Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte was born on
July 7,
1805 in Camberwell,
Surrey,
England, son of
Jerome Bonaparte and
Elizabeth Patterson, and Emperor
Napoleon I's nephew. Although born in England, he lived in the
United States with his mother, whose marriage had been annulled at the order of the French emperor. With the annulment came the rescinding of Patterson's son right to carry the Bonaparte name, a ruling that was reversed by
Napoleon III.
He married Susan May Williams (1812-1881), and it is from them that the American line of the Bonaparte family descended. They had two sons: Charles Joseph Bonaparte and Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II.
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte died on June 17, 1870 in Baltimore, Maryland and is buried in the Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore.