Hughes / Hume Stella
Stella Amelia Hughes (born 1926, Hackney, London)
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[ABOVE] Stella Amelia Hughes (born 1926, Hackney, East London), photographed at a professional portrait studio when she was aged around 18. |
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Stella Hughes Stella Amelia Hughes was born in Hackney, East London on 5th June, 1926, the youngest child of Elizabeth Ellen Kershaw (1893-1979) and Thomas Griffiths Hughes (1880- 1954). Stella's father, Thomas Griffiths Hughes, was born in Stoke Newington, London, on 8th October, 1880, the son of Margaret and John Hughes, a blacksmith & farrier from North Wales. The second youngest of six children born to Margaret and John Hughes, Thomas Griffiths Hughes began his working life as a mercantile clerk. When he first met nineteen year old maidservant Elizabeth 'Nell' Kershaw, Tom Hughes was working in the drapery trade, either as a warehouseman or as a salesman. When Elizabeth 'Nell' Kershaw entered into a relationship with thirty-three year old Tom Hughes, she was a nineteen year old "lady's maid" in the employment of the famous actress Sybil Thorndike and her husband Lewis Casson, an actor and theatre director. Elizabeth Ellen Kershaw had been born in Hackney, East London, on 12th August, 1893, the second eldest of thirteen children born to Anne Heath (born 1871, Hackney) and her husband James Kershaw (1870-1935), an engineer's fitter who was originally from Rochdale, Lancashire. By the mid 1920s, the union of Thomas Griffiths Hughes and Elizabeth Ellen Kershaw had already produced two children - a daughter Muriel Millicent Hughes (born 29th July, 1914) and a son named John ('Jack') James Hughes (born 11th March 1920). Stella Amelia Hughes (born 5th June, 1926 ) was the couple's third and youngest child.
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Stella's Siblings - Muriel Hughes and 'Jack' John Hughes |
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Stella's elder sister Muriel Millicent Hughes, who was born on 29th July 1914. Muriel was a dozen years older than her sister Stella and 6 years older than her brother 'Jack'. | John ('Jack') James Hughes, who was born in Hackney, East London, on 11th March 1920. 'Jack' was the second of three children born to Elizabeth Hughes and Thomas Griffith Hughes. | Stella Amelia Hughes, who was born in Hackney, East London, on 5th June 1926. Stella was the youngest child of Elizabeth Hughes and Thomas Griffith Hughes. |
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Stella Hughes and George Hume |
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The Wedding of Stella Hughes and George Hume (Chingford, 1947) |
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[ABOVE] The Wedding of Stella Hughes and George Hume, 27th September,
1947. (Photographed by E. W. Bickford, Photographer, 18 Sunset
Avenue, Chingford, Essex).
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[RIGHT] A photograph taken at the wedding of Stella Hughes and George Hume on 27th September, 1947. (Photographed by E. W. Bickford, Photographer, 18 Sunset Avenue, Chingford, Essex). The youngest bridesmaid in the photograph is Patricia Ann Simkin (born 1942), Stella's niece and the daughter of Stella's sister Mrs Muriel Simkin. |
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The Children of Stella Hughes and George Hume |
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Keith Hume and his Children |
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