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Name: HUDSON, John
Birth Date: 20.11.1869 Horwich, Lancs
Death Date: 20.6.1919 Nairobi, pneumonia - alcoholic
Nationality: British
First Date: 1897
Last Date: 1919
Profession: Boilermaker with Uganda Railways and KUR&H. In 1902 he went to India, on contract to the railways there. Returned to Kenya in 1910. North - Foreman Boilermaker Sept. 1900
Area: Mombasa/Nairobi
Married: In Whalley Range, Lancs. 7.6.1899 Ann Louise Thomas b. 1871 Cardiff, d. 30 Sep 1953 Nairobi (see her entry)
Children: Sophia (Suffield) (25 May 1902 Nairobi-9 Dec 1992 Sydney); Sylvia (Johnston) (5 Aug 1903 Calcutta-1992 Sydney); John 'Jack' (19 Aug 1906 Calcutta-17 Dec 1983 Fish Hoek, S. Africa)
Book Reference: EAWL, North, Descending, Harmony, Barnes, Red Book 1912
General Information:
Letter from Mrs C. Hart 19 Sep 1994 In 1997 John Hudson arrived in Mombasa to work on the Uganda Railway as an artisan boiler-maker. In 1899 he returned to Britain to marry Anne Louise Thomas at Whalley Bridge, Manchester in June. They both returned to Kenya and John continued to work with the railways. In 1902 their first child Sophia was born in Nairobi. Later that year they returned to Britain and then to India, on contract to the railways there, based in Jamalpur. In 1903 Sylvia was born in Calcutta and in 1906 Jack was born in Calcutta. In 1910 the family returned to Kenya and John was once again employed by the railways. He died in 1919.
Descending - Photograph of "Mr M. Gallagher, with the first three Incline Drivers Messrs Shutt, Smart snr., Smart jnr., lowering the first locomotive. Mr John Hudson who arrived in October 1897 should have been in the party.
Member of Lodge Harmony - Joined 3/7/11, age 40, Foreman Lockmaker, Nairobi
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - John Hudson, British, age 48, died 20/6/19 Inscription: John Hudson / 1869 - 1919 / and Ann Louisa Hudson / 1871 - 1953 / in loving memory
Red Book 1912 - J. Hudson - Nairobi
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers says he died of 'disordered action of the heart'
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