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Registrants for name: WOOD
| Name | Country | More Information | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Jean Howard | mjhoward56@hotmail.com | AUSTRALIA | My father, Joseph Frederick Jackson, was born at 246 New Spring Street, Birmingham, on 11th January 1924. He was sent in 1932 to a school in Pinjarra, Western Australia, under the name Wood. During WWII he returned to England and found his mother, Rose Hannah Jackson (nee Wood), remarried and with his sister (Jean Jackson, or could be Kirby) in Peterborough. Last known address: Cranmore Cottages, Deeping St James, Peterborough. His father’s name was Frederick Johnson Jackson. I would like to … |
| George Wilson | dodd60@hotmail.com | UNITED KINGDOM | I am trying to trace a marriage between Richard Prescott (born c1818 in Lowton) and Alice Wood (born c1821) in about 1840. There were four sons from the marriage: John (born 1842); Ralph (1844); James (1847); Henry or Harry (1849). I have birth certificates for Ralph, James and Henry. In each case the father is named as Richard Prescott, a weaver, and mother as Alice Wood. Their sons were all born in the Lancashire area (either Lowton or Astley). Ralph Prescott, my great-great-grandfather, … |
| Elizabeth Redhead | eredhead_31@yahoo.com | UNITED KINGDOM | Looking for Wood's in the Lincolnshire area |
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