Researching Edmund Wood
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 95422 people with the Wood surname? In that year Wood was ranked number 16 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Edmund Wood on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Edmund Wood in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Edmund Wood and the Wood Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Wood Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Wood family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Edmund Wood at Find My Past.
Check out for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Edmund Wood using the FreeBMD database.
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Investigate the LDS Database for records about Edmund Wood.
Research the Wood surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Wood Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 105866 people with the Wood surname in the UK? Wood is now ranked number 22 for popularity in the UK. |
Wood Family History Databases
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Search the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Edmund Wood.
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Wood Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 297748 people with the Wood surname in the USA? Wood is ranked number 65 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Wood Databases
Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Edmund Wood. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Edmund Wood
Edmund Burke Wood
Edmund Burke Wood (February 13, 1820 – October 7, 1882) was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Brant South, and served as the first provincial treasurer of Ontario from 1867 to 1871 under Premier John Sandfield Macdonald. He also served as a federal Member of Parliament representing the electoral districts of Brant South and Durham West from 1867–1874 under Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald.
He later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Manitoba from 1874 to 1882. He died as Chief Justice in 1882.
Source: Edmund Burke Wood, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaEdmund Wood (footballer)
Edmund Eli Wood (10 February 1903 – 1 June 1986) was an English professional footballer who made 60 appearances in the Football League playing for Northampton Town, Birmingham and Newcastle United. He played as a centre half.
Wood was born in Stirchley, which was then in Worcestershire and became part of Birmingham in 1911, and played for Redditch and Rhyl Athletic before joining Northampton Town. He played 50 games in the Third Division South for Northampton, then moved to First Division club Birmingham in 1925, where he played only one first-team game. After another spell with Rhyl Wood returned to the First Division to play nine times for Newcastle United before going back to Rhyl yet again. He died in Northampton in 1986 at the age of 83.
He was the nephew of another Edmund Wood, also a footballer, who was awarded a medal in the 1901-1902 West Bromwich Charity Cup.
Source: Edmund Wood (footballer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaEdmund Wood (British politician)
Edmund Walter Hanbury Wood (16 November 1898 – 12 December 1947) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Born in London, Wood was the younger son of Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet (1857–1951), by his second wife Gertrude (died 1927), who was the third daughter of the second Lord Bateman.
He was educated at Stubbington House School and Eton College, and the Royal Military College Sandhurst. He graduated from Sandhurst in 1917 at the height of the First World War, receiving a commission in the 2nd Life Guards. He left the army in 1920 with the rank of major.
He was elected at the 1924 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stalybridge and Hyde,but was defeated at the 1929 general election and did not stand for parliament again.
Wood was the chairman of the London Municipal Society, and in 1932 he was elected to fill a vacancy in the representation of Westminster St Georges on the London County Council. A member of the minority party on the council, the Conservative-backed Municipal Reform Party, he was chief whip of the party from 1937 to 1940. He stood down from the council at the 1946 election.
He died at his home, Hengrave Lodge near Bury St Edmunds, aged 49, after a long illness.
Source: Edmund Wood (British politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Wood
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