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- The only John Wood with the right date and place of birth on the 1851 Census was aged 34 and living with his brother Francis (30) and sister Jane (25) at 33 Elizabeth Street, Westminster. He was a Master Butcher and employed 5 men as journeyman butchers, 4 of whom lived with him. His sister worked as his housekeeper and there was a servant, Elizabeth Smith, a 41-year-old widow. His wife, however, is not in evidence.
There is no record of John Wood on the 1861 Census. However, he appears on his son Vernon's birth certificate (1868) as a Master Butcher living at 3 East Hill Terrace, Wandsworth, Surrey.
Three years later, the 1871 Census shows him living at 11 Victoria Road, Clapham, Surrey (which seems to have disappeared from the map by 1930) with his wife, Sarah (43), their 4 children aged between 3 and 10 and his ‘sister’ Emma Kelly (32). They shared their house with a housemaid, Abigail King (23) and a cook from Battersea, Helena S Perks (19). Emma Kelly is listed as unmarried in 1871. The Census record is incorrect. She was not John's sister but his sister-in-law. That John's wife's maiden name was Kelly is not in doubt.
By the time of the 1881 Census John is a Retired Master Butcher, aged 64, living at 11 Victoria Road, Clapham, Surrey with his wife, Sarah (53), his sister Emma (42), two of his children, Florence (20) and Harold (17) and two servants, Lucy Joel (26), a cook, and Emma New (20), a housemaid. Two other children, Vernon and Russell, were away at school in Bishops Stortford.
The 1891 Census has John (74) and Sarah (63) still living with their three eldest children, now aged 30, 25 and 24 at the same address. Emma New, the servant of 10 years ago has moved on and seems to have been replaced by two of her sisters, Caroline (26) the housemaid and Laura (19) the cook. John is living on his own means, Harold is a warehouseman and Russell is now practising as a Chartered Accountant.
The family were probably Methodists, a conclusion drawn from the choice of school for Vernon and Russell and the fact that at least one child was baptised at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster.
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Abt 1817 - Bef 1892 (< 75 years)
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