James Woods (abt. 1835 - abt. 1870)

Born about 1835 in County Tyrone, Ireland

Descendants

Died about 1870 at about age 35 in County Tyrone, Ireland

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John was born about 1835. John Woods ... He passed away about 1870. ^[1]

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James Woods was born in 1834 in Strabane, Co Tyrone and in 1864 he died from an unknown disease, possibly Typhoid. Around 1859 James married Jane Gordon who was born in Scotland and according to a family story, Jane had come over to Ireland with her father, who was a Scottish Wool Trader, there she met James and fell in love with him. Because of Jane's father disapproval of them getting married, they ran away and married. A year later their first baby was born and her name was Sarah Jane Woods, born in 1860, then in 1862 a son was born who they named James. Jane was having their third child when James Woods died in January 1864. She was distitute and desparate with no place to live, two young children and another one on the way. She ended up going into the Strabane Workhouse and this is where the third child was born on the 3rd May 1864, his name is John Woods.

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1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Coralie Hamilton, Saturday, April 19, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.

See also:

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• Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911

Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958