The Wood family has its roots in Kent although we have only been able to trace our ancestry back to the late 18th century. Our earliest traced ancestor is John Wood who married Anne; they came from Romney Marshes in Lydd, Kent.
His great grandson Stafford married Louisa Edmonds, the link to the Edmonds family. The link to the Eggleton family is via their two sons Bertram Charles and Stafford John Francis, to two sisters. Bertram married Margaret Primrose four years before Stafford John Francis and Mary Ann married, therefore it is a likely assumption that they were responsible for introducing their elder siblings to one another. It was their son Stafford who married into the Payne family.
Trades of the family include craftsman involved in the production of harmoniums and organs and picture frame making as well as being painters and watermen, lace trader, window cleaner, shipping clerk, musician, chair caner and basket maker, warehouseman, omnibus conductor amongst others.
Other key families who are our ancestors and are linked to the Wood’s are: the Tucker family from New Romney, Kent; the Hammond family from Mersham, Kent and the King family from Canterbury, Kent.
Distant relatives of this family have been traced and known descendants currently reside in Nottingham and New South Wales and Queensland, Australia.
Common family names are John, Charles, George, Stafford, William, Margaret, Amy, Agnes and Elizabeth.
Gillard / Wood Family History 