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Ernest Wood (253)
1870 –03/06/1947
Ernest Wood (253)
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Ernest Wood (1870-1947)
Ernest, born in 1870, was the second child, and eldest son, of James Wood and his wife Ann (née Timson) who are buried in plot 678. He was baptised at St Peter’s 27 February 1870.
Ernest followed his father into the family iron working business and the 1891 census records him as living with his parents and working as an iron fence maker.
In 1895 he married Mary Hannah Hawkins, the daughter of George and Mary Hawkins of Lodge Farm, Wiggington.
The young couple moved into their own home at 17, Boxwell Road where their first daughter, Constance Mary, was born in 1897. Dorothy Avis followed in 1902.
In 1901 Ernest is still described in the census as ‘Iron fence maker’, but by 1911, when the family had moved into a more substantial house with seven rooms, at 264, High Street, he is an ‘iron fence maker and hot water engineer’, an employer and ‘working from home.’
The family were still at 264 in 1921 but by then Ernest is described as a mechanical engineer and employer.
Just before the outbreak of war he is recorded in the 1939 register as ‘General engineer (master)’ and they have moved back to Boxwell Road, to number 19.
Ernest died 3 June 1947.
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Ernest Wood (1870-1947)
Ernest, born in 1870, was the second child, and eldest son, of James Wood and his wife Ann (née Timson) who are buried in plot 678. He was baptised at St Peter’s 27 February 1870.
Ernest followed his father into the family iron working business and the 1891 census records him as living with his parents and working as an iron fence maker.
In 1895 he married Mary Hannah Hawkins, the daughter of George and Mary Hawkins of Lodge Farm, Wiggington.
The young couple moved into their own home at 17, Boxwell Road where their first daughter, Constance Mary, was born in 1897. Dorothy Avis followed in 1902.
In 1901 Ernest is still described in the census as ‘Iron fence maker’, but by 1911, when the family had moved into a more substantial house with seven rooms, at 264, High Street, he is an ‘iron fence maker and hot water engineer’, an employer and ‘working from home.’
The family were still at 264 in 1921 but by then Ernest is described as a mechanical engineer and employer.
Just before the outbreak of war he is recorded in the 1939 register as ‘General engineer (master)’ and they have moved back to Boxwell Road, to number 19.
Ernest died 3 June 1947.
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