Photographed in May 1959
Wood Street
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My husband’s great great grandparents Adam & Ann Campbell lived at number 5, they are there on the 1871 & 1881 census. Strangely enough his other great great grandparents on his mother’s side Edmond & Elizabeth Wilkins lived at number 6, they were there in 1853 when their daughter was born and also are there on the 1861 census.
My great great great grandfather Frederick Edwards Ewer was living at number 6 in the 1871 census.
At the time my great great grandparents Henry Guilford & Eliza Simmons married in 1842 at St Nicholas Church they were living in Wood Street. Henry at no 16 & Eliza at no 35. Henry was described as a Railway Policeman (Guard). So the houses must have been built around or before this time.
My ancester, William Gray, was living at 9, Wood Street in the 1871 census.
My Grandparents lived at 9, Wood Street in the 50’s. Grandma’s sister, husband and 3 sons lived across the road and my Aunt and her husband lived at no.3. We lived with my Grandparents until I was 6.
Hello Josie Campbell; Adam Campbell is my 5x Great Uncle – I just found his address on the 1871 Census. If your husband – presumably a cousin of some permutation – would care to share family info my name can be searched on ancestry.com. 🙂
My great grandfather was living at 25 Wood Street.
I’ve just discovered on Parish marriage Records.
He was Charles Lower & married Eliza Cosham at St Nicholas Of Myra church Brighton 1840. His father my great great grandfather was Henry Lower.Eliza’s father was Caleb Cosham. She was living at Cheapside. I was living at Southampton Street when this Street was pulled down 1962. I had no idea.
My ancestor John West’s widow Elizabeth Sarah West (nee Mercer) lived at 12 Wood Street in the 1891 census with 3 of her daughters Lydia a laundry maid, Rose a domestic servant and Clara a dressmaker.
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