Individual Notes

Note for: Sussana Nelson, 12 JUN 1755 - 13 JUL 1813 Index

Christening:
     Date:   17 JUN 1755

Burial:
     Date:   UNKNOWN
     Place:   Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.

Individual Note:
     [Nelson - Suckling.FTW]

Apprenticed - Milliner in Bath and 3 years later became a Shop Assistant in Bath.
After marriage lived in Norfolk.
Called, Sukey

Susanna and her family lived at Bradenham Hall, Nfk.

Individual Notes

Note for: Thomas Bolton, 1753 - 17 OCT 1834 Index

Christening:
     Date:   17 APR 1753
     Place:   Coddenham, Sfk.

Burial:
     Date:   24 OCT 1834
     Place:   Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.

Individual Note:
     [Nelson - Suckling.FTW]

After the death of Susanna, Thomas Bolton moved to Burnham Market.
Lord Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton stayed with him there - and their daughter Horatia lived with Thomas after Emma's death.

Individual Notes

Note for: William Nelson, 20 APR 1757 - 28 FEB 1835 Index

Christening:
     Date:   3 MAY 1757

Burial:
     Date:   UNKNOWN
     Place:   St. Pauls Cathedral, London.

Individual Note:
     [Nelson - Suckling.FTW]

Occupation - Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, Kent.
Education - King Edward the VI Grammar School in Norwich, Norfolk. - Sir Wm. Paston's Grammar School in North Walsham, Norfolk. - Christs College, Cambridge. (Holy Orders).

Individual Notes

Note for: Sarah Younge, 1749 - 15 APR 1828 Index

Christening:
     Date:   7 JUN 1749
     Place:   Gt. Torrington, Devon.

Burial:
     Date:   22 APR 1828
     Place:   St. Pauls Cathedral, London.

Individual Note:
     [Nelson - Suckling.FTW]

Sarah's parents = Henry Younge and Sarah Wolley.

Individual Notes

Note for: Lord-Horatio Nelson, 29 SEP 1758 - 21 OCT 1805 Index

Christening:
     Date:   9 OCT 1758

Burial:
     Date:   9 JAN 1806
     Place:   St. Pauls Cathedral, London.

Individual Note:
     [Nelson - Suckling.FTW]

Privately, Baptised.
Known as Horace as a child.
Education - King Edward the VI Grammar School in Norwich, Norfolk. - Sir Wm. Paston's Grammar School in North Walsham, Norfolk.
Left home at the aged of 12 years in 1770 to go to sea with his Uncle Maurice Suckling - as a Midshipman

HORATIO NELSON

1758 - Born 29th September

1767 - Horatio's Mother dies

1771 - Nelson joins the Navy on his Uncle's ship Raisonable

1773 - April to November, joins the Carcass, one of two vessels send to seek a passage through the artic

1777 - 5th April, Passes his Lieutenant's examination. Appointed to HMS Lowestoffe on the West Indies station

1778 - December. Promoted to Commander and given his first command, HMS Badger

1779 - Promoted to Post Captain

1780 - Naval Commander of the San Juan River attack on a Spanish fort. Returns home sick.

1781 - Captain of Albemarle in the North Sea.

1782 - April, sails to Canada. November, joins Admiral Lord Hood at New York

1783 - His attack on Turks Island, West Indies, fails. July, returns to England. (September, end of American War)

1784 - Captain of the frigate HMS Borcas to the West Indies

1787 - Married Frances Nesbit

1793 - January, appointed Captain of the 64 gun battleship, Agamemnon. Meets the Hamiltons in Naples
(Mr. Hamilton was the British Ambasador in Naples)

1794 - February, a capture of the Island of Corsica. July, loses sight in right eye at the siege and capture of Calvi

1796 - Appointed Commodore

1797 - February 14th, Battle of Cape St. Vincent. Knighted and promoted to Rear Admiral of the Blue. July, loses right arm during Battle of Santa Cruz, Tenerife

1798 - August 1st, Victory over the French at the Battle of the Nile where he is wounded and he is created, Baron Nelson of the Nile.

1799 - February, promoted to Rear Admiral of the Red. June, created Duke of Bronte
(growing scandal of his affair with Emma Hamilton)

1801 - Promoted to Vice Admiral of the Blue. Separates from wife to be with Emma, Lady Hamilton. Sent to the Baltic under Admiral Parker. Victory over the Danish Fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen.

1803 - Joins HMS Victory off Toulon as Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean.
Blockages the French Fleet until early 1804.

1804 - Promoted to Vice Admiral of the White.

1805 - March to May, French Toulon Fleet and the Spanish from Cadiz escape to West Indies. Nelson persues. June, the combined Fleet re-sale for Europe and enter Cadiz. July, Nelson reaches Gibraltar. August, he returns to England. September, in HMS Victory with the Fleet off Cadiz. October 21st, the combined French and Spanish Fleets are defeated at the Battle of Trafalgar. Nelson is shot by a sniper and dies at about 4.30 p.m. December 5th, Nelson's body arrived back in England on the Victory.

1806 - 4th to 7th January, He lies in State at Greenwich. 9th January, burial in St. Pauls Cathedral

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Horatio Nelson learned to sail at Brancaster, Nfk in his youth.

Horatio Nelson's Grandfather, father and brother all served as Rectors of All Saint's Chuch, Hilborough.
So, when he was elevated to the peer age he took the title 'Baron Belson of the Nile and Hilborough'.

Horatio Nelson visited Wolterton Hall (home of the Walpole family who his mother was related to) during the years of 1787 and 1793

Individual Notes

Note for: Frances Herbert Woolward, 1758 - 6 MAY 1831 Index

Burial:
     Date:   UNKNOWN
     Place:   Littleham, Devon.

Individual Note:
     [Nelson - Suckling.FTW]

She was a widow when she married Lord Hortio Nelson

Individual Notes

Note for: Ann Nelson, 20 SEP 1760 - 15 NOV 1783 Index

Christening:
     Date:   27 SEP 1760

Burial:
     Date:   18 NOV 1783
     Place:   St. Swithun, Bathford, Somerset.

Individual Note:
     [Nelson - Suckling.FTW]

Apprenticed -Milliner in London at a Lace Warehouse, address - Ludgate Street, London.
Will - 2nd November 1783

Individual Notes

Note for: Edmund Nelson, 4 JUN 1762 - 12 DEC 1789 Index

Christening:
     Date:   11 JUN 1762

Burial:
     Date:   UNKNOWN
     Place:   Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.

Individual Note:
     [Nelson - Suckling.FTW]

Apprenticed - Linen Draper
Called, Mun