Wood -Hightown/Liversedge

[mmm45]

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

[CaroleW]

What is the name of his father on his marriage cert?

[ColC]

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

[mmm45]

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

[CaroleW]

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

[ColC]

Marriages Mar 1873  on freebmd
Wood    Thomas        Dewsbury    9b   856

Colin

[ColC]

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

[Kay99]

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

[mmm45]

Thanks for everyones help ill look through things tonight - Colins steer may prove fruitful

Ady