• General Notes

  Birth registered Q2 1878.
  
  Shown on 1901 Census with parents, but no trace of Lydia or Charles William Woods after marriage - emigrated?  Very possibly:  a Charles Wm Woods left London for Adelaide on the SS Ormuz (Orient Line) on 29 April 1910 with his wife, daughter and baby girl.  This Charles Woods was a farmer, so the marriage certificate would show if it was the right person. (Six other farmers are listed on the same page of the departure list, so they were probably answering an appeal for people to populate the growing areas of South Australia.)
  
  There is also no record of the daughter, Mary Christiana Woods in the 1911 Census, nor any record of her early death, which further supports the emigration possibility.
  
  Married Q1 1906 and a baby Charles William is recorded as being born in Hartlepool in Q4 1906, so almost certainly the son of Lydia.  However, there is no death record on any source, and no record in the 1911 Census; probably died as an infant and not recorded.  The identity of the baby girl is impossible to establish as well - of the two Woods babies born in Hartlepool in 1909-10, one died within months and the other appears on the 1911 Census.  The baby could have been born elsewhere shortly before they departed from London, but without the MMN (not recorded before 1911) will be almost impossible to trace.
  
  UPDATE:
  Marriage Certificate shows her address as 12 Burbank Terrace in March 1906.  Witnesses were Herman Schmitz (surgeon, living in Victoria Road - now Grange Road, West Hartlepool) and E??? Aspland
  Living in Burbank Street, West Hartlepool in 1906, at time of her son's Christening, and at 10 Belmont Gardens in June 1908 when her daughter was Christened.
  
  Family found in NSW, Australia from around 1913 onwards (Antony George was born in Waverley in March 1913), so farming in SA obviously did not suit them.
  Living at 33 Fifth Street, Canterbury, Sydney in 1930, then at 67 Holden Street, Ashfield, Sydney shortly afterwards.  Listed at 30 Jones Street, Pyrmont, Sydney in the 1933, 1936  and 1937 electorall rolls, and at 147 Victoria Street, Ashfield in 1943 and 1949.  Moved to "Aston Clinton", Dunmore Avenue, Leura (now Katoomba) in 1949, where Lydia died in 1952.

Details of Lydia's family with Charles William (Henry) Woods