|
Family Links
|
|
Spouses/Children:
1. Unknown
|
|
|
NICOLSON, David Clerk of Court 1 2
- Born: About 1480
- Marriage (1): Unknown
- Died: by 12 March 1543 2
User ID: Z628.
General Notes:
"The Nicolson family were established in Aberdeen by the fifteenth century. They had largely been burgesses, but the grandfather of Thomas Nicolson of Cockburnspath, David Nicolson, was a central figure in Aberdeen's governmental and legal administration. He was clerk of the baillie court by 1519, of the diocese by 1522, of the sheriff court from 1535, and of the town by 1541. David shared the sheriff clerkship with his son, Robert, from 1540. Local litigation records reveal that David died between 8 February 1543 and 12 March 1543. After this, Robert held that clerkship alone until his removal by George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly in ca.1558. The office of sheriff clerk was symbolically restored to the family through its re-granting in ca.1563 to James Nicolson, brother of Robert and father to Thomas Nicolson of Cockburnspath. However it seems likely that James Nicolson held this office as a sinecure, as he had already established himself in Edinburgh by the 1560s as a notary public, writer (solicitor),burgess, and clerk to the signet."
from Legal Practice and Legal Institutions 2
David married.
|
