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Title: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: mmm45 on Monday 12 January 26 08:48 GMT (UK)
Hello
Im struggling with finding anything further about Thomas (Tom) Wood born c1850 married Priscilla Fisher 1873
They had son Fred (1874) who married Mary Elizabeth Fairburn

I have Priscillas side but struggling with the Woods so any pointers I would be grateful for
Thanks
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 12 January 26 09:56 GMT (UK)
What is the name of his father on his marriage cert?
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: ColC on Monday 12 January 26 10:43 GMT (UK)
I note the marriage in Q1/1873, registered Dewsbury.

1881 Halifax Wad, 8, Wheatley Buildings, Liversedge, Dewsbury, Yorkshire

All born High Town, Yorkshire.
Thomas Wood Head Married 30 1851 Wire drawer
Priscilla Wood Wife Married 30 1851
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Ada Wood Daughter Single 9 1872 Scholar
Fred Wood Son Single 8 1873 Scholar
Rawden Wood Son Single 5 1876 Scholar
Carver Wood Son Single 0 1881
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Have you considered this birth registration?

WOOD, THOMAS    mmn HEPWORTH  
GRO Reference: 1851  S Quarter in DEWSBURY  Volume 22  Page 80

Colin
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: mmm45 on Monday 12 January 26 10:50 GMT (UK)
Thanks both - i will get the marriage cert cant see it online on ancestry, there maybe further info and the Hepworth link ill look into

Ady
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 12 January 26 11:36 GMT (UK)
Looks like Ada may have been illegitimate.  There is a birth in Dewsbury Sept qtr 1871 for an Ada Fisher with no mothers maiden name
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: ColC on Monday 12 January 26 11:40 GMT (UK)
Marriages Mar 1873  on freebmd
Wood    Thomas        Dewsbury    9b   856

Colin
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: ColC on Monday 12 January 26 12:26 GMT (UK)
I believe this may be a possible family but I cannot find a marriage for the parents William Wood to Ann Hepworth on freebmd.

1871 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBCF-3GZ?lang=en

WOOD, SAMUEL    mmn HEPWORTH  
GRO Reference: 1847  M Quarter in THE DEWSBURY UNION  Volume 22  Page 34

WOOD, SARAH    mmn HEPWORTH  
GRO Reference: 1849  J Quarter in THE DEWSBURY UNION  Volume 22  Page 43

WOOD, THOMAS    mmn HEPWORTH  
GRO Reference: 1851  S Quarter in DEWSBURY  Volume 22  Page 80

WOOD, HENRY     mmn HEPWORTH  
GRO Reference: 1854  M Quarter in DEWSBURY  Volume 09B  Page 436

Colin
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: Kay99 on Monday 12 January 26 18:01 GMT (UK)
I wondered about this birth :-\

WOOD, TOM     mmn WARDEN     
GRO Ref: 1850  D Qrtr THE DEWSBURY UNION  Vol22  Page 86

Which ties into this family in 1871 living in Hightown where this Tom Wood was also a Wire Drawer

Joseph Wood 50 Cartman b Hightown
Sarah Wood 43
Joseph Wood 22 Wire Drawer b Hightown
Tom Wood 20 Wire Drawer b Hightown
Allen Wood 15 Hightown
Alfred Wood 11 b Hightown


Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: mmm45 on Monday 12 January 26 18:53 GMT (UK)
Thanks for everyones help ill look through things tonight - Colins steer may prove fruitful

Ady
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: J.R.Ellam on Tuesday 13 January 26 08:07 GMT (UK)
Hi

Could have gone to Hartshead Church, unfortunately it's records are not inline but are om micro film in local history library
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: softly softly on Tuesday 13 January 26 09:15 GMT (UK)
I wondered about this birth :-\

WOOD, TOM     mmn WARDEN     
GRO Ref: 1850  D Qrtr THE DEWSBURY UNION  Vol22  Page 86

Which ties into this family in 1871 living in Hightown where this Tom Wood was also a Wire Drawer

Joseph Wood 50 Cartman b Hightown
Sarah Wood 43
Joseph Wood 22 Wire Drawer b Hightown
Tom Wood 20 Wire Drawer b Hightown
Allen Wood 15 Hightown
Alfred Wood 11 b Hightown

This would be my favoured birth and parentage.

SS
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: softly softly on Tuesday 13 January 26 09:33 GMT (UK)
If that is "your" Tom he is still with Priscilla in 1921 census, and at the same address in 1939 war register as a widow with 2 of his children. His dob 2.12.1850


Deaths Sep 1944   
Wood    Tom    aged 93    Spen Valley    9b   516   (includes Liversedge)

SS

added--probate of his son Ernest.
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: mmm45 on Tuesday 13 January 26 22:39 GMT (UK)
If that is "your" Tom he is still with Priscilla in 1921 census, and at the same address in 1939 war register as a widow with 2 of his children. His dob 2.12.1850


Deaths Sep 1944   
Wood    Tom    aged 93    Spen Valley    9b   516   (includes Liversedge)

SS


Yes this is them I remember visiting Auntie Alice on Windybank lane in the 70s
added--probate of his son Ernest.
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: J.R.Ellam on Wednesday 14 January 26 09:04 GMT (UK)
Hi

Just been looking & he seems to be the son of Joseph & Sarah Wood (nee Warden) but could not find a marriage.
She seems to be tha daughter of William Warden but no proof so would not take it as red.
This got me thinking & if I recall correctly there was a Quakers house off Windybank.

John
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: Kay99 on Wednesday 14 January 26 09:30 GMT (UK)
If it is the correct Tom Wood with mother's maiden name Warden think this is the parents marriage which is on Anc.   I think Sarah's surname may have been spelt as she pronounced it

Marriage
13 Jun 1847 Tong, St James, Yorkshire
Joseph Wood Shoemaker - father John Wood - Shoemaker
Sarah Warding - father Wm Warding - Tailor
Their address was listed as the Parish of Bristal  Birstal
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: J.R.Ellam on Thursday 15 January 26 08:13 GMT (UK)
yeah that all looks correct. I think Tong comes under Bradford district, it is a long time since I did my research in this area but should have remembered that.

I might have to have a proper look at these Woods, a distant cousin married a Wood whose father I was a John Wood.
Title: Re: Wood -Hightown/Liversedge
Post by: mmm45 on Thursday 15 January 26 23:37 GMT (UK)
I note the marriage in Q1/1873, registered Dewsbury.

1881 Halifax Wad, 8, Wheatley Buildings, Liversedge, Dewsbury, Yorkshire

All born High Town, Yorkshire.
Thomas Wood Head Married 30 1851 Wire drawer
Priscilla Wood Wife Married 30 1851
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Ada Wood Daughter Single 9 1872 Scholar
Fred Wood Son Single 8 1873 Scholar
Rawden Wood Son Single 5 1876 Scholar
Carver Wood Son Single 0 1881
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This is the correct family - have them up to the 1921 Census