Individual Details
Edward (Edmond) HUDSON
(Abt 9 Mar 1816 - 10 Oct 1883)
I am very grateful to Hudson descendant Tom Moloney of Duagh, Co. Kerry who has kindly shared the results of his extensive research into the Hudson family. Tom's information is included below.
Sponsors at the baptism of Edmond above were Dermot Finucane and Mary Halpin.
Edmond and his sister Johanna were the only members of Richard and Margaret Hudson's family who did not emigrate. In 1999 everyone living in Kilbaha with a Hudson surname was descended from Edmond; this may still be the case.
In the 1850s Edmond was renting about 80 acres in the townland of Kilbaha North from his Protestant relative Edward Hudson (who owned all the land - about 440 acres - in Kilbaha North). In 1915, a number of these descendants bought out Edward's Kilbaha lands at a low price. Further details on the purchase are available in William Hudson's volume 'The Hudsons of Kilbaha North' which may be studied in the library in Tralee, Co. Kerry.
According to the notes of Kilbaha researcher Bill Hudson, whose works on the history of his Hudson family of Kilbaha have been donated to Tralee and Listowel libraries, Edmond must have been quite well off seeing that he was able to afford to have a headstone erected for his wife, Nora (who died in 1876), which most of his neighbours would not have been able to do at the time.
Note: Bunagara, Edward's birthplace, has a number of different spellings, e.g. Bunegarah and Bunagarha.
Sponsors at the baptism of Edmond above were Dermot Finucane and Mary Halpin.
Edmond and his sister Johanna were the only members of Richard and Margaret Hudson's family who did not emigrate. In 1999 everyone living in Kilbaha with a Hudson surname was descended from Edmond; this may still be the case.
In the 1850s Edmond was renting about 80 acres in the townland of Kilbaha North from his Protestant relative Edward Hudson (who owned all the land - about 440 acres - in Kilbaha North). In 1915, a number of these descendants bought out Edward's Kilbaha lands at a low price. Further details on the purchase are available in William Hudson's volume 'The Hudsons of Kilbaha North' which may be studied in the library in Tralee, Co. Kerry.
According to the notes of Kilbaha researcher Bill Hudson, whose works on the history of his Hudson family of Kilbaha have been donated to Tralee and Listowel libraries, Edmond must have been quite well off seeing that he was able to afford to have a headstone erected for his wife, Nora (who died in 1876), which most of his neighbours would not have been able to do at the time.
Note: Bunagara, Edward's birthplace, has a number of different spellings, e.g. Bunegarah and Bunagarha.
Events
| Birth | Abt 9 Mar 1816 | Bunagara, Listowel, Co. Kerry | |||
| Christen | 9 Mar 1816 | Listowel, Co. Kerry | |||
| Marriage | 21 Jan 1841 | Duagh, Co. Kerry - Hanora (Nora) CONNOR | |||
| Death | 10 Oct 1883 | Kilbaha, Moyvane, Co. Kerry | |||
| Burial | Murhur Cemetery, Moyvane, Co. Kerry |
Families
| Spouse | Hanora (Nora) CONNOR (1819 - 1876) |
| Child | Richard HUDSON (1842 - 1842) |
| Child | Richard HUDSON (1843 - 1915) |
| Child | William HUDSON (1844 - 1928) |
| Child | Mary HUDSON (1846 - 1916) |
| Child | Edmond HUDSON (1849 - 1878) |
| Child | Margaret HUDSON (1852 - 1910) |
| Child | Johanna HUDSON (1855 - 1932) |
| Child | Brigid HUDSON (1856 - 1943) |
| Child | Jeremiah (Jer) HUDSON (1858 - 1927) |
| Child | Hanora HUDSON (1860 - 1865) |
| Father | Richard HUDSON (caution: relationship to parents and siblings not verified) ( - 1853) |
| Mother | Margaret FINUCANE (1793 - 1877) |
| Sibling | William HUDSON (1818 - 1893) |
| Sibling | Johanna HUDSON (1820 - 1897) |
| Sibling | Richard HUDSON (1827 - 1902) |
| Sibling | Jeremiah HUDSON (1830 - 1905) |
| Sibling | Francis (Frank) John HUDSON (1831 - 1898) |
| Sibling | John HUDSON (1832 - 1907) |
| Sibling | Patrick Robert HUDSON (1838 - 1914) |
| Sibling | 'unknown' HUDSON (female) ( - ) |