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Edmund Soham and Elizabeth Wood

 




Husband Edmund Soham



 
         Born: 
   Christened: 
         Died: 1772
       Buried: 
 
     Marriage: 1734



Wife Elizabeth Wood



 
         Born: 1699
   Christened: 
         Died: 1748
       Buried: 



 
       Father: Edward Wood (1670-Abt 1743)
       Mother: Elizabeth Bridger (      -1748)





Children



General Notes: Husband - Edmund Soham


M.P. for Nottingham. Knighted
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Thomas Wood and Caroline Stewart

 




Husband Thomas Wood



 


 
         Born: 21 Apr 1777
   Christened: 
         Died: 26 Jan 1860
       Buried: 2 Feb 1860 - St Mary Magdalene ,Littleton, Middlesex Cty, England



 
       Father: Thomas Wood (1748-1835)
       Mother: Mary Williams (1752-1820)



 
     Marriage: 23 Dec 1801



Wife Caroline Stewart



 


 
         Born: 1781
   Christened: 
         Died: 10 Aug 1865
       Buried: 



 
       Father: Robert Stewart 1st Marquis of Londonderry (      -      )
       Mother: Frances Pratt (      -      )





Children


1 F Caroline Wood



 
         Born: 1802
   Christened: 
         Died: 1825
       Buried: 
 



2 M Thomas Wood



 


 
         Born: 31 Mar 1804 - Littleton, Middlesex Cty, England
   Christened: 
         Died: 23 Oct 1872 - Littleton, Middlesex Cty, England
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Frances Smythe (1822-1892)
         Marr: 6 Jul 1848 - St. Peter's Eaton Square



3 M William Henry Wood



 
         Born: 29 Jul 1805
   Christened: 
         Died: 13 Sep 1834
       Buried: 
 



4 F Emily Kymerley Wood



 
         Born: 5 Jun 1807
   Christened: 
         Died: 10 Mar 1887
       Buried: 
 



5 F Frances Anne Decima Wood



 
         Born: 15 Jun 1810 - Littleton
   Christened: 24 Jul 1810
         Died: 10 Apr 1895
       Buried: 
 



6 M Charles Alexander Wood



 
         Born: 11 Nov 1810
   Christened: 23 Dec 1810 - Littleton
         Died: 7 Apr 1890 - Builth, Breconshire
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Sophia Brownrigg (1816-1906)
         Marr: 25 Jun 1838



7 M David Edward Wood



 
         Born: 6 Jan 1812
   Christened: 
         Died: 16 Oct 1894 - Parklodge, Sunningdale 1
       Buried: 20 Oct 1894 - St Mary Magdalene ,Littleton
 
       Spouse: Maria Liddell (      -1883)
         Marr: 17 Apr 1861



8 M Robert Blucher Wood



 
         Born: 3 Jul 1814
   Christened: 
         Died: May 1871 - Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire, England 2
       Buried: 31 May 1871 - St Mary Magdalene ,Littleton
 
       Spouse: Constantia Lowther (      -1864)
         Marr: 24 Jul 1850



9 M Arthur Wellington Wood



 
         Born: 28 Jun 1816
   Christened: 
         Died: 14 Nov 1853
       Buried: 19 Nov 1853 - St Mary Magdalene ,Littleton
 



10 M George Wood



 
         Born: 20 Nov 1817
   Christened: 
         Died: 15 May 1881
       Buried: 
 




General Notes: Husband - Thomas Wood


Lord of the Manors of Littleton, Co. Middlesex, Gwernyfed, Co. Breconshire and Middleham Castle, Co. York. M.P. for Breconshire (1806-1847) . Col. East Middlesex Militia. According to a summary of papers in the London Metropolitan Archives, " he commanded the Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia for fifty six years and encamped with them at Aldershot in his eightieth year. Colonel Thomas Wood and his wife enjoyed the friendship of William IV and Queen Adelaide and the King nominated Wood to be one of his executors. Colonel Wood was host to George IV at Gwernyfed, and members of the royal family visited Littleton. Aid e-De-Camp to Queen Victoria. According to the Cardiff Times, April 7, 1894, pg, 1, he was educated at Harrow and Oxford. He was High Sherriff of Brecknock in 1809. He was Justice of the Peace for the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Brecon for very many years previous to his death.

According to David Barratt he spent several years and large legal costs sorting out the mess his grand-father, Sir Edward Williams, had created over the Gwernyfed estate with John Macnamara.

His biography in "The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820", ed. R. Thorne, 1986, is as follows:
Family and Education

b. 21 Apr. 1777, 1st s. of Thomas Wood of Littleton Park by Mary, da. and h. of Sir Edward Williams, 5th Bt., of Gwernyfed. educ. Harrow 1788-95; Oriel, Oxf. 1796. m. 23 Dec. 1801, Lady Caroline Stewart, da. of Robert, 1st Mq. of Londonderry [I], by 2nd w. Lady Frances Pratt, da. of Charles Pratt†, 1st Earl Camden, 7s. 3da. suc. mother 1820; fa. 1835.
Offices Held

Sheriff, Brec. 1809-10.

Lt.-col. E. Mdx. militia 1798, col. 1803; militia a.d.c. to King William IV 1831.
Biography

Wood, the eldest of 14 children, was recommended by his grandfather Thomas Wood† to Lord Sydney in 1798 as suitable to be made a groom of the bedchamber 'or any other such situation'.1 In 1803 he became a colonel of militia for Middlesex, which his grandfather had briefly represented in Parliament, and in 1806 his name was hawked about as a potential candidate for the county. It was thought that as brother-in-law of their opponent Castlereagh he could scarcely expect the countenance of the Grenville ministry. He was in any case virtually sure of a seat elsewhere. Since 1804, when his mother succeeded to the Gwernyfed estate, he had become an obvious contender for Breconshire, where he could count on the support of Lord Camden, his wife's uncle. Insisting in advance on his freedom of action in Parliament, he was returned unopposed on the retirement of Sir Charles Morgan in 1806.2

In general, Wood followed the political lead of his brother-in-law Castlereagh. He voted against the Grenville ministry on the Hampshire election petition, 13 Feb. 1807. His first speeches showed his interest in military matters, which was doubtless stimulated by Castlereagh's being at the War Office. Thus on 27 July 1807 he was a fervent supporter of the militia transfer bill, on 2 Feb. 1809 he championed the militia enlistment bill and on 18 Apr. the militia completion bill. His arguments derived their force from his own experience of militia command. A friend of the Duke of Clarence3 (who as King William IV appointed him one of his executors), he deplored the proceedings in the House against the Duke of York in February and March 1809. When Castlereagh quarrelled with the cabinet that autumn, Wood followed his line, voting with the majority on the address, 23 Jan. 1810, with the minority for inquiry into the Scheldt expedition, 26 Jan., and with the majority against the censure on it, 30 Mar. 1810. The Whigs duly listed him 'Castlereagh' at that time. He was a critic of Sir Francis Burdett's conduct, 3 May 1810, and on 21 May voted against parliamentary reform. He subsequently rallied to the ministry with Castlereagh and voted against remodelling the government, 21 May 1812.

Like Castlereagh, Wood was friendly to Catholic relief and voted for it in the session of 1813, in 1815, 1817 and subsequently:4 it was constituency pressure that determined his ultimate hostility to the measure. After the election of 1812, he knew that he would be challenged for his seat by the heir of the Morgans of Tredegar, now of age, and he was the more sensitive to local issues. On 5 Mar. 1813 he failed to obtain the committal of a bill to amend the Brecknock Canal Act, which he conceded to be controversial and which the Morgans opposed. The absence of Castlereagh on the Continent also affected his role in Parliament: on 21 Feb. 1815, for instance, he replied to Lambton's motion deploring the alienation of Genoa, remarking in his defence of the Congress arrangements that 'the pacification of the world was beyond the reach of all human agency'. He opposed the disembodying of the militia, 28 Feb. 1815, and was a supporter of flogging in the army as, to preserve discipline, there was no alternative but the death sentence. As a member of the Military Club, he defended it against those opposition critics who thought it had sinister political associations, 4 Mar. 1816.

In the spring of 1816 Wood, though a supporter of the continuation of the property tax, was critical of the government's supine attitude to agricultural distress. His constituents wished for relief from the tax burden, as their petitions indicated, and he suggested the repeal of the malt and agricultural horse taxes, 7 Mar. 1816, setting himself up as the champion of the 'little farmers', 25 Mar. On 28 Mar., insisting that legislative intervention was necessary to remedy the depression, he added grain protection, reduction of the salt tax, tithe and Poor Law reform to his recommendations.5 On 20 May he secured a committee to review the Game Laws, in view of the increase in poaching. He disliked the committee's draconian proposals and on 4 Mar. 1817 obtained leave for a bill to repeal the statute of 28 Geo. II making the sale of game illegal. It failed to get past its second reading, 9 June, and Wood could not swallow George Bankes's bill on the subject, debated in the two subsequent sessions.

Wood's only vote contrary to government in the Parliament of 1812 was against John Wilson Croker's wartime salary at the Admiralty, 17 Feb. 1817. He was in other respects disposed to criticize the opposition. When they called for repeal of the leather tax, he said he would sooner see the salt tax repealed, 12 Mar. 1818. He questioned Burdett's credibility as a parliamentary reformer in the light of his electoral practices in Middlesex, 5 May 1818. Nevertheless, he was considered sufficiently independent to be preferred by Whigs in Breconshire to his opponent Morgan, who had shown himself a negligent Member and one of the silent majority of ministerialists.6 He defeated Morgan in 1818, retaining his seat until he retired as one of Peel's martyrs in 1847.

In the Parliament of 1818 he developed his ideas, as a select committeeman, on Poor Law reform. He suggested road work for the unemployed, 17 Feb. 1819, opposed the law of settlement which discouraged the mobility of labour, 10 May, and advocated schools of industry for pauper children, 11 June. He was also sympathetic to the lot of child chimney sweeps, 17 Feb. 1819. He thought direct taxation preferable to indirect precisely because the latter hit the poor hardest, 20 May. He opposed the abolition of the Welsh judicature, 21 May. Wood, who had voted against Tierney's censure motion of 18 May 1819, went on to support government measures against sedition. He was one of the few Members out of office invited to Castlereagh's pre-sessional ministerial dinner.7 In justification of the blasphemous libel bill, 21 Dec. 1819, he said that Hone's parodies had found their way into his children's nursery, where they were thought to be 'very good; but very shocking'. He died 26 Jan. 1860.
Ref Volumes: 1790-1820
Author: R. G. Thorne

Notes

1.
Kent AO, Stanhope mss 731/6.
2.
Wakes Museum, Selborne, Holt White mss 400; Elizabeth Wood, 'Col. Thomas Wood 1777-1860', Brec. and Rad. Express, 6 June-25 July 1974; R. D. Rees, 'Parl. Rep. S. Wales 1790-1830' (Reading Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1962), ii. 549; Camden mss C519/1, Wood to Camden, 17 June, reply 21 June 1806.
3.
Prince of Wales Corresp. vi. 2500.
4.
NLW, Mayberry mss 6511, 6905.
5.
Ibid. 6481, 6484-6.
6.
Ibid. 6479, 6509, 6510.
7.
Phipps, Plumer Ward Mems. ii. 27.


General Notes: Wife - Caroline Stewart


sister of the Marquess of Londonderry


Notes: Marriage



General Notes: Child - Thomas Wood


J.P., M.P. for Middlesex (1837- 1847). According to a summary of papers at the London Metropolitan Archives, "he commanded the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards in the early stages of the Crimean War". The family claims that the painting "Roll Call" (1874) by Elizabeth Thompson (which now hangs in Buckingham Palace) depicts Col. Wood on horseback. According to the Cardiff Times, April 7, 1894, pg. 1, he was a Lieutenant General. He was Sheriff of Breconshire in 1858.


General Notes: Child - William Henry Wood


Cpt. 10th Hussars


General Notes: Child - Charles Alexander Wood


Sir Charles Alexander Wood, Knight, Deputy Chairman of Great Western Railway and commissioner of emigration.


General Notes: Child - David Edward Wood


Sir David Wood, G.C.B., Officer Legion Of Honour. General and Knight. Entered Royal Artillery in 1829 and served in the Kaffir War in 1842, the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny.


General Notes: Child - Robert Blucher Wood


Lt. Gen. C.B. Deputy-Adjutant-General in Ireland and Deputy Master of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham


General Notes: Child - Arthur Wellington Wood


Lt. R.N.
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William Stockton

 




Husband William Stockton



 
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1 M Thomas Stockton



 
         Born: 1778 - New Malton, Yorkshire, England
   Christened: 
         Died: 
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       Spouse: Martha (      -      )




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James Robert Welker and Elizabeth Stoker

 




Husband James Robert Welker



 
         Born: 19 Aug 1803 - Rowan Co., North Carolina
   Christened: 
         Died: 
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     Marriage: 



Wife Elizabeth Stoker



 
         Born: 28 Feb 1800 - Ashe Co, North Carolina
   Christened: 
         Died: Jan 1868 - Bloomington, Bear Lake Co., Idaho
       Buried: 



 
       Father: Michael Stoker (1762-After 1836)
       Mother: Catherine Martha Eller (1773-After 1850)





Children


1 M David Welker



 
         Born: 2 Jul 1823 - Henry Co., Indiana
   Christened: 
         Died: 
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2 M James Wilburn Welker



 
         Born: 17 Jan 1825 - Jackson Co., Ohio
   Christened: 
         Died: 3 May 1912 - Bloomington, Bear Lake Co., Idaho
       Buried: 
 




General Notes: Child - David Welker


DEATH: died young
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William Stoker and Almira Winegar

 




Husband William Stoker



 
         Born: 26 Mar 1819 - Bloomfield Twp, Jackson Co., Ohio
   Christened: 
         Died: 19 Mar 1892
       Buried: 



 
       Father: David Stoker (1795-1852)
       Mother: Barbara Graybill (      -1872)



 
     Marriage: 



Wife Almira Winegar



 
         Born: 27 Feb 1818
   Christened: 
         Died: 6 Nov 1884
       Buried: 



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Thomas P. C. Stokes

 




Husband Thomas P. C. Stokes



 
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1 M Walter Stokes



 
         Born: 11 May 1885 - Pennsylvania
   Christened: 
         Died: Apr 1971 - Philadelphia, Pa.
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Frances Kemble Wister (1901-1992)
         Marr: 1928




General Notes: Child - Walter Stokes


of St. Davids, Pa. and Saunderstown, RI
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Walter Stokes and Frances Kemble Wister

 




Husband Walter Stokes



 
         Born: 11 May 1885 - Pennsylvania
   Christened: 
         Died: Apr 1971 - Philadelphia, Pa.
       Buried: 



 
       Father: Thomas P. C. Stokes (      -      )
       Mother: 



 
     Marriage: 1928

Events

1. Occupation: broker.




Wife Frances Kemble Wister



 
         Born: 20 Sep 1901 - Saunderstown, Rhode Island
   Christened: 
         Died: 27 Apr 1992 - Bryn Mawr Hospital, Bryn Mawr, Pa
       Buried: 



 
       Father: Owen Wister (1860-1938)
       Mother: Mary Channing Wister (1870-1913)





Children


1 F Mary C. Stokes



 
         Born: Abt Jun 1929 - Pennsylvania
   Christened: 
         Died: 19 Feb 1980 - Manhattan, NY
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: H. Richard Schumacher (1930-      )
         Marr: 23 Nov 1963 - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, Pa.



2 M John Welsh Stokes II



 
         Born: 1932
   Christened: 
         Died: 
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Alice Hayward Enos (Abt 1942-      )
         Marr: Dec 1963




General Notes: Husband - Walter Stokes


of St. Davids, Pa. and Saunderstown, RI


General Notes: Child - Mary C. Stokes


Writer for The New York World-Telegram and The Sun. Editor of The Investor's Reader, published by Merrill Lynch. Graduated magna cum laud from Radcliffe.


General Notes: Child - John Welsh Stokes II


of Southport, Ct. Worked at Young & Rubicam in NYC.
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Henry Strinver and Joyce Wood

 




Husband Henry Strinver



 
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Wife Joyce Wood



 
         Born: 
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       Father: Alexander Wood of Fulbourne Cambridgeshire (      -1479)
       Mother: Alice (      -      )





Children



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Unknown Stuart and Susan Unknown

 




Husband Unknown Stuart



 
         Born:  - Connecticut
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         Died: 
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     Marriage: 



Wife Susan Unknown



 
         Born: Abt 1825 - New York
   Christened: 
         Died: 
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 Other Spouse: George D. Hubbard (Abt 1810-      )



Children


1 M Lewis W. Stuart



 
         Born: Abt 1849 - Mass.
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         Died: 
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Thomas Symonds and Penelope Williams

 




Husband Thomas Symonds



 
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         Died: 
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     Marriage: 



Wife Penelope Williams



 
         Born: 
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       Father: 2nd Barton John Williams (Abt 1654-1723)
       Mother: Mary Powell (Abt 1661-      )





Children



General Notes: Husband - Thomas Symonds


of Pengethley, Hereford

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Sources


1 obituary - London Times, October 18, 1894, pg 8.

2 Civil Registration, Chapel en le Frith, 2nd Quarter 1871, Vol. 7b, pg 362.


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