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from the meopham/luddesdown/ northfleet area of kent
g/fathers
alfred harold wood 1893
georg wood 1956 wed treadwell
thomas wood 1787 wed lynds
reuben wood 1826 wed goodwin
henry wood 1760 wed rummy
henry 1737 wed crowhurst
thomas wood1712 wed bolton

Stephen, if you'd like help finding particular people (ancestors or descendants), you could give some more info - names, birthdates, marriages, children ...

Lots of other members here who are unrelated stand ready and willing to help!

The odds of related people seeing your post are close to nil -- and with so little info in your post, and such a common surname, they might not recognize the connection even then.

Also, to add to Janey's comment, if you are looking for living relatives, then it's a good idea to put some family names into the search tree facility above and see if there are any connections in trees on this site.

If you are hoping to work backwards, then I would recommend Medway City Ark as an excellent resource. It covers all the parishes you mention and I have been able to trace relatives on there way back to the 1600's. It is great fun and I would willingly help you if you needed assistance. Oh yes.......and it's free to search too!

Regards. Cx.

Must add this! Have just checked my family tree...and...yes...there is a William Wood from Meopham who marries a distant relative of mine way back in the middle of the 19th C. !! lol Cx.

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride, me -- someday, I'll get a cousin too! ;)

....but what a bridesmaid!!



Never took you for the 'blushing bride' role somehow!!


lol. Cx.

After contact from Stephen via pm regret no connection. Must have been a lot of Woods in Meopham!! Cx.

Ah, Stephen has added names to the opening post.

Tip, Stephen - do add a new post too (the purple Reply button at the top of the thread) because that way
(a) people who have posted in it see that there's something new when we click on our "My threads" list
(b) your thread rises to the top of the list on the Trying to Find board

An edit can be missed otherwise.

You're looking for descendants of those people then? (Should George Wood 1956 be 1856?)

The places you name are in Strood registration district. Could this be Alfred Harold Wood's marriage? I just searched at FreeBMD for the marriage of an Alfred H Wood 1911-1920 in Kent:

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

Marriages Sep 1918
Hills May Wood Strood 2a 1733
Wood Alfred H Hills Strood 2a 1733

You can search for their children at FreeBMD by searching for Wood births with mother Hill after 1918. I see only one in Strood district. Since the name is Harold, it seems likely that is the right Alfred's marriage.

-- edit -- Ancestry (more up to date index) shows another birth in Strood in 1931.

Cynthia -- my best friend is named Meopham, does that count?? ;)

Janey - nope. Place names don't count. Never heard of Meopham as a name before.....is it where they were .....er.....er.........hm.........'began life' ?Reminds me of Brooklyn Beckham.

Actually, now that Stephen has added those names, I must do some more checking as Goodwin is one of my main trees.....!!!



Cx.

Okay, I'm going to eat my words. The name that Stephen first gave me didn't fit in at all but, looking at the names he has now added and going through our mutual trees, there is, indeed, a connection.



So, what colour outfit for the bridesmaid then Janey??? lol

Cynthia, it's a surname, you twit. ;) With a slight spelling variation, but it derives from the place.

Dark rose, if you please -- as long as you prove the connection! And I'm partial to calla lilies. Since I don't believe in wedding thingies myself, may as well take advantage. Seriously -- related? Details. Second cousin four times removed, that sort of thing.

A surname? Well, that's a relief!



Love the colour. Googled the meaning of Calla lilies.........'magnificent beauty' ......what more can one say??



Relationship? Heaven's above! Doubt it even registers on a relationship chart but will check.



Cx.

Stephen's relative married my first cousin five times removed!!


I think.


Wish I knew what Stephen was looking for.


All this and the CSI Trilogy too! Too much brain work. at this time of night (for me anyway)....lol.


Cx.

Okay Janey, could do with some help here please. I have received the following pm from Stephen (do wish he would reply on here!)


hi
i am trying to find mt g/father alfred harold wood
born 14/02/1893 northfleet wed may hills 22/08/1918
last know where abouts 1935 merchant navy paid off a ship next info on my dads marrage cert in 1938 it says he is dead
i used a search fom kew on deaths from 1935 to 1938 but they could find nothing
steve


I have found Alfred's birth...............
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Births Mar 1893 (>99%)
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Wood Alfred Harold Strood 2a 557



....and you found his marriage. Stephen is obviously looking for the death. I have looked at Ancestry but could find nothing. As I am still a novice, only having been a member on there since Christmas, wondered if you could spot something I was missing. I am sure you will at least be able to give us a possible reason as to what may have happened or could point me in the right direction as to where to look next.

You're very kind. Thank you! That colour really suits you.



By the way, had an overnight thought. If my parents had gone down the Beckham way of naming children, you could now be corresponding with someone called 'Broadstairs'........lol......not that keen on 'Cynthia', but prefer it to the alternative!! Cx.

I wonder whether he died outside England? Being in the merchant navy and all.

I don't know nuttin about records of deaths of that sort. Is that something that FMP might have?

Is there any possibility he wasn't dead in 1938, just completely estranged from the family and whereabouts unknown?

Sorry about the delay - been to a funeral.


Right. Haven't a clue but will pm Stephen back with these thoughts.. After that I guess it's going to remain one of life's little mysteries.


Thanks for getting back to me. Cx.

thanks cynthia and janey
as you can see i might be getting the hang of this
yes it looks as if i have come to a full stop on my alfred harold wood born 1918 but i just notice on the 1911 cencus he down as harold wood
but that all i can get
by the way are you from meopham area
steve

I was ahead of you on that one, Stephen. ;) Had been searching for deaths as Harold but to no avail.

Me, I'm in Canada -- have ancestors from Canterbury, but that's the closest I get. ;)

If you browse some threads here (be sure to click to view the entire Trying to Find board, if you happen to be looking only at the Wood surname board) you'll see there are lots of us nosey helpful people hanging around poking in other people's trees!

I do hate failures like this one -- but I still wonder whether he died at sea or elsewhere. Or just upped and disappeared.

Hi Stephen. Doesn't look ike you're going to have much luck with your grandfather does it? What a shame....never mind, you never know what may turn up in the future. Kind regards. Cx.


ps. glad you made it onto here!