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I have spent pretty much all of my spare time over the last 3 weeks going through articles in the Gale trial.
I'm getting lots of hits about my Hodson family, mainly performances and reviews, but nothing meaty.
Despite years of researching them I have never found a name for the wife of George Alfred Hodson. I've found references to her being someones neice - but that's it.
There's a woman with the family on the 1841 census but she was so much older than George I wasn;t sure if she would be his wife or possibly his mother.
Having exhausted every possible way of searching for the name Hodson I decided to find out a bit more about the theatres George ran.
An there it is......
Sudden Death of Mrs Hodson of the Bower Saloon
Sunday, January 5, 1845
On Monday Mr Carter held an inquest at the Bower Saloon Lambeth on the body of Mrs Catherine Mary Hodson, landlady of the above house who's death was awfully sudden.
From what I can make out she died on Christmas day.
That just made my heart leap up to my throat and way down to my feet.
Unfortunately the report goes over the side of the page so I miss out a few words including cause of death which is " Natural d???? caused by rupture of the brain"
But at least I now have her first name
I'm getting lots of hits about my Hodson family, mainly performances and reviews, but nothing meaty.
Despite years of researching them I have never found a name for the wife of George Alfred Hodson. I've found references to her being someones neice - but that's it.
There's a woman with the family on the 1841 census but she was so much older than George I wasn;t sure if she would be his wife or possibly his mother.
Having exhausted every possible way of searching for the name Hodson I decided to find out a bit more about the theatres George ran.
An there it is......
Sudden Death of Mrs Hodson of the Bower Saloon
Sunday, January 5, 1845
On Monday Mr Carter held an inquest at the Bower Saloon Lambeth on the body of Mrs Catherine Mary Hodson, landlady of the above house who's death was awfully sudden.
From what I can make out she died on Christmas day.
That just made my heart leap up to my throat and way down to my feet.
Unfortunately the report goes over the side of the page so I miss out a few words including cause of death which is " Natural d???? caused by rupture of the brain"
But at least I now have her first name
AND!! just found an article on my gg grandma saying she bigamously married Samson Dutton in 1876 in Liverpool while still married to my gg grandfather Walter Dodd, what a madam she was lol..
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