occupation

Postman

dates

Born: Wantage 29 Nov 1882, baptised
        privately the same day.

Married: Mary Jane HAYDEN, 18 Nov 1903,
        Eaton Hastings.

Died: 16 Jul 1930, buried Wantage, 19 Jul 1930

(All the above places were then in Berkshire but are now in Oxfordshire.)

residence

Wantage

submitted by

Andrew HUDSON (grandson)

related faces

Henry HUDSON (father)

Shadrach HAYDEN (wife’s grandfather)

Henry HUDSON 2 (brother)

Background information

Andrew HUDSON was born in Wantage on 29 November 1882. He married Mary Jane HAYDEN on 18 November 1903.  My father Edward Leslie Andrew HUDSON was born 24 October 1904, two daughters died as infants.

After leaving school, Andrew worked for Mr Goodale in the shop in the Market Place. He went to work at Wantage Post Office as a messenger in 1897 and was made assistant  boy in 1897 and assistant postman in 1899. He was appointed rural postman in 1902 and in April 1929 became head postman. For a number of years he was the Wantage secretary of the Postmen’s Federation. From a boy he was a chorister at Wantage Parish church where his father used to be verger. He took an interest in town affairs and was a trustee of the Court Crown of Old England (Wantage District Ancient Order of Foresters) and was also a member of the King Alfred Lodge, RAOB, GLE. A keen follower of football, Mr Hudson held the office of honorary treasurer of the Wantage Football  Club for several years. He served in His Majesty’s Forces during the Great War, from 1915 till January 1919, first in the Durham Light Infantry, and later in charge of an ammunition store with the Labour Corps in France.

His early death at the age of 47 was probably a result of being gassed during WWI.

This summary is derived from a lengthy account of his funeral which appeared in the North Wilts Herald in July 1930.