Biography:
Eleanor Sarah Wood
12/11/1866 –10/04/1941
Eleanor Sarah Wood
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Eleanor Sarah Wood (née Dettmer) Plot FHS 656
Eleanor was born 12 November 1866 at 56, Willes Road, Kentish Town, Middlesex. She was the third child of Charles Atto Dettmer (1835-96), of German origin and from a large family of piano makers, and Elizabeth Ann Wood (1838-1920) who was no relation to the Wood family that Eleanor married into. The family moved to the St Pancras area, centre of the piano making industry in London.
On 209 November 1886 she married James William (also known as William James) Wood (1863-1960), the son of William James and Eliza Wood, with whom she is buried. Her husband was a piano tuner working with his father in their music business.
In 1891 she and her husband with their son Gilbert Dettmer Wood (born 1888) were living in the High Street next door to her brother-in-law Alfred and his wife Elizabeth (buried in plot 203). By 1901 her husband had taken over the family music business on his father’s retirement and they were living at 90, High Street at the Music Warehouse, built by her father-in-law and still standing on the corner of Manor Street (now a pharmacy).
Her second son Harold Arthur was born in 1895 and by 1911 the family had moved to Lower King’s Road where they occupied a house built around the music shop, occupying what is now 14-20.
When her husband retired they moved to Adeyfield Road in Hemel Hempstead.
Eleanor died 10 April 1941. William James outlived her by many years and died in Broadstairs in 1960 at the age of 97.
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Eleanor Sarah Wood (née Dettmer) Plot FHS 656
Eleanor was born 12 November 1866 at 56, Willes Road, Kentish Town, Middlesex. She was the third child of Charles Atto Dettmer (1835-96), of German origin and from a large family of piano makers, and Elizabeth Ann Wood (1838-1920) who was no relation to the Wood family that Eleanor married into. The family moved to the St Pancras area, centre of the piano making industry in London.
On 209 November 1886 she married James William (also known as William James) Wood (1863-1960), the son of William James and Eliza Wood, with whom she is buried. Her husband was a piano tuner working with his father in their music business.
In 1891 she and her husband with their son Gilbert Dettmer Wood (born 1888) were living in the High Street next door to her brother-in-law Alfred and his wife Elizabeth (buried in plot 203). By 1901 her husband had taken over the family music business on his father’s retirement and they were living at 90, High Street at the Music Warehouse, built by her father-in-law and still standing on the corner of Manor Street (now a pharmacy).
Her second son Harold Arthur was born in 1895 and by 1911 the family had moved to Lower King’s Road where they occupied a house built around the music shop, occupying what is now 14-20.
When her husband retired they moved to Adeyfield Road in Hemel Hempstead.
Eleanor died 10 April 1941. William James outlived her by many years and died in Broadstairs in 1960 at the age of 97.
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