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Horatia (Nelson) Ward (1801 - 1881)

Horatia Ward formerly Nelson aka Thompson
Born in 23 Piccadilly, London, Englandmap
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Wife of — married 19 Feb 1822 in Burnham Westgate, Norfolk, Englandmap
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Died at age 80 in Pinner, Middlesex, Englandmap
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Biography

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]

Sources

  1. Baptismal record St Marylebone (13 May 1803 Horatia Nelson Thompson born 29 October 1801) Viewed at Ancestry. Text only. Note discrepancy in birth date
  2. Wikipedia: Horatia Nelson
  3. Wikipedia: Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
  4. Wikipedia: Emma, Lady Hamilton
  5. Marriage record Burnham Westgate (19 February 1822 Philip ward married Horatia Nelson Nelson) Viewed at Ancestry. Text only
  6. Horatia Ward. Class: HO107; Piece: 476; Book: 2; Civil Parish: Tenterden; County: Kent; Enumeration District: 3; Folio: 15; Page: 22; Line: 22; GSU roll: 306871. 1841 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
  7. Horatia Ward. Tenterden, Kent Registration district, Class: HO107; Piece: 1620; Folio: 243; Page: 1; GSU roll: 193521. 1851 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
  8. Horatia Ward. Registration district: Henden. Class: RG 9; Piece: 783; Folio: 67; Page: 13; GSU roll: 542700. 1861 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
  9. Horatia Nelson Ward. Registration district: Henden, Class: RG10; Piece: 1325; Folio: 113; Page: 13; GSU roll: 828271. 1871 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
  10. National Probate Calendar (20 April 1881 Horatia Nelson Ward died 6 March 1881at 2 Beaufort Villas, Woodridings, Pinner. Estate valued under £800. Probate granted to Marmaduke Philip Smyth Ward of 2 Beaufort Villas, Fleet Surgeon RN)
  11. Grave marker - Horatia Nelson Ward: Find A Grave: Memorial #6884289
  12. Pinner cemetery register: plot 23 purchased in perpetuity:
    Eleanor Phillippa Ward aged 48 buried Aug 10 1872
    Horatio [sic] Nelson Ward aged 81 buried mar 11 81
    Also:
    Plot 22 purchased in perpetuity
    Philip Ward aged 31 years buried September 16 1865
    Deceased Online https://www.deceasedonline.com (pay site)
  13. Norfolk Chronicle 7 April 1906

See also:

  • Tom Pocock, ‘Hamilton , Emma, Lady Hamilton (bap. 1765, d. 1815)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, Oct 2007 accessed 24 Sept 2015
  • "Nelson: A Personal History"; Christopher Hibbert ISBN 0-670-84342-3

Acknowledgements

  • This person was created on 16 February 2011 through the import of Horton Family Trees 16012011.GED.




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The extraordinary life of Horatia Nelson @ National Museum of the British Navy

https://www.nmrn.org.uk/news/extraordinary-life-horatia-nelson

posted by Jon Maddox
Although Horatia was baptised as Horatia Nelson Thompson, this was to conceal her true identity as Horatio Nelson's daughter as Horatio was married to Frances Nelson.

Nelson is the correct LNAB.

posted by Jo Fitz-Henry
A whole chapter about Horatia in this book starts page 369

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

posted by Jo Fitz-Henry
Baptised as Horatia Nelson Thompson by the time of her marriage she was known as Horatia Nelson Nelson. LNAB should be Thompson
posted by C. Mackinnon
Horatio Nelson had an illegitimate daughter, Horatia Nelson (Married: Ward) with Emma Lyon, wife of William Hamilton (British Ambassador). Thus she was also known as Lady Hamilton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson

posted by Michael Stills
Nelson-2776 and Nelson-703 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicate found in old unmerged matches; looks to be same person with conflicting mother. Merge can be done and conflict noted in text section or resolved on merge. Please review
posted by [Living Knight]

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