♂Horatio Nelson Blanchard

Horatio Nelson Blanchard (1834–1863) was a mariner of Weymouth, Massachusetts, who was already working at sea at seventeen and was dead before he was thirty. He was the second great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the brother of Elizabeth Trueworthy Blanchard (1825–1884), Nancy Jane’s second great-grandmother.

Early life

Horatio was the youngest of the five children of Alexander Blanchard (1799–1850) and Sarah Dudley (1795–1839), and he carried the name of the British admiral Horatio Nelson. His birthplace is given two ways. His Weymouth death record names Freeman, in Franklin County, Maine, and the tree keeps that place; the 1850 census gives only Massachusetts.

His mother died at Freeman on 20 February 1839, when he was a small child, and his father married twice more over the next few years. His father, called “Capt.” in the records, was a master mariner, and in the household at Weymouth on 27 August 1850 both Horatio, aged seventeen, and his brother Marcellus, twenty, were listed as mariners too. Three weeks later, on 17 September 1850, their father died. When the Norfolk County court heard a petition in 1857 to divide the father’s estate, six children each owned a sixth; “Nelson” was among them, evidently Horatio.

Marriage and death

On 3 June 1860 Horatio married Ruth Maria Shaw at Weymouth. He died there in 1863.

Notes

Children

The tree records no children for Horatio and Ruth Maria.

Birthplace

The Freeman birthplace rests on the 1863 death record. Freeman is where his brother Marcellus was born in 1831 and where his mother died in 1839.