The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.49 No.3 | December 2022

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They were all living at No 2 Gunboat Yard (police Barracks) Haslar. I would appreciate any suggestions or help to locate her burial location. Alan Foxall (Member #9303) Contact Details:-

Alan J Foxall, 225 Rayleigh Road, Hutton, Brentwood, Essex CM13 1PJ Email: alan.foxall@btinternet.com or alan.foxall@outlook.com Website: https://alanfoxall.smugmug.com

A small article in the Saturday 23 August 1873 edition of the Hampshire Telegraph concerned a bullock that had calmly walked in the front of a shop belonging to Mr. HUDSON in Queen Street, Portsea. The shop was the china and glass business that was run by Mr. Hudson and was where one would expect that considerable damage would be done. However, after walking quietly through the shop the bullock walked out through a side door causing no more damage than a few broken glasses. The animal was owned by Mr. MEARS of Charlotte Street. A little bit of research revealed that the shop owner was Henry Hudson who was baptized on 23 April 1817 in New Alresford and had been in Portsmouth Bull in a China Shop

with his wife Anne for some considerable time as a china and glass merchant. In 1861 he was living in Donnington Cottage in Clarendon Road, ten years later he was at 2 Portland Place, and in an 1878 street directory he was living in Palmerston Road. In all these entries he was recorded as being associated with the china and glass business. Henry died on 5 October 1892 in Southsea although he was buried two days later at St Andrew’s church in Farlington by the vicar of St Jude, Southsea. There was a memorial stone to him in the churchyard at Farlington that may still be there. Roy Montgomery (Member #3759)

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