Birth: 1833 Eastgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK,
Father: John Wood 1797-1864
Mother: Elizabeth Locker 1796-1881
Christening: 22 December 1833 Saint Peter, Eastgate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK
Marriage: 21 April 1857 St Mary, Lambeth, Surrey, UK
Wife: Matilda Bletso (Blitso) 1833-1871
Marriage: 20 September 1873 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Wife: Fanny Elizabeth Sarah Ann Wattson [Heavers, White] 1832-1889
Death: 1873-1883
By Maltilda
Louise Wood 1858
George Wood 1859-1942
Ellen Wood 1862
Alfred Wood 1863
Emma Wood 1866
Frederick Arthur Wood 1868-a1871
Frank Wood 1870-a1871
Two entries in Ancestry All England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Mark Wood on 22 December 1833 at Saint Peter Eastgate, Lincoln, Lincoln, parents John and Elizabeth Wood.
In the 1841 census as Mark Wood aged 7, born in Lincolnshire, and living with John (father?), Elizabeth (mother?), Charles (brother?) and Elizabeth (sister?) at 15 Langworth Gate, St Peter in Eastergate, Lincolnshire.
In the 1851 census as Mark Wood aged aged 18, single and a servant living with John Bainbrigge Story (aged 38, born in Woodbrough, Nottinghamshire, and a magistrate), his wife (Frances Maria aged 38 and born in Darley, Derbyshire), his son (Robert Laycock aged 9 and born in Lockington, Leicestershire), daughter (Emily Mary aged 5 and born in Lockington, Leicestershire), sister-in-law (Emily Mary Holden, born in Locko, Derbyshire), a visitor (William Hadfield Rhodes aged 27, born in Hatfield, Yorkshire), and twelve other servants at Mariner's House, Lockington, Leicestershire.
Marriage of Mark Wood and Matilda Bletso in FreeBMD in April-June 1857 in Lambeth (1d 497).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for the banns of Mark Wood and Matilda Blitso 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, Northamptonshire, Bachelor, and and Matilda Blitso of this Parish, Spinster 21 April".
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Mark Wood, father John Wood, and Matilda Bletso 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."
His daughter was born in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire in 1858 and son in Brixworth, Northamptonshire in 1860
In the 1861 census as Mark Wood aged 27, born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, a station master and living with his wife (Matilda), son (George) and daughter (Louisa) in the Railway Station, Brixworth, Northamptonshire.
His children were born in Brixworth until 1870.
Entry in Ancestry Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 for Mark Wood aged 38 arrived in Quebec, Quebec, Canada on 21 August 1870 on Moravian from Liverpool, England accompanied by two sons (Alfred and George).
Entry in Ancestry U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s for Mark Wood aged 37 in Ontario, Canada in 1871.
In the 1871 Canadian census for Mark Wood aged 37, born in England, an engineer and living with his wife (Matilda), four sons (Alfreed, Frack, Fredrick and George) and three daughters (Ellene, Emma, and Louise) living in Woodstock Town, Oxford North, Ontario.
His wife died in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada on 20 September 1871.
Entry in Ancestry Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928, 1933-1934 for Mark Wood aged 38 born in England, parents John and Elizabeth Wood, of ?, Ontario, widowed, a ? at ? Mills, and Fanny Elizabeth Sarah Jane Hevers aged 38, born in England, parents James and Fanny Watson, of ?, Ontario, widowed, both Methodists and married by license on 20 September 1873 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
I cannot find an entry for his death, but his wife married James White in Bromley, Middlesex, UK in 1883 stating she was a widow. I cannot locate him in the 1881 census.
There is are eighteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Mark Wood.
Mark Wood was the husband of Fanny Elizabeth Sarah Ann Wattson, wife of Thomas Brown Heavers, father of John Thomas Heavers, husband of Clara Elizabeth Cowles, my grandaunt.
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