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Moses Dymock Wood (1875 - 1947)

Moses Dymock Wood
Born in Barbados Farm, Gartmore, Perthshire, Scotlandmap
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Husband of — married about 1908 [location unknown]
Died at age 72 in Sea Point Nursing Home, Cape Town, South Africamap
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Biography

Moses had a twin sister, Margaret, and after he emigrated to South Africa they kept in touch. In the record of his death his occupation is given as salesman.

1881 census (388/5/13 page13) of Gartmore, Port of Menteith, Perthshire, Scotland: - at New Easterhill Farm;

Andrew Wood, head, 40, farmer of 365 acres, 117 arable, employing one man and one boy, born Port of Menteith;
Maggie Wood, wife, 38, born Port of Menteith;
Jessie Stewart Dymock Wood, daughter, 12, scholar, born Port of Menteith;
Daniel Fergusson Wood, son,10, scholar, born Port of Menteith;
Agnes Wood, daughter, 8, scholar, born Port of Menteith;
Moses Wood, son, 5, scholar, born Port of Menteith;
Andrew Wood, son, 4, scholar, born Port of Menteith;
Maggie Wood, daughter, 5, scholar, born Port of Menteith;
Thomas Gow, boarder, 26, farm servant, born Port of Menteith;
Peter Robertson, boarder,16, farm servant, born Kippen, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

1891 census (388/5/2 page2) of Gartmore, Port of Menteith, Perthshire, Scotland: - at New Easterhill farm;

Andrew Wood, head, 50, farmer, born Port of Menteith;
Margaret Wood, wife, 48, born Port of Menteith;
Jessie S D Wood, daughter, unmarried, 22, born Port of Menteith,
Daniel F Wood, son, unmarried, 20, born Port of Menteith;
Agnes F Wood, daughter, unmarried, 18, born Port of Menteith;
Moses Wood, son,15, scholar, born Port of Menteith;
Maggie Wood, daughter,15, scholar, born Port of Menteith;
William Wood, son, 9, scholar, born Port of Menteith;
Robert Ferris, boarder, 37, annuitant, imbecile, born Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland;
Patrick Walsh, boarder, 35, annuitant, imbecile, born Ireland.

1901 census (644/9 39/4 page 4) of Barony, Blytheswood, Glasgow, Scotland: - at Newton street;

Louisa Ferrier, head, widow, 40, keeper of lodgers, born England; Beatrice Ferrier, daughter, 18, born Glasgow;
Moses Wood, lodger, 25, drapery warehouseman, born Gartmore, Perthshire, Scotland;
John Smith, lodger, 20, stationer, born Whitburn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland;
John Black, lodger, 23, joiner, born Aberdeen, Scotland;
Christopher J Healey, lodger, 34, solicitor, born New York.


Sources

  • Census returns obtained from scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Also family Knowledge, and the birth certificate of his daughter Margaret,

  • Information taken from extracts from the Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland 1855-date, the Old Parochial Registers of Scotland 1553-1854 and assorted transcriptions of graveyard and burial records, held by John M Sutherland-Fisher
  • Private papers and family correspondence in the collection of John M Sutherland-Fisher




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