Descendants of Robert Wood
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Descendants of Robert Wood Generation 1 1. ROBERT1 WOOD was born in 1787 in Peebleshire, Scotland. He died on 09 Sep 1867 in Lombardy, Ontario. He married (1) JENNY BROWN. He married (2) MARY MAHON. She was born about 1810. Notes for Robert Wood: There are two versions of Robert Woods story. The first by JOHN ALBIN WOOD is a follows: Robert Wood came from Perthshire, Scotland on one of the Baltic ships in 1815. He settled on a piece of land at Wayside, in Drummond township, on the way to Carleton Place. He was a school teacher and we believe he assisted in some of the survey work in the area. Robert Wood is mentioned in the book, A Pioneer History of Lanark County, Jean McGill. We are told he was married to a Miss Brown also from Scotland who came with their two little boys to Canada in 1815. But his wife died in Montreal leaving him and his two boys to come ahead to Concession III, lot #7 of Drummond township to start a new life in Canada. He did marry late in life and had one child who later became a Mrs. George Bone of the Haliburton area. These men and their wives and families are in the Union Cemetery at Lombardy, Ontario. An extract of the second source, ELIZABETH WOOD DODDS, reads: "Robert Wood was born in the early seventeen eighties in Peebleshire on the Scottish border. He had one sister, Mary, and, I believe two brothers: James and John. Robert Wood married Janet Brown. Their two sons; James, and Robert were very young when Janet developed tuberculosis and died. Robert Wood settled up his business in his small town in Peebleshire in the year 1815 and set out with his two little sons for Glasgow with the intention of sailing to Australia to join the other members of the family. But there was no ship scheduled for Australia in the near future when he reached Glasgow and he decided to go to Canada instead as the sailing ship "Baltic" was about ready to embark. A large number of Scottish families were waiting in Glasgow to sail on this same ship. The crossing took six weeks, which was considered good at that time for sailing ships were dependent on favorable winds. Robert Wood and his little sons landed in Montreal where he got work at shipbuilding and married Mary Mahon. But everyone was interested in getting land and in the summer of 1816 Robert Wood set out by water and land to Brockville, and from there to what is now known as Perth, a military settlement at that time." His headstone is inscribed " WOOD / Robert / 1787-1867 / his wife / Jenny Brown / predeceased / natives of Perthshire / Pioneered to Canada 1815 / their son / James 1810-1873 / his wife / Sarah Ann Tweedy / 1806-1893 / native of Peebleshire". The headstone also has the saying "Behold, all you who pass by / As you are now, so once was I / As I am, so you too, shall be / Therefore prepare to follow me" The headstone reference suggests that Jenny made it to Canada and is burried at Lombardy with Robert. The Baltic Merchant passenger list also adds further questions about Mrs. Wood's correct name. The ship Baltic Merchant, under Captain Jeffreys, sailed from Greenock July 14th 1815, and arrived at Quebec September 4th 1815 with 194 passengers. The passenger list shows a Robert Wood, aged 33, with a family of five originating in Inverleithen, Peebleshire. There is a list of a family of 5 with wife Helen (Scott) (30) and three boys, John (9), James (7) and Robert (5). This does not completely agree with the 1817 census data of Drummond Township which lists "WOOD, Robert: Ellen, James, Robert, Margaret." It would be a very big coincidence if there were two Wood families with similarly named children arriving on the same ship. Generation 1 (con't) Robert appears in Drummond census reports in 1821 and 1822 with a wife, two sons and a daughter. Land records indicate that Robert took up land in Elmsley Township in 1835. The date of Jenny's death is not known. If the Wood tombstone is correct in that Jenny is burried at Lombardy Union Cemetery then she lived into the late 1830's which is when the Bowen family donated the land for the cemetery. Robert (70) is shown in the 1852 census with his second (?) wife Mary (42). Robert Wood and Jenny Brown had the following children: 2. i. JAMES2 WOOD was born in 1810 in Scotland. He died on 22 Jun 1873 in Lombardy, Ontario. He married SARAH ANN TWEEDY, daughter of Robert Tweedy and Rose Sinnott. She was born in 1806 in County Wexford, Ireland. She died on 21 Jun 1893 in South Elmsley, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario (Died of old age at 88 years.). 3. ii. ROBERT WOOD was born in 1812 in Scotland. He died on 05 Apr 1878 in Lombardy, Ontario. He married (1) JANET MUNRO on 28 May 1841 in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Perth, Ontario, daughter of Peter Munro and Mary NcNab. He married (2) MARGARET (AGNES) J WALKER in 1847 in Perth, Ontario. She was born in 1818. She died on 10 Dec 1872. 4. iii. MARGARET WOOD was born on 15 Sep 1815 in Ontario. She died on 04 Feb 1902 in North Crosby, Leeds Co., Ontario. She married ISRAEL BOWEN about 1836 in South Elmsley, Leeds Co., Ontario. He was born in Sep 1798 in Lansdowne Twp, Leeds Co., ON,. He died on 06 Nov 1887 in North Crosby, Leeds Co., Ontario. Generation 2 2. JAMES2 WOOD (Robert1) was born in 1810 in Scotland. He died on 22 Jun 1873 in Lombardy, Ontario. He married SARAH ANN TWEEDY, daughter of Robert Tweedy and Rose Sinnott. She was born in 1806 in County Wexford, Ireland. She died on 21 Jun 1893 in South Elmsley, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario (Died of old age at 88 years.). Notes for James Wood: James born in Perthshire, Scotland in 1810 and died at the age of 63 on June 22, 1873. Notes for Sarah Ann Tweedy: Sarah Ann Tweedy had come to Canada as an orphan in 1833 with several uncles, aunts and cousins - all Tweedys. Her youngest brother, James, came later with their aunt, Mrs. Doherty, and her husband. Sara Ann made her home with her uncle, Charles Tweedy, and his family, who had settled in Leeds County near Lombardy. The Anglican Church in Lombardy was built on their farm. The Wood family was Presbyterian, but since there was no church of that denomination at Lombardy, they attended the Anglican Church and there they met the Tweedys. Sarah Ann Tweedy lived to be 87 years of age and was known as a mid-wife in that area. The Tweedies were from Perthshire, Scotland. The Tweedy family in Peebleshire was originally from Stenhouse in Lanarkshire. These two shires border each other. The origins of the family may be from Finlay de Twedyn del Comte de Lanark who in the year 1296 swore fealty to Edward the First of England. His son Rodger settled in Drumelzur on the Tweed near the town of Peebles. Hence the name. James Wood and Sarah Ann Tweedy had the following children: 5. i. MARY ANN3 WOOD was born on 09 Jun 1833 in Olivers Landing, Lanark, ON. She died on 19 Sep 1922 in Rideau Ferry, South Elmsley, Ontario. She married PATRICK WILLS on 02 Jul 1868 in Smiths Falls, Ontario, son of Patrick Wills and Margaret Orme. He was born on 17 Mar 1840 in Sligo County, Ireland. He died on 05 Feb 1919 in South Elmsley. Generation 2 (con't) 6. ii. ROBERT WOOD was born on 29 May 1840. He died on 12 Aug 1913. He married JOHANNA LOOBY, daughter of William Looby and Ruth McCormack. She was born on 08 Nov 1844. She died on 25 Jul 1929. 7. iii. JAMES WOOD was born on 15 Jul 1842. He died on 02 Sep 1930 in Lombardy, Ontario. He married ANNE WILLS on 07 Oct 1868 in Smiths Falls, Ontario, daughter of Patrick Wills and Margaret Orme. She was born on 10 Nov 1846. She died in 1946. 8. iv. JANE WOOD was born on 18 Jan 1845 in Lombardy, Ontario. She died on 13 May 1915 in Lombardy, Ontario. She married NELSON HORATIO COVELL on 16 Sep 1866 in Perth, son of Arthur Wellesley Covell and Maria Ringer. He was born on 22 Nov 1841 in Lombardy, Ontario. He died on 15 Mar 1918 in Lombardy, Ontario. 9. v. JOHN WOOD was born on 30 Apr 1849 in South Elmsley, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario. He died on 28 Apr 1923. He married MARIA WILLS on 02 Mar 1871 in Smiths Falls, Ontario, daughter of Patrick Wills and Margaret Orme. She was born on 24 Jun 1849. She died on 19 Sep 1920. 3. ROBERT2 WOOD (Robert1) was born in 1812 in Scotland. He died on 05 Apr 1878 in Lombardy, Ontario. He married (1) JANET MUNRO on 28 May 1841 in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Perth, Ontario, daughter of Peter Munro and Mary NcNab. He married (2) MARGARET (AGNES) J WALKER in 1847 in Perth, Ontario. She was born in 1818. She died on 10 Dec 1872. Notes for Robert Wood: Robert was born in Perthshire Scotland in 1812 and died at 66 on Apr 5, 1878. Robert Wood and Janet Munro had the following children: 10. i. ROBERT3 WOOD was born in 1842. He married AGNES THOMLINSON.