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Fanny Wood (151)
03/11/1815 –11/06/1887
Fanny Wood (151)
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Fanny (Frances) Wood (née Norris) (1815-1887)
Fanny was born 3 November 1815 in Berkhamsted and baptised 21 Apr 1816 at St Peter’s. Her parents were George Norris (1794-1854), a whitesmith (that is, a smith who does finishing work on metals and also works with light metals, especially tin) and Charlotte (b. 1796) (née Grover). She was the oldest of their eight children and the sister of Martha, whose husband, William Hurst, is buried in Plot x48.
She married James Wood, a Berkhamsted-born wireworker, ten years her senior, at St Sepulchre in the City of London 2 November 1839. Why they married in London is unknown: one possibility is that Fanny may have been in service there.
By 1841 the census shows their first child, James, born that year. By 1851 there were four children James, Henry, Augustus and Ann.
Another boy, Arthur, was born in 1854 (he died March 1860 and was buried with his parents) and the last child, William, in 1857. Fanny and James’s gravestone also records the loss of three more children as infants.
James died on 30 January 1861 only nine months after the death of Arthur, leaving Fanny, a grieving widow, to carry on the business with her two elder sons as F. Wood & Son. In the census of April that year all three are listed as iron and wirework manufacturers.
Ten years later James has taken over, was married with two small children and was employing four men and two boys in the iron making business. Fanny, and her youngest son William, who was still at school, were living with James.
In April 1881 Fanny had moved away to live with her unmarried sister Elizabeth Norris, a dressmaker, on the High Street close to Raven’s Lane. Fanny is described in the Census as an annuitant. Also living with them was their eleven year old niece Annie Hurst, the orphaned child of their sister Martha Norris who had married William Hurst.
Fanny died 11th June 1887.
Her son James and his wife are buried in plot 678.
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Fanny (Frances) Wood (née Norris) (1815-1887)
Fanny was born 3 November 1815 in Berkhamsted and baptised 21 Apr 1816 at St Peter’s. Her parents were George Norris (1794-1854), a whitesmith (that is, a smith who does finishing work on metals and also works with light metals, especially tin) and Charlotte (b. 1796) (née Grover). She was the oldest of their eight children and the sister of Martha, whose husband, William Hurst, is buried in Plot x48.
She married James Wood, a Berkhamsted-born wireworker, ten years her senior, at St Sepulchre in the City of London 2 November 1839. Why they married in London is unknown: one possibility is that Fanny may have been in service there.
By 1841 the census shows their first child, James, born that year. By 1851 there were four children James, Henry, Augustus and Ann.
Another boy, Arthur, was born in 1854 (he died March 1860 and was buried with his parents) and the last child, William, in 1857. Fanny and James’s gravestone also records the loss of three more children as infants.
James died on 30 January 1861 only nine months after the death of Arthur, leaving Fanny, a grieving widow, to carry on the business with her two elder sons as F. Wood & Son. In the census of April that year all three are listed as iron and wirework manufacturers.
Ten years later James has taken over, was married with two small children and was employing four men and two boys in the iron making business. Fanny, and her youngest son William, who was still at school, were living with James.
In April 1881 Fanny had moved away to live with her unmarried sister Elizabeth Norris, a dressmaker, on the High Street close to Raven’s Lane. Fanny is described in the Census as an annuitant. Also living with them was their eleven year old niece Annie Hurst, the orphaned child of their sister Martha Norris who had married William Hurst.
Fanny died 11th June 1887.
Her son James and his wife are buried in plot 678.
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