Eliza WOOD nee CLARKE c. 1827 -- (Not PUGH) (General)

by mrsbruso , Saturday, August 06, 2011, 03:35 (4862 days ago)

Related to prior threads: http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=32189

Okay. Once again, I'm stumped. Elizabeth Clark who died in 1861 wasn't "my" Elizabeth, but she was certainly very similar in many respects. If it hadn't been for William writing his will in 1845, the year he died, and leaving property to his wife, Elizabeth, I would have been certain she had died sometime after their youngest son's death some ten years or so earlier. I have no firm trace of her after that.

The 1861 Elizabeth seemed to fit quite well, right down to the death certificate listing her as the widow of William Clark . . .

I also thought I might have found her in the 1841 census, but the Elizabeth Clarke in Thornbury, born in County, turns up in a later census with her birthplace listed as Thornbury, so she's out.

This left just the Elizabeth Clark on Blakeney Hill in 1851 with her daughter, b. approx 1828, Eliza Pugh. My William and Elizabeth indeed had a daughter Eliza born in 1827 . . . who is identified as Eliza Wood in her Aunt Harriett's will. And since I couldn't find her marriage in the FOD registers, I thought maybe she hadn't been a Clarke at the time of her marriage, and that's why I couldn't find it.) But . . .I just found the marriage of Eliza CLARKE, daughter of William CLARKE to Henry WOOD, son of Jacob WOOD, 24 November, 1851 at Gloucester. (LDS site) SO that means Eliza PUGH, b. 1828, was also a red herring.

(Seriously? Another Elizabeth Clarke on Blakeney Hill with a daughter Eliza born 1827-28? Another Elizabeth, born in Awre, married to a William CLARKE, and leaving her land on Blakeney Hill . . .)

Henry WOOD was born in 1823. son of Jacob WOOD and Sarah INMAN, married Awre 1811.

Record ID 133728
Entry Number 791
Year 1827
Month Jun
Day 24
Parents Surname CLARKE
Child Forenames Eliza
Fathers Forenames William
Mothers Forenames Elizabeth
Mothers Surname
Residence Forest of Dean
Occupation Labourer
Officiating Minister J[acob] George Wrench
Event Baptism
Memoranda
Notes
Register Reference P50 IN1/1
Page Number 99
Parish Chapel Blakeney

1861
Henry, woodcutter, 36
Eliza, 36
Amphlis Clara, 6 ( I found Amphlis' birth registration, Westbury on Severn, AMJ 1855 (6a-189).)
Henry, 4
Sarah Elizabath, 1

1871
Henry, 47
Eliza, 44
Henry, 13
Harriett, 4
1881
Henry, 57
Eliza, 54
Sarah E., 21
Harriett, 19

1891
Henry Wood, 67
Eliza Wood, 63

1901 -- Lowfield, Awre
William Turley, 45 (born Awre)
Harriett Turley, 34 (born Blakeney)
Eliza Wood, 72 (mother in law) (born Blakeney)

Henry’s burial is recorded at Blakeney Chapel, March 18, 1898
Eliza Wood’s burial is recorded at Blakeney Chapel 3 January 1917, age 88

Incidentally, the Inman family lived in the last house on the top of Clark's Lane, while at least several of my Clarke's in different generations lived at the bottom of Blakeney Hill just past the start of Clark's lane and opposite the lane to Old Furnace.