Can anyone help me get further back, please ?

[greyingrey]

On the Leicester FHS there's a member with an interest in Hudsons in Shepshed. As a non-member you're allowed to contact 6 people free, so I'm getting in touch with them. Interestingly, in the members' interests, there are Hudsons in Shepshed from 1800 & Hudsons in Kegworth berfore 1800....so maybe they moved from Kegworth to Shepshed (Mary Alt was from Kegworth)....but whether they're my Hudsons is a different question

[diddymiller]

further details as requested:

marriage:
john Hudson of parish of Lockington = Ann Morris otp (Seagrave) 17/3/1791
john Signed; Ann her mark
witnesses: James Hudson & Richard Sharpe

baptism:
Ann & Mary daughters of william? & Elizabeth? Alt Kegworth. 13/7/1770
(names diff to read but think thats right)

did you contact TB about the shepshed Alts?

Diddy

[greyingrey]

Thanks very much, diddy. Yes, I have contacted TB about the Alts, but have heard nothing yet.

[greyingrey]

I don't suppose it's possible that the vicar made a mistake between Mary & Ann Alt ?. What perhaps may be more likely is that something happened to Mary & John married her sister. But so far the only Ann Alt (well, Ault) I've been able to find was born in Derbyshire &, married a Joe Bacon in Derby...& I can't find a death for him in time for Ann to have become the mother of William Hudson.

I've only been looking for the death of a Mary Hudson/Alt. I'll see if her sister Ann died young, so that I can at least rule out the possibility that John married/got together with her before William's birth

[greyingrey]

I can find the death of an Ann Alt in Ashby de la Zouch in 1792 & the marriage of an  Ann Alllatt in Thurmaston at an appropriate date....will have to try & track back to see if either could be Mary Alt's sister

[greyingrey]

Diddy.....are you sure there were 2 Alt daughters (Mary & Ann) baptised together at Kegworth, rather than it being a Mary Ann/Ann Mary ?

By the way, William Hudson spent his last years in Loughborough....died there in 1862

[greyingrey]

I think all I can do (assuming I don't get any joy from the Leicester Family History Society) is to try & look at as many Hudson births in Notts & Leics (& maybe Derbys) as I can from that time & see if the Johns & Anns I've got have Williams later than my William or other children around the same time as William's birth, so that I can maybe rule out certain Johns & Anns

[Annie65115]

Sorry, it seems a bit as though you're having a conversation with yourself here!

Notts FHS CDs offer NO baptisms for Alt or Ault, Mry or Ann, that could even remotely fit.

Happy to look up other possibilities; but I am all at sea with the Hudsons!

[greyingrey]

Thanks, Annie....no, it's OK. I've got more time than most people to hang around here & my posting might drive other people crazy, but it helps clear my mind (& it certainly needs that)

What you could do, if you've got ? hours spare (she said graciously) is to see if there's a baptism  of a William Hudson to a John & Ann Hudson in Notts between 1800/1820, or a baptism of a Hudson baby in 1800 , parents John & Ann Hudson. That would probably rule those out as parents of my William.

Maybe Leicester Family History Society will come up trumps for both of us. My Hudsons certainly moved around. William....Shepshed to Ruddington to Loughborough, his son Ruddington to Nottingham to Derby & his son Derby & then through lots of Notts villages before settling in Nottm itself.....& they're only the places I know about.

As I've said, the worst family of agricultural labourers in the world