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to view a picture of the person73. Mary BURDETT was christened on 3 Jun 1787 in St. Michael's Church, Emley, Yorkshire. She was born about 1787 in Denby Dale, Yorkshire. She was buried on 21 Feb 1856 in St. Nicholas' Church, Cumberworth, Yorkshire. She died about 1856 in Denby Dale, Yorkshire.
Mary BURDETT and Joshua
WOOD were married in May 1807 in High Hoyland, Yorkshire. Joshua
and Joseph (Elizabeth's husband) were brothers. They lived in Denby Dale, Yorkshire
in 1841. Joshua and Mary lived with their children Martha, Henry,
Betsy, Eliza and Thomas and her niece Eliza Burdett (b.1825 to John and Martha
Burdett). Eliza was listed as a lodger but it was then crossed out. They lived
in Leak Hall Green, Denby Dale, Yorkshire in 1851. He and Mary lived
with their widowed son Richard. Next door was their son Thomas and his family
and next door again was their nephew Charles and his family. Charles was still
working in the family firm and was a commercial traveller in fancy waistcoating
and woollens. He married Ann Turton in 1839 and their children were Ann Amelia
(11), John (9), Thomas Turton (8), Jane (6), Mary (4), Edward (2) and Emily (8
months). Joshua WOOD was christened on 11 Apr 1784
in St. Nicholas' Church, Cumberworth, Yorkshire. He was born about
1784 in Cumberworth, Yorkshire. The Wood family Joshua's grandfather,
Joshua Wood, had married Alice Broadhead in Cumberworth on 18 May 1752.
Joshua was from Penistone and Alice was recorded at Cumberworth as "of this
parish". They had had six children:- John (c.12 Oct 1755 Denby),
Joseph (c.1 Jun 1760 Emley), Joshua (c.19 Aug 1764 Emley), Alice (c. 6 Jul 1766
Emley), Lydia (c.13 Aug 1769 Emley) and Rebecca (c.28 Jul 1771 Emley). Joshua
died in 1786 at Cumberworth. He was a wool manufacturer and farmer and his son
John and two others valued his possessions - household goods (such as a piggin,
a warming pan, an iron bakestone, a sett pot, a dresser and pewter dishes), farm
stock (such as a cow, two heifers, chickens, two horses and a cart all valued
at £21 9s 11d and hay, corn, harrows, ploughs and manure all worth £15
6s), cloth (such as finished cloth worth £30, size and redwood worth 18
guneas) and working tools (such as a cloth press, a spinning jenny, a pair of
looms, a pair of cards, a dye vat and a tenter worth £26).
Joshua's eldest son, John (1755-1831) married (1) Hannah Chapman (1751-1794),
(2) Elizabeth (1751-1812) and (3) Ann (1770-1839). He only had children by his
first wife. They had seven children:-
1. John (b.1779; m. Ann Wheen in 1805; children Charles (1815) and Mary (1813-1891;
m. cousin James Wood (1811-1881)
2. Joshua (1784)
3. William (1786)
4. James (1786-1786)
5. James (1788-1850; m.(1) Hannah Hinchcliffe (1787-1815); children John (1807),
Sarah (1808-1883), James (1811-1881 Geelong, Australia; m. cousin Mary Wood (1813-1891)
and William (1813); m.(2) Hannah Tinker in 1817; children Ann (1818-1908), Edwin
(1819-1900), Hannah (1820), Robert (1822), Benjamin (1824), Tedbar (1825-1899)
Maria (1828).
6. Joseph (1788-1850; married Elizabeth Burdett).
7. Elizabeth (1790)
John (1755-1831) was a keen Wesleyan Methodist. He was a member of the
Shelley Methodist Chapel until 1797 when Shelley went over to the New Connection.
As John was a woollen manufacturer in Denby Dykeside (Denby Dale) he then began
holding meetings in his warehouse at Field House and Old Well House. (He produced
Orleans fabric made of a cotton warp and worsted weft but did not patent the
method.) Later he bought land on Cumberworth Lane and he and his brother Joseph
had a chapel built there. The chapel opened in 1799. He also had a minister's
house built next to the chapel and the total cost was £729. The chapel was
in the Barnsley Circuit until 1813. Also in 1813 John's firm, John Wood and Sons,
is mentioned in a trade directory. His children married and had children and
lived locally and the grandchildren went to visit their grandfather, John, on
their way to morning worship at the chapel. Like many men of the time John was
skilled in herbal remedies. In 1831 John died and was buried on 19 September
at St. Nicholas' Church, Cumberworth and the sons continued with the business.
However between 1831 and 1848 the worsted textile business had financial difficulties
and the sons used to pray at the chapel to ask that the business might once again
prosper.
James (1811-1881) and Tedbar (1825-1899) were half brothers and
grandsons of John (1755-1831) and they realised that the business was doomed.
James had worked in the family business and had particularly enjoyed the work
in the dye house but was also a good gardener. Both young men left London Docks
on 3 April 1848 on the "Sultana" bound for Victoria, Australia. The
"Sultana" went via Plymouth and was a barque of 588 tons and the brothers
were sea sick during the 10 day passage through the Bay of Biscay.They then went
past Portugal passing Madeira and Palma and to South America passing Trinidad.
At this time there were heavy seas and James was flung down an open hatchway
and injured his head on a wall. Tedbar was also injured when he fell from a ladder
scalding his arm with hot tea. They went via the Cape of Good Hope and disembarked
at Melbourne on 21 July 1828. They went to stay with a cousin, Thomas Bray, in
Geelong for a month, before working in the bush at Cowie and Steads Station.
They worked as shepherds and gardeners for a wage of £20 a year plus rations.
Within three months James sent money back home to distribute amongst his father's
creditors. 1847 saw the beginning of his involvement with the Wesleyan movement
in Yarra Street, Geelong. Their brother Edwin arrived in Melbourne on the "Madagascar"
on 5 August 1849. Soon James became a partner in a timber merchants business
in Geelong renamed "Dean and Wood". James' father died in Denby Dale
in 1850 and still owed money to creditors. When gold was found in 1851 Edwin,
his cousin Joseph Bray and a party of Methodist friends headed for the gold fields
at Ballarat and then James followed - first to Black Hill and then to Mount Alexander
and Forest Creek. When James returned to "Dean and Wood" his partner
retired through ill health and returned to Glasgow. James, Tedbar and their brother
Benjamin formed a partnership "Wood Brothers - Timber Merchants" and
streams of money went back to Denby Dale to the creditors of the family business.
Sarah, their sister, came out to keep house for them. James wrote to his brother
John in 1854 and sent £100 and more followed, some of which was donated
to the chapel. Their uncle Joseph Wood (b.1788 husband of Elizabeth Burdett)
wrote in 1856 that "the chapel is just able to pay its way but without your
kind donation we should have been in debt". In 1854 the brothers bought
land in North Geelong and built a house, sheds and an office. In 1857 James decided
to return to England with his sister Sarah and they sailed on the "Anglesea"
and paid off his father's creditors. He met up also with his cousin Mary Wood
(1813-1891) and they quickly married on 8 October 1857 in Manchester. They left
two months later on the clipper "Norfolk" and after a journey characterised
by sea sickness arrived in Geelong on 9 February 1858. The business flourished
and James became a Methodist Local Preacher and supported many local charities.
Benjamin retired and returned home in 1858. Tedbar returned two years later.
After Tedbar's return to Denby Dale he donated money towards a school which opened
on 6 July 1874. James' health declined in 1879 and he died in 1881. His will
stipulated that, after the death of his wife, the chapel at Denby Dale should
receive £200. Mary died in 1891. In February 1899 Tedbar died in Eccles,
Lancashire and was buried at St. Nicholas Church, Cumberworth. Edwin Wood died
in Australia in 1900. The aim of the grandchildren to pay their fathers' debtors
had succeeded.
In 1841 he was a Fancy Manufacturer in Denby Dale, Yorkshire. He
died about 1855 in Denby Dale, Yorkshire. He was buried on 8 Aug
1855 in St. Nicholas' Church, Cumberworth, Yorkshire. Mary BURDETT
and Joshua WOOD had the following children:
155 | i. | Richard WOOD was born on 2 Jun 1808 in Denby Dale, Yorkshire. He was christened on 6 Jul 1808 in Wesleyan Chapel, Cumberworth Lane, Denby Dale, Yorkshire. Richard married Mary Bilcliffe at Penistone Church on 19 December 1832 by License. In 1841 they lived in Chapel House, Cumberworth Lane with the minister William Wilkinson, his wife and eight children. Richard was a Fancy Manufacturer and worked in the family business. After Mary's death he went to live with his parents and lived at Leak Hall Green with them in 1851. He was still a Fancy Manufacturer. |
156 | ii. | John WOOD was born on 7 Oct 1809 in Denby Dale, Yorkshire. He was christened on 8 Nov 1809 in Wesleyan Chapel, Cumberworth Lane, Denby Dale, Yorkshire. |
157 | iii. | Martha WOOD was born on 2 Sep 1811 in Denby Dale, Yorkshire. She was christened on 11 Oct 1811 in Wesleyan Chapel, Cumberworth Lane, Denby Dale, Yorkshire. |
158 | iv. | Joshua WOOD was born on 28 Aug 1813 in Denby Dale, Yorkshire. He was christened on 10 Oct 1813 in Wesleyan Chapel, Cumberworth Lane, Denby Dale, Yorkshire. |
159 | v. | Henry WOOD was born on 26 Feb 1818 in Denby Dale, Yorkshire. Henry WOOD was christened on 13 Mar 1818 in Wesleyan Chapel, Cumberworth Lane, Denby Dale, Yorkshire. In 1841 Henry WOOD was a Dyer in Denby Dale, Yorkshire. |
160 | vi. | Betsy WOOD was born on 21 Jul 1820 in Denby Dale, Yorkshire. She was christened on 24 Sep 1820 in Wesleyan Chapel, Cumberworth Lane, Denby Dale, Yorkshire. |
161 | vii. | Eliza WOOD was born on 5 Dec 1822 in Denby Dale, Yorkshire. She was christened on 8 Feb 1823 in Wesleyan Chapel, Cumberworth Lane, Denby Dale, Yorkshire. |
+162 | viii. | Thomas WOOD. |
