⚓John & Elizabeth Dudding⚓

This was a good find back in August, again from eBay, especially with so much information written on the back!

Captain John Dudding.

Captain John Dudding was born in 1802 in Newport, a village framed by fields and marshland. John grew into a man shaped by the rhythms of rural life and the waterways that threaded through his world.

This CDV photo was taken about 1870, so just a couple of years before John’s death.

On 16 December 1822, in the parish church of South Cave, John married Elizabeth Moss, a young woman from Brantingham, just over the hill from South Cave. Elizabeth herself had been born there in 1804, a mere handful of miles from where she would one day die.

John & Elizabeth’s marriage record, 16 December 1822, from Find My Past.

Together, they established a home in Gilberdyke, a small community lying along the region’s old turnpikes and drainage canals.

Their long marriage produced seven children, and through those children grew several branches of the Dudding family.

Was it Jane who wrote this information on the back?

Retired Sea Captain John Dudding died on 5 March 1872 in Gilberdyke, Yorkshire, and she died on 16 November 1884 in Wallingfen, Yorkshire, only six miles from her birthplace. Their descendants would disperse across Hull, Faxfleet, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, York, and even London, but the heart of the Dudding Captain family remained rooted in the marshes, market towns, and parishes of the East Riding.

John and Elizabeth’s Children.

Charlotte Dudding (1825–1889)

The eldest, Charlotte, was born in 1825 in Gilberdyke. Her life would lead her east toward the bustling port of Hull. On 14 December 1851, in the historic Holy Trinity Church of Hull, she married Charles Garbutt, a man born in 1824 in Saltmarsh.
Together they raised three daughters, Mary Jane (born 1853 in Faxfleet), Caroline (born 1856 in Faxfleet), and Sarah Ann (born 1860 in Newport). Charlotte lived out her years in Sculcoates, where she died in September 1889; Charles survived her until June 1898.

Jane Dudding (1829–1902)

Next came Jane, born in 1829, also in Gilberdyke. Her marriage to Captain Frederick Dudding, a man sharing both her surname and family roots, I suspect they were cousins. After marriage, they moved away from Yorkshire. Frederick was born in 1820 in Newport and died in Norfolk in 1882. Jane herself lived until January 1902, passing away in Wimblington, Cambridgeshire.
Their four sons were Joseph (born 1861), Frederick (born 1865), Thomas (born 1868), and William (born 1870), all born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, marking the family’s gradual drift southeastward.

Mary Ann Dudding (1831–1888)

Their daughter Mary Ann, born in 1831, married Patrick Matthew Quann, a Corporal in the 4th Hussars, in January 1856 in York. The couple moved to London after their marriage. Patrick, son of Matthew Quann, was born in 1833 but tragically died in 1867 in London, leaving Mary Ann a widow. After he died, she became a Nurse working at Christ’s Hospital in London City, where I found her on the 1871 census, and also the 1881 census as a Night Nurse still at Christ’s Hospital.
The couple had one son, Thomas Edward Quann, born 29 March 1865 in West London. On the 1871 census, young Thomas was living with his Mum’s married sister Charlotte and her husband and daughter in Sculcoates, Yorkshire. Mary Ann came home to Yorkshire before she died in March 1888. Young Thomas died aged just 25, two years later, in June 1890, also in Yorkshire.

Sarah Dudding (1834–before 1867)

Fourth-born Sarah, arriving in 1834, lived a briefer life. She married John Sanderson, son of John Sanderson and Harriot Wilson, on 21 May 1857, again in Holy Trinity, Hull.
John, born 1 December 1836 in Hull, survived Sarah (who died between 1861 and 1867) by a decade, dying in September 1877 in Sculcoates. They had no children.

Caroline Dudding (1837–1883)

Born in October 1837 in Howden, Caroline spent her life within the Hull and East Riding region. She died on 20 March 1883 in Kingston upon Hull; she never married.

John Dudding Mariner (1840–1872)

Named after his father, John Dudding was also a Mariner. Born in 1840, he followed his father as a Mariner. His life ended early, on 19 June 1872, due to Bronchitis, back in his birthplace of Gilberdyke, just three months after his father’s death.

John & Elizabeth’s son John was also a Mariner; he died at age 32, the cause of death was Bronchitis.

William Dudding Captain (1843–1897)

The youngest, William, was born in January 1843 in Howden, Yorkshire. Like many in his family, he also became a Mariner, eventually a Captain like his father. He also remained tied to Hull, dying there in December 1897.

What emerges from their family history is a portrait of a 19th-century family shaped by the slow-turning wheels of rural life, the pull of nearby Hull’s maritime world, and the enduring ties of kinship that carried the Dudding name across generations.