JAMES NELSON 

Born: 1792

Mother & Father: John & Elizabeth Nelson

Baptized: 17th July 1792 in Ingleton, Yorkshire

Marriage: Married Mary Lawrence at St John the Baptist, on the 31st August 1818. Witnesses: Richard Nelson (James's brother born in 1794) and Richard Lawrence.

Occupation: Farmer

Children

John: Born 1818

Elizabeth: Born 1823

Lived: Back Lane House, Tunstall, Lancashire.

1844

Westmorland Gazette: 16th March 1844

EARLY LAMBS: A ewe, the property of Mr. James Nelson of Tunstall, brought forth last week, three lambs, which notwithstanding the severity of the weather, together with their own dam, are doing well.

1865

Deaths

Lancaster Gazette, 30th December

Tunstall: On the 25th, Mr. James Nelson, Farmer, aged 73 years.

Westmorland Gazette, 30th December.

On the 25th, at Tunstall, Mr. James Nelson, farmer, aged 73.

Burial at Tunstall 29th December 1865.

1869

Lancaster Gazette, 18th September 1869

Tunstall: on the 10th, Mary, widow of James Nelson, age 84.

Census Reports:
1841 census: Farmer at Tunstall, Lancs
1851 census: Farmer at Back Lane House, Tunstall, Lancs (Jointly with brother in law, Richard Lawrence)
1861 census: Farmer at Back Lane House, Tunstall, Lancs (Jointly with brother in law, Richard Lawrence)
Burial: aged 73, in Tunstall on 29th December 1865

MARY LAWRENCE

Mary was born in Tunstall, Lancashire on the 27th of February 1785, her father and mother were Christopher and Elizabeth (Brennand) Lawrence, and they were married at Tunstall on 1st January 1776.

Death: 10th of September 1869, St John the Baptist Tunstall, at 84 years of age. She left almost £600 to her daughter Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Kidd, Gamekeeper.