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From: MICHAEL O'CONNOR<michael.o' >
Subject: Re: WOOD
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:44:53 +0200 (GMT)

Dear Mr Wood,
I think that you have got your facts wrong. There were NO Zulus in Cape Town
in 1840 (probably very few there now!). I suspect that your WOOD family were
the 3 WOOD men (probably brothers) who arrived with SEPHTON's party of 1820
Settlers on the Aurora. One of these (Charles) had a son Thomas FREDERICK
Wood aged 3. Charles died in 1852 (death notice 6/9/60 1667 held in the
Archives in Cape Town). I am sorry but I am too far away from Cape Town to
go to the Archives to look up that death notice for you. Perhaps there is
some kind soul on the list that will? Also I would contact Mr William
Jervois <> at the Albany Museum and see if he can shed
some light on Charles WOOD. I have looked in my books ("Chronicles of the
Lower Albany District" by E. Morse Jones and there is no mention of Charles
WOOD and no mention of a WOOD being killed by the Xhosa. In my other book
"The Story of the British Settlers of 1820 in South Africa" by H. E. Hockly
it only mentions Charles as being a member of Sephton's party aboard the
ship "Aurora").
Hope that another aspirant "archangel" in South Africa will take up the ball
(hopefully not a rugby ball as he will be sure to knock on :-)) and run with
it and help you further.
Kind regards
Mike O'Connor
>Digging in the wood pile,
>has taken me 20 years to get this far ...
>Please help me to find my: #1 & #2. and the birthplace of #3 William
Fredrick WOOD
>My apologies for such along posting, but if someone is to help me they may
need
>everything I have here.
>===============
>THE WOOD PILE
>===============
>#1 (No first Name) WOOD, b. England c. 1795-1802 d. Cape Town, South
Africa. c. 1840
>#2 (No first Name) WOOD, b. England c. 1797-1804 d. Worcestershire,
Eng. c. 1840's
>===================
>#3 WILLIAM FREDRICK WOOD, b. 1827 Worcestershire d. c.
1868 in the USA.
>wife
>#4 MARY ALICIA (O 'CONNOR) WOOD. b. 1829 Tipperary Co. Ireland. d. c.
1868 in the USA.
>
>#5 RICHARD WM. WOOD (son) b. 1849 Rio DE Janeiro, Brazil.d.
Oakland, CA. USA.
>brother and sister
>#6 MARY ALICIA WOOD (daughter) b. 1850 Rio DE Janeiro, Brazil.d. c.
1930, USA.
>-------------------------
>
>1. Father (First name? Alfred? or Adelbert) Wood
> b. c. 1795-1802 Worcestershire, England
> Was Killed by Zulu's in South Africa. c. 1840's
>
>2. Mother (?Mary Wood) b. c. 1797-1804 Worcestershire, England
> Died in England, c. 1845 after death of Husband in South Africa.
>
>3. (William Fredrick Wood) their son was b., c. 1827 in Worcestershire,
England.
> Died. In ? USA, c. 1868. (Was a "babe in arms" when he went to Africa.)
>
>====================================================================
> As you can see I have no "Firm" First names for either #1. or #2.
>The three above travelled with #1.'s brother and his wife to Cape Town.
>Both #1 and his brother were killed by Zulu c. 1840's
>
>Wm. Fredrick Wood #3, Was with them, but he escaped.
>Names used in the family; William, Fredrick, Walter, Richard // Mary, Alicia
>====================================================================
>
>4. (Mary Alicia O'Connor) b. c. 1829 in Tipperary County, Ireland. Died
US c. 1868
>
>They, (3. & 4.) were married in: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jan. 17th. 1849
> in British Episcopal Church by Chaplain George Grshames AB
>
> This family came to United States " Via Tipperary to Antwerp to N.Y.
c. 1860. on a
> ship named, "Mary Glover, with their two children. Their son and
daughter #5 and #6
>
>5. (Richard Wm. Wood) b. December 10 1849 in: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
> Died. June 21, 1936 Oakland California.
>
> And their Daughter ...
>
>6. (Mary Alicia Wood) b. c. ? - ? - 1850 in: Rio de Janerio, Brazil,
> Died. in US., c. ?-?-1868
> She went to High School In Seattle, Washington
> and (Married Jeremiah Nicholas)
>
>Can you help me?
>This is as far as I have got in 20 years of research.
>please reply to:
>
>Robert Dean Wood, AKA Woody
>In California
><B></B>
>========================= End Of Post =============================
>
>
Michael O'Connor
Orchid Grower and Genealogist
Researching the names O'Connor/Connor/Connors
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa

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