Flossie Wood born 16.12.1900 (General)

by Jane777 , Sunday, March 09, 2014, 09:40 (3913 days ago) @ ChrisW

Hi Chris,
I sent you an email last night however I wanted to send you a very big thank you for this email. This has been like winning thousands of pounds!!! I didn't know my grandmother very much as | only met her once (as I can remember) however my oldest sister remembers her well. Some of my aunts and uncles are still alive, so have been very helpful. Granny never spoke of her family and she was known as Florence Emily Wood. Flossie Wood was the only 'Florence' born on 16.12.1900 and we know that my aunts and uncles knew very little about her except she was born in Cinderford and spoke of growing up there, fondly. On her marriage certificate, she put her fathers name as William Wood. Perhaps she knew her fathers Christian name. She lived in Bletchley Milton Keynes for a lot of her adult live with her husband Thomas Goss. She married in Newport Pagnell. She had a hard life as he left her with a big family (my mum being the second oldest who has sadly passed away)and went off with another woman.

In the 1911 census there is a mention of a Gruty who is five years old. It is strange as I can not trace her. My aunty has an envelope (she thinks her brother had the letter but Uncle David can not remember it) and it was from a hospital in Bristol in 1980. The envelope had a G or E Woods on it. My aunt thinks it was the death notification of Gruty/Emily. Aunty June thought her name was Emily however no one in the family was allowed to know anything about 'Flossie's family.

Thank you for your help once again, JUST GREAT!

Kind Regards,
Erica