Birth: 1833 Monkton Deverill, Wiltshire, UK
Father: Henry Darnel (Darnell) Bletso 1800-1880
Mother: Elizabeth Ford 1801-1868
Christening: 14 July 1833 St Alfred the Great, Monkton Deverill, Wiltshire, UK
Marriage: 21 April 1857 St Mary, Lambeth, Surrey, UK
Husband: Mark Wood 1833-1873/83
Death: 27 September 1871 Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Louisa Wood [Bacon] 1858-1832
George Wood 1859-1942
Ellen Wood 1861
Alfred Edward Wood 1863-1918
Minnie Wood 1865
Frederick Arthur Wood 1868-a1871
Frank Wood 1870-a1871
Entry in Ancestry Wiltshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1924 for Matilda Bletso baptised 14 July 1833 in Monkton Deverill, Wiltshire, parents Henry and Elizabeth Bletso. "Page 13 Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Monkton Deverill in the County of Wilts in the Year 1833 [...] July 14 No. 1000 Matilda [parents] Henry [a] Laborer & Elizabeth Bletso [of] Monkton Deverill". Note some entries are clearly Bletso or Blitso but others are open to interpretation.
Her sister was baptised on 28 December 1834 at St Alfred the Great, Monkton Deverill, parents Henry and Elizabeth Blitso of Monkton Deverill.
Her brother was baptised on 26 February 1837 at St Alfred the Great, Monkton Deverill, parents Henry and Elizabeth Bletso of Monkton Deverill.
Her sister was baptised on 31 May 1840 at St Alfred the Great, Monkton Deverill, parents Henry and Betsey Bletso of Monkton Deverill.
In the 1841 census as Matilda Bletso aged 7, born in Wiltshire, and living with Henry and Elizabeth Bletso (parents?), John, James and William Bletso (brothers?), and Emma, Fanny amd Sara Bletso (sisters?) in Monkton Deverill, Wiltshire.
Her brother was registered in January-March 1843 in Mere, and baptised on 7 May 1843 at St Alfred the Great, Monkton Deverill, parents Henry and Betsey Bletso.
Her sister was registered in April-June 1846 in Mere (surname spelt Blatsa, Blatso and Blatsoe), and baptised on 1 February 1846 at St Alfred the Great, Monkton Deverill, parents Henry and Betsey Bletso of Monkton Deverill.
I cannot locate her in the 1851 census but she was not living with her parents.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for the banns of Matilda Blitso and Mark Wood on 5 April 1857 at St Mary, Lambeth. "Banns Published 5th, 12th and 19th April 1857 Page 158 [...] 203 Mark Wood of the Parish of Wedon (sic - page torn in middle), Northamptonshire, Bachelor, and Matilda Blitso of this Parish, Spinster 21 April".
Marriage of Matilda Bletso and Mark Wood in FreeBMD in April-June 1857 in Lambeth (1D 497).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Matilda Bletso, father Henry Bletso, and Mark Wood on 21 April 1857 at St Mary, Lambeth. "Page 203 [...] 1857. Marriage Solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of St Mary Lambeth in the County of Surrey. [No.] 406 21st April 1857 Mark Wood of full age [a] Bachelor [and] Railway Policeman of Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire [father] John Wood [a] Farm Servant, [and] Matilda Bletso of full age [a] Spinster [of] Lambeth [father] Henry Bletso [possibly also a Farm Servant]. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of Matthew Colling and Ann Bletso."
Her daughter probably registered as Female Wood in January-March 1858 in Daventry, and was baptised on 10 October 1858 at St Peter and St Paul, Weeden Bec, Northamptonshire when they lived in Weedon Northamptonshire.
Her son was registered in January-March 1860 in Brixworth.
In the 1861 census as Matilda Wood aged 27, born in Monckton Deverell, Wiltshire, and living with her husband (Mark), son (George) and daughter (Louisa) in the Railway Station, Brixworth, Northamptonshire.
Her daughter was registered in October-December 1861 in Brixworth and baptised on 6 April 1862 at All Saints, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, parents Mark and Matilda Wood of Brixworth Station.
Her son was born on 21 August 1864, and baptised on 4 October 1863 at All Saints, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, parents Mark and Matilda Wood of Brixworth, but I cannot locate a registration unless it was the Male Wood registered in April-June 1862 in Brixworth.
Her daughter registered in April-June 1865 in Brixworth, and baptised on 6 August 1865 at All Saints, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, parents Mark and Matilda Wood of Brixworth.
Her son was registered in January-March 1868 in Brixworth, and baptised on 1 March 1868 at All Saints, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, parents Mark and Matilda Wood of Brixworth.
I cannot find any information regarding Frank Wood except he was born in England and 1 year old in the 1871 census.
Her husband emigrated to Canada arriving in Quebec, Quebec, Canada on 21 August 1870 on Moravian from Liverpool, England accompanied by two sons (Alfred and George), but I cannot locate Matilda or the rest of the family's entry although it was prior to the 1871 census.
In the 1871 Canadian census as Matilda Wood aged 37, born in England, and living with her husband (Mark), four sons (Alfreed, Frack, Fredrick and George) and three daughters (Ellene, Emma, and Louise) in Woodstock Town, Oxford North, Ontario.
Entry in Ancestry Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1947 for Matildas Wood (028835) born in Wil (sic - in the index, Wiltshire on the original), died on 27 September 1871 aged 39 in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada from typhoid fever, informant Mark Wood a yeoman of Orillia.
There are thirty eight entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Matilda Bletso.
Matilda Bletso was the wife of Mark Wood, husband of Fanny Elizabeth Sarah Ann Wattson, mother of John Thomas Heavers, husband of Clara Elizabeth Cowles, my grandaunt.
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