The origin of the name
Nicholson-Lailey
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Wanted by Ursula Davis, nee Nicholson-Lailey, Yeovil,
Somerset
Family recollections believe that the name Nicholson was introduced
into my father’s branch of the Lailey family in response to a probate
bequest. The name first appears in 1815 when the eldest son of Jethro
Lailey was baptised George Nicholson Lailey on 9 September 1815 at
Stanford Dingley. Jethro subsequently gave the name Nicholson as a
second forename to some of his daughters but not to his other sons.
George Nicholson Lailey however had all his children baptised with the
second name of Nicholson. This name has now disappeared form most
branches of the family but my grandfather assured its survival in our
branch by introducing the hyphenated form Nicholson-Lailey about the
time of his marriage in 1899. The only clue that I have comes from the
entry in the Bradfield parish register of the marriage of Jethro Lailey
‘of Stanford Dingley’ to Mary Wilks on 14 September 1814 ‘cons Rich
Nicholas gaurd’. Mary was born in Westminster, exact date and parentage
unknown, but in the 1851 census she is recorded as being ‘a proprietor
of houses’. Can anyone give me a clue which could lead me to identify
this Richard Nicholas and trace his Will or any links between the
Nicholas and Wilks families?
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