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*ARC TBC* - - Benjamin Wood
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 11:50 pm
by BostinFittle1982
Benjamin Wood was one of 22 children. He was the son of Benjamin Wood and his second wife Emma Louisa. He was born in Kinver, Staffordshire abt 1890. He died during WW1 on 28th May 1917 in Flanders. He features in a book of the fallen from Langley, Worcestershire. It states:
Lance Corporal Benjamin Wood was employed at Brades Steel Works before the war, and was a member of the Oldbury Terriorials. He mobillised at the start of the war in the Worcestershire regiment (1935), before transfering to the Heavy Branch of the Machine Gun Corps, the forerunner of the Tanks Corps. He had been wounded twice, and twice had suffered shell shock. He was killed in a tragic accident, being run over by a train. He was the husband of Ann Wood of 5 Popes Lane, Oldbury, and they had one child.
Lance Corporal 76059 3rd Coy "A" Bty, Machine Gun Corps, Heavy Branch
Residence: Tat Bank, Popes Lane
Enlisted: Oldbury
Dided, F&F. 28/05/1917, aged 27
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, XII B 26
Oldbury Roll of Honour (The Oldbury Book of Memory)
Oldbury Weekly News 8/6/1917 and 15/6/1917 .
I have been unable to get a copy of either articles featured in the Oldbury Weekly News as it is being transfered to Mircofilm for Sandwell Archives. I have also been unable to find any details of his marriage to Ann or the birth of their child.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can solve these issues?
Re: Benjamin Wood
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 11:58 pm
by peterd
what was the name of his and ann child
Re: Benjamin Wood
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 8:28 am
by Northern Lass
Hi Bostin Fittle just moving this to General Discussion
if it becomes something that we cant help with will move it to Brick Walls
Re: Benjamin Wood
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 9:06 am
by BostinFittle1982
I'm not sure of the child's name it may be Maggie or Margaret
Re: Benjamin Wood
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 3:35 pm
by peterd
no idea when maggie / margaret was born ? as cannot find any after 1911 for black country area ?
this is the address given in cwgc
Husband of Annie Wood, of 5, Paper Lane, Oldbury, Birmingham.
Re: Benjamin Wood
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 3:54 pm
by peterd
1911 census poss 4
HOUSEHOLD WOOD BENJAMIN M 1896 15 West Bromwich Staffordshire
HOUSEHOLD WOOD BENJAMIN M 1893 18 Wolverhampton Staffordshire
HOUSEHOLD WOOD BENJAMIN M 1888 23 Stourbridge Worcestershire
HOUSEHOLD WOOD SIDNEY BENJAMIN M 1884 27 Stourbridge Worcestershire
Re: Benjamin Wood
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 4:27 pm
by grangers14
Moving to Brick Walls.
Jo
Re: Benjamin Wood
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:00 pm
by MarkCDodd
According to several Ancestry trees...
He married an Ann Dean (Annie E Dearn) in the 3rd quarter on 1914 in Kings Norton.
Marriages Sep 1914
WOOD Benjamin Dearn Kings N. 6d 234
Dearn Annie E Wood Kings N. 6d 234
There are three Wood children with a Dearn mother born in that period in West Brom (which covers Oldbury).
Which "one", if not all, are his I do not know.
Births Dec 1912
WOOD Maggie Dearn W.Bromwich 6b 1562
Births Dec 1914
WOOD Frederick Dearn W. Bromwich 6b 1517
Births Mar 1915
Wood Vera M Dearn W.Bromwich 6b 1668
There are photo's of his grave and a memorial on Ancestry if you have access.
Otherwise let me know via PM and I can e-mail them to you.
His father was a busy man wasn't he!
First child in 1872 and last in 1914.
Must have been good vitamins
Re: Benjamin Wood
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:29 pm
by BostinFittle1982
Thanks for the reply the pictures of his grave on ancestry are part of my tree on there. Do you know where in Kings Norton they got married?
Re: Benjamin Wood
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:23 am
by linell
Kings Norton Registration now comes under Birmingham, it did cover Northfield, Frankley, Harborne, Edgbaston.
Linell.
Re: Benjamin Wood
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:16 am
by BostinFittle1982
I did find out from an article in the Oldbury Weekly News dated from June 1917 that Annie had two brothers that were in the army Called George and Joseph. Unfortunately I can't find the three of them in any census. I don't have any DOB or place of birth for any of them
Re: Benjamin Wood
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:44 am
by MarkCDodd
19 Dudley Road, Oldbury in 1901.
Dearn Joseph 35 Head General Labourer Canseway Green, Worcestershire
Dearn Annie 32 Wife Cork, Ireland
Dearn Mabel 9 Daur Laugley, Worcestershire
Dearn Joseph 7 Son Brades, Worcestershire
Dearn Anne 5 Daur Brades, Worcestershire
Dearn George 3 Son Brades, Worcestershire
Price William 44 Boarder Plasterer --, Worcestershire
Re: Benjamin Wood
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 3:56 am
by Antie Em
Is this still a Brickwall, or have you solved it?
Unless otherwise advised this will be moved to the Brickwalls Archived section
within 24 hours