Birth: October-December 1873 Bedminster, Somerset, UK
Father: William Halliday b1858-1877/81
Mother: Harriett ?
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 21 November 1897 St John the Evangelist, Waterloo Road, Lambeth, London, UK
Husband: Frederick (Fred) Wood 1875-a1901
Death: After 1901
Hilda Mary Wood 1898-a1901
Birth of Ruth Halliday in FreeBMD in October-December 1873 in Bedminster (5c 712).
Entry in the 1881 census for Ruth Halliday aged 7, born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, and living with her widowwed mother (Harriett) and brother (William) at 9 Marshes Road, Newport, Monmouthshire. Another family lived at the same address.
Marriage of Ruth Halliday and Fred Wood in FreeBMD in October-December 1897 in Lambeth (1d 856).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Ruth Halliday aged 21 and Fred Wood aged 24, father James Wood, on 21 November 1897 at Lambeth St John the Evangelist. "1897 Marriage solemnized at St John's Waterloo Rd in the Parish of Lambeth in the Count of London No 358 Nov 21st 1897 Fred Wood aged 21, a bachelor and a gardener of 19 Frances Street, father James Wood, a quarreyman, and Ruth Halliday aged 24, a spinster of 19 Frances Street, father William Hilliday (dec), a foreman, Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Chruch after banns, in the presence of us Edward Deacon Burgess and Kate Flett."
Her daughter was born in Hove in 1898.
In the 1901 census as Ruth Wood aged 28, born in Bristol, a laundress, and living with her husband (Fred) and daughter (Hilda M) who were boarding with William F Gatward (aged 23, born in Whyteleaofe (sic), Surrey, and a labourer in engineer's depot), his wife (Barbara A aged 35, and born in South Wales; Cardiff, Glamorgan) and son (William H aged 1 and born in Whyteleafe, Surrey) at Locksley Cottages, Whyteleafe, Warlingham, Surrey.
I cannot find any other information.
Ruth Halliday was the wife of Frederick Wood, Felicity's third cousin three times removed.
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