Catherine Suckling

1725 - 1767  (42 years)

• Name	Catherine Suckling
  Birth	9 May 1725	Barsham, Suffolk, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	26 Dec 1767
  Burial	Jan 1768	Burnham Thorpe
  Person ID	I190236	First tree
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2021

  
  

  Mother	Mary Walpole,   b. 1685   d. 1768 (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F44998	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Children	1. 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)
  Family ID	F44996	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Catherine had eleven children of which Nelson was the third surviving son. The couple moved to Swaffham after their marriage where Catherine bore Edmund three children. Two died in infancy; a third, Maurice, survived. They then moved to Sporle, where on 12 June 1755 Catherine gave birth to the couple's first daughter, Susanna. Also in 1755 Horace Walpole offered Edmund the position of rector at Burnham Thorpe. Edmund accepted and the two settled at the rectory William was born on 20 April 1757, and on 29 September 1758, Catherine gave birth to Horatio, naming him after their benefactor and the young Horatio's godparent, Horace Walpole.[4] Horatio was a sickly child, and Edmund feared he would not live long enough to be baptised at the public ceremony arranged for 15 November. Horatio was baptised at a private ceremony on 8 October. The last of the Nelson children followed, Ann on 20 September 1760, Edmund on 4 June 1762, Suckling on 5 January 1764, and Catherine on 19 March 1767. Another boy, George, was born in 1765 but died three months later.