Henry
Woodward
Born in Marlcliff, Bidford on Avon, Warwickshire, England
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Brother of
Elizabeth (Woodward) Crawford, William Woodward, Thomas Woodward, Sarah Susannah (Woodward) Cutler, Selina Ann (Woodward) Nixon and Francis Griest Woodward
Husband of
Deborah (Griffin) Woodward
— married
4 Jun 1849 (to 29 Dec 1863) in Erin Twship, Wellington, Ontario, Canada [uncertain]
[uncertain] Husband of
Rachel (Tarzwell) Woodward
— married
18 Mar 1864 in Middlemiss, Ontario, Canada [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Father of
Emerson Woodward, Sarah Elizabeth (Woodward) Matthews, Eleanor (Woodward) Irwin, Maria Jane (Woodward) Clapperton, Alice Anne (Woodward) Irwin, Deborah Etta (Woodward) Carswell, William Emerson Woodward, Francis James Woodward, Joseph Henry Woodward, Francis Daniel Woodward, Emma (Woodward) Cook and James Malcom Woodward
Died
at age 85
in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Mar 2016
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Biography
Henry was born about 1822 and came to Ontario, Canada with his parents in 1826 at the age of 4.
He married twice and had 10 children. Five from his first wife Deborah Griffin and five from his second wife Rachal. Married names of children were: Sarah Jane Clapperton, Eleanor Irwin (School Teacher at Lower Nicola), Mrs J. Irwin, Mrs E. Carswell, Mrs F.P. Cook, Mrs Thos Matthews, Frank Joseph Woodward, Jim Woodward, Emerson Woodward.
Henry came to Lower Nicola in 1874 (54 years old) and started a pig farm.[1] It was said that he was an intelligent and financially astute farmer. He walked the pigs to to Spences Bridge where they were put on trains to Vancouver.
He passed away in 1908.[2]
Research Notes
- Death record has his age at 67 which would make his birth year about 1841. This age may have been recorded incorrectly.
Sources
- ↑ "Canada Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV6S-BM1 : 2 March 2021), Henry Woodward, Nicola, Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, Canada; from "1881 Canadian Census." Database with images. Ancestry. (www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing Henry Woodward, citing Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
- ↑ "British Columbia Death Registrations," online database with images. Entry for Henry Woodward; Registration Number: 1908-09-201166, Kamloops, 1908-09-06, Age at Death: 67. Not digitized. http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy Royal British Columbia Museum: BC Archives (royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/genealogy : accessed 13 Nov 2021).
See also:
- Family History Papers; Nicola Valley Museum, Merritt; Merritt Herald Newspaper.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Henry by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Henry:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Henry by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Henry:
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Stephen Bailey 
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23andMe, GEDmatch M679513 [compare]
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Stacy (Bergot) Campbell :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A209901 [compare], Ancestry member SunflowerRae
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