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John Nicholes I or II

Career Manufacturer

Biography Gunmakers and mayors of Oxford [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 01/05/2007] Most likely to be the II especially if purchased by James Woodforde as he was only in Oxford post 1750, note that the name can be spelt a variety of ways

Biography References http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/mayors/1714_1835/nicholes_john_2_1752.htm / http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/mayors/1714_1835/nicholes_john1_1719_1731.htm

County Oxfordshire

Relationship Maker

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1911

Date made around ?1750-1785

Dates active I ?-1750, II 1703-1785

Donated around 1911

English collections Pair of flint-lock pistols by Nicholes of Oxford, with steel wrench for turning the barrels.

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1703-1785

English collection size 3

Connections F.C. Woodforde possibly Francis Cardew Woodforde

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