Robert Burns Nelson

1878 - 1882  (4 years)

• Name	Robert Burns Nelson  [1, 2]
  Birth	12 Apr 1878	Astoria, Queens, NY   [1, 2]
  Baptism	22 Apr 1878  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Apr 1882	Ravenswood, Long Island City, Queens, NY   [1, 2]
  Burial	24 Apr 1882	Brooklyn (Green-Wood Cemetery), Kings, NY   [1, 4]
  Person ID	I15897	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Alfred Nelson, ^,   b. 21 Dec 1837, New York, New York, NY d. 25 Mar 1922, {Flushing, Queens, NY} (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Emily Fairlie Ogden, >,   b. 1 Oct 1838, Philadelphia, PA d. 3 Aug 1923, Flushing, Queens, NY (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	21 Aug 1860	Ravenswood, Long Island City, Queens, NY   [2, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F2710	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S546] Lucia Nelson, , Nelson Family Group Sheets; supplied by Nelson, [address for private use], Easthampton, MA 01027., 2013. [S774] William Ogden Wheeler, The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English Ancestry (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippicott Co. (private circulation), 1907)., p. 277. [S546] Lucia Nelson, , Nelson Family Group Sheets; supplied by Nelson, [address for private use], Easthampton, MA 01027., 2013. Robert Burns Nelson died at age 4. He was baptized at home the day before he died by the Rt. Rev. Horatio Southgate. Sponsors: Alfred Nelson and Emily F. Nelson. [S776] Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn, NY), Green-Wood Cemetery, , online databse (http://www.green-wood.com/burial_search/ : accessed ), ., http://www.green-wood.com/burial_results/index.php; November 2013. [S41] Ancestry.com, Genealogy Trees, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/10891741/person/-562086790. [S772] Death Notice: Norman Fairlie Nelson (New York Times. 14 Jul 1954). [S31] Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D., Census Place: Queens Ward 3, Queens, New York; Roll: T623 1149; Page: 19A; Enumeration District: 661. [S546] Lucia Nelson, , Nelson Family Group Sheets; supplied by Nelson, [address for private use], Easthampton, MA 01027., 2013. Alfred and Emily were married 21 August 1860 at St. Thomas Church, Ravenswood, Queens, Long Island by the Rev S.W, Sayres. Witness: William Nelson, father of Alfred. The Holy Bible, London ca. 1856, was a wedding present given to Emily by her God-mother, Mary Grace Raoul, daughter of Mary Fairlie (her aunt) and Thomas Abthorpe Cooper.