Specialist in FoD genealogy (General)

by jane gould , Thursday, August 20, 2009, 13:28 (5666 days ago) @ slowhands

Hi Slowhands.

I have posted several messages about my Wood family from Brain's Green and have received some helpful information from you personally and others. But despite this I am still searching for further details about William Wood, born 1850, Elizabeth Wood, born c1854 and Ann Wood who would have been born c1874 (she appears in the 1881 census as a granddaughter aged 7) with William & Elizabeth Wood (nee Powell) and their son William (see above b. 1850). I have tracked Elizabeth through the census whilst she was in service in Bullo Pill with the Shiles (?) family in 1881 and with the Washbourne family in St Mary de Crypt, Gloucester in 1891. Their sister, Jane Anne Compton (nee Wood) who was my namesake and great grandmother has been fairly easy to trace.

What I would like to discover is whether William junior was ever married and whether Ann (born about 1874) was his daughter or whether she was the base born child of Elizabeth. William junior seems to have lived all his life in Brain's Green and there is a record on the FoD site of a William Wood who died there aged 75 in 1925 which would fit.

I have been worrying away at this for years and not getting anywhere in spite of the huge amounts of information on the FoD site for which I am eternally grateful.

Cheers. jane gould (now in Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear)