Morris Hughes sons - Three London Drapers

Montgomershire Farmers related. Bunner,Davies,Ellis Evans,Howell, Hughes,Jehu,Jones,Morris,Owens, Reynolds, Roberts ,Rogers,Williams

Shropshire Farmers related. Beddoes,Brisborne,Calcott, Chidley, Downes,Gittins, Hobson ,Kent, Lewis Powell, Slater,Smith, Wynn

U.K.Familes related Billington,Church, Cobb.Edmunds, Frazer ,Hooker, Johnston, Jourd, Morgan, Norris, Price, Rake, Remi,Stanley, Steele,Wilkinson. Warren,Woods.

Montgomeryshire Farms. Berriew ,Blackwood,Dyffryn , Llwynderw,Wernllwyd .Upper Brithdir Churchstoke. Bacheldre. Forden Edderton Rhydygroes GuilsfieldBurntHouse Llanbrynmair Diosg Hafodwen Tynyrwtn, Llandysilio.Church House,Gwernybuarth Llanerfyl Coed Talog,Neuadd Wen Llangadfan Blowty,Cyffin,, Penygribin, Llanfair Berthfawr Bryn Penarth, Dolgead, Gelli,, Gelligason, GwaenynogGwynyndy Llanloddian Isa and Ucha, Moeldrehaiarn, Rallt Issa,Rhydygro Llanfechain Bodynfol,Finnant, Tybaen, Llanfihangel Dolwar Fach Rhydebyde, TynyCyl, Llangyniew The Weeg (Wig Ucha). Llansantfraidd Plasgwyn. Llanwnog Grosstyd Llanwydellan Ty Issa Meifod Garth Tietref Nantymechiead. Pontyscowrid(Pant yr Cuenyd) Tregynon. Gwaintrebedde Welshpool Glan Hafren, Radnorshire Pentre Farm (Corwen)

Shropshire Farms, at Alberbury -Eyton Upper and Lower Farms and Brook House,Crew Green. Fields Farm Melverley. at Berrington- Fox Farm,Betton Strange and Russell Place. at Bitterley-Brook House farm,Snitton Hall Farm and Church Farm and Hall Farm Ditton Priors. at Edgmond-Adney Farm.Ellerton Grange and Whitley Manor,Chetwynd. at Oswestry -Dunewydd Farm Whittington,;New Hall Hanmer,;Church House Farm St Martins,; Pleasant Grove Gobowen; Lower House Farm, Knockin; Penypark.Maesbury. at Shrewsbury south -Wellbatch Farm Annscroft ;Longden Hall Farm, ;Langley Hall Acton Burnell,; Lower Farm Pitchford ; The Manor Farm Stapleton ;Side Farm ,Netley,;Picklescote Farm Smethcott,; Walford Farm Dorrington; Castle Place Pulverbatch.,; Rectory Farm Woolstaston; Middle Farm Batchcote.Upper and Lower Sutton Farms, at Westbury Stretton Hall,,Field Farm,; Lower Wallop Farm. at West Felton The Fords Farm.Twyford OtherAreas Albrightlee Farm Battlefield .;Ash Hollow Farm Weston & Wixill Highfield House Clive,; Priors Halton Farm Ludlow; .Tudor Lodge Shawbury

Indepedent Churches /Chapels Ministers at Ebenezer,Siloh and Penarth Chapels at Llanfair.John Hughes’s Chapel at Pontrobert. Zion Chapel, Oswestry. Coedway Chapel, Alberbury. Bethel Chapel,Aberdare . Penmaen Chapel at Blackwood. Ruyton X1 Towns Chapel., Threapwood,Malpas, Weedon and Flore Chapels in Northants and Ross on Wye.

Draper/Stores.,Assistants ,Managers,or Owners at. Norbury House Aston; 290-292 Gypsy Lane,West Ham. .Bon Marche at Brixton; Thomas Yeo. Plymouth; Wallace Hughes in Brixton; Thomas Fearn, Kilburn High St.; Bobby’s of Eastbourne; Griffin and Spalding at Nottingham. M.Evans,Montreal Bunners, Ironmongers of Montgomery.R.Ellis, Boat Builder Shrewsbury. Thomas Hughes Mirror Manufacturer,Euston.

Overseas. Australia.- Charters Towers Gold Fields,: Noyea and Windaroo Sugar Plantations at Mt Warren.,:Dubbo News papers,:.Sydney- League of Health and Beauty. Africa. Mashonaland Expedition,Fort Victoria, Boer War -Relief of Kimberley.,Driefountain etc Salous Scouts Rhodesia, Irving and Bonnar, Lagos, Nigeria Canada. Molson’s Brewery,Montreal. Various Drapers Shops Montreal.. India. Madras Civil Service.Royal Asiatic Society,Royal.Engineers,Siaklot, Punjab U.S.A Georgetown Silver Mines,Colorado. East Tennessee Welsh Migration.Lake Forest, Lake County,Illinois. Ohio Preaching Tour World War 1, Egypt,Gaza,Palestine, Ypres Arras and Flanders.

Morris Stephen Hughes and Elizabeth Hughes (nee Davies) of Burnt House,Guilsfield1881,Church House,St Martins,Oswestry1891,The New Hall ,Hanmer,Flintshire1901 and Langley Hall,Acton Burnell1910. Their seven children are Morris William b.1873.Archibald Thomas(Tom) b.1875.David Percy b.1876.John Davies Hughes b.1877.Wallace Evan b.1879.Mary Elizabeth(Cissie) b.1880.Anne Forence(Florrie) b.1882.Gladys M b.1886.


	The Three London Drapers William,Thomas and Wallace Hughes.


	MORRIS WILLIAM HUGHES.

Morris William(Bill) Hughes listed in the 1901 Census as worker at home age 26 on his parents farm at Hanmer Hall.According to Great Aunt Louise”William trained as a draper with Lewis Norris,worked with Tom and Wallace as assistants at the Bon Marche shop in Brixton but failed in this career after various jobs in London. In 1902 at Edmonton,he married Mabel Ellen Brown b.1876(daughter of Edward and Ellen Brown-shopman,fancy goods of 33 Benwell Rd,Islington).(see BMD record below)----and lived in East Ham. Later he was set up at a farm at Enchmarsh nr Cardington,Salop. Mabel blamed him for not having any children!William was found of drink and also the housekeeper by whom he had an illegitimate child,thus proving Mabel wrong.The Hughes family was so embarrassed that the boys paid for William to go out to Canada ,where he set up business as a successful draper and became an alderman.He later sent for the housekeeper ,who he married, and also his son, . Mabel Hughes, now divorced,went to live in Ludlow,on a monthly cheque sent from Canada.




		William and Mable Hughes taken from sister Gladys Hughes wedding photo in 1909.At this date they were living on a small farm at Cressage.


	From FreeBMD On Line Marriages Dec 1902 Brown Mabel Ellen Edmonton 3a 870 Hughes Morris William Edmonton 3a 870


	ARCHIBALD THOMAS HUGHES.

Archibald Thomas(Tom)Hughes in the 1891 Census is recorded as a draper’s apprentice,age 16,working for his Uncle Lewis Norris in Aston, Birmingham (see under Martha A Davies for details). In the 1901 Census age 27, he is living with another draper,Noble A Papworth,who he met when they were working at the Bon Marche shop,Brixton and they have set up a small business together - a millinery shop in Forest Gate.According to Great Aunt Louisa Hughes(nee Hooker),”Papworth and Tom fell out because Papworth wanted Tom to marry his sister,but Tom refused,so Papworth withdrew all his money and the business collapsed.Tom married Louisa Hooker in 1902(Louisa father Frederick Charles Hooker and her brother Harold trained with the Italian sculptor Bartoli and later with their own company did the interior decor carved marble, plaster and gilding for Queen Anne’s Mansions Westminster,The Victoria and Albert Museum,the Aquitania and Mauritania Liners.The Hooker family name is inscribed on the obelisk at the bottom of Ludgate Hill marking the end of The Great Fire of London.Louisa mother’s father was Edwin Brittain,foreman at Swindon railyard where 600 men were at work under Brunel). Now married ,Tom got a job working as a corset and underwear buyer for Thomas Yeo & Co in Plymouth.Here from 1905-10 Tom and Louisa set up home for 5 years with children Maurice and Gwen(Aunt Louisa said that Gwen was born at William and Mabel’s house in East Ham. in 1907.Through brother Wallace,Tom was introduce to a Jewish entrepreneur Mr Bayer,who offered him the managership of a great store in the Kilburn High Street,called David Fearn & Co.The shop with 56 rooms above for the live in staff was famous for its Paris millinery and dress design department.Tom and Louisa lived at the end in the Red Tower,where two more children Nesta and Kenneth were born.Here they entertained their Shropshire farming relations and made return visits to sister Cissie at Ludlow for the Ludlow Races,brother Percy at Longden and brother John at Langley for the Shrewsbury Flower Show every year.Meanwhile Mr Bayer had allowed Tom to gradually buy up all the shares in the Company and by 1925 Tom owned the David Fearn store.Then tragedy struck,Tom collapsed on Moorgate Station never to return to work again.Son Maurice at 22 was too young to take over the business, which was sold for only £30,000 at the height of The Great Depression.Today the site alone is worth many millions of pounds.Tom died only two years later and Louisa continued to live on at their Southall home in Eastbourne with her four children.Louisa finally sold her home and moved nearby to St Margarets,Old Carlisle Rd ,the house of her great friend Carol Ould.Here Louise died circa 1980.




			Above is young Tom in Birmingham training as a draper with Uncle Lewis Norris.in 1891 Below as assistant draper at The Bon Marche stores.at Brixton.


	Louisa Hooker born within the “Sound of Bow Bells” marries Tom Hughes at her local Parish Church.St Michael at Bowes..1902

Tom Hughes c1925.Owner and Managing Director of David Fearn Dept Store on Kilburn High Rd.with 56 rooms above for staff living quarters.Many employed and brought by train from Wales.Tom’s family lived in the Red Tower at one end.

Louisa Hooker engagement photo 1901 aged 22. Centre photo of Maurice ,Gwen and baby Nesta c.1912.inscribed verso“Dearest Min and John,don’t you think this is a family to be proud of?”In the 1901 Census Louisa is a music teacher,the daughter of Frederick Hooker.,builder living in St Pancras and married to Kate Brittain of Swindon.

Kilburn :1923 with David Fearn & Co dominating the High Road in the centre on the right hand side.By 1925 Tom Hughes was sole owner and managing director of the Stores,but did not change its well known name.




			Photo-inscribed verso Grandmother Hooker.Swindon. This must be Louisa’s Hooker’s mother,b.1859 who is Kate Brittain,daughter of Edwin Brittain-foreman Engine Fitter in the Swindon Railway Yards.



	Aunt Louisa with nephew Hughie.Eastbourne circa 1930.

Tom and Louisa Hughes with youngest son Kenneth -a late and unexpected addition to the family.

Studio Photo 1922. Gwen,Tom,Nesta, Maurice,Louisa,Ken.

Maurice and Gwen in their garden . Photo right of Nesta and Gwen Hughes c.1918.

Young Ken with his invalid father Tom circa 1932

Braham House,Radlett,here Tom Hughes Family lived from 1924-30.Rented out , finally sold ,much run down in 1950’s to get rid of sitting tenants,

Above photo.Designed by the Liberty’s architect for Tom and Louisa-Southhall ,Old Carlisle Rd, Eastbourne with Nesta mowing lawn.To the left -a wartime picture c.1940 of Aunt Louise,sons Maurice and Ken with Maurices daughter Jill. Ken joined up in 1939 and commanded an MTB in the Dunkirk rescue.

Louisa Hughes with her four children,Maurice,Ken Gwen and Nesta.All meet together for the last time c1970 ,when Nesta flies in from Australia.




		Photo at St Margarets:Robert and Gwen McDonald standing.Louisa,Liz Hughes and Carol Ould seated.




	St Margarets,Upper Carlisle Rd,Eastbourne,a large mansion with tennis court,stables gardens etc,full of antiques,rare books, paintings,built by John Ould,bookmaker to the aristocracy.Here Louisa retired in the 1960’s, to live together with her great friend Carol Ould now widowed,to share their great love of music

MAURICE HUGHES educated at The City of London School,trained with his father at David Fearn and Co,after serving in the Navy during W.W.2 became managing director of Bobby’s the largest department store in Eastbourne.On its takeover by Debenhams he was promoted managing director of Griffin and Spalding in Nottingham and onto the Board of Debenhams..Had June(died age 8 of T.B. andJill(who wed second cousin David Griffiths)these two daughters by his first marriage(Birkenhead. 1925) to Mabel E Kimber and Jeremy his son by his second marriage to Joanna Edwards,(Jeremy married Carrie a Rhodesian,who now lives in Australia). Maurice and Joanna retired to Corryn, Castle Carrick, Argyllshire.

The Griffin and Spalding store(now Debenhams) has dominated Nottingham ,Market Sq,since the beginning of the century.When the Bobby’s company was bought by Debenhams, Maurice Hughes moved to be managing director of Griffin and Spalding. Here he worked until 1974 and was offered a chairmanship by Debenhams,which he declined,as he did not approve of central buying and lowering of quality so retired in 1974,when he moved from his house nr Grantham all the way to a remote Scottish peninsula on Loch Long,because of Joanna’s health and his love of boats and do-it-yourself jobs.

After Commanding a flotilla of LCTs, landing troops and equipment at Gold Beach,D-Day, during WW2. Maurice Hughes ,invented and made a cigarette lighter but was unable to retail it successfully.. Unemployed he was introduced by his mother Louisa Hughes to Mr Bobby,who lived next door. Mr Bobby asked Maurice if he would like to manage his flagship store Bobby’s of Eastbourne.

Above photo-1960-Jeremy Hughes(son of Maurice and Joanna Hughes) David Griffiths with Karen in pram. Maurice Hughes with second wife Joanna on a visit to see their new grand-daughter at The Friends School,Wigton, Cumberland. Jill and David Griffiths are second cousins,who married at St Margarets Eastbourne in 1958 (see Ruby Griffiths nee Hughes).

Left photo-Maurice Hughes crossing to his house at Corryn with daughter Jill and grandchildren Karen and Robin. Right photo -looking back from Corryn toward Castle Carrick. in Argyllshire. Here Maurice and Joanna died in the 1980’s.

Photo above of Jeremy Hughes’s wedding to Caroline in Kenya.Cousin Anthony Hughes and wife Eileen act as best man and stand in parents Other guests are Caroline’s parents.Right photo- 1970’s at David and Jill’ Griffiths’ house in Little Leighs Essex.Jeremy Hughes with his new wife Carrie on a visit to the U.K. from. Rhodesia. Jeremy works all over the world in the oil field diving business.Unfortunately he has left Carrie and children in Australia -has become a Muslim and married a Thai girl.

David Griffiths at Tudor Lodge Farm Shawbury with future wife and second cousin Jill Hughes (Maurice Hughes’s daughter) about to tour in his father Ted Griffiths’s Jaguar Xk140 Date 1958.


	GWEN HUGHES married Robert Macdonald,Chief Cashier at the Nat West Bank in The Strand.Spent their inheritance money on a Bentley and generally having a whale of a time partying when young pre-war. Robert fought up through Italy in W.W.2.They had no children and retired to Willingdon, Eastbourne,where Robert formed a model railway club and Gwen painted in oils.




		Gwen in 1923 age 18 .at the family home and below with Robert’s pride and joy ,his Morris Minor c1965.

Marriage of Gwen Hughes to Robert Macdonald in 1929.Nesta ,Robert and Gwen in front row.others unknown.They were reputed to have spent a substantial inheritance on a Bentley and a great round of dances and parties-Unfortunately Gwen and Robert had no children.

Robert Macdonald from Morayshire.Served in Mercantile Marine in WW1 .and Army in WW2 Main career in London banking

Photo left;Robert and Gwen MacDonald sharing a joke in their garden in Willingdon,Eastbourne.

Elizabeth Hughes(Ken’s wife).Louisa Hughes and Gwen Hughes just after W.W.2.

NESTA HUGHES b.Kilburn,raised in Radlett, then Eastbourne she married Dr John Gray a well known surgeon,in 1939,they went out to practice in Singapore,Nesta fled fom Japanese ,to Australia with baby ,risked voyage back to U.K. to live in Derby After W.W.2,met up with husband,again who had escaped to the U.SA on last boat out.Here he trained in the latest brain surgery.After the war,the family all moved to Dr Gray’s new post in HongKong.They have two boys Anthony and Martin,married and living in Australia.

Gwen’s younger sister Nesta in garden at Kilburn ,circa 1924.

In Feb 1939 Nesta Hughes married Dr John Gray in Eastbourne.Dr Gray was a renowned brain surgeon .who trained in London and the U.S. Just before W.W 2 he took up an important post at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Hongkong.Where he became the surgeon and friend to the Chinese community.It is said that he could speak five Chinese dialects.The family had to flee from the Japanese in the last boat out and lived in Australia during the War before returning to HongKong.to continue Dr Gray’s work.

Nesta with her sons Anthony and Martin as refugees in Australia The two boys were sent to school in England.- Eastbourne Collegel.They are now both married and live in Australia.

Photos right of 1.Martin and 2.Anthony with wife Eileen

Nesta at Deepwater Bay G.C. Hongkong. She was an accomplished golf and tennis player and won many competitions.

Nesta and Dr John Gray with friends at their retirement party in Hongkong.The Gray family returned to Australia,where Anthony and Martin still live with their own wives and children.

A view of Hennessy Rd, East District,Hongkong/

KENNETH HUGHES ,born 1920 ,went to Eastbourne College,trained at Cirencester in Estate Management,served in the Navy ,met and married a Wren, Elizabeth Westmacott also born.1920. Ken worked as factor for Baroness Burton’s Estates and then set up as one of the first Estate Agents in Scotland at Inverness,and lived at Torbrek.They have two children Philippa ,who wed Roger Clegg, a Headmaster now retired nr Blairgowrie,and Mark,who wed Yseult an architect and they develop property.in Somerset

Kenneth Hughes joined up in 1939 and commanded a flotilla of MTB’s making dummy raids on Calais before D-Day and regular Coastal Patrols.

Elizabeth Hughes nee Westmacott c.1950.Liz was a great believer in fresh air and homegrown fresh food, She and Ken had a large vegetable and fruit garden at Torbrech.

Liz’ father Tom Westmacott,an architect serving in W.W.1 as a Major in the Indian Cavalry.

MTBs on Atlantic E-Boat Patrol 1939-45. Photo Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Wedding photo June 12th 1945,from left Louisa Hughes,Gwen Hughes,Henry Franklin(best man).Ken Hughes and his bride Elizabeth Westmacott. Tom Westmacott(father), Aunt Ethel Winnington-Ingram.Evelyn Westmacott (mother,Aunt Grace Lawson and Penelope Westmacott.




Liz Westmacott served in the Wrens during W.W.2



	Ken with children Philippa and Mark 1952




		Ken and Liz Hughes showing their beautiful rose garden at Torbrech to brother in law Robert McDonald.




		Torbrech,the home of Ken and Liz Hughes near Inverness,They retired to a farmhouse Bog Bain nr Dingwall and The Black Isle..Liz died in 1995 and Ken in 2001.




		Rosie Clegg (Philippa’s daughter) following in her grandfather’s foot steps.at Dartmouth College.She is now a Naval Architect


	Philippa Hughes wed Roger Clegg headteacher at an Scottish Independent School.They have two children and are now retired in Angus .Photo 2006


	Mark Hughes wed Yseult Ogilvie-Lang and after a career in the hotel business are now property developers in the West Country They have three children. Photo 2005


	WALLACE EVAN HUGHES.

Wallace Evan Hughes trained with Uncle Lewis Norris and then joined his brothers as an assistant draper at the Bon Marche shop Brixton.He was then given an opportunity by the same Mr John Bayer corset manufacturer mentioned above to manage the Quinn and Exton Dept Store He was so successful he soon bought up all the shares and then acquired another department store Morley and Laxton.According to Great Aunt Louise he was an Alderman and Freeman of the City of London and drove about in a chauffeured Rolls Royce with the Hughes family crest on the door.He married Lily Beata May Price,daughter of a wealthy glove manufacturer and had four children,1.Hugh , who worked in the Stores,wed Doris and had one child Judith,who married Rex Gascoigne,a City financier. 2.Horace,who was a film camera man,wed Kay and had one child Deborah,who married John Keogh and live in Australia 3. Shirley,who wed a stockbroker.-Mr Jack Shepherd and have two children,Robert,who married Carolyn and Madeleine,who married John Simpson and 4.Joan.who wed a Mr Yaun and live in Canada.




	Wallace Hughes c.1900 with gun and hunting dog. photo left,

			Letter from Wallace to brother Tom dated 1901.Note that it is written on Richard Williams Stores headed notepaper,.Here Wallace worked as a draper’s assistant.




	Wallace Hughes and Lily Price- engagement photograph .1902.




		Two young wives Lilian Hughes (nee Price) and Louise Hughes(nee Hooker) .circa 1904.


	Wallace Hughes with trotting horse and gig driving Lily Price on the right and Louise Hooker? Photographed circa 1901 outside where? Wallace and Lily lived in the house of the former ambassador to Turkey on Brixton Hill,where their children were born.Their son Horace talked of the Turkish symbols carved on the front entrance.



		It reads as follows. “Dear Tom, Where are you going this holiday.If you are not going anywhere special with Miss Hooker,Miss Price and I thought of going on the train, but should be very pleased to have a day or two with you both in the Country or somewhere.If you would like to meet us,you let me know by return.I ought to be able to hear your answer back from you by tonight,goodbye.Things are very good.. affec’- Bros’ Wallace.”






		Wallace and Lily Hughes. Studio Photographs c1920.


	Newspaper advert above shows how Wallace Hughes small shop in 1909(see top left) had grown into the largest store in Brixton by 1930.Just opposite is the Bon Marche shop where the three Hughes brothers started as assistants.At his Howards Restaurant,Wallace often entertained his great friend Gordon Selfridge,who was developing Selfridges of Oxford Street at this time.




Lily Hughes.-Horace Hughes Studio



		Wallace and Lily on Eastbourne Downs.



	Wallace and Lily’s four children from left- Horace,Hugh,Shirley and Joan. Note that the Photo Studio’s are in Streatham.c1910




		Wallace and Lily’s main home was at Haytor, Hanyards Lane,Cuffley,Herts .Here they had cooks ,maids,chaffeur, gardener ,tennis court ,rose garden etc.It is said that a terrible fire at Wallace’s Brixton store killed one of the Welsh shop girls and that Lily never recovered from the shock..and had to have constant nursing care later in life.



				Wallace and Lily retired to Domus, Upper Carlisle Rd,Eastbourne, very near ,Louise Hughes home.Here Lily died in 1947.. Wallace remarried very happily to a widow Georgina (Georgie) Marshall. Wallace Hughes died 1958.




		Lily Hughes on Dawn-Horace Hughes Studio.



				Wallace Hughes with second wife Georgie in their garden at Domus in Eastbourne.





					Hugh,Shirley and Horace,the children of Wallace and Lily Hughes. circa 1920



		Hugh and Horace with their mother Lily Hughes (nee Price) on holiday circa 1920

HUGH HUGHES(born c1904 Streatham di.1969) eldest son of Wallace and Lily Hughes.Director in his fathers stores until they were sold in the 1930s during the Great Depression unfortunately for less than £1 million.. Hugh was well read in the Classics and Hebrew. (he was educated at Dulwich College).He was a gifted artist and musician and played the saxophone in his own dance band and used to play in his father,s Howards Restaurant.at night. Hugh also won the All England Dance Trophy for both the Tango and Fox- Trot .Member of the Kit Kat Club. He owned Hill Farm,Cuffley,Herts.Here he had a riding school. During the 1940sand 50s he had an Osteopath & Homeopath practice in Henley High St .Had many famous patients including the King&Queen of Albania. Married first Constance Doris Edmonds of H.E.Edmunds stores in London and Watford, descended from a Lechlade farming family and Luton hatters,by whom he had one child -Judyth.He later divorced Doris and married his Osteopath Partner ,Vera(Bunty) Booth.




		Hugh Hughes.c1930 Handsome and always impeccably dressed.




		Doris Hughes(nee Edmonds).met Hugh training at her father Eric Edmonds Dept Stores in London.




	Doris Edmunds c. 1925,she was reputed to be the youngest fashion buyer in The City.




		Above photo-Hugh Hughes in his first car.Left photo-Hugh Hughes at Hill Farm, Cuffley standing on Captain and firing a pistol.There are many posed photos of Hugh taken by cameraman brother Horace.



				Photos left-.Doris with baby Judyth and Hugh and Doris Hughes with daughter Judyth on Eastbourne front.




The Edmunds Family of Hatters from Luton Area-the centre of the Hat Making Industry. Wedding of Doris’s parents c.1905.




		Hugh Hughes with his second wife Vera(Bunty) Booth,who both remained good friends with first wife Doris.c1945




		Judyth on holiday at Brighton. c1960 She still lives on Wokingham Rd,Earley, Reading




		Judyth marries Rex Gascoigne-a financial adviser in the City of London. They have one son-Bruce.




		Horace,Kae and Hugh Hughes c.1935

HORACE REGINALD HUGHES born 1907 Brixton. died 1992 in Australia. Obituary extract from FTT & BETA NEWS “Reg Hughes died in Melbourne 13th Jan 1992 ,aged 85.Educated At Dulwich College. Director of his fathers store until sold Then before the 2nd World War,Reg ran a successful stills business, photographing theatrical and film personalities.He was also the leading spirit in ACE movies, an enthusiastic London based film society. During the war Reg joined the RAF FIlm Unit at Pinewood and covered the Indian Ocean in Catalina flying boats.After the war Reg worked as second cameraman on a number of major films e.g Red Shoes,End of the River , El Dorado and The Elephant will never forget.In 1955 he and Peter Bucknall started Athos Film Productions producing corporate & BBC documentaries. At retirement he and wife Kae emigrated to Melbourne to be near their newly married daughter Judy a librarian and her husband John Keogh,a school teacher”.


	Photo above left-Horace Hughes and wife Kae newly arrive in Australia in their late seventies. Below left is daughter Deborah at her marriage to John Keogh.Bottom right is Horace and Kae with grandchildren Alice,Emma and Kate.




			Horace(Reg) Hughes , filming at Pinewood Studios.



	In 1955 Horace Hughes and Peter Bucknall set up Athos Film Productions.

SHIRLEY BEATA HUGHES born 1917 at 32 Brixton Hill,eldest daughter of Wallace and Lily Price. Winning prizes for Art at SchooI.Skating at Streatham Ice Rink when the family moved from Brixton.Moved to Cuffley in the mid 1930’s, here met future husband Lieutenant John Harry (Jack) Shepherd playing tennis.and becoming a war bride in 1941, designing and making all the wedding dresses.After the war, Jack continued in his father’s profession as a stockbroker.They have two children Robert b.1944 and Madeleine b,1946.At this time they moved down to live with Wallace at Domus after Lily died, but moved out to Hankham in 1948 when he remarried. Jack died in 1993 and Shirley in 1999,aged 82 and still gardening!



	Shirley and Jack Shepherd with Robert and Madeleine 1947.




		Shirley Beata Hughes.c.1938




	Shirley Beata Hughes birth certificate above and below are photographs of her two children. left Robert John Shepherd b.1944 an architect,who married Carolyn Davis a schoolteacher in 1971 and live nr Herstmonceux in Sussex, and right Madeleine Shepherd b.1946 a college registrar,who also married in 1971 John Stanley Simpson a college lecturer in agriculture and live in Barcombe,nr Lewes. Madeleine has supplied much of the infomation and photographs of Wallace Hughes’s family.




		Robert and Carolyn Roberts.1971




		John and Madeleine Simpson.1971




	John and Madeleine Simpson on their trip up the Rhine 2001 to celebrate their retirement .They have two daughters-Victoria and Katherine. Robert and Carolyn have one daughter- Laura.

JOAN DAPHNE HUGHES. b.1922 Brixton.youngest daughter of Wallace and Lily Hughes, wed Jack Yaun(son of Alexander Yaun,brewmaster Molson Brewery,Montreal and 2nd generation Scottish immigrant.) ,a Canadian infantryman during the war,while she was working as a Landgirl. .Emigrated to Canada and had seven children-Alec b1944, Diana,Christopher ,Shirley,Marjorie,Wendyand Robert b.1963.Jack Yaun had many jobs after WW2 ranging from beer taster to office management to taxi driving.Unfortunately Jack left Joan for his cousin ,after the birth of their seventh child. after this Joan had a hard life financially and suffered badly from the cold winters.Robert her son lived with her until his marriage in 1989.He visited Eastbourne in 1997 after her death,to lay her ashes at the foot of her parents grave.

Joan Hughes with father Wallace in London c,1927. possibly in Brixton outside his Stores.Centre photo of Joan on one of the many family cruises organised by Wallace, c 1935.Meanwhile young John(Jack) Yaun is leading a less priviliged life at his father home in Quebec-see photo far right.

John (Jack) Yaun aged 4 1922.At his grandparents home in Pointe aux Trembles, Quebec just outside Montreal.

Molson’s Brewery im Montreal is the second oldest company in Canada after the Hudson Bay Co.It is amongst the twelve largest brewing companies in the world..Here Alexander Yaun was Brewmaster and for a while his son Jack was a beer taster.

Joan Hughes as a bridesmaid at sister Shirley’s wedding 1941.

Joan Daphne Hughes weds Jack Yaun !943.They originally met at a local function for servicemen.nr her home at Cuffley,Where she was workking as a landgirl

Photo right of Joan with all her children at the wedding of her youngest son Robert to Caterina.in 1989. Standing from left to right, Wendy,Alec,Shirley, Christopher ,Deanna.Seated from left,Jackie (Marjorie), Cathy, Joan (mother) and Robert. Robert with wife Cathy lives in Ottawa,Ontario and he has supplied much of the information about our Canadian cousins.

Joan with first child Alec in 1944 and still living with her parents in England.At the end of the year she sailed for Canada.

Photo centre,Jack Yaun with Alec,Deanna, Christopher and Shirley at ther Montreal home c.1954 eventually Jack and Joan bought and lived in their own house in Roxboro.a borough of Montreal until they separated in 1965.

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