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ALICE BOWSER's father: JOHN BOWSER ( - )

Family of WILLIAM NELSON and ALICE BOWSER

Husband: WILLIAM NELSON (1743-1824)
Wife: ALICE BOWSER (chr.1733)
Children: ALICE NELSON (1777- )
ELIZABETH NELSON (1780-1865)
WILLIAM NELSON ( -1790)
PETER NELSON ( - )
LUKE NELSON (1788-1855)
JOHN NELSON (1791-1866)
ANN NELSON (1795- )
Marriage 25 Jul 1773 LOFTUS NR YORKSHIRE 1

Husband: WILLIAM NELSON

Name: WILLIAM NELSON
Sex: Male
Father: GEORGE NELSON ( -1750)
Mother: ALICE RICKINSON (1702-1786)
Birth May 1743 WHITBY, NR YORKSHIRE
Baptism 23 May 1743 (age 0) WHITBY,NORTH YORKSHIRE 2
Occupation 1780 (age 36-37) MILLER; SKINNINGROVE, CLEVELAND 3
Death 23 Jun 1824 (age 81) WHITBY, NR YORKSHIRE
Burial 26 Jun 1824 ST MARY'S CHURCH, WHITBY, YORKSHIRE 4

Additional Information

Occupation As Stated on Luke's marraige certificate to Mary Clark, and Alice and Elizabeth's Christining Record.
Burial <i>a member of the Anglican Church.
Headstone south of Porch. " ......also the above Willian nelson who died June 23rd 1824 aged 81y"</i>

Wife: ALICE BOWSER

Name: ALICE BOWSER
Sex: Female
Father: JOHN BOWSER ( - )
Mother: -
Christening 8 Jul 1733 BROTTON, LOFTUS ,NORTH YORKSHIRE

Child 1: ALICE NELSON

Name: ALICE NELSON
Sex: Female
Birth 5 Oct 1777 BROTTON, LOFTUS ,NORTH YORKSHIRE 5
Death

Child 2: ELIZABETH NELSON

Name: ELIZABETH NELSON
Sex: Female
Spouse: JOHN WATERS (1781-1850)
Birth 2 Apr 1780 BROTTON, LOFTUS ,NORTH YORKSHIRE 6
Death 8 Sep 1865 (age 85) ST ANNE'S STAITH WHITBY, NR YORKSHIRE
Census (1) 1841 (age 60-61) NEW BUILDINGS, WHITBY, NORTH YORKSHIRE
Census (2) 1851 (age 70-71) "OLD POST OFFICE YARD" ST ANNE'S STAITH'S, WHITBY, YORKSHIRE
Census (3) 1861 (age 80-81) "OLD POST OFFICE YARD" ST ANNE'S STAITH'S, WHITBY, YORKSHIRE
Occupation 1841 (age 60-61) FEMALE SERVANT; NEW BUILDINGS, WHITBY, NORTH YORKSHIRE

Additional Information

Death Cause: of Natural Decay
<i>Hannah Baker present at her death.-Next door neighbour.</i>
Census (2) <i>Has her brother Luke Nelson staying with her,
as well as her daughter in law Sarah and her children.</i>
Census (3) <i>Down as a carpenter's widow, has Sarah and the children staying with her.</i>
Occupation <i>Working for Mary Brown as a servant.</i>

Child 3: WILLIAM NELSON

Name: WILLIAM NELSON
Sex: Male
Death 31 Aug 1790 LOFTUS NR YORKSHIRE 7

Child 4: PETER NELSON

Name: PETER NELSON
Sex: Male
Spouse: ANN (1784-1812)
Birth "approx 1784" LOFTUS NR YORKSHIRE
Occupation 1811 SAILOR

Child 5: LUKE NELSON

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      LUKE NELSON    
 
Name: LUKE NELSON
Sex: Male
Spouse 1: ABIGAIL GARBUTT (1785-1838)
Spouse 2: MARY SKELTON (1789-1866)
Birth 24 Feb 1788 LOFTUS NR YORKSHIRE
Occupation (1) 1801 (age 12-13) APPRENTICE SEAMAN; LOFTUS, WHITBY, NR YORKSHIRE
Occupation (2) 1 Jul 1839 (age 51) CARPENTER; ON SON THOMAS'S MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
Occupation (3) Jul 1839 (age 51) CARPENTER- SHIPS CARPENTER?; WHITBY,NORTH YORKSHIRE
Occupation (4) 1841 (age 52-53) MARINER; WHITBY,YORKSHIRE
Occupation (5) 25 Aug 1843 (age 55) MARINER; THE "THEMIS" SHIP
Occupation (6) 1845 (age 57) SEAMAN (MERCHANT SERVICE); LONDON, MIDDLESEX
Physical Description 2 Jun 1845 (age 57) DARK GREY HAIR, HAZEL EYES, FRESH COMPLEXTION AND WAS 5 FT 5 1/4 IN TALL; LONDON, MIDDLESEX
Census 1851 (age 62-63) ST ANN'S STAITHS, WHITBY, YORKSHIRE
Occupation (7) 1851 (age 62-63) SAILOR; WHITBY NORTH YORKSHIRE
Death 24 May 1855 (age 67) ST ANNE'S STAITH WHITBY, NR YORKSHIRE
Burial 27 May 1855 ST MARY'S CHURCH, WHITBY, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information

Occupation (3) <i>Carpenter - as on Thomas and Hannah's Marriage certificate.</i>
Occupation (5) Number found ledger BT 114/15 is 7712
Number found ledger BT 119 is 104/737, Luke Nelson 51 Whitby
Number of Register Ticket is 7712
Occupation (6) Seaman Ticket Number 7.712
Could Write.
Physical Description Seamans Ticket Number 7.712
Census OLD POST OFFICE YARD
<i>Lodging with sister ,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.
Death Cause: of hemiplegia, chronic cystitus
<i>Sarah Waters with Luke at time of his death.</i>
Burial <i>Member of the Anglican Church.</i>

Child 6: JOHN NELSON

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Name: JOHN NELSON
Sex: Male
Spouse: MARY TAYLOR (chr.1789, d.1864)
Birth 2 May 1791 LOFTUS, NORTH YORKSHIRE
Christening 26 Jun 1791 (age 0) LOFTUS NR YORKSHIRE
Occupation (1) frm 1804 to 1810 (age 12-19) APPRENTICE SEAMAN; GREENLAND & TRANSPORT
Occupation (2) frm 1810 to 1811 (age 20) SEAMAN; TRANSPORT SERVICE
Occupation (3) frm 1811 to 1817 (age 26) SEAMAN; ROYAL NAVY
Occupation (4) frm 1817 to 1818 (age 27) SEAMAN; TRANSPORT SERVICE
Occupation (5) frm 1818 to 1819 (age 28) SEAMAN; AMERICA TRADE
Occupation (6) frm 1819 to 1820 (age 29) SEAMAN; COASTING
Occupation (7) frm 1820 to 1824 (age 28-33) SEAMAN; GREENLAND TRADE
Occupation (8) frm 1824 to 1828 (age 32-37) SEAMAN; GREENLAND TRADE
Occupation (9) frm 1828 to 1842 (age 36-51) MATE & MASTER; COASTING
Occupation (10) frm 1842 to 1844 (age 50-53) MATE; COASTING
Physical Description 23 Dec 1844 (age 53) BROWN HAIR, HAZEL EYES, DARK COMPLEXTION AND WAS 5 FT 4 1/2 IN TALL; WHITBY,NORTH YORKSHIRE
Occupation (11) frm 1844 to 1848 (age 52-57) MATE; COASTING
Occupation (12) frm 1848 to 1851 (age 56-60) MATE; COASTING
Occupation (13) 1851 (age 60) MATE; COASTING
Death 1 Sep 1866 (age 75) WHITBY,NORTH YORKSHIRE

Additional Information

Occupation (1) VALIENT ( Whitby Ship )
Occupation (2) VALIENT ( Whitby Ship )
Occupation (4) DUKE CHARLES (London Ship)
Occupation (5) MAGNET (Scarbrough Ship)
Occupation (6) POINONA (Whitby Ship )
Occupation (7) VALIENT (Whitby Ship )
Occupation (8) VOLUNTEER (Whitby Ship )
Occupation (9) SOPHIA (Whitby Ship )
Occupation (10) LADY RIDLEY (Whitby Ship )
Physical Description Seamans Ticket Number 56.941
Could'nt Write.
Occupation (11) CERES (Whitby Ship )
Occupation (12) ALERT (Whitby Ship )
Occupation (13) FOWLER (Whitby Ship )
Death Cause: of dropsey
Address: CHURCH STREET
<i>Elizabeth Peacock signed death certificate.</i>

Child 7: ANN NELSON

Name: ANN NELSON
Sex: Female
Spouse: WILLIAM RICHARDSON ( - )
Birth 13 Oct 1795
Death

Note on Husband: WILLIAM NELSON

<i>Mentioned in Father's will.</i>

Note on Wife: ALICE BOWSER

<i>This is the Alice I believe to be William's Wife and Luke's Mother.

Previously it had been an Alice Porritt, who was married to a William Nelson- Fidler.

on Luke's marriage cerificate to Mary Skelton, it states that William- His Father's occupation as a Miller.

 

Alice Nelson wife of William Nelson - Fidler is recorded in the Whitby Parish Records as being buried in 1782, Luke was born in 1788 to William and Alice Nelson.

 

( so who is the other William and Alice Nelson ?) </i>

Sources

1", compiler, (:,)". Assessment: Primary evidence.
Text From Source: William Nelson and Alice Bowser, both of this Parish
2"Loftus Parish Records". VOL.6 p.16.
3Ibid. Assessment: Primary evidence.
Down as Miller on Daughter Elizabeth's Bapt Record
4"Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society". p 74.
5"Loftus Parish Records". Assessment: Primary evidence.
Text From Source: Alice Daughter of William & Alice Nelson
6Ibid. Assessment: Primary evidence.
Text From Source: Elizabeth Daughter of William Nelson of Skinningrove, Miller and Alice his wife
of Skinningrove.
7Ibid. Assessment: Primary evidence.
Text From Source: William son of William and Alice Nelson