Catalogue description Letters received by Hatfield Nicholson (1799-1847)

Hatfield was the fourth surviving child of Thomas (1753-1825) and Mary Nicholson (c. 1757-1803) (see 920 NIC/11 and 12). He was educated at Rev. William Shepherd's school in Gateacre. In 1821 he went to Canada intending to settle there as a merchant but he soon returned to enter the linen trade in Liverpool. In 1838 he left Liverpool for Canterbury to establish "a coal and carrying business, Nicholson & Baylis. Two years later this business failed and Hatfield Nicholson and his family moved to Dublin. In the later 1840's he acted as Secretary of the Dundalk and Eniskillen Railway Co. to which is wife's brother-in-law, Sir John MacNeill was engineer. He died in 1847.

In 1828 he had married Anne Mercer in Dublin (see 920 NIC/14/7. While living in Liverpool, Hatfield Nicholson had been secretary to the Paradise Street Chapel committee in the period 1835-1837. See pp. 106-107.