James Hudson

James Hudson was born into a Protestant family around 1840 in Belfast, Ireland. His only known job in Ireland was as a cork maker. Uncle Bill Crossley noted that he was also a warder at Knutsford Jail. Sometime later he moved to Rochdale, Lancashire where he was a Police Constable for fifteen years. During that time, he made no arrests but apparently many a young man whom he had found misbehaving had been given a beating.

Probably in Rochdale, James met Elizabeth Greenwood a girl from Yorkshire. Their marriage resulted in the birth of seven children; Janet, Joseph, James Jnr, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Thomas & George. See 1881 British Census entry. Interestingly, it shows James' place of birth as Manchester.

James was a committed Orangeman and each year he travelled to Liverpool to participate in a march which inevitabley turned into a drunken brawl.

James probably left his family behind. Apparently he was buried as a pauper in Liverpool.

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