14 Aug 2026                   
             Husband: Suckling Nelson  1  
                Born:  5 Jan 1764            1,2
          Christened: 12 Jan 1764            2
           Education:                      Christs College, Cambridge  2,3
          Occupation: 1793 - 1797          Curate of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk  3
          Occupation: 1797 - 1799          Rector of Burnham Sutton and Burnham Overy, Norfolk  3
                Died: 1799                   1
              Buried: 20 Apr 1799          in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk  2,4
              Father: Edmund Nelson   (1722 - 1802) 
              Mother: Catharine Suckling   (1725 - 1767) 
                Wife: Sophia Smith     
             Married:  1 Jan 1787          in Norwich St Stephen, Norfolk  5
              Father:
              Mother:

Sources:
(1) Woodfield family pedigree website. 
(2) Nelson, Thomas, a Genealogical History of the Nelson Family (1908) 
(3) Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses. 
(4) Parish Register. 
(5) Christopher Cook pers. com. 

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Updated 14 Aug 2026

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