Historical place archive

Burnham Thorpe in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Burnham Thorpe in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

4 records3 event labels3 people1758–1767

Historical events in Burnham Thorpe

1758

29 September 1758
Birth of Horatio Nelson
Horatio Nelson · Military

Birth of Horatio Nelson, son of Reverend Edmund Nelson and Catherine Suckling.

29 September 1758
Family
Catherine Nelson · Military

Catherine Suckling Nelson is mother of Horatio Nelson.

29 September 1758
Family
Edmund Nelson · Military

Edmund Nelson is father of Horatio Nelson and rector of Burnham Thorpe.

1767

26 December 1767
Death of Catherine Nelson
Catherine Nelson · Military

Catherine Nelson dies while Horatio is still a child.

Provenance

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