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Could a landsurveyor who just happened to have been in jail at some stage become a Sir? If so would there be a record or announcement in a newspaper?
From a pamplett in B'ham archives we have mention of Sir Thomas & Lady Sarah Wood of Low Hall, South Cave, Yorkshire. Looking at records in Yorkshire archives, Thomas & his family are listed from 1747 to 1816. In the earlier entries of mid 1700s, there are entries in qtr sessions for not burying cattle & the Woods are yeoman (so farmers who owned land I would assume).
By 1785 John Wood is commissioner for land enclosures & a gent & in 1792 a widow Wood is giving land for the building of a Chapel.
The last mention in 1816 is of Thomas Wood being a land surveyor, but in 1807 he was fined for killing game with a dog & gun. There is a mention in the London Gazette of him being in South Cave jail, but there is no date.
I have no age for him, but his wife born 1779 appears alone in 1841 in B'ham. They probably had a son John Fred francis & certainly had a daughter born 1807, but was Thomas a Sir & Sarah a Lady? They were possibly Methodists.