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Catherine Suckling (9 May 1725 – 26 December 1767) was the mother of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. Catherine had eleven children of which Nelson was the third surviving son.
Nelson’s mother, Catherine Suckling, was the daughter of the Reverend Maurice Suckling and Mary Ann TURNER, and the sister of Captain Maurice Suckling who became Comptroller of the Navy in 1775. He was married to his cousin, Mary Walpole, the daughter of Robert Walpole, Earl of Oxford, but she died in 1766 and they had no children.
When Catherine Suckling was born on 9 May 1725, in Barsham, Suffolk, England, her father, Rev. Maurice Suckling D.D., was 48 and her mother, Mary Anne Turner, was 32. She married Rev Edmund Nelson on 11 May 1749, in Norwich, Norfolk, England.
During his time at Beccles, Nelson met Catherine Suckling, and married her on 11 May 1749 at Beccles. Catherine was the daughter of another priest, Maurice Suckling, and her grandmother had been the sister of Robert Walpole.
Catherine Suckling was the mother of Horatio Nelson. Background Catherine was born on 9 May 1725 in Barsham, the oldest child and only daughter of the Reverend Doctor Maurice Suckling, the rector of Barsham and Woodton, and a prebendary of Westminster.
Catherine Suckling (9 May 1725 – 26 December 1767) was the mother of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. Catherine had eleven children of which Nelson was the third surviving son. Family and marriage.
Catherine Suckling was born on 9 March 1725 at Barsham, Suffolk, England. She was the daughter of Reverend Maurice Suckling and Mary Anne Turner. She married Reverend Edmund Nelson, son of Reverend Edmund Nelson and Mary Bland, on 11 May 1749 at Bath, Somerset, England. She died on 26 December 1767 at age 42 at Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England.
