Orphan Willie Woods – Help Please.

[geniecolgan]

Hi JDC,

I'll give you time to read the thread, In the meantime I've PM'd you 

[willys son]

Roger, O.K. great....Hopefully it is more than a wee reference...
One never knows how extensive or simple this information may be...

Oh, phooey...just the bare basics!

Well, I hope what I have to pass on to you is not disappointing.  I will list it here and if it is of interest, I can forward the complete pages from which this information is drawn.  It is from the Lobb family history which states:

1)       Henry Thistlethwaite married Amelia Jane Willis and they had two adopted children.  The page lists all of Amelia Jane’s family

2)       On another page it repeats this marriage, gives full information for Amelia Jane and says that she married Henry Thistlethewaite on October 27, 1902.  She is buried at the cemetery at Norwood, Ontario.  Their adopted children are named Wilfred and Albert...


That's it...so there was another adopted son Albert I am sure Roger knows of already...and Amelia ...so, she was married before, then...to a Willis?  I seem to remember from Wilfred's marriage - surname Lobb...because I remembered a brother-in law-Lobb was in the household 1911 census. That is neither here nor there...I am blathering on....a bit disappointed, but one can't expect the world in one's lap....

Anyway...If you want copies of those pages or any others from the publication....I'll p.m you the contact info.

Hi JJ
Thanks for this,
actually Wilfred (my father) was adopted and then his first wife Alberta kelly had 3 kids.
The first died in child birth.
The second, Albert survived and the third died and she died a week later.
Her kids were all very large, something like 12 to 18lbs.
So my dad could not take care of Albert once Alberta died and he took Albert to his adopted parents with the thought to get him again when he married my mother, but his adopted parents asked to keep him as they were alone and wanted the company.
Hope this explains some of that.
Take care
Roger

[willys son]

Hi all you great people,
Everything your doing is so appreciated.
It makes my Father's past seem real. Till now it just always seemed a vague unreal thing.
I am going to call the True blue lodge on Monday and see what if any records they have for Uncle Jim.
My father's brother.
Ity seemes he is the only blood relarive we had on Dad's side.
If they have something maybe there would be more than what they gave for Dad.
As far as we know both were put in the home at the same time but only my father was adopted which seems funny.
My father said he asked them to take Jim as well some time after he was adopted but I dont know when. They did but
Uncle Jim was rebellious and ran away but I don't know if he went back to the home then or what happened.
It is my guess he would have been mid teens or so when that happened and may have just stayed on his own.
Roger

[JoMC]

Hello Everyone 

Postman has just dropped this birth cert through the door.

Especially for Roger on Valentines day!

12 July 1900 at Eagles Lane Cowbridge

William Wood

Father - Charles Wood (painter journeyman)

Mother Kate Ann Wood formerly Trott

Informant Charles Wood, father, Picton Cottage, Llanblerhian

the same for James  - born on 24th January 1903 at 16 the Rhiew, Bridgend

Dolly did PM me a while ago saying that she'd found a possible Wood-Trott marriage 

Genie - I'll scanthe ceerts and e-mail them to you. If Roger is on dial up it might take a while for him to download. What do you think?

Gadget 

[KarenM]

Excellent Gadget, that was really kind of you to do that for Roger, I'm sure he will be over the moon!!

Karen

[JoMC]

I'll leave it up to you all now, if you have the UK records, etc.

I'm off for the foreseeable future. I just stayed around for this 

By all - it's been nice working with you.

Gadget

[KarenM]

Here's a marriage.........


Ann Kate Trott
Charles Wood
April/May/June 1898
Glamorgan, Gwent, Monmouthshire
Volume 11a
Page 343

Karen

[geniecolgan]

That fits Karen 

[KarenM]

1881 Census.........

Henry Trott, age 35, Road Labourer,
Ann Trott, age 27, tollgate keeper
Ann K. Trott, age 4, scholar, born Glamorgan, Cowbridge
Henry  W. Trott, age 5, scholar, born Glamorgan, Cowbridge

Civil Parish:  Cowbridge


I can't make out where Henry and Ann the parents were born  

Karen