1801 - 1881 (80 years)
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| Name |
Horatia Nelson |
| Birth |
29 Jan 1801 |
23 Piccadilly, London, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
6 Mar 1881 |
Beaufort Villas, Woodridings, Pinner, England |
| Burial |
Pinner Parish old cemetery, Pinner, England |
- Her epitaph, after mentioning her husband and children, runs:
"...Here rests Horatia Nelson Ward, who died March 6. 1881, aged 80, the beloved daughter of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson and widow of the above-named Revd. Philip Ward."
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| Person ID |
I190228 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
29 Oct 2021 |
| Father |
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount (1st Duke of Bronté) Nelson, b. 29 Sep 1758, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England d. 21 Oct 1805, off Cape Trafalgar, Spain (Age 47 years) |
| Mother |
Emma Lyon, b. 26 Apr 1765, Swan Cottage, Ness near Neston, Cheshire, England d. 15 Jan 1815, Calais, France (Age 49 years) |
| Family ID |
F78189 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Horatia Nelson, christened as Horatia Nelson Thompson (29 January 1801 – 6 March 1881) was the illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson.
Their ten children— seven boys and three girls, with the former educated by their father at home before going to university or the professions[citation needed]— were:
Horatio or Horace Nelson Ward (8 December 1822 in Norfolk – 1888), christened in Norfolk on Horatia's 22nd birthday in January 1823; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge 1847; ordained deacon 1848 and then priest in 1849 at St Mildred's parish church at Tenterden, where he acted as his father's curate until 1853. Became Rector of Radstock, Somerset, 1853– 88 and died on 13 March 1888.
Eleanor Philippa Ward (born April 1824 in Norfolk – 1872).
Marmaduke Philip Smyth Ward (born 27 May 1825 in Norfolk – 4 Nov 1886); later became a Royal Navy surgeon, passing up an offer to play professional cricket in Borbanu, India.
John James Stephen Ward (13 February 1827 – 1829 in Norfolk).
Nelson Ward (born 8 May 1828 in Norfolk – 1917), articled for five years to a Tenterden solicitor, later becoming Registrar in the Court of Chancery and living in West Lodge, Pinner in Middlesex.
Colonel William George Ward (born 8 April 1830 in Norfolk – 1878), an officer in the British Indian Army.
Edmund Nelson Ward (10 July 1832 – 1833), died aged 6 months.
Horatia Ward (born 24 November 1833 in Tenterden – 1890), recovered from cholera aged 13, married a solicitor from Lincoln's Inn, William Johnson (a friend and colleague of Nelson Ward's, as well as fellow cricket-lover), at Tenterden in 1858. Their descendants were still in Tenterden beyond the 1970s. Buried in Brookwood Cemetery.
Philip Ward (May 1834 in Tenterden – 12 September 1865), served in India as a lieutenant in the 25th Bengal Native Infantry.
Caroline Mary Ward (born January 1836 in Tenterden – 1859).[8]
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