woodage

[Pips]

Thanks Vic I did not follow the wrong line as I acquired the marriage cert of Charles Edward to confirm his father. Don't you just wish these Woodages would find some other names for children born in the same year. Thanks again Jac

[glensmith1]

Hi Pips,
I am wanting to contact family members of John Dereck Woodage. B. 8/10/1922 D. 7/2/1945 Burma. Father George. Mother Charlotte. Lived in Berkshire
Am researching the crew of a Liberator shot down by Japanese during WW2. John was beheaded by Japanese

Many thanks
Glen

[Vicwinann]

Hello,
If you don't already know, I think you will find that John D Woodage 1922 was born in the Wigan Reg Dist where his parents George W Woodage and Lottie Mawdsley also married. (FreeBMD)

Your search might be more productive there.
Vicwinann

[glensmith1]

Hi Vicwinann,

Thanks for your help. I checked BMD and which confirms your info. My details come from the registry at the Rangoon war cemetery. Berkshire could well have been where they lived at time of his death. I'm not a genealogist so am new to this. Can you make suggestions how I may persue my search

Glen

[Vicwinann]

Hello,
My link with the Woodages is very distant but I have done some research on this huge spread-about family.

It could well be that John Derek's  father came from Berkshire initially. I have a couple of George W Woodages on my tree but neither seem to fit the one who married in Wigan.

However, I had a look on the Commonwealth War Graves site and John Derek's parents were living at Maidenhead, it would appear, when the notification was made. So it looks as if they moved back from Lancs to Berks/Oxon

Annoyingly, there were 2 George William Woodages born in that area in 1899. One, I know was born Caversham, son of John Woodage and Mary Ann Wootten.
They were living at White Waltham in 1911. I have this George William married to Ellen Tucker in 1921 with 9 children from 1921-1939. However, I don't have the marriage cert to definitively prove father of George, so I may have the wrong George William.

I don't think so, though, because two of the daughters I have for him, married in Caversham and I have those marriages from the Parish registers.

The other George William was son of George Richard Woodage (son of Abraham) and Grace Blanche Griffiths, but I cannot connect this couple or the father to anyone at present in my tree, alathough I have researched a bit. This George William was bap Caversham St John in 1899. He might be the father of John Derek that you are looking for. [or he might be the one married to Ellen Tucker as above]

The only real way of knowing which the father of John Derek Woodage was is to buy his birth cert which will show his parents, and the marriage cert of the Wigan marriage of George to see who George's father was.

Perhaps a question on the Lancashire board of this site might get you further. A baptism and church record marriage would be useful.  A copy of John Derek's Service Record might be also of help if you are able to get it.
Not sure how to go about that for WW2 records.
I hope I have not been too negative.
Vicwinann

[Juliasnow]

Hi Glen,
I have just seen your post about John Derek Woodage. He was my uncle. My father Ivor Colin Woodage is his brother. He is now 87 and lives in Hertfordshire. My grandmother was Charlotte Woodage (nee Mawdsley). She died in 1990.
My grandparents split when my father was very young so he does not know very much about his father, but would like to know more about that side of his family.
Hope this helps you and if you have any more information that would help us we would be very grateful.
My father has full details of the Liberator crash and what followed. Did you have family on the plane?
Regards
Julia

[Juliasnow]

Further to my previous post. My father has a copy of his parents marriage certificate. His father George William Woodage was born in Berkshire,moved to Wigan and then returned to Maidenhead in 1931. We will dig it out and check on his grandfathers name.
Julia

[Vicwinann]

Hello Julia,
From my research point of view, that would be great. At least knowing who George W's father was will go some way to prove that I have the right marriage for my George W.
I may also be able to help you - hopefully.
Vicwinann

[Juliasnow]

HI Vicwinann,
The marriage certificate (1921) of George William and Charlotte Mawdsley lists his father as John Woodage, farmer. They stayed married until 1931 when George left home, they only had two children John Derek, born 1922,and my father Ivor Colin, born 1924. We don't think George had any more children. He lived in Hayes, Middx, my father only saw him once after he left and that was years later.
George William was 22 when he married so that would make his birthdate 1899 or 1900, He was born in Berkshire.
I'm not sure how this ties in with your research but if you have any more info on our John Woodage that would be great. My father would like to know if he has any other relatives.
Do you mind me asking why you are researching the Woodage family?
Thanks
Julia