WOOD OF BRODSWORTH: FAMILY PAPERS

This material is held atDoncaster Archives

Scope and Content

Comprising:: 1. Correspondence and papers, including letters from James Wood to his wife and daughter Bessie, undated, c1920s, also testimonials from employers for James and Louisa Wood; 2. Four recipe book of Louisa and her daughter, c1930s-1950s

Administrative / Biographical History

From early 1932 James Wood and his wife Louisa Jane (born Norton) were resident at North (or Bilham) Lodge, Bilham. He was employed as a gamekeeper on the Brodsworth Estate but had been an industrial worker in the Chesterfield area before 1918. In the 1920s he appears to have been a casual farm worker in Lincolnshire. He died in 1946 and his wife in 1953

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