Hodger family at 153 Boundary Road, Southport in 1911

ray green

Using Brian's trick I have found my mother Mary Conway and family at 153 Boundary Road. My mother had told me that her family shared a small house but I was nevertheless shocked to see that the other family was John and Clara Hodger and their EIGHT children. So fourteen in the house!
Does anybody know about the Hodgers? It sounds an unusual name but as they must have been sleeping about six to a bed they were probably an unusual family!

BrianG · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 440 Location: Cambridge UK

I think it's a mis-transcription, and it is simply HODGE. They are on the 1901 census just up the road at number 153

There's a Hodge expert somewhere on the forum membership list.....

Brian

Jane · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:24 am Post subject:

I too think it may be Hodge. As with the other census there are bound to be some mis-transcriptions.

I also know that many houses which today have one family of 4 living in them often housed 2 families.

I could check the street directories but they only list head of house

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Yvonne · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 365 Location: Southport

Ray, do you have a relative Nadine ?? Her father was a John Conway b 1914. The family had a shop Elm Road.

Further to that re Hodge/s
It is possible that Clara was Clara Rimmer who married a John Hodge in 1893. Clara Birch married William Rimmer 1889 and they are on 1891 census but I have not been able to find them 1901, perhaps this is why, William died and she remarried.
Clara was nee Birch. and on 1911 brother William was living with them.

There is a possible relationship there as William Rimmer's sister Elizabeth married Thomas William Hughes, even having a son John Thomas, but I haven't worked it all out yet

but they have a connection to Howard's
and Conways/Teales are in my tree linking back to Howard

ray green · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject:

no doubt brian is right and the family name is Hodge. I guess it was merely a business arrangement. I suspect the Conways were the "lodgers". They later moved to Warwick St were they also shared.
Yes John Conway is my late uncle and it was he who first got me interested in family history. He was convinced that Little Ireland had been excised from the history of Southport out of a sense of collective embarrassment!

Yvonne · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 365 Location: Southport

Keith
My FTM works it out that Nadine and I are fifth cousins, so you must be about the same. Funnily enough we used to go to the same primary school.

ray green · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:15 pm Post subject:

Who is Keith? stop thinking about him, my name is Ray!
I thought Nadine went to school in Bethesda North wales?

Yvonne · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 365 Location: Southport

Sorry Ray don't know why I wrote that

She went to Bury Rd school second half of third year and all of fourth, that's what she said anyway.

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