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Joshua Wood
Joshua Wood, had married Alice Broadhead in Cumberworth on 18 May 1752. Joshua was from
Penistone and Alice was recorded at Cumberworth as "of this parish". They had six children
Joshua died in 1786 at Cumberworth. He was a wool manufacturer and
farmer and his son John and two others valued his possessions - household goods (such as a piggin, a warming pan, an
iron bakestone, a sett pot, a dresser and pewter dishes), farm stock (such as a cow, two heifers, chickens, two horses and a
cart all valued at £21 9s 11d and hay, corn, harrows, ploughs and manure all worth £15 6s), cloth (such as finished cloth
worth £30, size and redwood worth 18 guneas) and working tools (such as a cloth press, a spinning jenny, a pair of looms,
a pair of cards, a dye vat and a tenter worth £26).
John
Wood
born about 1750
John Wood "had the honour of introducing Methodism into the Dale, and the credit during many years of being its
principal supporter... Mr John Wood was thrice married;
by his first wife, he had four sons3 and one daughter...Mr Wood's only daughter was, in
after years, the third wife of Mr. Joseph Thornton, of Huddersfield, the
father of the Rev. W. L. Thornton, M.A. was was elected Representative to
the American Methodist Episcopal Churches in 1863..."
"The removal of Mr. Wood to his
home in heaven was improved in the presence of a large audience, by Mr.
John Turton, one of his old and tried friends. The service took place in
the Dale chapel".1
According to notes written about the Wood Family titled "Descendents of Amos Burdett2, "John (1755-1831) was a keen Wesleyan Methodist. He was a member of the Shelley Methodist Chapel until 1797 when
Shelley went over to the New Connection.
As John was a woollen manufacturer in Denby Dykeside (Denby Dale) he then
began holding meetings in his warehouse at Field House and Old Well House. (He produced Orleans fabric made of a
cotton warp and worsted weft but did not patent the method.)
Later he bought land on Cumberworth Lane and he and his
brother Joseph had a chapel built there. The chapel opened in 1799. He also had a minister's house built next to the chapel
and the total cost was £729. The chapel was in the Barnsley Circuit until 1813. Also in 1813 John's firm, John Wood and
Sons, is mentioned in a trade directory. His children married and had children and lived locally and the grandchildren
went to visit their grandfather, John, on their way to morning worship at the chapel. Like many men of the time John was
skilled in herbal remedies.
In 1831 John died and was buried on 19 September at St. Nicholas' Church, Cumberworth and
the sons continued with the business.However between 1831 and 1848 the worsted textile business had financial difficulties and the sons used to pray at the
chapel to ask that the business might once again prosper."2
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John
Wood & Anne Wheen
John Wood was probably born around the 1780s.
Ann Wheen is identified in the International Genealogical Index (IGI) as
being born in 1785 (details supplied by a LDS Church member rather than
from the original parish records).
John Wood junior and Ann Wheen were married
on 25th July 1825 in the Parish Church of Silkstone. Witness at the wedding
were John Wood and W (?) Wheen.
John and Ann had three children. Mary,
Charles, and Mrs T. Richardson.
Mrs T. Richardson : I have not located any
information about her on the IGI, but she is mentioned in the book titled A
memoir of James Wood including notices of other members of his family
James Wood was the husband of Mary, and
according to the book, her first cousin. The book was published in 1883
after the death of James. It describes both John Wood (Mary's father) and
the deathbed scene of Mrs Richardson, Mary's sister -:
"Another Mr John Wood.. he too was well
known as a benevolent man.. He appears of have excelled in business energy.
Unhappily his views were regarded as quixotic by his brothers; yet divested
of some slight trappings, they will be seen simply to have aimed at
securing a first-class market for their goods, instead of a third-class
one".
"This worthy gentleman married Miss Ann
Whern of Wink House, York. By her, he had three children ; the only one
alive now is Mrs James Wood, the relict of the subject of this
memoir."
The parish record of John & Anne's
marriage in 1805 records that Anne was living at Wink House, York at the
time of her marriage.
"An announcement of the wedding :
'Cousin Mary and I were married yesterday at Manchester, and are on our way
to Patley Bridge'...Two days after their marriage, a visit was paid to the
grave of Mrs Wood's only sister. She became the wife of the Rev. T.
Richardson. Her itinerancy was a short one -eighteen months- at the close
of which she died at Patley Bridge".
Charles
William Wood
& Anne Turton
Charles
Wood was born in 1815, his wife in 1814
According
to their marriage entry, they were married at the Parish Church of
Penistone in the County of York of the 26 June 1839.
The entry
lists the names of their fathers as John Wood, manufacturer, and Thomas
Turton, surgeon.
Witness
were Henry Wood, Joshua Wood and Thomas Turton junior.
Charles
occupation is given as manufacturer. In the 1851 census, it is given as
commercial traveler. At the time of the 1851 census, the family was living
at Leak Hill Green in Denbydale
Notes
1. "A memoir of James Wood including notices of other members of his family" by Thomas
Williams (1883)
2. "Descendants of Amos BURDETT 26 Mar 2008"
by Lyn Owers
3."A memoir of James Wood" states that
John Wood had four sons and a daughter. And the sons are identified as John,
Joshua, James, and Joseph. The information in the wood family tree from the
notes on "Amos Burdetts' descendents" identifies a fifth son, William.
The memoir was written in 1883 after the death of John's grandson James.
In 1883, many of John's grandchildren, including James' wife Mary, were
in contact with the author of the memoir. If William died early, it is
possible that these descendents did not know of the existence of William.
Equally it is possible that one or other of the sources are incorrect.
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