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Francis Wood 1829 - 1895

Francis Henry Wood of Yarram, Wellington Shire County, VIC Australia was born on May 11, 1829 in Riplingham, East Riding of Yorkshire County, England United Kingdom to Francis Wood and Hannah Haldenby Wood. He had siblings Elizabeth (Wood) Strover, Charles Wood, Mary (Wood) Strover, George Wood, and Sarah (Wood) Linforth. He married Mary Sybella Hearder Rendell in 1857, and had children Francis Henry Wood, James Shaw Wood, Sarah Sybella (Wood) Widdon, John William Wood, George Gilbert Wood, Annie Elizabeth Wood, Samuel Haldenby Wood, Ethel Eileen Wood, and Edith Evelyn Hearden Wood. Francis Wood died at age 65 years old on March 15, 1895 in Yarram, Wellington Shire County, VIC Australia.
Francis Henry Wood
Yarram, Wellington Shire County, VIC 3971, Australia
May 11, 1829
Riplingham, East Riding of Yorkshire County, England, HU20 3XT, United Kingdom
March 15, 1895
Yarram, Wellington Shire County, VIC, 3971, Australia
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  • 05/11
    1829

    Birthday

    May 11, 1829
    Birthdate
    Riplingham, East Riding of Yorkshire County, England HU20 3XT, United Kingdom
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  • Nationality & Locations

    Yarr, Australia Gipp, Australia Pt Albert, Australia Albe, Australia Yarn, Australia Ya Rr, Australia Australia Marysborough, Australia
  • 03/15
    1895

    Death

    March 15, 1895
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Yarram, Wellington Shire County, VIC 3971, Australia
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    Francis Wood lived 8 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 65.
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In 1829, in the year that Francis Wood was born, on July 23rd, in the United States, William Burt obtained the first patent for a kind of typewriter - an earlier one had been made in Italy in 1808. The typographer, as it was called, was a rectangular wooden box 12 inches wide, 12 inches high, and 18 inches long. It worked by depressing a rotating lever so that an inked letter made contact with the paper.
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In 1834, he was just 5 years old when on August 14th, the Poor Law Amendment Act was enacted in the United Kingdom. The Act stated that no able-bodied British man could receive assistance unless he entered a workhouse (a kind of poorhouse). The Act was intended to curb the cost of relief for the poor since workhouses were designed to be unpleasant. Many workhouses used the men as free labor and employed them in such tasks as breaking stones, crushing bones to produce fertilizer, or picking oakum - tarred fiber used between planks on ships -using a large metal nail known as a spike.
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