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Title: Wood family in Melbourne
Post by: DuncanW on Tuesday 23 June 15 12:24 BST (UK)

William Wood (b. 1791) was married to Mary Casbon (b. 1798) and owned land in Melbourne. My oldest aunt, just before she died, told me that "the family never play cards as the Wood brothers lost the village of Melbourne playing cards". I have no idea if there was any truth in the story, but they did move to Great Chishill and appeared to have 'come down in the world' as he became a wheelwright.
My guess is that they may have lost the parcels of land that they owned - not the whole village - but have no idea how one can find out.
Many thanks
Duncan

Title: Re: Wood family in Melbourne
Post by: chempat on Sunday 12 July 15 07:42 BST (UK)

There is a contact email address on the link:

http://melbourncambridge.co.uk/history/

This gives some glimpses of what they have been working on in that specific book:

http://www.melbourncambridge.co.uk/history/wp-content/uploads/glimpse/

Look here?

http://forebears.co.uk/england/cambridgeshire/melbourn

I am assuming you mean Melbourn not Melbourne.

Title: Re: Wood family in Melbourne
Post by: DuncanW on Monday 13 July 15 10:49 BST (UK)

Many thanks for that. I'll follow it up.
Apologies for the "e" but followed on from the old spelling without thinking that it had been dropped over the years.