page_title: Catherine Suckling
hierarchical_section_title: Catherine Suckling
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Catherine Suckling (1725-1767). Copy of a portrait by John Theodore Heins of Nelson's mother when she was 18, just before she met and married the Reverend Edmund Nelson, rector of a Norfolk congregation. A woman of firm character, she bore eleven children. She died aged 42 when her son Horatio was nine, leaving him and his two elder and two younger brothers, and three sisters, to be brought up by their widowed father.
context_page_description: Catherine Suckling was the mother of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. Catherine had eleven children of which Nelson was the third surviving son.
context_section_description: Catherine Suckling (9 May 1725 – 26 December 1767) was the mother of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. Catherine had eleven children of which Nelson was the third surviving son.
caption: The 18-year-old Catherine Suckling, a copy of a portrait by John Theodore Heins
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