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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: verarose on Tuesday 28 April 20 14:40 BST (UK)
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I am searching for the death of a George Wood Royal Marine Artillery born 1832 Alverstoke Hants.
Married to Elizabeth Phillips 1857.
I have a death in Peiho in China 1859.
Anyone know how to confirm if this is the George Wood that I am searching for.
Thanks.
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Is Elizabeth shown as a widow on the 1861 census
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Thanks Carol but wondered if census M or a W.
She also has another child in May 1862 naming George Wood as father.
remarriage in the June 3 weeks later.
Would love to confirm the father.
12 years hunting answer.
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There is an 1861 entry for an Elizabeth Wood aged 48 b Devon & living in Alverstoke shown as wife of gunner in RN
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They married in Alverstoke RD in 1857, where did Elizabeth remarry and to whom.
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I see you posted in January about George and I asked for some information but you did not reply :)
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=824763
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Tom Grant Hellier in June 1862.
One month after naming George as father at baptism.
I would think divorce rare although he ison ship in 1862.
Assume it was his death in China
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Been searching for years, pick it up between arrival of grandchildren and lockdown ,!!!
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If it is your Elizabeth Wood(s) living in Forton in 1861 occ Beer House Keeper bn Forton with son George also bn Forton and sister Mary Phillips then census states she is W (widowed). Married people on the same page are showing as 'Mar'.
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Yes, that’s the one. Question is who was the daddy ???
George Wood or Tom Grant Hellier. ?? To Tom Hellier Wood 1862
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Do you have George Wood's service record
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No, that’s the main part of the problem. I wrote to RM in Portsmouth
But nothing
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What information does his marriage certificate give for him.
Where do you have him on the census
ADDED Who were the marriage witnesses
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Married to Elizabeth Phillips Dec 58 private RMA of Gosport. Father John Wood
Child George Wood 1859
Child Tom Grant Wood Birth 1 May 1862
Baptism 18 May 1862
Elizabeth marriage to Thomas Grant Hellier 26 June 1862
Elizabeth 1861 is M or W but George Wood not present
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A tree on Ancestry has him born Hampshire but links him to the George who is in the RM in 1851 Alvechurch but born Guildford, Surrey.
I wonder where he was born. ???
Have you linked the marriage witnesses to George or were they Elizabeths relations/friends. What was his father John's occupation.
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I have him born in Portsea Island. 1831
Father John Wood.
A Carpenter on cert.
Mother. Mary Sullivan
I have dated death of George
After conception September 1861
Remarriage June 1862
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Elizabeth Wood is supposedly a widow on the 1861 census. That child born 1862 could have been anyones :-\
Do you have George Wood in 1851.
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Yes, that has been my hangover for 15 years.
Who was the daddy.
I have a stab at it every few years.
I am thinking his death in the China drug wars
Thanks for fresh pair of eyes on this.
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I think it's a giveaway by virtue of his name that Tom Grant Wood b 1862 was the son of the Thomas Grant Hellier Elizabeth married a month later
I have seen other instances of deceased husbands being shown as the father of illegitimate children on birth certs when they clearly died before the conception of the child
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I think it's a giveaway by virtue of his name that Tom Grant Wood b 1862 was the son of the Thomas Grant Hellier Elizabeth married a month later
I have seen other instances of deceased husbands being shown as the father of illegitimate children on birth certs when they clearly died before the conception of the child
I was just going to post that I thought the 1862 child was her new husbands having seen his names :)
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Yes, that’s how I see it.
Always sad though that some poor bloke dying in China war while at home ..........
Thanks for input
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I'm interested to locate info on Thomas Grant Hellier-Woods, if anyone has anything?