Frederic Owen Glynne Wood (1890 - 1941)

Born 26 Jul 1890 in Montréal, Québec, Canada

Ancestors

Died 19 Aug 1941 at age 51 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Frederic Owen Glynne Wood was born July 26, 1890 to Frederick Wood and Lizzie Griffiths Jones in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1891 Canadian census, Quebec, Hochelaga, St Gabriel Ward, District 154

• Frederick Wood 25
• Leza Wood 25
• Frederick Wood 8 months

1901 Canada Census, Toronto (west) (city), Ontario, Canada

• Lizzie Wood Wife F 34 England
• Fredrick Wood Son M 10 Qc
• Iver Wood Son M 8 Ontario
• Gwendolger Wood Daug F 4 Ontario
• John O Wood Son M 1 Ontario

1911 Canadian census, Toronto North Sub-Districts 1-10, Ontario, Canada

• Frederick Wood Head M 46 England
• Lizzie G Wood Wife F 46 England
• Frederick G Wood Son M 21 Quebec
• William J Wood Son M 19 Ontario,
• Owen G Wood Son M 11 Ontario
• Helen G Wood Daughter F 15 Ontario
• Edith R Wood Daughter F 9 Ontario

Frederic Owen Glynne Wood signed Canada, WWI CEF Attestation Papers, 1914-1918 on September 23, 1914. The number on the top right is C37340, Folio 455.

WW1 information

After the war, the Canadian Pacific S S Melita was involved in the mammoth undertaking of transporting American and Canadian soldiers back across the Atlantic, and shipping German prisoners of war that had been sent to North America back to their home. 

Frederic Owen Wood left Liverpool and arrived in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada on July 17, 1920 on the S S Melita.

1921 Canada Census, Toronto (north) (ward 3), 151 MacPherson, Ward 3

• Fred Wood Age 55 manufacturer
• Eliza Wood Age 55
• William Wood Age 27 Salesman
• Gwendolyn Wood Age 24
• Cgoen Wood Age 21
• Edith Wood Age 18

Frederic died at the Christie Street Hospital in Toronto, Ontario August 19, 1941 at the age of 51 after an operation for appendicitis. Cancer and peritonitis was found.

He was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto.

Research Notes

Need to find his paperwork for WW1, where he was, etc. Who he was with Canada or Britain, as many of the CEF were merged into British units.

Frederick "Owen Glynne" Jones is named after his uncle Owen Glynne Jones the famous rock climber who died on Dent Blanche, Switzerland in 1899.

The 1891 Census was begun on April 6, 1891 (he was 8/12 of a year old). On Frederick's WW1 Attestion papers his birth date is July 26, 1891 (he shouldn't have been born yet).

Sources

• Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 for F G Wood M Montréal Methodist West-End, Saint Joseph 1890
• Citing this Record "Canada Census, 1891," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWPJ-Y54 : 3 August 2016), Frederick Wood, St Gabriel Ward, Hochelaga, Quebec, Canada; Public Archives, Ottawa, Ontario; Library and Archives Canada film number 30953_148198.
• Citing this Record "Canada Census, 1901," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHGK-67K : 18 March 2018), Fredrick Wood in household of Lizzie Wood, Toronto (west/ouest) (city/cité), Ontario, Canada; citing p. 15, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
• Citing this Record "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27XM-FK2 : 16 March 2018), Frederick Wood, 1911; citing Census, Toronto North Sub-Districts 1-10, Ontario, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,418,526.
• Toronto Directories
• Citing this Record "Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922," database with images, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HG6-L82 : 11 March 2018), Frederic Owen Wood, Jul 1920; citing Immigration, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, T-14707, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
• [1] 1921 Canada Census
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154906199/fred-wood : accessed 18 January 2022), memorial page for MAJ Fred “Foggy” Wood (unknown–19 Aug 1941), Find A Grave: Memorial #154906199, citing Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Toronto Municipality, Ontario, Canada ; Maintained by Islington (contributor 47351667) .