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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 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>
Census (family) BAXTERGATE

Husband: LUKE NELSON

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Name: LUKE NELSON
Sex: Male
Father: WILLIAM NELSON (1743-1824)
Mother: ALICE BOWSER (chr.1733)
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>

Wife: MARY SKELTON

Name: MARY SKELTON
Sex: Female
Father: WILLIAM SKELTON (b.1767, bur.1837)
Mother: -
Birth 1789 GUISBOURGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE
Occupation 1851 (age 61-62) LODGEHOUSE KEEPER; WHITBY,NORTH YORKSHIRE
Census 1851 (age 61-62) WHITBY,NORTH YORKSHIRE
Death 28 Aug 1866 (age 76-77) CLIFF STREET, WHITBY, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information

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

Note on Husband: LUKE NELSON

Served 15 months in the Royal Navy.

Note on Wife: MARY SKELTON

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