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WOOD 

[WODK621] John Wood m. [HOPP622] Mary Hopper
. [WODK631] Henry Wood m. Martha
. . [WODK641] John Wood m2. [BALL643] Elizabeth Ball
. . . [WODK651] Henry Wood m. [FINC652] Susannah Fincham
. . . . [WODK661] William Wood m. [OVER662] Sarah Overall
. . . . . [WODK672] Sarah Anne Wood m. [PARK671] John Last Parker

8.  [WODK621] John Wood junior married (at Coggeshall, 17th October 1695) [HOPP622] Mary Hopper. They had three children born and baptised at Coggeshall as follows:

7.  [WODK631] Henry Wood (born 1697) and his wife Martha had three children born and baptised at Coggeshall as follows:

Martha died at Feering (buried there 18th September 1775). Henry died at Feering also (buried there 8th June 1777), and left a will (signed 1776), in which he was described as Henry Wood the elder of Feering, husbandman.

6.  [WODK641] John Wood (born 1722) married 1. (at Inworth, 30th March 1746) Martha Scapy. They had three children born and baptised at Feering as follows:

Martha died at Feering (buried there 28th June 1766), and afterwards John, a widower, married 2. (at Feering, 4th January 1768) [BALL643] Elizabeth Harvey, a widow, (1723, see BALL), witnessed by Henry Wood (John's brother) and Susan Rust. They had two children born and baptised at Feering as follows:

Elizabeth had previously married 1. (at Inworth, 10th April 1748) Thomas Harvey (baptised at Great Tey, 28th March 1715) and by him had had six children at Feering: Thomas, Elizabeth, William, Sarah, John and Timothy (born between 1748-65). Thomas Harvey had died at Feering (buried there 28th May 1764, 8 months before their last child was born.

 Elizabeth died at Feering (buried there 10th February 1784), and John died at Feering also (buried there 18th November 1795).

 5.  [WODK651] Henry Wood (born 1768, son of Henry & Elizabeth) married (at Feering, 9th December 1787) [FINC652] Susannah Fincham (born 1762), witnessed by John Fincham and William Wiseman (Henry's half-sister Martha's husband). They had eight children born and baptised at Feering as follows:

At the 1841 Census  they were living at Kiessens Green, Feering, where Henry was an agricultural labourer, and Susan was noted as not having been born in Essex. Henry died (age 79, of diarrhoea) at Feering (21st October 1846, buried there 25th October 1846), and Susannah died (age 87, of old age and typhus) at Feering also (15th May 1848, buried there 21st May 1848).

4.  [WODK661] William Wood (born 1808) married (at Feering, 3rd December 1831) [OVER662] Sarah Overall (born 1809, see OVERALL), witnessed by Joseph Hall and Eliza's Orrell (Sarah's sister). They had nine children as follows:

The family lived at Kiessens Green (alias Kyler Green, latterly Skiers Green). William was variously an agricultural labourer or husbandman. Sarah died (age 77, had been ill with cancer, then fractured a thigh bone in a fall in the bedroom two weeks before her death) at Feering (12th October 1886, buried there 17th October 1886). William died (age 78, of heart disease and dropsy) at Feering also (6th November 1888, buried there 11th November 1888).