H M Convict Prison Portsea

[mazhob]

Thanks John.

[gareth19822002]

Hi all,

I'm helping my dad do some research about our family or more to the point the person above William Hudson.

He is listed as being in Portsea prison in 1881 and then seems to vanish! We also know he married Mercy Court in 1887 and also had a child with her Herbert Hudson.Although we know he didn't die until 1940's.

He is listed as a Post office Clerk. Now his dad was Alfred Hudson of Cranbrook in Kent. Alfred Hudson appears he was quite a businessman in Cranbrook in the 1850's until 1880's. He ran the post office, was a farmer/draper & Parish Clerk.

We have letters from some of Williams brother about some boots that Alfred made that Cranbrook Museum now have! But they never mention William! All of the other brothers are mentioned in the correspondence! Is there anyway to find out why he was in prison?

Hopefully people still read this posts!

Thanks Gareth

[muriel walker]

So many years have passed since first you posted that you probably have already found what I have found, too. William Charge was convicted of "feloniously wounding with intent to kill" and was sentenced, at his trial in Buckinghamshire on 19th July 1869, to twenty years imprisonment. In 1871 he was in Her Majesty's Convict Prison in Portsea and was in Haibonvit Prison in Portsea in 1881. He gave his occupation on prison records as "Chair Turner " and his birthplace as Elvington, Bucks. In 1891 he was back home in Chesham, Bucks with his wife Elizabeth. At that time he was working as a labourer. He wife, Elizabeth Lacey is part of a tree I am researching for a friend. I am struggling to find the death of Elizabeth's father, Thomas Lacey b Great Missedenden in 1815. Some researchers have his death date as 1893, but there is no trace of him in 1871 , 1881 0r 1891 so I suspect that the death date in in the late 1860's. Hope your researches are progressing well!