Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Robert Hudson

From Graces Guide

Robert Hudson (c1840-1912) of Robert Hudson and Co

c1840 Born in Batley Adwalton, Yorks., the son of James and Sarah Hudson, a merchant[1]

1841 Baptised in Gildersome[2]

1881 Engineer & Iron Founder, Employing 70 Men & 6 Boys, living in Headingley with Hannah Hudson 28, Percy Hudson 6, Walter Hudson 5, Gertrude Hudson 3, Robert Arthur Hudson 9 mo[3]

1888 Joined I Mech E

of Gildersome Foundry, near Leeds; and Weetwood Mount, Headingley, near Leeds.

His 4 sons succeeded to the management of the business - Robert, Percy, Walter and Edward Hudson.

1911 Engineer, employer, lived in Headingley, Leeds with Hannah Hudson 58, Emily Gertrude Hudson 32[4]

1912 Obituary. [5]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1841 census
  2. Parish records
  3. 1881 census
  4. 1911 census
  5. The Engineer 1912/04/19