14 Aug 2026                   
             Husband: William Nelson  1  
       Also known as: Earl Nelson 2
                Born: 20 Apr 1757          in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk  1,3
          Christened:  3 May 1757          in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk  3
           Education:                      North Walsham Grammar School, Norfolk  4
           Education:                      Christs College, Cambridge  4
          Occupation: 1779 - 1781          Curate of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk  4
          Occupation: 1781 - 1783          Curate of Syderstone, Norfolk  4
          Occupation: 1783 - 1797          Rector of Brandon Parva, Norfolk  4
          Occupation: 1797                 Rector of Hilborough, Norfolk  4
          Occupation: 1803                 Prebendary of Canterbury  4
                Died: 28 Feb 1835          in London  1,3,4
              Buried:                      in St Paul's Cathedral, London  5
             Probate: 1835                 in Prerogative Court of Canterbury  
              Father: Edmund Nelson   (1722 - 1802) 
              Mother: Catharine Suckling   (1725 - 1767) 
Other spouse 2
                Wife: Sarah Yonge     
        Married name: Sarah Nelson 
             Married:  9 Nov 1786          in Swaffham, Norfolk  3
                Born: 1749                 in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk  5
          Christened:  7 Jun 1749          in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk  5
                Died: 13 Apr 1825            3
              Buried: 22 Apr 1828          in St Paul's Cathedral, London  3,5
              Father:
              Mother:
 1  F  Charlotte Mary Nelson                                    |   Born: 20 Sep 1787 Hilborough, Norfolk 3
   sp. Samuel Hood                                              |Married:  3 Jul 1810 Marylebone, London 3,6,7
       Born:  7 Dec 1788 Died:  6 Jan 1868                      |   Died: 29 Jan 1873 Cricket St Thomas, Somerset 3,7,8
                                                                |  Buried  Cricket St Thomas, Somerset 7
 2  M  Horatio Nelson                                           |   Born: 26 Oct 1788 Hilborough, Norfolk 3
                                                                |   Died: 17 Jan 1808 Warne's Hotel, Conduit Street, Hanover, London 3,4,5
                                                                |  Buried 25 Jan 1808 St Paul's Cathedral, London 3,5

Sources:
(1) Woodfield family pedigree website. 
(2) Burke's Landed Gentry 1952. 
(3) Nelson, Thomas, a Genealogical History of the Nelson Family (1908) 
(4) Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses. 
(5) Christopher Cook pers. com. 
(6) Muskett J J, Suffolk Manorial Families (1900), pp 177-208. 
(7) Nigel Batty Smith website. 
(8) GRO index. 

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Updated 14 Aug 2026

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