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Nicolls and Mountain family fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1825-1966.

Reference:

R8218-0-5-E

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

186124

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Nicolls and Mountain family fonds
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Date(s):

1825-1966.

Place of creation:

Québec (Province)

Added country of publication:

Ontario

Extent:

10 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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The Nicolls and Mountain family fonds consists of manuscripts which document its family history and its contributions to the Anglican church, education in Quebec, and Canadian society since the late eighteenth century. It holds obituaries of Mountain family members, 1827-1862; correspondence relating to the death of Elizabeth Mildred Wale Mountain (nee Kentish), April 1836; correspondence relating to the deaths of other members of the Mountain family, 1838- 1861; correspondence of George Jehoshaphat Mountain and Harriet Mary Nicolls (nee Mountain), 1834-1879; a manuscript history of the Mountain family, 1702-1797, written ca. 1850-1900; correspondence to Gustavus George Nicolls about the Mountain family, 1904-1905; religious licences and letters of orders of Gustavus George Nicolls, 1879-1881; genealogical material about the Nicolls family including a biographical sketch of Jasper Hume Nicolls, family tree chart and correspondence, 1825-1966; a history of the Church of All Saints in Thwaite, Norfolk, England by Charlotte Whitton and W. P. Tippen, 1934; research on the Wright, Hume, Tannatt, Thomson, and Croke families by Jasper H. H. Nicolls, ca. 1900-1960; clippings about the Mountain and Nicolls families, 1882-1965; and booklets titled "The First Hundred Years of the Diocese of Quebec" and "The 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Jacob Mountain", 1893 and 1949.

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Nicolls and Mountain (family)
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Nicolls, Jasper Henry Hume, 1886-

Mountain, Jacob, 1749-1825

Nicolls (family)

Mountain, George J. (George Jehosaphat), 1789-1863
Biography/Administrative history:

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Nicolls and Mountain (family) : Right Rev. Dr. Jacob Mountain (1744-1825) was the first Anglican Bishop of Quebec from 1793 to 1825. He brought his family with him to Canada in 1793. His son, George Jehoshaphat Mountain (1789-1863), became the third Bishop of Quebec in 1837 and held this office until his death in 1863. Right Rev. Dr. George Mountain and his wife Mary Hume Thomson had three daughters and two sons. His daughter, Harriet Mary Mountain (1816-1893), married Jasper Hume Nicolls (1818-1877) who was the first Principal of Bishop's University in Lennoxville and held this position from 1845 until his death in 1877. They had two sons and three daughters, including Rev. Gustavus George Nicolls (1852- ?) who married Julia Louisa Avery Carter in 1884. Their son Jasper Henry Hume Nicolls was born in 1886.

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Textual records: (Paper) The finding aid is a descriptive file and item level listing of the papers. MSS2254

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS2254
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000747.pdf

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Custodial history:

The fonds was donated to the National Archives by Elizabeth C. Tucker of Ottawa, Ontario in 1984. It had passed into her hands through her late husband's first wife, Constance Nicolls. She was probably a daughter or heir of Jasper Henry Hume Nicolls (1886-after 1966) of Ottawa who was the last person to have added to the fonds. He was a grandson of Jasper Hume Nicolls and Harriet Mary Mountain who brought the Nicolls and Mountain families together through marriage.

Associated material note:

The Nicolls/Mountain family fonds at Bishop's University Archives may include material that was not copied by the National Archives for the Rev. Jacob Mountain collection. The National Gallery of Canada holds a portrait of the Tannatt family, ca. 1775 by Henry Benbridge, that was donated by Jasper Nicolls.

Related material:

Researchers should also consult the Nicolls family fonds, the Rev. Jacob Mountain collection, and the Rev. George J. Mountain fonds at the National Archives whose provenance overlaps with the Nicolls and Mountain family fonds.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1997/0177 (1997-12-08)
2001-00688-8
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[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R8218] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 2254] 511

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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