John was born in Shepshed, Leicestershire. He moved to Breedon on the Hill after his marriage, before returning to Shepshed to live at Black Nook.

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Mary, the daughter of Samuel Alt and his wife Elizabeth (née Fold), was born in Worthington, Leicestershire.

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Born in Pistern Hills in Smisby, Derbyshire, John worked as a wheelwright and joiner.

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The daughter of Elijah Smith and his wife Elizabeth (née Abbott), Fanny was born in Woodville, Derbyshire, where she married John Hudson.

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Florence was born in Normanton, Derbyshire. She worked as a domestic servant and was later the housekeeper for her widowed father.

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Born in Normanton, Derbyshire, Arthur worked as a bricklayer’s labourer before serving in the 73rd Field Company Royal Engineers in the First World War. He is one of the missing remembered on the Loos memorial.

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Born in Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire, John initially worked as a labourer before becoming a gamekeeper for the Garendon and Calke Abbey Estates.

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Born in Belton, Leicestershire, Martha was the daughter of William and Abigal Mountney.

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Elizabeth was born in Smisby, Derbyshire, and worked as a kitchen maid and dressmaker.

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Born in Shepshed, Leicestershire, John trained as a gamekeeper on the Garendon Estate before moving to Smisby, Derbyshire, to work as a gamekeeper on the Calke Abbey Estate.

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Born in Diseworth, Leicestershire, Caroline was the daughter of William Hinds Dexter and his wife Martha.

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John was born in New Normanton, Derby. He initially worked on a farm near Twyford as a wagoner and labourer, before moving to Smalley and finding work as an ostler at Mapperley Colliery.

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The daughter of John Cox and his wife Sarah (née Rollin), Mary was born in Newton Solney, Derbyshire, and in 1904 married John Hudson.

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George mostly worked as a farm labourer, although in 1891 he was the sub-post master at Sawley. George married four times.

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Sarah, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Ball, was born in Shepshed, Leicestershire, and in 1892 became the fourth wife of George James Hudson.

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Martha, known as ‘Pattie’, was born in Smisby, Derbyshire, and on her 24th birthday she was given a photo album by her father which contained family portraits.

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Born in Calke, Derbyshire, Arthur was a gamekeeper with his father on the Calke Abbey Estate. Arthur looked after the heating system at St Andrew’s Church, Twyford, which he found to be on fire in 1910.

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Hannah was born in Pistern Hills in Smisby, Derbyshire. She initially worked as a housemaid at Calke Abbey, and a cook in Clitheroe, Lancashire, before moving to Alstonfield Vicarage in Derbyshire.

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Born in Derby Hills, Calke, Derbyshire, William left for Australia with his brother Charlie on 6th January 1884 but returned to England in 1897.

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Caroline was born in Pascoe Vale, Victoria, Australia, where she married John Thomas Dunn in 1913.

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Charlie was born in Tywford, Derbyshire, and left for Australia with his brother William on 6th January 1884.

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The fourth child of Richard Harris and his wife Harriet Louisa (née Owen), Florence was born in Brunswick, Victoria, Australia. Her parents married in Bedfordshire, England, and emigrated to Australia between 1869 and 1871.

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Charlie was born in Pascoe Vale, Victoria, Australia, but died from measles and pneumonia on 9th April 1898 aged 2. He was buried at Epping cemetery, Victoria.

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Born in Twyford, Derbyshire, ‘Sarah Annie’ married Herbert Cox at St Andrew’s Church in 1889.

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The son of John Cox and his wife Sarah (née Rollin), Herbert was born in Newton Solney, Derbyshire, and worked as a blacksmith and farmer.

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Born in Rearsby, Leicestershire, Mabel worked as a weaver in a hosiery factory before she married Lewis Berridge Williamson

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Thomas was born in Ticknall, Derbyshire, and worked as a gamekeeper on the Garendon Estate near Shepshed, Leicestershire.

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Maria, the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Gibson, was born in Shepshed, Leicestershire, where she married Thomas Hudson in 1862.

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Fanny emmigrated to the US in 1881 and married her childhood friend and cousin John Thomas Ward after the death of his first wife.

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Born in Ticknall, Derbyshire, Samuel was injured in a farming accident in the late 1860’s and despite having difficulty walking, he later worked as a gamekeeper at Calke.

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Clara, the daughter of William Peach and his wife Mary Ann (née Henwood), was born in Derby. She married Samuel Hudson at St Andrew’s Church, Twyford, in 1885.

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Samuel, the son of John and Caroline Hudson, was born in Derby Hills in Repton, Derbyshire, on 4th June 1858. He was baptised at St Giles Church, Calke, on 29th August 1858, but died three years later on 1st August 1861. Samuel was buried in the churchyard of St Andrew’s Church, Twyford.

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James was born in Red Hill, Nottinghamshire, and as a teenager worked in a brewery as a bottle washer. James served in France as a Lance Corporal of the 8th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps during the First World War. He was killed in action, aged 20.

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William was born in Cross Row, Pinxton, Derbyshire, and worked as a builder’s labourer.

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Florrie was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, where she married William Bacon Hudson.

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Robert was born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, and being a Christadelphian was a conscientious objector during the First World War.

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Frieda, the daughter of Martin Coots and his wife Mabel (née Graham) was born in Islington, London. In 1941 she married George Elsbury and after his death in 1992, married Robert Stanley Hudson.

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Born in Australia, ‘Ted’ served in the Second Australian Imperial Force during the Second World War.

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Born in Epping, Australia, ‘Norm’ served with the Australian Forces during the Second World War and was presented with a Citation for Bravery in the Battlefield.

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Mary was born in Shepshed, Leicestershire, and married Robert Cronshaw, who worked as a stone mason.

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Caroline was born in Pistern Hills, Smisby, and worked as a dairymaid before marrying Richard Wain, a school master.

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Arthur was born in Red Hill, Nottinghamshire. He worked as an apprentice at the local motor cycle works before serving in the 4th Battalion of the Machine Gun Corps (Motors) in the First World War, during which he died of wounds.

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William, known as ‘Bill’, was born in Smalley, Derbyshire, and except during the Second World War, he lived in the area all his life.

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Elizabeth, known as ‘Bessie’, was born in Smalley, Derbyshire, the daughter of William and Mary Annie (née Moss) Bowmer.

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Alfred was born in Epping, Australia.

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The daughter of Jonah Jolley and his wife Pernella (née Olsson), Phyllis married Alfred Hudson in 1926.

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Born in Australia, Sylvia married ‘Frank’ Clapton in 1946.

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Born in Australia, Florence was married to William John Ison and then Gordon James Nash.

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Born in Epping, Australia, Doris married George William Colman in 1940.

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Born in Victoria, Australia, Robert worked as a skin and wool buyer.

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Born in Coburg, Australia, Norma married Frederick George Thompson at St Philip’s Church, Abbotsford, in 1951

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William was born in Shepshed, Leicestershire, and moved with his family to Loughborough between 1832 and 1836. In 1840 the family moved to Ticknall where William’s father was employed as a gamekeeper on the Calke Abbey Estate.

On 12th January 1840 William and his friend John Atkin, both aged 15, were returning from work across Calke Park but never arrived home. It was first thought that the boys had run away from home, but a search was started and after a few days Sir George Crewe ordered his men to break the ice on one of the ponds in the parkland to drag the pond, when their bodies were found.

On their way home, the boys are believed to have gone sliding on Little Dog Kennel Pond, into which water from other ponds on the estate drained before being discharged over a weir into Big Dog Kennel Pond, the later now part of Staunton Harold Reservoir. The ice on this pond was thin, gave way, and the boys drowned.

William Hudson and John Atkin were buried side by side in a corner of Ticknall Churchyard on 17th January.

Hannah Hudson wrote a solemn poem in 1879 recalling the anguish William’s parents would have suffered during this event. The poem can be found here.

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Sarah, the daughter of Samuel Cook and his wife Elizabeth (née Smith), was born in Little Hallam, Ilkeston, in 1851. Towards then end of 1870 she had a son who she named John James Fritchley Cook, and six years later, on 26th December 1876, she married John Hudson. At time time of their marriage, John was 20 and Sarah was 25. It is not clear whether John Hudson was the father of John James Fritchley Cook.

John Hudson’s death was recorded in the last quarter of 1888, but also in this quarter Sarah’s son William Wright Hudson was born, whose father appears to have been Samuel Wright, with whom she had another child, Joseph Wright Hudson, in 1891.

John, the son of Sarah Cook, was born in Little Hallam, Ilkeston, towards the end of 1870. His mother Sarah married John Hudson in 1876 and on the 1881 census John Cook was described as John Hudson’s son. However, when John Cook was born, John Hudson would have been 14 and his mother 21; they did not marry until 6 years later, when John was 20. John Hudson may not have been the father of John James Fritchley Cook - there is no connection to the name ‘Fritchley’ in John Hudson’s ancestry, so this may have been the surname of John Cook’s father.

Lucy, the daughter of Elizabeth Blake, was born in 1880. Her mother married Edwin Hudson two years later and although, like her mother, Lucy was recorded with the surname Hudson on the 1891 census, it is not known if Edwin was her father.

Frances, known as ‘Cissie’, was born in Catton, Derbyshire, on 4th August 1907. On 25th July 1942 she married Thomas (‘Tom’) Rodgers at St John the Baptist Church, Smalley. Frances died on 12th December 1993 and her ashes were placed in the Garden of Remembrance at Smalley.

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