Hannah (Porter) Wood (1791 - 1862)

Born 22 Sep 1791 in Gillamoor, Yorkshire, England

Wife of Robert Wood — married 21 Apr 1812 in Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, England

Died Oct 1862 at age 71 in Helmsley, Yorkshire, England

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Biography

Hannah was born in 1791 in the village of Gillamoor, the daughter of William and Ann Porter and was baptized in the nearby Market Town of Kirkbymoorside. She married Robert Wood in 1812 and the couple had eight children. Life was hard for Hannah, a poor farmer's wife. Her husband died in 1834. Their final child, Abraham, was born a year earlier. By 1841 widow Hannah had two of her youngest children still living with her, By 1851 she was listed as the head of a pauper family. Her daughter Nanny Conning, 24, and son-in-law Joseph Conning were with her. He was listed as a cabinet maker's apprentice but couldn't have been contributing much income. Her daughter Alice, 21 was a servant working elsewhere. Her grandson William, age 5, son of her daughter Mary, (a live-in servant in Oswaldkirk) was also under Hannah's care. In addition she was boarding one possibly unrelated child, age 10, and caring for a five-month old infant. Not an easy life for a 60-year-old woman. Hannah passed away in October 1862.

Sources

• England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, Hannah Porter, Birth 22 Sep 1791, Baptism 25 Sep 1791 Kirkbymoorside, York, England, parents William and Ann Porter
• England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973, Robert Wood, Hannah Porter at Kirkbymoorside, Yorkshire, 21 April 1812
• 1841 England Census, Kirkbymoorside, Yorkshire, Hannah Wood 45, Alice Wood 12, Abraham Wood 6
• 1851 England Census, Kirkbymoorside, Yorkshire, Hannah Wood 59, widow, pauper family, formerly farmer's wife, birth Gillamoor, Joseph Conning 19, son-in-law, cabinet maker apprentice, Nanny Conning 24, cabinet maker's wife, Alice Wood 21, daughter, servant out of place, William Wood 5, grandson, James Garbutt 10, lodger, Mary Hoggard, 5 mos, nurse child
• England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index 1837-1915 Hannah Wood, Oct-Nov-Dec Registration, death Helmsley 1862
• England, Select Deaths and Burials 1538-1991, Hannah Wood Burial 8 Oct 1862 Helmsley