THE NICKLE FAMILY OF MADOC AND MARMORA

 

Elizabeth Nickle Robinson

 Our story of the Nickle family begins with Robert (1768-?) and Martha Catherine Masterson (1770-1850),  who  emigrated from Ireland  and died in Marmora, Ontario.  Of their six children,  two had remained and died in Ireland.

1.  James,  born in 1790, died in Ireland

2.  Robert, 1796-1828, died in Ireland,  but his widow,  Jane Howe  (1798-1871) emigrated to Canada,  perhaps following her brother-in-law, Joseph,   with her four children,  James (1820-1864), Elizabeth Robinson (1822-1906), Margaret (1826-1898) and John (1827-1894),  all of whom seemed to have settled in the Madoc area.  (See below)

3.  Joseph,  born in 1801 died in Madoc on March 4, 1892

4.  John,  1807-1985, may have been the owner of Lot 20, Concession 1, Madoc Township.

5.  William, 1807-1892, buried in Zion Cemetery, Marmora,   married Catherine Maguire,  settled on the west half of Lot 21, Concession 20, Madoc Township,  and went on to have 6 children – Robert,  John,  Margaret Jane Fox, Mary Joanne Hales, Elizabeth Irwin, Catherine Wilson, Sarah Nickle and William James. 

 6.  Catharine 1809-1873

Jane Howe Nickle’s sons, James and John,  did not hesitate to spread the Nickle name.  James had  eight children,  five of whom were sons.    Meanwhile John had twelve children,  eight of whom were sons to carry on the Nickle name.

Jane Howe’s son,  JAMES NICKLE (1820-1864)  married Hannah Jane Devolin (1830-1900) in Belleville on January 2, 1851,  and settled in Madoc  to raise all his children,  yet both James and Hannah are buried at the Zion Cemetery near Malone in Marmora Township,  Hastings County. After the death of James,  Hannah went on to marry  James Hamilton that same year,   and produced a daughter,  Ellen Francis Hamilton in 1872.

William Nickle 1807-1892 Zion Cemetery

James (1820-1864, son of Robert and Jane

James and Hannah’s first son was John Devolin Nickle (1853-1921).  He married Margaret Ann Broadworth of Madoc and went on to have nine children.

  1. Thomas (1885-1944)  moved to Idaho and was drafted in both world wars.  He died in 1944 in Orofino, Idaho.

  2. James Arthur (1887-1952) lived in Madoc and Marmora,  married Della May Batemen (1892-1962)and lived in Madoc Township.  He and Della,  along with his brother,  William F. Nickle are buried in Zion Cemetery.

  3. William F. Nickle married Nora West in Asotin,  Washington,  USA,  however they were both listed as divorced.  They lived in Idaho and upon his death in Orofino, Idaho,  he was returned to Zion Cemetery for burial.

  4. Jane Nickle (1890-1986) was born in Malone, Ont,   & married John William Waite(1895-1929)  of Toronto in 1918

  5. Private Robert John Nickle,  born Oct. 17, 1893  was killed in action on Nov. 3, 1917, in Passchendaele, Belgium

  6. Maude Nickle (1895-1972) was a school teacher and married William George Johns

  7. Annie Evelyn Nickle (1899-1997) married Fred Stuckey and William Gawley

  8. Albert Milton Nickle (1903-1972) married Freda Hamilton Gawley and had eight children

  9. Morey Nickle 1904-19

Margart Broadworth Nickle, son Jim and son Albert

Margart Broadworth Nickle, son Jim and son Albert

William F. Nickle

john devolin nickle 9far right0 and margaret ann broadworth with family members

BACK TO JANE HOWE NICKLE

Jane’s second son, JOHN NICKLE (1827-94) married Margaret Jane Quigg (1836-1902) and had twelve children:

  1. Jane (1856-88)  married Robert Nelson and is buried in Eldorado, Ont.

  2. James (1857-1917) married Annie Bailey of Marmora and Jane V. Hamilton

  3. Nathaniel (1858-1926) moved to Weyburn Sask. And is buried there

  4. Rev. George Nickle (1862-53) married Minnie Crews and had 3 daughters.  He served the Quinte Conference of the United Church and is buried in Toronto

  5. Margaret Jane (1863-1948) married John Samuel Davis

  6. John Quigg Nickle (1865-1951) married Ellen Lavina Moore and had 6 children, one of whom was George Moore Nickle,  killed in action in France in 1918

  7. Martha Anne Nickle (1867-1891) is buried in the Eldorado cemetery

  8. Thomas Leslie Nickle (1868-1935)  See below

  9. Ada E. Nickle (1871-1891)  is buried in Eldorado cemetery

  10. Robert Keith Nickle (1871-1911) married Bernice M. Blakely and had two sons, Herbert  Keith and Robert H.

  11. William C. Nickle (1874-1907) became a doctor, and died of pulmonary tuberculosis, having never married.

  12. Millen A. Nickle (1881-1944) was a doctor in the army in WW1,  practiced as an ear, nose and throat doctor in Saskatchewan and Florida.  He married Laura Holdcroft and died in Clearwater, Fl.

 MORE ON THOMAS LESLIE NICKLE (1868-1935)

This Thomas Nickle married Eleanor Spurr (1871-1957) who was originally from Wakefield, England.  In 1887,  Eleanor had a daughter,  Ellen Sophia Birt,  who was raised by Thomas,  whom Eleanor married in 1896.  They lived in Madoc,  and are buried there.  Together Thomas and Eleanor  had 12 children,  one of whom was Clinton Nickle,  of Nickles drug store in Marmora.

Leslie Nickle, brother of Clinton, killed WW1

  1. LESIE WEBSTER NICKLE (1896-1916)  During WWI, on Nov. 18, 1916, he was killed shortly before reaching Ancre Desire trench on the Somme by a machine gun bullet through the heart at about 6:10a.m. (a week before his twentieth birthday) He is buried at Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont and Pys, France. 

  2. Kathleen Gertrude Nickle (1898-1989) moved to Weyburn Saskatchewan to live with her uncle, John Quigg Nickle and her cousins.  She married Walter Dyer (1895-1969) then moved to Vancouver where she died.

  3. Harold Clifford Nickle (1900-1901) died in less than a year and is buried in the Stockdale Cemetery.

  4. Vivian Edna Nickle (1901-1972)  moved to the U.S. through Buffalo in 1921.  By 1930 she was in Washington DC,  married George O. Griffith and had a son named Peter Spurr Griffith.  She died in New Jersey.

  5. Eleanor Isabelle Nickle (1903-1994) also moved to the US,  in Bethlehem, Penn.  She married  Lewis Day Brown,  and had two daughters.

  6. Thomas Edmund Dudley Nickle (1905-1929) died in the line of duty,  but as a result of a plane crash in San Diego,   while serving in the US marine corps.He is buried in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia

  7. Margaret Elizabeth Nickle (1907-1973)  was a registered nurse, and in 1963 was  living at 107 Rollins Dr in Madoc,  with  her father,  Thomas Nickle, who was a salesman.

  8. John Hubert Nickle (1909-1960) appears to have remained in Madoc,  marrying Vera Parks and having a son named Paul Hubert Nickle (1945-2016), who died in Peterborough.

  9. Dorothy Mabel Nickle (1911-1983) married Rawlings Young and lived in several locations in the U.S.  She had one son,  John Marshall Young,  and she died in Virginia.

  10. CLINTON SPURR NICKLE,  well known in Marmora as the owner of Nickles Drug Store for almost thirty-five years.  After service in WWII,  where he was wounded in Sicily,  he returned home in 1945,  having married Audrey Ince in England in 1942.  They had two sons,  David and Derrick

  11. Jean Webster Nickle 1918-2006, the baby of the family, married Roy Smith.

  

Private Leslie Nickle of Madoc Killed November 18th 1916