Nairobi War Cemetery

[sharleen]

I see from the post Annie place that Louisa died on 10 August 1895.

On the New South Wales BMD site I found the following:

Marriage of Frederick William Hudson and Louisa A Best Central Cumberland 1884

Children:
Hudson: Frederick W  born 1886 Ashfield
Hudson:  Louie  born 1887
Hudson: Jennie born 1891
Hudson: Dorothy G born 1893
Hudson:  Marjorie L born 1895.

It is then possible that she died in childbirth.

Obviously a good idea would be to see if I cannot get access to the marriage certificate of Frederick W and Eleanor, to get an idea of which year they got married.

Eleanor does not mention any other children aside from her two sons, James & Leonard, and the fact that she is living in the home of her stepson Frederick W on south coast junction.  Which I may add is where my fathers older brother were listed as living when they were born.  So my question then is what happened to the 4 other children.   They would have been in their thirties I would imagine (not using a calculator).

The only parents I have found for a Frederick W Hudson were Robert and Jane Hudson district Choppendale.  That doesn't necessarily mean that this is the same one.

The records that I now have is the Death Certificate of Frederick William Hudson , birthplace Sydney, Nationality British.  Parents Deceased.  lodged by his spouse Janet Hudson.

I have a duplicate copy of Frederick Williams marriage certificate dated Sept 3 1913 in Durban.  Witnesses were JG Aitken (Janet's brother) and ?   No names of parents.

I have a notice in the National Archives of South Africa (NASA) Ref: 3087/1918   starting 1918 ending 1931 for an Edward Leonard Hudson (S/s Dora Lilian, born Griff).  This could be a divorce notice if it is the same Edward as I remember him still being alive in the 1980's

That is pretty much everything I have except now the information you have given me.

Thanks
Sharleen

[AMBLY]

Hi Sharleen

If you go back over this topic, there are lots   of clues as to what happened to the other 4 children - only the 2 girls  apparently survived childhood; 1 appears to stay in AUstralia and marry,  and that leaves just one for whom there is nothing further. I have modified an earlier message of mine to add BDM information.

I have also given you the website of a living researcher with Louisa A HUDSON nee BEST in his tree. He may have more unpublished data to share with you - he may even know what happened to her descendants/children - including the one who very likely became your ancestor.

And here is another living and current researcher with Louisa in his tree (my last offering, Google is melting)
http://members.optusnet.com.au/addisonia/gp185.htm#head4

Anne.

[sharleen]

Thank you for your help.  It most certainly is appreciated
Sharleen

[sharleen]

My apologies Anne

I obviously overlooked your entry about the deaths when I was scanning through.

Did not mean to be an inconvenience.

Thanks for all your help
Sharleen

[rutti tutti]

Hi all!!!
thanks for this interesting thread - I have been in the UK for two weeks so missed it all!
Sharleen have you contacted John Dewar my brother in law, regarding the Dewar side of things?
Ruth

[liverpool annie]

Must be nice Ruth !!!! 

Hope you had a good time and came home with lots of new information !!

Good to see you back !!

Annie 

[sharleen]

Hi Ruth,

Sorry I did not reply immediately, but I was out of town for a few days. 

I went back through my mails and saw that I did not have an email address for John Dewar but just a note asking you to ask him to drop me a line.  If you would like to send me an email address on my personal site I will certainly drop him a line.

On that note I thought I might mention that I managed to touch base with Nigel Juckes and we are corresponding sporadically.  Actually while I was in SA (for my mom's surgery) I managed to have a chat with him on the phone.

It was on this visit that I found the grave site photo for James Hudson and a great pic of his brother Leonard with my dad as a young baby.  I also found a nice pic of Janet Cairns Aitken with Frederick William Hudson.  The grave site is what started this thread.

My mom's home is like a treasure trove of photo's.  Just a pity nobody bothered to write on them.    Who knows what I did not find.

Have a great day
Sharleen