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Horatia Nelson Thompson was born at 23 Piccadilly on 29 January 1801. Her mother was Emma, Lady Hamilton wife of Sir William Hamilton. Her father was national hero, Admiral Horatio Nelson. While Sir William seems to have embraced the relationship between his wife and Nelson it was not considered seemly that her true parents be acknowledged and Horatia was given to the care of a wet nurse. Sir William Hamilton died on 6 April 1803 and Horatia was then baptised at St Marylebone on 13 May.[1] Her parents were her godparents and her father was said to have been Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Thompson Bt.[2] Though her parents settled down to family life at Merton Place in Surrey and claimed that they had adopted Horatia they never married as her father was still married to Frances Nelson. Her father was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.[3] Emma Hamilton could have lived comfortably on her income but she was extravagant and was soon impoverished. She died on 15 January 1815.[4]
As Horatia Nelson Nelson, Horatia married the Reverend Philip Ward at Burnham Westgate on 19 February 1822.[5]
In the 1841 England census, Horatia Ward (41) was living in Tenterden, Kent, with husband Phillip Ward (45), and with children Horatio (18), Eleanor (17), Marmaduke (16), Nelson (13), William (11), Horatia (8), Phillip (7) and Caroline (5). Phillip was a clergyman.[6]
In 1851, Horatia Nelson Ward (50) and Phillip Ward (53) were still living in Tenderden, Kent, with children Horatio Nelson (28), Ellen Philippa (26), Nelson (22), Horatia (18), Phillip (16) and Caroline Mary (15), and three servants.[7]
In 1861, Horatia Ward (60) was widowed. She was living in Harrow, Middlesex, with daughter Eleanor Philippa Ward (30) and grandson William Horatio Ward (1), and four servants.[8]
In the 1871 England census, Horatia Nelson Ward (70) was living in Pinner, Middlesex, with daughter Eleanor Philippa Ward (40), grandson Philip Johnson (8) and three servants.[9]
Horatia died at 2 Beaufort Villas at Pinner in Middlesex on 6 March 1881.[10] She was buried at Pinner Cemetery on 11 March 1881 in the plot purchased for the burial of her daughter Eleanor in 1872.[11][12] She also has a memorial (along with her husband Philip) in the parish church of Trunch in Norfolk, the home parish of the Ward family.[13]
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https://www.nmrn.org.uk/news/extraordinary-life-horatia-nelson
Nelson is the correct LNAB.
The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 7
Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas Colburn, 1846 - 502 pages
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZzZTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT304&dq=horatio+nelson+ward&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-776m3bfiAhXFTxUIHaeXD9kQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=horatia&f=false
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson