Beatrice Stubbs [Wood] (1880-1937)

Dates

Birth: January 1880 Truro, Cornwall, UK
Father: John Stubbs c1831-1919
Mother: Mary Warren c1845-1930

Christening: 12 January 1880 Truro, Cornwall, UK

Marriage: September 1905 St Peter, Tiverton, Devon, UK
Husband: Henry Steer Wood 1881-a1969

Death: 25 April 1937 Belstone, Breffni Road, Sandycove, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Children

Phyllis Beatrice Wood [Davison] 1906-a1942
Kenneth John Wood 1911-1960
Harold Steer Wood 1915-1976

Notes

Birth of Beatrice Stubbs in FreeBMD in January-March 1880 in Truro (5C 161).

Christening of Beatrice Stubbs in the IGI on 12 January 1880 in Truro, Cornwall, parents John and Mary Stubbs. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.

In the 1881 census as Beatrice Stubbs aged 1, born in Truro, Cornwall, and living with her parents (John and Mary), four brothers (Arthur G, Francis W, Frederick and Percival), sister (Mary E), (half)sister (Florence), and a servant (Adelaide Manley aged 15, and born in Scorrior, Cornwall) in Edwards Street, Truro St Mary, Cornwall.

Her brother was baptised on 7 March 1881 in Truro, but her brother and sister were registered in April-June 1882, and two brothers in April-June 1883 and October-December 1884, all four in Tiverton.

In the 1891 census as Beatrice Statts (sic - in the index, Stubbs on the original), aged 11, born in Truro, Cornwall, and living with her parents (John and Mary), brother (Walter) and sister (Mary Emily) in Bampton Street, Tiverton, Devon.

In the 1901 census as Beatrice Stubbs aged 21, born in Truro, Cornwall, single, a draper's assistant, and living with a large number of young draper's assistants/apprentices at 36 to 40 Bedford Street, Plymouth St Andrew, Devon.

Entry in Ancestry Devon, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1920 for the marriage banns of Beatrice Stubbs of Tiverton St Peter and Henry Steer Wood on 20 August 1905 at Tiverton, St Peter.

Marriage of Beatrice Stubbs and Henry Steer Wood in FreeBMD in July-September 1905 in Tiverton (5B 859).

Entry in Ancestry Devon, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1920 for the marriage of Beatrice Stubbs aged 25, father John Stubbs, of 3 Bampton Street Tiverton and Henry Steer Wood in September 1905 at Tiverton, St Peter.

Her daughter was born on 22 Dec 1906 in Plymouth.

In the 1911 census as Beatrice Wood aged 31, born in Truro, Cornwall, married for five years with one child, and living with her husband (Henry Steer) and daughter (Phyllis Beatrice) in six rooms at 3 South View Park Terrace, Compton, Plymouth, Devon.

Her first son was registered in July-September 1911 in Plymouth and second in October-December 1915 in Cardiff.

In the 1921 census as Beatrice Wood born in London (sic) in 1880 and living with Henry Steer Wood (husband?), Henry Steer and Kenneth John Wood (sons?) and Phyllis Beatrice Wood (daughter?)in Upminster, Romford, Essex.

The family were living at Belstone, 11 Breffni Road, Dalkey, Dublin from 1925 to 1937 from the Electoral Roll.

Entry in Ancestry Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958 for Beatrice Wood in April-June 1937 aged 57 in Rathdown (2 528).

Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Beatrice Wood died 25 April 1937 in Dublin, Ireland probate 7 June 1937 in London. "Wood Beatrice of Belstone Breffni-road Sandycove county Dublin (Wife of Henry Steer Wood) died 25 April 1937 Probate London 7 June to the said Henry Steer Wood accountant. Effects £323 18s. 4d. in England."

Entry in Stubbs Genealogy for Beatrice Stubbs daughter of John Stubbs and Mary Warren born in Truro in 1880. The 1901 Census finds Beatrice aged 21 and unmarried living with a very large number of drapery employees and clerks at Nos. 36-40, Bedford Street in Plymouth, Devon, where she was occupied as a draper's assistant. She married Harry Steer Wood in the 3rd quarter of 1905.

There are twenty three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Beatrice Stubbs.

Relationship

Beatrice Stubbs was Felicity's first cousin three times removed.

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