Australian Dictionary of Biography – [ref: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/nichols-george-robert-bob-4296]
NSW BDMs Registry: Death NICHOLS GEORGE R 865/1857 [parents] ISAAC & ROSANNA registered at SYDNEY
Obituaries: [ref: Empire (Sydney) 14 September 1857 p 4]; [ref: The Sydney Morning Herald 14 September 1857 p 5]; [ref: Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer 19 September 1857 p 2]; [ref: Freeman's Journal 19 September 1857 p 2]; [ref: The Hobart Town Mercury (Tas) 21 September 1857 p 3]; [ref: The Argus (Melbourne) 19 September 1857 p 6]; and many more
Details from contemporary sources:
1842 Candidate for Town Clerk - 16 November 1842 - not appointed [ref: Council Meeting 16 November 1842]
1843 Appointed City Solicitor 28 July [ref: Council Meeting 28 July 1843]
1843 Appointed 28 July - salary £100 pa [ref: 879/027]
1843 Report of Special Committee, reduction of salaries - 1st & 2nd schedules - 23 December [ref: 21/1/59/745[685]]
1844 £100 pa - Schedule of salaries for 1844 [ref: Council Meeting 28 December 1843]
1844 Account re Baker v Moir referred to Council, December [ref: 21/002/492 [497]]
1848 Letters: Legislative Council Inquiry into Council - March - August [ref: 21/6/173 [465]]
1848 Proposed duties & salary, November 1848-April 1849 [ref: 21/7/26 [371]]
1849 £100 pa - Salary recommendations for 1849, Finance Committee Meeting 22 December 1848 [ref: 11/1]
1849 £300 pa - Estimates for 1849 [ref: 27/5/49/377]
1849 To pay moneys in at least once per month [ref: 27/4/49/70]
1850 £300 pa - Estimates for 1850 [ref: 27/5/50/102]
1853 Re Cooper v Corporation - October [ref: 26/8/093a]
1855 £400 pa - Salaries of Officers for 1855, acting with Williams [ref: 27/9/90]
1855 Opinion re Campbell St Markets claims - May [ref: 26/16/491]
1855 Opinion on street laid out on private land - July [ref: 26/18/0725]
1856 £400 pa - Salaries of Officers for 1856 [ref: City Commissioners' Meeting 8 February 1856]
1857 £350 pa - appointed 4 May 1857 by newly elected Council [ref: 7/10/33]
1857 Opinion on encroachments - May [ref: 26/29/118]
1857 Resignation - effective 1 September [ref: 26/30/398]GenderMaleSource system IDTPER-003325
