Nichols, Noah

Noah Nichols was the Branch Manager of the Northern Farmers’ Trade Association when he lived at 8 Percy Terrace in 1939. He was the only son of William Henry Nichols, a hewer in a coal mine when Noah was born on 17 June 1902, and Margaret Jane Nichols. The family was living in 106 High Row South, Mickley Square and besides Noah there was sister, Ethel Nichols (born 1907). The address was the same in 1911 and 1921 and in the latter year Noah was working as a clerk/bookkeeper for the Northern Agricultural Co-operative Society in Clayton Street, Newcastle which he had joined in 1919. In the third quarter of 1932 he married Eva Tulip, the marriage was recorded in Hexham. In 1939 he was in Bellingham and now had a son, John Philip Nichols – born 7 May 1938. On 28 February 1959 the Newcastle Journal reported, “Mr Noah Nichols joined the staff (of the Northern Farmers Trading Association) in 1919 and moved to Bellingham as branch manager in 1929. Mr Nichols’ branch serves the area of the North Tyne and Rede valleys and extends north west to the Border and north east beyond Elsdon.” It appears the Noah died aged 92 in Sefton, Merseyside in January 1995.