 A daughter, Charlotte, was born in 1787 and a son, Horatio, the following year.After Sarah's death on 13 April 1828, at the age of 71, Nelson married the much younger Hilare Barlow on 26 March 1829.William Nelson succeeded by a special remainder, which included his father's and sisters' male issue, to one of Horatio Nelson's baronies ("Baron Nelson", of the Nile and of Hilborough in the County of Norfolk, created in 1801) upon the latter's death at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, as well as to the dukedom of Bronté, of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.