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From: "Emma Trehane" <>
Subject: Re: [WOOD-ENG] Wood Family of London
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:29:23 -0000
References: <003401c4c882$a9884400$c11286d4@oemcomputer>


Hello there.

I hope you don't mind me writing but I am also looking for a Wood from
London. Her name was Xenia Wood (a very distinctive name) and she still
alive in St John woos area of London in 1950, but as of yet nobody seems to
have heard of her.. I'm trying to trace the heritage here for some research
I'm doing. Any help would be much appreciated.

Best Wishes,

Emma Trehane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Woods" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:41 AM
Subject: [WOOD-ENG] Wood Family of London


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Woods" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:53 AM
> Subject: [WOOD-ENG] Wood Family of London
>
>
>> Dear Dick,
>>
>>
>> I had the same problem with my Wood branch and received considerable
>> interest and help from two of the London web sites:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> These are very active sites and there are a lot of willing helpers there
> who
>> kndley helped sort out much of my bunch.
>>
>> My Wood branch in fact came up from Devon around 1830 and settled in the
>> Islington/Finchley area. My particular group moved across the river to
> the
>> Kennington/Newington districts.
>>
>
>> You will find it useful to download some of the early London maps as the
>> boundaries are complicated - they shifted about a bit.
>>
>> I'm a Woods and my father married a Wood. Interestingly, I've tracked
> my
>> Woods back to the 18th.c in Oxfordshire and they too were originally
>> Wood.
>> To complicate things, my Welch wife's mother is also a Wood, but a
>> northern Wood (Doncaster, Midlands). Should one look any closer?
>>
>>
>> Note my Alice Wood of Walworth...just a coincidence of first name and
>> district:
>> born abt. 1862, Newington Surrey (London, south of the river), adjacent
> to
>> Walworth.
>> 1881 Census, scholar, living with parents at 15 Finchley Road,
>> Newington
>> {LDS}
>> 1891 Census shows Alice at 29, a visitor at home of Joseph Lisle in
>> Newington, single, Elementary School teacher, and b. London Walworth
>> I have not had time to persue her any further, and don't know whether
>> she
>> married.
>> My parents went to her funeral in 1963 when I was already at sea
> (mariner).
>>
>>
>> Hope some of this may be of help in pointing you in the right direction,
>> and I'll keep you on file under my Wood strays in case something else
> turns
>> up.
>>
>> Are you in the U.K. or Canada?
>>
>> Chris Woods
>> Norfolk
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Richard Carey" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:27 PM
>> Subject: [WOOD-ENG] Wood Family of London
>>
>>
>> > I almost hate to post this message as I know how many Wood families
> there
>> are in London, but I am hitting a brick wall and I figure I might get
> lucky!
>> I am looking for a George Wood somewhere in London c. 1880 and I cannot
>> identify him on a census. George is my g-grandfather. The only thing I
> know
>> is that he had three sons and a daughter (that I know of).
>> >
>> > Joseph Robert Wood (1882-1954), possibly born in Hoxton, New Town,
> married
>> Alice Atkinson in 1902 in St. Peter Walworth and immigrated to Canada in
>> 1909.
>> > Fred Wood
>> > Harry Wood
>> > Margaret Wood Barker
>> >
>> > Joseph Robert is my grandfather. I have been able to obtain his
>> > marriage
>> certificate so I know his father was George. An obituary dated 1954 gave
> the
>> names of his sibs. Can anyone identify the individuals above and possibly
>> help me crash through this brick wall?
>> >
>> >
>> > Dick Carey
>> >
>> >
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