Nelson married Anne Hayden in Canada in 1866. He emigrated in 1867, and married Julia Casey in Minnesota in 1867. On 1 June 1880 he was a 31 year old carpenter who lived in Ashland, Wisconsin with Julia C., 28, Margaret, 6, Ellen, 2, and Daniel, 6 months.
1261On 1 June 1900 Nelson Pero, a 54 year old carpenter born in Canada East, lived at 310 Prentice Avenue in Ashland, Wisconsin with his family, Julia, 47, Daniel J., 20, Mary C., 18, Rosa A., 16, Agnes N. 14, Francis, 12, Esther, 5, and widowed son-in-law, Peter E. Freeman, 32. Nelson had emigrated in 1867, married in 1871 and had had eleven children of whom 7 were still alive.
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She was Nelson’s first wife.