Publications
Lord Nelson's Relatives in Sussex - Part 1, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published September 1980 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 5, article, pp.165-169) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Lord Nelson's brother-in-law George Matcham lived in Slaugham and Lord Nelson's daughter Horatia came to visit with Lady Hamilton. Eventually Horatia's son William George Ward married her cousin's daughter Catherine Victoriana Nelson Blanckley. Illustrated with a family tree. Article covers the years 1723 - 1878 in the parish of Slaugham
Lord Nelson's Relatives in Sussex - Part 2, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published December 1980 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 6, article, pp.192-194) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Lord Nelson's sister is Catherine who married George Matcham in 1787 and they had nine children. Much family history is from a tombstone in Slaugham and covers the years 1767 - 1886.
Nelson's Sussex connection, by Brian Roote, published September 2005 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 7, article, pp.314-315) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508840] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Catherine Nelson, daughter of Rev Edmund Nelson and Catherine Suckling and sister of Lord Horatio Nelson, was born in Norfolk in 1768 and married George Matcham on 26 February 1787 in Norfolk. They had eleven children many of whom many are buried at Slaugham.