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LUKE NELSON's other family: with ABIGAIL GARBUTT (1785-1838)
MARY SKELTON's other family: with WILLIAM CLARK ( - )
MARY SKELTON's father: WILLIAM SKELTON (b.1767, bur.1837)

Family of LUKE NELSON and MARY SKELTON

Husband: LUKE NELSON (1788-1855)
Wife: MARY SKELTON (1789-1866)
Marriage 5 Jun 1841 PARISH CHURCH WHITBY NR YORKSHIRE
Census (family) 1841 BAXTERGATE, WHITBY, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information

Marriage <i>Witness's were Ralph Greenbury and Rowland Arno Clark
Luke and Mary were both living in Baxtergate, Whitby.</i>

Husband: LUKE NELSON

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      LUKE NELSON    
 
Name: LUKE NELSON
Sex: Male
Father: WILLIAM NELSON (1743-1824)
Mother: ALICE BOWSER (chr.1733)
Birth 24 Feb 1788 LOFTUS NR YORKSHIRE
Death 24 May 1855 (age 67) ST ANNE'S STAITH WHITBY, NR YORKSHIRE
Burial 27 May 1855 (age 67) ST MARY'S CHURCH, WHITBY, YORKSHIRE
Census 1851 (age 62-63) ST ANN'S STAITHS, WHITBY, YORKSHIRE
Occupation (1) 1841 (age 52-53) MARINER; WHITBY,YORKSHIRE
Occupation (2) 1851 (age 62-63) SAILOR; WHITBY NORTH YORKSHIRE
Occupation (3) 1 Jul 1839 (age 51) CARPENTER; ON SON THOMAS'S MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
Occupation (4) Jul 1839 (age 51) CARPENTER- SHIPS CARPENTER?; WHITBY,NORTH YORKSHIRE

Additional Information

Death Cause: of hemiplegia, chronic cystitus
Sarah Waters with Luke at time of his death.
Burial Member of the Anglican Church.
Census Lodging with Elizabeth Waters, aged 70, a shipwrights widow, born in Loftus,
her daughter, Sarah, aged 37, a sailors widow, and it was Sarah who signed Luke's death certificate, think Luke and Mary may have been estranged.
Occupation (4) Carpenter - as on Thomas and Hannah's Marriage certificate.

Wife: MARY SKELTON

Name: MARY SKELTON
Sex: Female
Father: WILLIAM SKELTON (b.1767, bur.1837)
Mother: -
Birth 1789 GUISBOURGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE
Death 28 Aug 1866 (age 76-77) CLIFF STREET, WHITBY, YORKSHIRE
Occupation LODGEHOUSE KEEPER

Additional Information

Death Cause: of epilepsy - 6 weeks exchaustion
EPILEPSEY 6 WEEKS EXHAUISTION

Note on Wife: MARY SKELTON

BETSY LARKIN PRESENT AT DEATH, BETSY COULD,NT WRITE FOUND IN 1861 CENSUS AS A LODGEHOUSE KEEPER IN BAXTERGATE