JAMES HUDGELL

1816 – 1880

Stanford Rivers, Essex

Parents: Benjamin HUDGELL and Elizabeth KING

Essex Quarter Session Rolls 15 Oct 1839

   James Hudgell was married to Ann Threader at St Mary’s and All saints Church Lambourne in 1836.  In 1837 they had their first child, a son named after tradition the same as his father James.

James and Ann fell on hard times and in 1839 James stole from his employer John Skikelthorpe a plumber:

When James came to court on the 15^th October 1839 he pleaded guilty of the offence and was sentenced to serve 2 calendar months hard labour and 14 days solitary confinement in the convict gaol at Springfield.

John Skikethorpe and his family lived in the small village of Albridge in Essex and James and Ann Hudgell not far away Crabb Tree Hill in Lambourne Essex.

After James had served his sentence he did not re-offend again and lived the rest of his life in Lambourne.