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Dinah Hudgell

19 June 1862 -

Birchanger Essex

Dinah Hudgell was one of 16 children born to Joseph Hudgell and Caroline Warwick of Birchanger Essex, all but 3 of the children went on to have their own children some of whom still live in the area today

Dinah married Samuel Player on the 18th October 1884

They had 8 children:

Lucy Grace 1885

Lillie 1887

Winifred 1890

Thomas 1892

Harry 1894

William 1897

Ethel 1900

Herbert Vincent 1903

Dinah and two of her children

Samuel Player


Lucy Grace Player	Lucy Grace and husband Ernest Chapman

Ethel Winifred Burns (nee Player) with niece Lorraine Tyler (nee Player) aged 4 months

Lillie Player lived in Birchanger until she met and fell in love with William Scraggs who had come over from Dublin with brother James who then married Lillie's sister Winifred and sister Carrie Scraggs married William Player (Lillie's brother).
	A young Lillie on the left


	The Scraggs brothers from Ireland

After their marriage William and Lillie moved to Rye Street in Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire were William was employed as a porter for British Rail.

Their son Patrick was born in 1923

William, Lillie and Patrick

Lillie Scraggs

Lillie her sister Ethel and Patrick, Lillie's son

Phyllis b.1924 and Leslie b.1928 unfortunately Leslie died of meningitis in 1932 aged just 4


Lillie and Phyllis	Phyllis Scraggs

Stephen Burns

son of

Ethel Winifred Player and Douglas Burns

Great grand son of Dinah

Phyllis joined the WAFS and met Richard Breen who came from Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland who was in the Royal Air force. They married in Lancashire in 1948 Richard worked at Stansted Airport as a fireman

Patricia Breen one of Phyllis's children and

Dinah Hudgell's great great

grandchild

	Links to other members of the family:

	Charles Stanley Hudgell 1879 - 1947 (Nephew)

	Douglas Stanley Hudgell 1918 - 2003 (Great Nephew)

	Charles Lesley Hudgell 1922 - 2005 (Great Nephew)