Peter Hunnisett

Richard & Maria Woods of Catteshall

Richard Woods, a son of George and Mary, was baptised in Shalford on 6 December 1795.

Maria, daughter of Samuel and Mary Denyer, was baptised in Thursley, Surrey, on 14 August 1796.

Richard Woods married Maria Denyer in Thursley on 29 October 1823 and they lived in Catteshall, which is just East of Godalming. They are known to have had the following children baptised:

Rosina's birth certificate shows Richard's occupation as a baker but in 1841 the family were in Catteshall except for Richard and Elizabeth who were staying on Mead Row where they were registered as servants. However, the 1851 and 1861 census records do show Richard as a baker in Catteshall.

Richard died in 1867, aged 72, and in 1871 Maria was running a grocery shop in Catteshall Hatch along with her youngest daughter Maria and a 7-year-old grandson, Richard, who must have been Maria’s son.

In 1881 Maria was still running the shop and Maria and Richard were still living with her. She died in 1883, aged 87.

Of their children:

• Elizabeth married Charles Matthews in Godalming on 10 October 1846 and they lived in Catteshall where Charles worked as a labourer, sometimes in a paper mill. Their known children were:

  Charles

  bap. 12 Sep 1847

  Godalming

  Elizabeth

  bap. 13 May 1849

  Godalming

  Mary Ann

  ca. 1851

  Godalming

  George

  ca. 1856

  Pimlico

  William

  1859

  Godalming

  Rosa

  1866

  Godalming

  Alice

  1871

  Godalming

  By 1901 Elizabeth was a widow living in Farnham Union Workhouse. She died in 1906.

• John, a labourer, married Elizabeth Pickett (born 1830, Compton) in  Godalming on 10 July 1852. They are known to have had the following children:

  William Charles

  bap. 12 Jun 1853

  Shalford

  George

  bap. 27 Jun 1855

  Artington, Guildford

  Harriet Maria

  bap. 5 July 1857

  Catshall

  Rosina

  ca. 1858

  Godalming

  Jane

  1860

  Godalming

  Mary Catherine

  ca. 1861

  Godalming

  Elizabeth

  ca. 1863

  Godalming

  Francis

  ca. 1866

  Godalming

  Clara

  ca. 1868

  Godalming

  John Pickett

  1870

  Godalming

  In 1861 John was living in Catteshall and working as a labourer in a tannery. In 1871 he was an agricultural labourer living in Church Road, Farncombe. His son William was then shown as a wool winder and idiot, and his son George was a baker's boy. In 1881 he was shown as a tanner and was living with Elizabeth and their children; William, George, Elizabeth, Francis, Clara and John. In 1891 he was a general labourer still at Church Road. William was working at a hosiery factory, Francis at the Skin Mills and John jr. was a grocer’s porter. John died in 1894.

• George was a tanner and married Martha Mansell at Thursley on 24 December 1863. They lived in Hemel Hempstead where they had the following children:

  Maud L

  ca. 1864

  Hemel Hempstead

  Clara

  ca. 1865

  Hemel Hempstead

  George

  ca. 1867

  Hemel Hempstead

  Annie

  1870

  Hemel Hempstead

  Walter

  ca. 1872

  Hemel Hempstead

  Rosa Sarah

  1875

  Hemel Hempstead

  Willie

  1877

  Hemel Hempstead

  Samuel Leonard

  1880

  Hemel Hempstead

  They lived at Ebberns Cottages, Durrants Hill, which in 1891 was recorded as 3 Durrants Hill. George died in 1907, aged 78

• William, a tanner, married Harriet Langhorn (born Godalming ca.1831) in Godalming on 7 May 1853 and they are known to have had the following children:

  Edward

  ca. 1853

  Godalming

  Walter

  ca. 1858

  Godalming

  Willie

  ca. 1861

  Godalming

  Mary Anne

  ca. 1864

  Hemel Hempstead

  Rose Clare

  ca. 1867

  Hemel Hempstead

  Jane

  ca. 1869

  Hemel Hempstead

  Kate Lilian

  ca. 1871

  Hemel Hempstead

  Alice

  ca. 1875

  Hemel Hempstead

  In 1861 they were living in Catteshall but around 1862 they moved to Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. In 1871 and 1881 they were living at Corner Hall Wharf, by the canal, and he was still a tanner. In 1891 he was a foreman at a coal and wine merchants and living at Wharf House, 2 Two Waters Road, which may have been the same house as before. In 1901 he was a manager at the coal and wine merchants and living at Boxmoor Wharf. By 1911 he was widowed and had retired. He died in 1916.

  • In 1881 Edward was a tanner, also at Corner Hall, with his wife, Mary Ann, and children; Amelia Ellen (1878) and William Edward (1880).

• Samuel was a tanner and married Lydia Monk in 1857.

• Charles was a tanner and on 25 September 1859 he married Annie Coppinger from Andover and in 1861 was staying at 15 Alice Street, Bermondsey, with the first of their children:

  Fanny

  Q4 1860

  Bermondsey

  Charles

  Q2 1862

  Bermondsey

  Annie

  Q31866

  Hemel Hempstead

  Mary

  Q1 1868

  Hemel Hempstead

  Alice

  Q2 1870

  Hemel Hempstead

  Esther

  Q1 1871

  Hemel Hempstead

  Ellen

  Q1 1874

  Hemel Hempstead

  William

  Q1 1876

  Hemel Hempstead

  Kate Lilian

  Q1 1882

  Hemel Hempstead

  By 1871 they had moved to Hemel Hemstead where they lived at Grosvenor Terrace, Pullen? Road. Ann died in 1888 and in 1890 Charles remarried to Betsey Steward, whose invalid father was living with them in 1891. Charles and Betsey were still at 8 Grosvenor Terrace in 1901. Charles died in 1917 and Betsey in 1925.

• Rosina married John Collins, a farm labourer, at St Nicholas, Guildford, on 9 June 1866. They lived at 2 Park Road and had four children:

  Elizabeth Maria

  bap. 8 Dec 1867

  Stoke next Guildford, Sry

  George James

  bap. 11 Dec 1870

  Holy Trinity, Guildford, Sry

  Emma Rose

  bap. 22 Jun 1873

  Holy Trinity, Guildford, Sry

  Kate Jane

  Q3 1875

  At the 1901 census Rosina was shown as a widow and her son George, still un-married, was a postman. Emma was still at home and there was also a 4-year-old grandson, Alfred, who had been born in South Kensington and may have been Emma's son.

  In 1911 George was shown as head of the family and Rosina was still living there along with Emma and her presumed son, Alfred. Also there was Kate and two children, presumed to be hers. Both had the surname Oliver, although Kate was recorded as Kate Collins, even though she claimed to be married.

• Maria may have had a son, Richard, in 1863. She never married but helped her mother run the shop in Catteshall Hatch. After her mother died she lived on her own in Mead Row (1891) and Harts Lane (1901). She died in 1926, aged 87.