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Jennypeg
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Cocker House
replied on: 5/6/2005 8:13:33 PM

Hi Sue,
John Hutsby / Hutchby lived in a cottage next to the Three Tuns pub, the cottage has gone now (has anyone got a photo?), in the book Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence page 78, “Ha! But I’n just seed Jont Hutchby.” The next road is Walker St so maybe he was a neighbour; John was a cricketer was he in Eastwood cricket team?

Eastwood and Kimberley Advertiser
25th September 1931
Mr and Mrs John Hutsby
Mr and Mrs John Hutsby 62, Three Tuns Road, celebrate their golden wedding to-morrow [Saturday], and we tender them hearty congratulations, they were married at Greasley Parish Church on September 26th 1881, from the homestead where Mr and Mrs Hutsby now reside. This pretty little cottage, standing in it its own grounds, has been in the possession of three generations of the Hutsby's, and has, in fact, never been occupied by anyone else. It was built by the present owner's great-grandfather on then common land, afterwards enclosed by Earl Cowper, and having been occupied by the present owner's father up to his death on payment of an agreed title rental, was offered for sale, and purchased by the present and third generation of Hutsby's when the late Earl's estate was disposed of. The present John Hutsby was carried there as an infant in arms, and with the exception of one long break of twenty-Four years during which time he was full-filling Cricketing engagements in Lancashire and afterwards in Scotland, He has always lived at the old homestead. Mrs Hutsby hails from Shropshire, and it was whilst in Preston that she first met Mr Hutsby in 1879, he having accepted a Cricketing engagement there. They were married two years later.
Mr and Mrs Hutsby are 74 and 72 years of age respectively, and both happily are active and hearty and enjoy good health. They have no family of their own, but they adopted a girl relative who lived with them from the age of nine years until she married, but she unfortunately passed over to the great majority some four years age.
Mr and Mrs Hutsby will be entertaining a few friends at home to celebrate the happy event.

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