Relationship to me:	Great Great Grandfather	Gen -4
Born:	1811
Died:	1859
Age	48
Father:	James Nelson
Mother:	Alice Wormald	1779 - ????
Siblings:
Married:	Ann Rhodes m. 6 September 1837 at Wakefield (St John's Church)	c1817 - ????
Children:	Mary Ann Rhodes at Eckington Derbyshire	1839 - ????
	Horatio Rhodes - at Sevenoakes? (see below)	1841 - ????
	William - at St George Hanover Square (see below)	1844 - ????
	Herbert - at Holywell (see below)	1846 - ????
	Adah Rhodes b. Bradford Yorkshire	1849 - 1921

From Debbie Hill - 15 Feb 05:  Marriage certificate of Horatio Nelson and Ann Rhodes. Vol.22 p.395. Horatio's profession is 'civil engineer'. At the time of the marriage, Horatio lived at Horbury. Witnesses were Mary Ann Robson and P. Heptonstall.  By the birth of his youngest daughter, Adah, Horatio is described as a 'railway contractor'. (See Adah's birth certificate.) Interestingly, Horatio seems to have inherited much of his father-in-law's property only a year or so before departing for India where he was employed in the building of the Bombay to Poona railway.

Oliver Suffield records that Horatio died of cholera in India in 1859 (see anecdote on his daughter Adah's page).

Note: If Horatio was a civil engineer in 1837 and a railway contractor in 1849, he may well have been involved in railway construction in England during the period of George Hudson's "Railway Bubble". Quite possibly the bursting of the bubble in 1849, and the subsequent decline in railway construction in England, may have had something to do with Horatio's decision to work in India, but this is purely speculation on my part.

Horatio's name does not appear with those of his wife and family on the 1851 census records of Bradford.

See David Nelson's website http://www.nelsonfamilies.com/index.php/horatio-nelson-indian-railway-contractor for further information about Horatio and his railway contracting work.

Page updated: 17 May 2012 - link to David Nelson's website added.
Page Created: 15 Feb 2005