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From: "Rosemary Wood" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-YKS-LEEDS] Roll call
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:48:42 +0100
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Roy
Could you possibly tell me what a SLUBBER was? I have just received a
certificate and the occupation of the brides father is recorded as this,
presumably it is something to do with the cloth trade. Thanks in
anticipation
Rosemary Wood
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From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
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Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [ENG-YKS-LEEDS] Roll call


> From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
>
> > From: "Rosemary Wood" <>
> >
> > > I am also trying to find Christoher
> > > Richard's father and mother, he was Charles WOOD and she was
> > > Sarah (nee WOOD) I have no idea where they came from and
> >> cannot find them on the 1881 census Christopher Richard was born
> >> 13th August 1838 at New Lane, Meadow Lane I have reason to
> >> believe that Christopher used his second name of Richard.<
> >
> > This family seems a possible in the 1851 (NOTE: Fifty-one).....
> >
> > Piece no. 2295, folio 115/16
> > Address: 46 Leeds Rd, Huddersfield
> >
> > WOOD Charles, marr, 37, cloth dresser, born Barnsley
> > WOOD Sarah, wife, 37, born Leeds
> > WOOD John, 17, cloth dresser, born Leeds
> > WOOD Martha, 15, wool carder, ditto
> > WOOD Richard, 13, clother dresser, ditto
> > WOOD Sarah Ann, 8, scholar, ditto
> > WOOD Ann, visitor, 74, house keeper, born Barnsley
> >
> > Ann Wood was probably Charles's mother.>
>
> And the IGI has a marriage for Charles WOOD to Sarah WOOD at
> Leeds St Peter on 4 March 1832 (batch no. M071934, source the BTs).
>
> I trust I have now supplied you with more than enough information to take
> it from here yourself?
>
> --
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