Wood and Hill-Wood families.
Generation
One.
Joseph
Wood married Mary Haigh (daughter of Daniel Haigh) in 1753. Their
son, John Wood was born on 1 May 1756.
Joseph
Wood died in 1767.
Generation
Two.
John
Wood was born on 1 May 1756, died on 11 August 1819. He married
Elizabeth Taylor on 15 September 1779 and they lived at Gatehead,
Marsden in Almondbury, Yorkshire. Their son, John Wood, was born on
28 November 1784.
Generation
Three.
John
Wood was born 28 November 1784. Originally from Marsden he eventually
moved to Glossop where he worked Thread, Barrack and Lower Water
mills. He then bought Milltown and Bridge End Mills and created the
Howardtown Mills complex. He married Alice Hill on 26 December 1810
and they had five children:
     John
Hill Wood born 28 July 1813.
     Eliza
Wood born 17 July 1815.
     Daniel
Haigh Wood, born 21 July 1817, died 7 February 1888. Reputedly died
unmarried but not without issue.
     Samuel
Wood born 24 January 1819.
     Alice
Hill Wood born about 1821.
John
Wood died on 7 November 1854.
Generation
Four.
John
Hill Wood was born on 28 July 1813, died 16 December 1869. He married
Emma Sidebottom, daughter of William Sidebottom and Agnes Harrop (see Sidebottoms of Hollingworth) on 13 June 1854. They had
two children:
     Alice Agnes Wood, born 28 Feb 1856, died 12 Nov 1929. Lived in Leominster.
     John Wood, born 8 September 1857, died 28 January 1951. Lived at Hengrave Hall, Bury St Edmunds.
John
Hill Wood died on 16 December 1869.
Eliza
Wood was born on 17 July 1815. She married Samuel Lees, born about
1808, son of Robert Lees and Sarah Barber (see The Lees family of Padfield and Woolley Bridge mills).
Samuel
Wood was born on 24 January 1819. He married Anne Kershaw
Sidebottom, born 1 January 1838, daughter of William Sidebottom and
Agnes Harrop (see Sidebottoms of Hollingworth). They had one son, Samuel
Hill Wood, born 21 March 1872, died 4 January 1949.
Samuel
Wood died on 8 April 1888.
Alice
Hill Wood was born about 1821, died 12 December 1870 in Buckley Hill,
Marsden. She married Joseph Hesslegrave, a surgeon, on 19 April
1845. They had two sons: Daniel Haigh Hesslegrave and John W.
Hesslegrave.
Alice
died on 12 December 1870 in Buckley Hill, Marsden.
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