George Wood

1770 – 1846

✓ Validated against records · 2026-07-08

George Wood was a Darley Dale man from first to last. He was baptised at Darley, in the Derwent valley of Derbyshire, on the 29th of July 1770 — the eldest surviving son of Anthony Wood and his wife Jemima, née Gregory — and he worked the land there as an agricultural labourer.

On the 29th of November 1802 he married, at Darley, Hannah Mather, and over the next quarter-century the couple had a large family christened at the parish church — eleven children by Janet Brock's reckoning of the register, from Sarah in 1803 to James in 1827, among them Samuel, born in 1805, who would carry the line to Hull.

By 1841 George was seventy-one, still at Wensley in the dale, his household that year made up of the grown children not yet gone from home — Mariah, Alexander, George, Jemima and James. He was buried at Darley on the 9th of September 1846, aged seventy-six. Samuel alone of the children we can follow had struck out for the city; through him — Samuel the carter of Hull — George Wood's Derbyshire line reaches down to the Friths and the Brocks.

Composed from validated records · 2026-07-08

Baptism: July 29th 1770 Darley, Derbyshire
Marriage: November 29th 1802 to Hannah Mather in Darley
Burial: September 9th 1846, Darley aged 76 years
Parents: Anthony Wood and Jemima Gregory
Siblings: George Wood baptised July 29th 1770, Darley Samuel Wood baptised February 2nd 1772, Darley John Wood baptised December 26th 1773, Darley died March 18th 1777 Anna Maria Wood baptised March 17th 1776, Darley Sarah Wood baptised April 4th 1779, Darley John Wood baptised December 10th 1781, Darley Anthony Wood born June 22nd 1785 baptised July 3rd 1785, Darley
Children: Sarah Wood baptised September 22nd 1803, Darley Derbyshire Mariah Wood born October 11th 1804, baptised November 6th 1803 Darley Samuel Wood born October 28th 1805 baptised November 17th 1805, Darley Elizabeth Wood baptised December 24th 1809, Darley John Wood baptised January 26th 1812, Darley Anthony Wood baptised June 26th 1814, Darley William Wood baptised September 14th 1817, Darley Alexander Wood born March 15th 1820 baptised March 22nd 1820 Darley George Wood born August 6th 1822 baptised September 1st 1822, Darley Jemima Wood born October 18th 1824 baptised November 7th 1824, Darley J ames Wood born September 17th 1827 baptised October 7th 1827 Darley
1802: November 29th marries Hannah Mather in Darley (no details)
1841c: Living in Wensley George Wood aged 71 born Derbyshire Mariah Wood, aged 25, born Derbyshire Alexander Wood aged 21 born Derbyshire George Wood aged 17 born Derbyshire Jemima Wood aged 15 born Derbyshire James Wood aged 12 born Derbyshire Occupation: Ag. Labourer
1846: George dies aged 76 years

In your grandmother’s words · from her notebook

Family

Parents

AWFatherAnthony Wood1745–1830

The children of Anthony & Jemima Gregory

George Wood b. 1770this page · · · · · ·

Marriage

Children

SWChild · the line continuesSamuel Woodmain line1805–1859

Life

Confirmed — anchored to a recordEstimated — inferred

1770

Baptised — Darley, Derbyshire

29 July 1770 at Derbyshire

George Wood — baptised 29 July 1770, Darley, Derbyshire — son of Anthony Wood and Jemima. (Janet Brock's transcript; parentage corroborated on FamilySearch.)— Baptism — Darley, Derbyshire (29 July 1770)

Mum’s record Evidence

From Janet Brock’s research, cited — not yet re-verified at the image:

Baptism — Darley, Derbyshire (29 July 1770) — Baptism of George Wood, 29 July 1770, Darley — from Janet Brock's reading of the Darley register. FamilySearch corroborates the parentage this pass (Anthony Wood & Jemima, children including George Wood), but George's own baptism image was not opened. His father is Anthony Wood; his mother Jemima Gregory. from Mum’s research

1802

In 1802

1802

November 29th marries Hannah Mather in Darley (no details)— From Janet Brock’s research

Mum’s record Evidence

From Janet Brock’s research notebook.

1802

Married Hannah Mather

29 November 1802 at Darley

George Wood married Hannah Mather, 29 November 1802, Darley. (Janet Brock's note.)— Marriage — Darley (29 November 1802)

Mum’s record Evidence

From Janet Brock’s research, cited — not yet re-verified at the image:

Marriage — Darley (29 November 1802) — Marriage of George Wood and Hannah Mather, 29 November 1802, Darley — from Janet Brock's research (she noted no further detail). Not re-read at the image this pass. from Mum’s research

1841

Census · 1841

1841

George Wood — aged 71 — born Derbyshire; Mariah Wood — 25; Alexander Wood — 21; George Wood — 17; Jemima Wood — 15; James Wood — 12 — all born Derbyshire. Occupation: Ag. Labourer. Wensley. (Janet Brock's transcript.)— 1841 census — Wensley, in the dale

Mum’s record Evidence

From Janet Brock’s research, cited — not yet re-verified at the image:

1841 census — Wensley, in the dale — 1841 Census, Wensley, Derbyshire — from Janet Brock's transcription (not re-read at the image this pass). George at seventy-one, an agricultural labourer, with the grown children still at home. from Mum’s research

1846

Buried at Darley, aged 76

9 September 1846

George Wood — buried 9 September 1846, Darley — aged 76. (Janet Brock's transcript.)— Burial — Darley (9 September 1846), aged 76

Mum’s record Evidence

From Janet Brock’s research, cited — not yet re-verified at the image:

Burial — Darley (9 September 1846), aged 76 — Burial of George Wood, 9 September 1846, Darley, aged 76 — from Janet Brock's reading of the Darley register. Not re-verified by us this pass. from Mum’s research

Our research

George Wood — the Darley Dale generation

Research · Darley Dale, Derbyshire

His life sits in Janet's reading of the Darley register — baptism 1770, marriage to Hannah Mather 1802, eleven children to 1827, burial 1846 — with the Anthony-and-Jemima parentage corroborated on FamilySearch this pass. The image-backed Derbyshire registers on FamilySearch hold the originals.

Lift the Darley entries to image. George's 1770 baptism, his 1802 marriage and 1846 burial are all in the FamilySearch Derbyshire Parish Registers collection; reading and filing those images would move them from Mum-level to image. A deep-pass step.
The eleven children. Janet lists them from the register (Sarah 1803 … James 1827); the full sibling set is hers, not re-counted at the image — no completeness claim is made here.