Admiral Nelson's Descendants.

[Fouro]

Please read this:-

Horatia Ward (Nelson) and St Mildred's Church

FOURO

[Captain Kong]

Very interesting, Four O,
Cheers
Brian

[j.sabourn]

I sailed with an AB called Nelson. I always remember his name because he jumped ship in Cairns and was supposed to have gotten a job cutting cane sugar. We loaded sugar there and sailed for the UK. It must have been about 1955 as I was changing ships, and managed to get home for a couple of days. Imagine my surprise but who gets on the local train but Nelson. He said the cops had got him and deported him obviously on a faster ship. He was a small blond haired guy. Never did get round to asking him if he had any famous ancestors, don't think anybody did. JS

[Fouro]

Horatia's family grave appears to be well looked after.

Horatia Nelson Ward (1801 - 1881) - Find A Grave Memorial

FOURO.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Fouro.
I have always read books, from the age of three I used to read whatever, then my father used to bring me books from the local Library, many a teaspoon was thrown at me by my mother when I was so engrossed in a story I never heard her speak. That was the most interesting read for a while, especially as I'm reading a book my granddaughter brought me, Horatio Hornblower, I have watched all the videos of Hornblower and always thought of him as a made up character which some of his exploits were, I was surprised to read that in fact Hornblower was an actual person.
His first ship was the Justinian launched in the Thames in 1786, measuring 1,685 tones with a lentgh of 170ft 10inches on the gun deck. She mounted 28 32poundres on the gun deck and as many 18pounders on the upper deck 14 nine pounder's on the quarter deck and four on the forecastle and a crew of 590.
Can't imagine it.
Cheers Des

[gray_marian]

#4, "Conserved by the 1805 Club" FOURO, said plaque 4th photograph in your post.

The 1805 Club. Preserving the memorials of Georgian Naval Heroes ...
The 1805 Club. Preserving the memorials of Georgian Naval Heroes :: www.1805club.org

[happy daze john in oz]

I was pleasantly surprized when in Gibraltar last year to find a cemetery with a large number of officers and seamen who fought in the Battle of Trafalgar buried there.

I assume they may have been amongst the wounded when they arrived there to what may have been a form of field hospital and no doubt died from the injuries suffered.

[gray_marian]

#7, John sorry to be pedantic, seems the powers that be are being rather economic with the truth. Lots of reviews saying how tranquil in a bustling corner of town and well worth a visit like you enjoyed.

Of those buried in the Trafalgar Cemetery, only two known graves belong to victims of the Trafalgar battle, most of the others who perished in that hard fought battle would be buried at sea.Those graves, numbered 121 and 101, contain the remains of the Lieut. William Forster of the Royal Marine Corps, serving on the H.M.S. Mars and Lieut. Thomas Norman, who served on the H.M.S. Columbus.The remainder of the seamen who took wounds in the battle were brought to Gibraltar, and if they later died of wounds received there, were buried north of the Charles V Wall, which lies on the opposite side of the Trafalgar Cemetery. Recently it is reported that a plaque was placed there to commemorate the site for visitors to the area.

There are however, buried within the confines of Trafalgar Cemetery, victims of multiple other sea battles in the area, such as the battle of Algeciras, which took place in 1801 and similar actions around Cádiz and Málaga that occurred in 1810 and 1812.The Napoleonic Wars offered up a share of their victims to the Trafalgar cemetery, even if they were not of the Battle of Trafalgar.

Trafalgar Cemetery - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafalgar_Cemetery

[happy daze john in oz]

Marian, my information was gained from headstones in the cemetry, but they may not all have the exact details on them.

One such headstone tells of two seamen in the battle of Trafalgar who were hit with the one bullet but died from infection later.