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Hodgsons
of North East England
The northeast of
England is a good place from which to have Hodgson ancestors. They are
relatively (no pun!) easy to research. Some of the credit for that must
go to certain people named Hodgson. First name has a link to a separate
page.
The
Rev. John HODGSON
(1779-1845).
John
Crawford HODGSON
(d.>1920), compiler of the 15-volume Hodgson MSS collection of pedigrees
of Northumberland families in Newcastle Central Reference Library. He
also edited some of the 15 volumes of the "New County History of Northumberland"
to which he contributed many pedigrees, and he wrote a History of South
Shields.
Solomon
HODGSON
(1760-1800), printer and publisher of the Newcastle Chronicle newspaper.
Thomas
HODGSON
(1785-1850), one of the later editors of that same paper, son of Solomon.
Joseph
HODGSON,
a carver from Sunderland, who rescued many people from drowning in the
mid 19th century, both from lifeboats and otherwise. In the course of
his career he was given a silver medal from the Royal National Lifeboat
Society and a gold medal from the Emporer of France for rescuing the
crew of a French vessel wrecked at Sunderland.
John
HODGSON-HINDE
took on the second part of his surname in accordance with the Will of
a relative. He was one of at least three Hodgsons from the family living
at Elswick Hall that represented Newcastle as Members of Parliament.
In this brief account
we left out the 16th and 17th century Hodgsons who were among the "oligarchy"
which controlled the coal trade, and through it everything that mattered
on Tyneside.
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