this information when there are very few people left you can help you. I’d love more info on both of these GGparents. My grandmother was Rosa and Thomas’s daughter, Margie, b. Nov. 21, 1890, d. Nov. 4, 1974. Margie married Thomas B. Thompson from Leaksville, he died in 1959. She had a number of sisters and they all lived right around the same general area near Leaksville (Eden). I now live in PA and don’t get down to Eden as much but when I was there last Sept. for my uncle’s funeral (my mother’s brother’s, son of Margie) is when I spoke to my mother’s cousin who I had not seen since I was a child and I began to ask her about my grandmother always talking about being Indian and some of the relatives. This cousin lead me to the Blackfoot…she said she had known this for all her life because her mother (a sister to my grandmother) spoke about it. My grandmother has told me about being Indian but not too many details.

Perhaps your Burchells and mine are the same???

Thank you!!!