JAMES NELSON
Born : 1792
Mother & Father : John & Elizabeth Nelson
Baptised : 17th July 1792 in Ingleton, Yorkshire
Marriage : Married Mary Lawrence at St John the Baptist, on the 31st August 1818. Witnesses were Richard Nelson (James's brother born 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 not withstanding 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.
MARY LAWRENCE
Mary was born in Tunstall, Lancashire on the 27th February 1785, her father and mother were Christopher and Elizabeth (Brennand) Lawrence, they were married at Tunstall on 1st January 1776.
Death
10 Sep 1869 • St John the Baptist Tunstall
Age: 84 Left almost £600 to Daughter Elizabeth, Wife of Thomas Kidd, Gamekeeper.
