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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.
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. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 26 December 1767, in Burnham ...
Catherine Suckling, aged 18, and yet to be swept off her feet by Edmund Nelson. (People aged a little quicker back then – and were swept off their feet easier.) Five days later, Catherine’s mother, Ann Suckling, also succumbed to the bailiff’s clutch, aged seventy-seven.
Catherine Nelson, 1725-1767. This is a late19th-century copy of a portrait by John Theodore Heins (1697-1756) of Nelson's mother, Catherine Suckling, when she was 18 and just before she met and married the Reverend Edmund Nelson, then rector of Hilborough, Norfolk.
Horatio Nelson, hero of the Battle of Trafalgar, was born on 29 September 1758, the sixth child of Reverend Edmund Nelson and his wife Catherine Suckling in a rectory in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. Horatio, called Horace by his family, was the fifth son born to Edmund and Catherine, but two of his elder brothers tragically died in infancy.
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.
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.
