Birth: April-May 1879 Oxted, Surrey, UK
Father: James Wood 1839-1913
Mother: Mary Ann Wood 1838-1897
Christening: 11 May 1879 Oxted, Surrey, UK
Marriage: Marriage: 9 September 1906 St Mary, Islington, London, UK
Wife: Ada Elizabeth Beale [Kenny] 1874-1925
Death: October-December 1950 St Pancras, London, UK
Gladys Wood 1907-1907
Gladys Ada Wood 1910-1911
Birth of George Wood in FreeBMD in April-June 1878 in Godstone (2a 175).
Christening of George Wood in the IGI on 11 May 1879 in Oxted, Surrey, parents James and Mary Ann Wood. Note that a Charlotte Wood was christened on the same day with the same parents names, but from the 1881 census was from another family.
In the 1881 census as George Wood aged 2, born in Oxted, Surrey, and living with his parents (James and Mary A), brother (Fredk) and two sisters (Annie and Martha) in Harlings Row, Oxted, Surrey.
His brother was born in Godstone in 1883.
In the 1891 census as George Wood aged 12, born in Oxted, Surrey, and living with his parents (James and Mary Ann), and two brothers (Fred and James) in four rooms in Godstone Station Road, Godstone, Surrey.
His mother died in Godstone in 1897.
In the 1901 census as George Wood aged 22, born in Oxted, Surrey, single, a police constable, and a boarder living with Eliza Wager (aged 74, born in Northamptonshire, widowed and no stated employment), and four other boarders (Edward Nolan aged 52, born in Croydon, Surrey, single and a school teacher, Edmund G Stanton aged 42, born in Clerkenwell, London, single and a life assurance agent, Frederick Saunders aged 59, born in Newington, Surrey, widowed and a club secretary, and Hermann Hecker aged 26, born in Germany, a foreign subject, single and a club doctor) at 5 Hardings Street, SE Islington, London. Another person was living at the same address.
Marriage of George Wood and Ada Elizabeth Kenny in FreeBMD in July-September 1906 in Islington (1b 562).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for George Wood and Ada Elizabeth Kenny banns on 2 September 1906 at Islington St Mary "(The Year 1906) [...] No 1773 Banns of Marriage between George Wood bachelor and Ada Elizabeth Kenny widow both of this parish were published on the Three Sundays underwritten; That is to say 1st on Sunday 19th August, 2d on Sunday the 26th, 3d on Sunday the 2nd September", and another for George Wood aged 27, father James Wood, and Ada Elizabeth Kenny aged 28, father Henry Beale, on 9 September 1906 in Islington St Mary. "1906 Marriage solemnized at The Parish Church in the Parish of Islington in the County of Middlesex No 358 9th September 1906 George Wood aged 27, a bachelor and police constable, of 4 Fowler Road, father James Wood, a labourer, and Ada Elizabeth Kenny aged 28, a widow of 5 Harding Street, father Henry Beale, a cabman Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after banns in the presence of Henry William Beale and Mary Dupuis.
He had a daughter who was born and died in 1907 in Islington, and another daughter born there in 1910.
In the 1911 census as George Wood, born in Oxted, Surrey, a police constable in the Metropolitan Police Force, and living with his wife (Ada), daughter (Gladys), sister-in-law (Alice Beale), and nephew (Herbert Fox) in three rooms at 40 Liverpool Buildings, Islington N, London.
His second daughter died in Islington later that year.
His wife died in Marylebone in 1925.
Death of George Wood in FreeBMD in October-December 1950 aged 72 in Pancras (5d 358).
There are five entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for George Wood born in Oxted Surrey in 1879, parents James and Mary ann Wood. One entry adds his marriage to Ada Elizabeth Beale and a daughter.
George Wood was Felicity's third cousin three times removed.
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