Frank Wood

Frank was the third and youngest son of the Reverend James Hathorn Rowarth Wood and his wife Edith Elizabeth Wood nee Smith.James was born in Nottingham in 1863 (J/A/S Nottingham) and Edith was born in Cropwell Butler, Nottinghamshire, birth registered 1870 (J/F/M Bingham). They were married in 1889 (O/N/D Bingham) and had four children: James Edward Hathorn b. 2 December 1891 Rockwood, Manitoba, Canada, Hugh William b. Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire, birth registered 1893 (J/F/M Bingham), Mary b. Thorpe-by-Newark, and Frank b. Thorpe-by-Newark 1897 (J/A/S Nottingham).In 1901 James (37) was the vicar of St Giles, Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire, and living in the Rectory with his wife Edith (30), and their four children, James (9), Hugh (8), Mary (5) and Frank (3). James employed one general servant, Elizabeth Mees (18).James still had the living of St Giles in 1911. Only James (19), a student, was in the home with his parents on the night of the census. Mary (15) was a boarder at St Elphick's School, Darley Dale, Matlock, and Frank (13) was a boarder at Trent College, Long Eaton. Hugh has not yet been traced on the census but may also have been away at school. James still employed one general servant, Isabella Spence (34).James' senior was still the vicar of St Giles at the time of his death on 8 November 1923.Frank's eldest brother James also took Holy Orders and at the time of the 1939 England & Wales Register was the vicar of the parish of All Saints, Knipton, Leicestershire, where he had also been appointed as an ARP warden. He was unmarried and employed a housekeeper, Evelyn Dunmore (b. 6 January 1895). His widowed mother Edith was living with him at the Rectory at the time of her death on 4 March 1941 in hospital at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. James and his widowed sister, Mary (Wright) were their mother's executors. James was still the vicar of Knipton when he died on 11 January 1962.Hugh William married Kathleen Mary Waddington in 1914 (O/N/D Nottingham). He was living in Staunton-in-the-Vale, Nottinghamshire, at the time of his death on 12 October 1927. Kathleen survived him.Mary (Wright) has not yet been traced after 1941.