Fanny Louisa Wood

1879-1896

Fanny Louisa was born in Sussex, she was baptised on the 24^th August 1879 at St Leonard’s Christ Church, East Sussex, the daughter of Ernest and Louisa Wood (nee Freeman) who were married on the 15^th January 1879 at St Nicolas Church Newbury, Berkshire.

Fanny’s father Ernest was an Ironmonger. He was born in 1856 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire the son of Alfred and Charlotte Wood (nee Harris) who were married on the 14^th July 1853 at St Mary De Lode Gloucester.

Her mother Louisa was born in 1855 in Newbury, Berkshire, the daughter of Samuel and Emma Freeman (nee Sharp) who were married on the 3^rd October 1843 in Wolverton, Hampshire.

Ernest and Louisa also had the following children:

Alfred John Ernest born 1880

Samuel Frank born 1882, baptised 15^th October 1882 at Christ Church Worthing.

The 1881 census records Fanny (1) living with her father Ernest (34), a Manager of an Ironmonger’s Shop, her mother Louisa (25), her brother Alfred (5 months) and female servant aged 13, at 7 Graham Street, Broadwater, Sussex.

The 1891 census records Fanny (11) living at 17 Craven Street, Newbury, Berkshire with her widowed mother Louisa (34), her brothers Alfred (10) and Samuel (8), her grandparents (recorded as lodgers) Samuel Freeman (73) and Emma Freeman (67), her uncle Charles Freeman (23) and her great aunt Charlotte Sharp (69)

(Fanny’s mother Louisa remarried in 1894, her 2^nd husband was Frederick William Newton (an Accountant, born in 1850 in Oxfordshire). They had a daughter Gladys Lilian, born in 1897. Louisa was widowed in 1918. She died aged 95 in 1950 in Surrey)

Fanny Louisa died aged 17 on the 19^th September 1896 in Hampstead Norris, she was laid to rest in a family grave in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25^th September.

Also buried in the family grave were her grandparents Samuel Freeman (buried 1906) and Emma Freeman (buried 1917), her uncles, John Freeman (buried (1879), Samuel Henry Freeman (buried 1920), her aunts Mary Anna Freeman (wife of Samuel Henry, buried 1928), Charlotte Bryant (buried 1886) and Caroline Offer (buried 1929)

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