The Rev. Edmund Nelson, portrait by William Beechey, dated 1800. National Maritime Museum, GreenwichEdmund Nelson seated in the garden at Burnham Thorpe Rectory, with his young son Horatio dressed as a sailor, and other family members. Royal Museums, GreenwichArms of Nelson of Burnham Thorpe: Or, a cross flory sable a bendlet gules.[1] As sculpted on the ledger stone of his wife Catherine Suckling in All Saints' Church, Burnham Thorpe.[2] Admiral Nelson adopted a differenced version of these arms, to which were added augmentations of honour
^Also arms of Nelson of Mawdesley and of Fairhurst, both in Lancashire (pre-17th c.), of unknown kinship to Nelson of Burnham Thorpe (Burke, General Armory, 1884, p.726 [1]). For details of the Nelson family of Mawdesley see: 'Townships: Mawdesley', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 96-100 [2]. See also: Lancs. and Ches. Hist. and Gen. Notes, i, 363, 398; also the account of Fairhurst in Wrightington