George Robert Nelson

George Robert Nelson
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1845 – 1926

Born1845 in Hawstead, Suffolk, EnglandDied21 July 1926 in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia, aged 81

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BirthResidenceDeath / burial

1840s
Born 1845

Hawstead, Suffolk, England

Born at Hawstead, Suffolk, England - christened at Chevington 21 November 1844 as a Debenham, before his parents' marriage, and baptised again at Hawstead as a Nelson on 8 June 1845

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1850s
6
Residence 1851

Hawstead, Suffolk, England

Living at Old Park Lane, Hawstead, Suffolk, England, with Elizabeth and their children George, Caroline and Catherine (1851 census of England)

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Immigrated 24 April 1853

Arrived at Sydney from Gravesend on the immigrant ship Java with Elizabeth and their English-born children George, Caroline and Catherine; a fourth child, John, died on the voyage

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1890s
53
Death of father Robert Nelson 21 July 1898

West Kempsey, New South Wales, Australiaaged 75
1900s
63
Death of mother Elizabeth Debenham 6 August 1908

West Kempsey, New South Wales, Australiaaged 88
1920s
81
Died 21 July 1926

Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia

Died at Kempsey; farmer at Euroka on the Macleay, and the informant of his father's death in 1898