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WOOD Francis John

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Greenways6

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Anyone researching Francis John WOOD born 1862 in Water Orton, WAR. He married Leila PROSSER from Coleshill and became a Farmer at Sheldon, WAR. The couple had five children - Frances, Olive, Francis, Alec, and Bernard WOOD.

Does anyone know what happened to this family after 1901?
 
Hi and welcome, did Lelia have any brothers that started at Blythe Mill Coleshill a buisness to do with corn feeds etc :)
 
You could well be right, as one of her younger brothers, George A. PROSSER, was a Miller at Sheldon in 1901. Presumably at Babbs Mill.

Do you have any further details, please?
 
Hi, the only Prosser I have got is:
Richard Charles/Charles Richard Prosser who was at Blythe Mill/ Shustoke and Over Whitacre Mill in 1921....I think that you will find that Prossers in the instance deal mainly with animal feed, they are still in existence today, but no longer live at Blythe Mill.
Good luck with your quest, I haven't got any Prossers at Babbs Mill
:) :)
 
Re: Francis John WOOD

Forgive this late reply but I've just tripped over this thread - I'm looking for information about the old Sheldon Rectory, a part of which I believe sits in my back garden and I couldn't help noticing the reference above to the Sheldon Mill. From what I understand there was a mill at the top of Mardon Road, on the high ground bordered by Rectory Park Road, Forest Hill and Warmington Avenue. The mill must have overlooked Sheldon Rectory which was on the hillside that slopes down to the A45 Coventry Road between Bayford Ave and Coalway Ave. All of this dissappeared when the area was developed in the 1930's. May be your Prosser was the Miller here and not at the Babbs or Blythe Mill. I also believe that there were two other mills in the Sheldon area, one on the stream that runs by the end of the Airport runway and one somewhere around Lyndon Green - there's a small book about Sheldon whose title escapes me at the Birmingham Central Library (floor 6 local history section) that mentions each of these mills.
 
Re: Francis John WOOD

Thanks for your input.

As George Ainscow PROSSER was residing at Sheldon Hall in 1901 it seemed reasonable to me that he would in all likelyhood be working at Babbs Mill, being the nearest.

It was the Reverend JONES-BATEMAN who decided Old Rectory Farm was too small for his family and moved Sheldon Rectory to your neck of the woods.
 
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