John Hudson and Mary Ann Cox were married at St Andrew’s Church, Twyford, in a double wedding ceremony with Mary Ann’s sister Edith Ellen and George Ernest West.
This photograph was taken outside Smithy Farm, home of the Coxes, on 19th October 1904.
A list of those pictured can be found here.
John and Mary Ann Hudson moved to Smalley around 1910 and after living in a cottage opposite Smalley Hall for one or two years, they moved to The Beeches at Smalley Green.
Left to right: John (‘Jack’) Hudson, Arthur Hudson, George William West, Florence Edith (‘Florrie’) West, unknown, Frances (‘Cissie’) Hudson, Mary Ann Hudson, unknown.
Left to right: John (‘Jack’) Hudson, William (‘Bill’), Mary Ann Hudson, Arthur Hudson, John Hudson.
Left to right: John (‘Jack’) Hudson, Arthur Hudson, Mary Ann Hudson, Frances (‘Cissie’) Hudson, John Hudson, William (‘Bill’) Hudson, Gertrude Mary (‘Gertie’) Hudson.
Mary Ann was known to her grandchildren as ‘Granny Hudson’.
Sisters Gertrude Alice Meakin (née Cox) and Mary Ann Hudson (née Cox), Twyford, 1962.
John and Mary Ann’s first child was Gertrude Mary Hudson. Known as ‘Gertie’, she was born in 1905.
Gertie is pictured here at Smalley Green, circa 1923.
Gertie married Ben Limer at St John the Baptist’s Church, Smalley, in December 1934.
Left to right - back row: Elizabeth Beardsley (‘Bessie’) Bowmer, John (‘Jack’) Hudson, John Hudson, Mary Ann Hudson, Frances (‘Cissie’) Hudson.
This photograph was taken in London circa 1948.
The third child of John and Mary Ann, Frances ( known as ‘Cissie’) was born in 1907.
Frances (‘Cissie’) Hudson and her grandmother Mary Ann Hudson. Skegness, circa 1927.
Frances (‘Cissie’) Hudson married Thomas Rodgers on 25th July 1942 at St John the Baptist’s Church, Smalley.
Sisters Gertrude Mary (‘Gertie’) Limer (née Hudson) and Frances (‘Cissie’) Rodgers (née Hudson) outside Field View Cottage, Smalley, their childhood home.
The fourth child and first son of John and Mary Ann Hudson, John (known as ‘Jack’) was born in 1908.
Jack is shown here with his father circa 1928.
Jack married Lilian ‘Rose’ Jarvis at St John the Baptist’s Church, Smalley, in March 1939.
Left to right: William Jarvis, Lily Georgina Mosley, John (‘Jack’) Hudson, Barbara Woodhouse, Lilian Rose Hudson, Frances (‘Cissie’) Hudson, Arthur Hudson.
After their marriage, Jack and Rose lived on a smallholding at Smalley Green, where this photograph was taken circa 1948.
Skegness, circa 1960.
Smalley, circa 1964.
John and Mary Ann’s sixth child, Arthur, was born in 1916.
Left to right: Thomas Rodgers, Harry Rodgers, Arthur Hudson.
Arthur is on the right
Before the Second World War, Arthur and his brother William bought a lorry and began a business together. ‘Hudson Bros. Smalley’ can be seen on the door in this photograph from cira 1935.
Arthur married Lily Georgina Mosley at St John the Baptist’s Church, Edlington, Yorkshire, in 1939.
Left to right: Thomas Rodgers, Arthur Hudson, Lily Georgina Hudson, Frances (‘Cissie’) Hudson.
The children are pictured with Arthur’s Morris Commercial lorry at Smalley, circa 1949.
The seventh child and last child of John and Mary Ann, William (known as ‘Bill’) was born in 1915.
This photograph was taken at Smalley Green circa 1923.
Smalley Green, circa 1928
Left to right: John (‘Jack’) Hudson, Arthur Hudson, William (‘Bill’) Hudson.
Bill, on the left, is sat on a Norton motorbike. This photograph was taken circa 1936.
Harry Rodgers (1917-1944) joined the Royal Air Forece Volunteer Reserve. He died on 13 December 1944 during an explosion at an ammunition warehouse, and is remembered on the Heliopolis War Memorial in Egypt. He was 27 years old.
William (‘Bill’) Hudson married Elizabeth Beardsley (‘Bessie’) Bowmer at St John the Baptist’s Church on 30th March 1940.
Bill enlisted with the RAF in July 1940 and served as a cook during the Second World War.
Bill’s brother Arthur served in the Royal Army Service Corps.
Bill and Arthur were both in India in 1942 but neither of them knew this until they met by chance in Calcutta.
William (‘Bill’) and Elizabeth (‘Bessie’) Hudson and their family lived at Field View Cottage from 1963 to 1976.
This photograph was taken circa 1970.
This photograph was taken at Butlins Holiday Camp, Fife, in June 1976. Bill had recently bought this sporty two-seater Datsun 120Y.
Frances (‘Cissie’) Rodgers (née Hudson), William (‘Bill’) Hudson, and Gertrude Mary (‘Gertie’) Limer (née Hudson). Taken at 131 Main Road, Smalley. Christmas 1989.
Taken at the wedding of June Hudson and Kenneth Andrew Baker on 22nd September 1966 at St John the Baptist’s Church, Smalley.
Left to right: John (‘Jack’) Hudson, Lilian ‘Rose’ Hudson (née Jarvis) with child bridesmaid (living descendant), Thomas Rodgers, Frances (‘Cissie’) Rodgers (née Hudson), Lily Georgina Hudson (née Mosley), Gertrude Mary (‘Gertie’) Limer (née Hudson), living descendant, Elizabeth Beardsley (‘Bessie’) Hudson (née Bowmer), William (‘Bill’) Hudson, Arthur Hudson, living descendant.