Charles Wordsworth WOOD [5626]

  General Notes:

1936 SA SDeath 583/3559 WOOD Charles Wordsworth undefined Adelaide

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954) Wed 26 Aug 1936
Death Notice:
WOOD.-On the 24th August, at 92[sic] Alexandra street. Prospect, Charles Wordsworth Wood, in his 93rd year. At rest.

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954) Wed 26 Aug 1936
Funeral Notice:
WOOD. --THE FRIENDS of the late Mr. CHARLES WORDSWORTH WOOD, of 92[sic] Alexandra street, Prospect, are respectfully informed that his Remains were peacefully laid to rest (privately) on TUESDAY 25th inst. in St. George's Church of England Cemetery, Magill. Rev. R.V.S. Adams officiating. George A Beeching, Undertaker, 1 Wilcox avenue, Prospect. Phone M1321.

  Research Notes:

The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954) Sat 3 Oct 1931
ANOTHER LINK WITH WORDSWORTH
Son of Cousin Lives at North Adelaide (By Alison A. Henderson)
IT comes as a surprise to buy for a mere song a book signed by the poet William Wordsworth. It is more surprising to learn that there is in Adelaide a son of the poet's cousin who is in a position to state definitely that the writing is that of Wordsworth.
When I discovered Wordsworth's "Excursion" with the inscription, 'To Elizabeth Wordsworth, from her affectionate cousin, Wm. Wordsworth, 5th June, 1840, Rydal Mount,' I was ignorant of the early history of the book.
Following the publication of my discovery and the reproduction of the poet's inscription in "The Mail" I received an interesting letter from Mr. Charles Wordsworth Wood, of North Adelaide. He claims to be the son of Elizabeth Wordsworth, the recipient of the book now in my possession.
He knew nothing of the book itself, but the information he supplied during a subsequent conversation proved his claim to be correct.
Elizabeth Forth, daughter of Robinson Wordsworth, Collector of Customs at Harwich and first cousin to the poet Wordsworth, married Charles Wood, a London barrister and Queen's Counsel, who was a colleague at Cambridge of her brother, Charles Wordsworth, of Henley boat race fame.
Their eldest child, Charles Wordsworth Wood, was born on October 2, 1843, at St. Omer, in France, while his parents were visiting Robinson Wordsworth, who, like many retired English civil servants of that period, lived abroad, where it was cheaper to exist than in England.
When the infant was three weeks old the Woods returned to England, not without difficulty, as the law forbidding the removal of male children from France was in operation at that time.
In 1846, at Herne Bay, Kent, Elizabeth and her second son, William Wordsworth Wood, name sake of the poet, died, leaving Charles and his younger sisters, Elizabeth and Jessie.
The boy Charles took to the sea. When nearly 21 he was travelling as third mate on board the Ocean Chief, of the once well-known Blackball Line, which was bound for Australia.
He fell in love with one of the passengers, and on landing at Adelaide he left the ship to be married. He celebrated the eighty-eighth annversary of his birth yesterday at North Adelaide.
That was 68 years ago. His sister Jessie, in whose possession the book must originally have been, judged by the pencilled information (identified as the handwriting of her stepmother), "Jessie Wood, second daughter of E. Wordsworth," added beneath the poet's inscription, married Rev. Thomas Blackburn, who had an appointment under Bishop Kennion at Honolulu.
Out of consideration for his wife's ill health Mr. Blackburn was transferred to Port Lincoln, and it was there, about 49 years ago, that his wife Jessie died. Mr. Blackburn remarried; and it is probable that after his death the "Excursion" among other books was sold.

Charles married Emmeline HOSKEN [6996] [MRIN: 1896], daughter of Living and Living, on 28 Jul 1864 in Wesleyan Parsonage, Kapunda, South Australia. (Emmeline HOSKEN [6996] was born in 1843 in Breage, Cornwall, England, baptised on 22 Oct 1843 in Breage, Cornwall, England and died on 3 Mar 1878 in Parkside, Adelaide, South Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

1864 SA Marriage 59/379 WOOD Charles Wordsworth HOSKEN Emmeline, Kapunda

Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904) Sat 13 Aug 1864
Marriage Notice:
WARD-HOSKEN. On the 28th July, by special licence, in the Wesleyan Parsonage, Kapunda, by the Rev. Wm. M. Bennett, Mr. Charles W. Ward, to Miss Emmeline Hosken,
of Allendale.

Charles next married Emilin Maitland WOOD [13009] [MRIN: 4800], daughter of Living and Living, on 25 Sep 1880 in Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide, South Australia. (Emilin Maitland WOOD [13009] was born on 27 Jul 1846 in England, died on 17 Jan 1922 in Knightsbridge, South Australia and was buried in Magill, Adelaide, South Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

1880 SA Marriage 124/1150 WOOD Charles Wordsworth WOOD Emilin Maitland, Adelaide