Stamboom van Hagenbeek

Vader: James Hodshon
Moeder: nn Sayer of Worsall

• Geboren: in 1545 te Newcastle upon Tyne
• Sheriff of Newcastle in 1549 and mayor in 1555, 1556 and 1580.
• Overleden: op 31 december 1585 (ongeveer 40 jaar oud)

Richard Hodshon was sheriff of Newcastle in 1549 and mayor in 1555, 1556 and 1580. He is better known in local histories as Richard Hodgson. It is generally stated that it was his son Lancelot who dropped the ' g ' and first spelled his name ' Hodshon,' but throughout the Jesmond records and in his own will Richard's name is also so spelled, and that spelling is therefore here adopted. According to the inquisition on his death Richard ' Hodshon ' died on the 31st December, 1585 (the date Surtees gives for his burial), seised of a messuage and lands in Jesmouth, ' which said messuage and premises are held of the queen as of her manor of Ellingham in the said county by the name of the manor of Guagye, now in the queen's hands by reason of the attainder of Thomas late Earl of Northumberland, late attainted of high treason, by the service of the sixteenth part of a knight's fee.' Robert Hodshon was found to be Richard's son and next heir, and was in 1586 aged 34 years.' All these Hodshons were, according to the terminology of the time, ' rank Papists ' and ' Popish recusants.' • Lancelot Hodshon (Richard's second son) was in prison ' for recusancie ' in 1598,* and his elder brother, Robert Hodshon, was probably at some time in similar trouble, for Lancelot Hodshon purchased his elder brother Robert's inheritance in Jesmond, not in his own name but in the name of his relative Sir Ralph Lawson, whose grandson, Henry Lawson of Brough, in 1626 released it to Lancelot.^ Lancelot Hodshon died at Newcastle on the 6th December, 1626, and was succeeded by his son and heir, John Hodshon. One or the other of them had, some time prior to the year 1631, added to the Hodshon Jesmond possessions by acquiring the large out- standing freehold estate, detached from the manor, which had come down from the Carliols in the thirteenth century to the Thirkelds in the sixteenth century, by steps which we shall hereafter endeavoui* to trace, for in the survey of that year (1631) both ' Mr. Hodshon's 40s. land ' and ' Mr. Hodshon's Thirkeld land ' are frequently mentioned.