Talk:Horatia Nelson

A fact from Horatia Nelson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 December 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Horatia N. Thompson (pictured) was christened with Lord Nelson and Mrs Emma Hamilton as godparents and was later adopted by them as an orphan, even though they were her biological parents?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/December.

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Copy Editing

I don't mean to sound brusque, but the current article uses very long sentences, with many auxiliary clauses. It is quite confusing - sometimes I'm not even sure what meaning is intended. You may want to re-write to clarify. Try Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors if you need some help. -- 21:33, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Early Life

How could the child be both one week old and born "six weeks earlier" as the first paragraph of the Early Life section states? This doesn't make sense. 18.173.1.125 (talk) 16:05, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The child was one week old, but the wet-nurse was told that Horatia had been born six weeks earlier. This was a fiction to provide the mother with an alibi. Anklefear (talk) 00:01, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ancestry Line Traced To...

Why is this significant enough to be included? "The ancestry line can be traced to Millie Anne Fenning, wife to the first cousin of American journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson".
Horatia had ten children two centuries ago, she must have numerous descendants now; why name any of them unless they're famous in their own right or connected to the Navy? 95.93.88.23 (talk) 13:34, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding nelson and Emma Hamiltons daughter Horatia,i was interested to read somewhere that it was rumoured that they actually had twin daughters and that Emma kept one and gave the other one away,i have a portrait of a young girl that was left to me by my father many years ago when he was alive it was painted in 1819 when she was 18 making her born in 1801 and he said cost 20 guineas at the time, he said it was his father who told him it was nelsons daughter one day when he asked who an elderly lady was in a photo that they had and his father said thats her in the painting its Nelsons daughter,i remember years ago my father saying he thought they may have had twins and only kept one as the girl in the painting is dressed as a girl would be in service,my father took the painting to the national gallery for an expert to look at he said it was painted around 1820 which would be a year out he also said that he thought that it would not be just one painting but that the family she worked for would have had all their portraits painted and thought highly of her whether they knew who she was or not and had her included,our surname is Reynolds and Emmas mother had a sister Ann who married a Richard Reynolds and Nelsons spoke in one of his letters about Emmas relations being at the house the Moores, Connors, and Reynolds,so there is a link the the family there,unfortunately the painting is not signed. Reyno83 13/1/2018 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter632 (talk • contribs) 00:40, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discovering her real father

In the first section of the article it states "Though Horatia soon learnt of her real father...", implying soon after Nelson's death in 1805, later on it states "Horatia only realised she was Lord Nelson's biological daughter in 1845". Which is it? Kenwyn74 (talk) 17:17, 1 October 2018 (UTC)kenwyn74[reply]

Date of birth

The Complete Peerage by G. E. Cockayne, edited by H. Arthur Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden, vol.ix, (London, 1936, p.463n) stated that she was born on 29th October 1800, and baptised at St.Marylebone, London, 13th May 1803. 2A00:23C4:B63A:1800:5CE0:830D:C403:E950 (talk) 08:55, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]