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Katheren

Katheren

Female - 1624    Has no ancestors but 4 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Katheren  
    Gender Female 
    Death 1624 
    Burial 11 Sep 1624 
    Person ID I303131  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 29 Oct 2001 

    Family Henry III Hudson,   b. 12 Sep 1570   d. 1611 (Age 40 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Oliver Hudson,   b. Abt 1590   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. John Hudson,   b. Abt 1598   d. 1611 (Age 13 years)
     3. Richard Hudson,   b. Abt 1605   d. 1644, Bhārat Gaṇarājya Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years)
    Family ID F121604  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Sep 2001 

  • Notes 
    • was left very poor when Henry and John failed to return from their last voyage. She tried to get the East India Co., which sponsored the trip, to send out a rescue mission. Three years after Henry Hudson's disappearance, she applied to directors of EIC. They recognized their obligation to the "man who lost his life in the service of the Commonwealth" and sent a ship to look for Hudson. It never found any trace of the abandoned crew.
      Katherine also sought compensation for her husband's death, for which she was called "that troublesome and impatient woman" in company records. But she was persistent and eventually succeeded.
      Under the company's approval and with their funding, she went to Ahmadabad, India to purchase indigo. She demanded special privileges there, at the company's expense. According to company manifests, she got five churles of indigo, quilts, 37 chuckeryes, 46 pieces of simianes. She started suit to get East India Co. to pay the freight back to England and after much effort got a settlement, which the company described as "the end of Mrs Hudson's tiresome suit."
      Katherine returned from that trip in 1622, a wealthy woman, and retired to her home in London. In her last two years, she was received at court at least twice. She was by all accounts a strong, willful woman. One source says she was married at age 30 in 1592, but that would mean her son Oliver probably probably couldn't have fathered his child Alice by 1608 (possible: he could have been 16 at the time).
      Katherine tried unsuccesfully to have a monument erected to her husband in the last years before she died, in 1624. She was buried Sept 11. She left all her belongings to sons Richard and Oliver.



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