« Reply #22 on: Friday 02 May 25 09:17 BST (UK) »
I wondered too, but Wood is a common name. Worth checking though. To adopt a niece or cousin, when the biological mother had been widowed and left with several young children was quite common
There's a Carrie Wood reg 1879 Dewsbury mmn Boothroyd. Place and date match censuses. And a Sarah Ann Wood reg 1863 mmn Boothroyd, but in Huddersfield not Dewsbury. So no evidence yet that they're sisters.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott