Family of John NELSON and Letitia KELLS

Husband:
John NELSON (1847?- )
Wife:
Letitia KELLS (aft1855-1942)
Children:
William Edward NELSON (c. 1877-1880)
Elizabeth NELSON (1879-1956)
Joseph NELSON (1881-1941)
Letitia NELSON (1884-1972)
Isabella NELSON (1886-1889)
John NELSON (1888- )
William Edward NELSON (1891- )
James NELSON (1897-1973)
NELSON (bef1911-bef1911)
NELSON (bef1911- )
Marriage:
Jul 27, 1874
Monaghan, Monaghan, Ireland^1,2
Address: Monaghan Parish Church

Husband: John NELSON

Name:
John NELSON^3,4,5
Sex:
Male
Father:
Edward NELSON ( - )
Father:
-
Birth:
1847 (cal)
Monaghan, Ireland⁶
Occupation:
Coal Miner^{1,3,4,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14}
Occupation:
Jul 27, 1874 (age 26-27)
Farmer
Residence:
Jul 27, 1874 (age 26-27)
Aughnacloy, Monaghan, Ireland²
Census:
Apr 3, 1881 (age 32)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁵
Address: Cambusnethan Street
Occupation:
Apr 3, 1881 (age 33-34)
Coal Miner; Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁵
Census:
Apr 5, 1891 (age 44)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁶
Address: 46 Woodhall Place
Occupation:
Apr 5, 1891 (age 43-44)
Coal Miner; Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁶
Employer/Employed/Neither Employer nor Employed: Employed
Census:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 53)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁶
Address: 4 Woodhall Place
Occupation:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 53-54)
Coal Miner; Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁶
Employer, Worker, or Own account: Worker
Occupation:
Dec 29, 1911 (age 63-64)
Gardener¹⁷

Wife: Letitia KELLS

Name:
Letitia KELLS^3,4,5,10,13
Sex:
Female
Father:
William KELLS ( -bef1942)
Father:
-
Birth:
btw Feb 13, 1855 and Feb 12, 1856
Monaghan, Ireland⁷
Residence:
Jul 27, 1874 (age 18-19)
Monaghan, Monaghan, Ireland²
Census:
Apr 3, 1881 (age 26)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁵
Address: Cambusnethan Street
Census:
Apr 5, 1891 (age 37)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁶
Address: 46 Woodhall Place
Census:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 48)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁶
Address: 4 Woodhall Place
Census:
Apr 2, 1911 (age 55)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁸
Address: 35 1/2 Anderson Street
Death:
Feb 12, 1942 (age 86)
Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁷
Cause: Arteriosclerosis, 2 yrs; Senile Heart 6 months; Acute Bronchitis 6 days

Address: 441 Cambusnethan Street

Time of death 0415.

Informant Elizabeth Darling, Daughter

Child 1: William Edward NELSON

Name:
William Edward NELSON¹⁹
Sex:
Male
Birth:
c. 1877¹⁹
Death:
Aug 6, 1880 (age 3)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁹
Cause: Scarlet Fever

Address: Currie's Land

Child 2: Elizabeth NELSON

Name:
Elizabeth NELSON
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
James DARLING (1875?-bef1956)
Birth:
Sep 18, 1879
Kilmore, Monaghan, Ireland²⁰
Census:
Apr 3, 1881 (age 1)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁵
Address: Cambusnethan Street
Census:
Apr 5, 1891 (age 11)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁶
Address: 46 Woodhall Place
Occupation:
Apr 5, 1891 (age 11)
Scholar; Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁶
Census:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 21)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland²¹
Address: White Bank Ho
Occupation:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 21)
Domestic Servant; Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland²¹
Occupation:
Sep 12, 1902 (age 22)
Domestic Servant¹⁰
Census:
Apr 2, 1911 (age 32)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland²²
Address: 9 McAlpine Street
Residence:
Feb 14, 1942 (age 62)
Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁷
Address: 9 McAlpine Street
Residence:
Jun 19, 1956 (age 76)
Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹³
Address: 2 Cheviot Crescent
Death:
Jun 19, 1956 (age 76)
Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹³
Address: Hospital

Child 3: Joseph NELSON

Spouse: Isabella BIRRELL, c. 1943, age 57

Name:
Joseph NELSON^23,24,25,26
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Isabella BIRRELL (1886-1950)
Birth:
Oct 17, 1881
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁴
Time of birth 2000. Informant John Nelson, father.
Census:
Apr 5, 1891 (age 9)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁶
Address: 46 Woodhall Place
Occupation:
Apr 5, 1891 (age 9)
Scholar; Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁶
Census:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 19)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁶
Address: 4 Woodhall Place
Occupation:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 19)
Coal Miner; Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁶
Employer, Worker, or Own account: Worker
Residence:
Oct 7, 1904 (age 22)
Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland³
Address: 9 McAlpine Street
Occupation:
Mar 3, 1905 (age 23)
Coal Miner²⁷
Occupation:
May 21, 1906 (age 24)
Coal Miner²⁴
Occupation:
Dec 13, 1908 (age 27)
Coalminer²⁵
Residence:
Dec 13, 1908 (age 27)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland²⁵
Address: 4 Moss Road
Occupation:
Mar 23, 1911 (age 29)
Coal Miner²⁸
Residence:
Mar 23, 1911 (age 29)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland²⁸
Address: 4 Moss Road
Census:
Apr 2, 1911 (age 30)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland²⁹
Address: 4 Moss Road
Occupation:
Apr 2, 1911 (age 30)
Coal Miner (Hewer); Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland²⁹
Whether Employer, Worker, or Working on Own Account: Worker
Residence:
1915 (age 33-34)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland³⁰
Address: 4 Moss Road

Valuation roll shows that the property had a yearly rent of five pounds.
Occupation:
Nov 11, 1923 (age 42)
Coalminer³¹
Occupation:
Apr 25, 1930 (age 48)
Coalminer (Stripper)^5,23,25
Occupation:
Jul 17, 1931 (age 49)
Coalminer (Stripper)²⁶
Death:
Jun 16, 1941 (age 60)
Newmains, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁵
Cause: Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema 1 year 6 month Cardiac Debility 4 month Syncope

Address: 38 Main Street

Time of death 0455. Informant John Nelson, son.

Child 4: Letitia NELSON

Name:
Letitia NELSON
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
David RITCHIE (c. 1887-bef1919)
Birth:
Jan 7, 1884
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹¹
Address: Currie's Land

Time of birth 1700. Informant John Nelson, father.
Census:
Apr 5, 1891 (age 7)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁶
Address: 46 Woodhall Place
Occupation:
Apr 5, 1891 (age 7)
Scholar; Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁶
Census:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 17)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland³²
Address: 325 Kirk Road
Occupation:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 17)
General Serv (Domestic); Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland³²
Employer, Worker, or Own account: Worker
Census:
Apr 2, 1911 (age 27)
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland³³
Address: 23 Midmar Gardens, Morningside
Occupation:
Apr 2, 1911 (age 27)
General Domestic; Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland³³
Occupation:
Jun 11, 1915 (age 31)
Domestic Servant⁹
Residence:
Jun 11, 1915 (age 31)
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland⁹
Address: 25 Midmar Gardens (?)
Death:
Nov 6, 1972 (age 88)
Hartwood, Lanarkshire, Scotland^34,35
Address: Hartwood Hospital

Time of Death 1830
Burial:
Nov 9, 1972
Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland³⁴
Address: Shotts Cemetery

Child 5: Isabella NELSON

Name:
Isabella NELSON¹⁴
Sex:
Female
Birth:
Mar 6, 1886
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁴
Address: Currie's Land

T
Death:
May 24, 1889 (age 3)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland³⁶
Cause: Pneumonia

Address: Woodhall Place

Child 6: John NELSON

Name:
John NELSON
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Catherine Hynd REID (1890?- )
Birth:
Mar 25, 1888
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland^12,17
Address: Woodhall Place

Time of birth 2200
Census:
Apr 5, 1891 (age 3)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁶
Address: 46 Woodhall Place
Census:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 13)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁶
Address: 4 Woodhall Place
Occupation:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 13)
Coal Miner; Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁶
Employer, Worker, or Own account: Worker
Census:
Apr 2, 1911 (age 23)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁸
Address: 35 1/2 Anderson Street
Occupation:
Apr 2, 1911 (age 23)
Coal Miner Hewer; Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁸
Industry or Service with which worker is connected: Mine Onwners Whether Employer, Worker, or Working on Own Account: Worker
Occupation:
Dec 29, 1911 (age 23)
Coalminer (bachelor)¹⁷
Residence:
Dec 29, 1911 (age 23)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁷
Address: 35 1/2 Anderson Street

Child 7: William Edward NELSON

Name:
William Edward NELSON⁸
Sex:
Male
Birth:
Jan 29, 1891
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁸
Address: Woodhall Place

Time of birth 2230. Informant John Nelson, father.
Census:
Apr 5, 1891 (age 2 mns)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁶
Address: 46 Woodhall Place
Census:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 10)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁶
Address: 4 Woodhall Place
Occupation:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 10)
Scholar; Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁶

Child 8: James NELSON

Name:
James NELSON³⁷
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
[unnamed person] ( -1970)
Birth:
Apr 16, 1897
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹
Address: 4 Woodhall Place

Birth was originally registered as Robert Nelson. Name altered 9th June 1897 to James. Time of birth 1905.
Census:
Mar 31, 1901 (age 3)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland⁶
Address: 4 Woodhall Place
Census:
Apr 2, 1911 (age 13)
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁸
Address: 35 1/2 Anderson Street
Occupation:
Apr 2, 1911 (age 13)
School; Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland¹⁸
Residence:
Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland³⁴
Address: 46 Allands Avenue
Occupation:
Production Worker for India Tyres / Dunlop³⁴
Death:
Sep, 1973 (age 76)³⁴

Child 9: NELSON

Name:
NELSON
Sex:
Unknown
Birth:
bef Apr 2, 1911
Death:
bef Apr 2, 1911 (age 0)

Child 10: NELSON

Name:
NELSON
Sex:
Unknown
Birth:
bef Apr 2, 1911

Note on Husband: John NELSON

Efforts to find details of John's death have been unsuccessful.

Letitia's entry on the 1911 census shows her as the head of household, yet married (not widowed), and that her marriage to John has been of duration 36 years, which fits with John still being alive.

Marriage certificate of John Nelson and Catherine Hynd Reid (29 Dec 1911) do not show John as being deceased, indeed they give his occupation as Gardener (a change from the previously cited 'Coalminer').

Marriage certificate of Letitia Nelson and David Ritchie (11 Jun 1915) does not show John as being deceased.

Letitia Kells' death certificate of 12 Feb 1942 describes her as being the widow of John Nelson, so he predeceased his wife, but when?^7,9,38,39

Note on Wife: Letitia KELLS

From 1911 census entry, we know Letitia had 10 children, of whom 6 were still living.

Sources

1.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Birth Record - James NELSON, (628/00 0287). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

2.: Marriage Certificate, John NELSON and Letitia KELLS 1874.

3.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Marriage Record - Joseph NELSON and Isabella BIRRELL, (1904 Clackmannan 466/00 0013). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

4.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Birth Record - Joseph NELSON 1881, (1881 Cambusnethan 628/00 0692). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

5.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Death Record - Joseph NELSON, (1941 Cambusnethan 628/00 0164). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

6.: ScotlandsPeople, 1901 Scotland Census [database on-line], (RG13 Cambusnethan ED11 Page 34). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

7.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Death Record - Letitia Nelson, (1942 Cambusnethan 628/00 0037). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

8.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Birth Record - William Edward NELSON, (1891 Cambusnethan 628/00 0078). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

9.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Marriage Record - David RITCHIE and Letitia NELSON, (1915 Cambusnethan 628/00 0067). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

10.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Marriage Record - James DARLING and Elizabeth NELSON, (1902 Cambusnethan 628/00 0143). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

11.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Birth Record - Letitia NELSON, (1884 Cambusnethan 628/00 0037). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

12.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Birth Record - John NELSON 1888, (1888 Cambusnethan 628/00 0190).

13.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Death Record - Elizabeth Darling 1956, (1956 Dalziel 639/00 0238). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

14.: Scotland Statutory Birth Record - Isabella NELSON 1886, (1886 Cambusnethan 628/00 0136). Cit. Date: March 10, 1886. Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

15.: ScotlandsPeople, 1881 Scotland Census [database on-line], (RG11 Cambusnethan ED 11 Page 9). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

16.: ScotlandsPeople, 1891 Scotland Census [database on-line], (Census 1891 628/00 011/00 010). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

17.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Marriage Record - John Nelson and Catherine Hynd Reid, (1911 Cambusnethan 628/00 0179). 1911 Cambusnethan 628/00 0179. Cit. Date: December 30, 1911. Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

18.: ScotlandsPeople, 1911 Scotland Census [images online], (Census 1911 628/00 012/00 003). Cit. Date: April 2, 1911. Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

19.: Scotland Statutory Death Record - William Edward NELSON 1880, (1880 Cambusnethan 62/00 0250). Cit. Date: August 7, 1880. Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

20.: FamilySearch, Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881 [index online], (Index entries derived from digital copies of originals housed in various repositories throughout Ireland.). Entry for Elizabeth Nelson citing FHL source film 256040. Cit. Date: September 18, 1879. FamilySearch.

21.

Ancestry.com, 1901 Scotland Census [database on-line], (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Scotland. 1901 Scotland Census. Reels 1-446. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. Parish: Cambusnethan; ED: 3; Page: 20; Line: 12; Roll: CSSCT1901_253; Year: 1901. Accessed 03 July 2011.). Ancestry, Waterfront Building

Hammersmith Embankment

Chancellors Road

London

W6 9RU. Tel: +44 208 846 3620, Email: support@ancestry.co.uk, Web: http://www.ancestry.com.

22.: ScotlandsPeople, 1911 Scotland Census [images online], (Census 1911 628/00 015/00 023). Cit. Date: April 2, 1911. Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

23.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Marriage Record - Joseph NELSON and Margaret Holmes JOHNSTON, (628/00 0070). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

24.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Birth Record - Joseph NELSON, (1906 Cambusnethan 628/00 0446). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

25.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Birth Record - Letitia Kells NELSON, (1908 Cambusnethan 628/00 1053). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

26.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Marriage Record - Henry MILLAR and Letitia Kells NELSON, (1931 Cambusnethan 628/00 0124). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

27.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Birth Record - Charlotte Allan Nelson - 1905, (1905 Clackmannan 466/00 0015). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

28.: Scotland Statutory Birth Record - James Nelson 1911, (1911 Cambusnethan 628/00 0236). Cit. Date: March 24, 1911. Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

29.: ScotlandsPeople, 1911 Scotland Census [images online], (Census 1911 628/00 011/00 020). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

30.: Valuation Rolls - Joseph Nelson - 1915, (VR107/307/231). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

31.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Birth Record - Isabella Birrell Nelson 1923, (1923 Cambusnethan 628/00 0710). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

32.: ScotlandsPeople, 1901 Scotland Census [database on-line], (RG13 Cambusnethan ED 12 Page 3). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

33.: ScotlandsPeople, 1911 Scotland Census [images online], (Census 1911 685/06 029/00 021). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

34.: Ian Brown, Email from Ian Brown to Ian Nelson, 28 Oct 2014. Cit. Date: October 28, 2014. Ian Nelson. Email: ian@iannelson.uk, Web: https://familytree.iannelson.uk.

35.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Death Record - Letitia Ritchie - 1972, (1972 Shotts 569/000244). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

36.: Scotland Statutory Death Record - Isabella NELSON 1889, (1889 Cambusnethan 628/00 0147). Cit. Date: May 25, 1889. Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

37.: Ian Brown, Email from Ian Brown to Ian Nelson, 28 Oct 2014. Ian Nelson. Email: ian@iannelson.uk, Web: https://familytree.iannelson.uk.

38.: ScotlandsPeople, 1911 Scotland Census [images online], (Census 1911 628/00 012/00 003). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

39.: ScotlandsPeople, Scotland Statutory Marriage Record - John Nelson and Catherine Hynd Reid, (1911 Cambusnethan 628/00 0179). Scotlands People. Web: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

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