Catherine Suckling

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Catherine Suckling (1725-1767) was the mother of Horatio Nelson. Catherine had 11 children of which Nelson was the third surviving son.

On moving to Beccles on her father's death, Catherine Suckling met and married the former curate of Beccles, the Reverend Edmund Nelson. They moved to Hilborough, Norfolk where Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, on 29 September 1758.

She was grand niece to Sir Robert Walpole and sister to Captain Maurice Suckling who was responsible for the early training of Horatio and aunt to Captain Maurice William Suckling.

Catherine Suckling died in 1767, when Nelson was nine years old.