Nicholas George WILLIS

1861 - 1908  (47 years)

• Name	Nicholas George WILLIS
  Birth	28 Apr 1861
  Gender	Male
  Note	Excerpt from Sunderland Echo, 12 May 1960: 'Nicholas or 'Nippy' Willis, as we called him, ran the farm behind the sawmills and at Lyons at the time. One of the fields was called the Brigade Field because the C.L.B. football eleven played there. Quoit matches were sometimes held there, and where, I remember, that Mr W.W. Lamb, R.S. Magee, E. Greenhow and Mr. Backwith practised clay pigeon shooting'
  Name	Nippy Willis
  Death	28 May 1908  [1]
  Burial	, Hetton-le-Hole, Sunderland County, England
  Person ID	I8290	Ancestral Trails
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	James WILLIS   d. 29 Jul 1896
  Mother	Margaret HEADS
  Marriage	Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F724	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Mitchell MUIRHEAD,   b. 22 Apr 1865   d. 30 Jan 1954 (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	14 Aug 1884	, Branxton, New Brunswick, Canada   [2]
  Children	1. James WILLIS,   b. 1 Dec 1884, , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada d. 23 Apr 1969, , North Cowichan, British Columbia, Canada (Age 84 years)   2. Nichol WILLIS   3. Daisy WILLIS   4. Cissy WILLIS,   b. 28 Dec 1886   5. May WILLIS   6. Millie WILLIS   7. Jessie WILLIS
  Family ID	F1613	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S296] Sunderland Echo newspaper, 296. 12 May 1960 Page 6 'Unfortunately, he died at an early age of 47, soon after a disastrous fire in the Hemels storage and his son James carried on the business until the sawmills closed down in 1913. - C.A. Smith' [S296] Sunderland Echo newspaper, 296. 12 May 1960 Page 6 'It was in Scotland, too, that the son, Nicholas, met his bride-to-be, Margaret Muirhead - C.A. Smith'