Thank you again, katerimmer ... the London details of Anthony Wood, his wife and family are new to me and something I will now try to follow up. I need now to show that Anthony Wood was a refiner before he moved to Bristol to become a partner of Thomas Ellis at the Whitson Courth Sugarhouse.
There's a 97 page history of the 'Whitson Court Sugar House, Bristol, 1665-1824' by the late I V Hall (a local historian who specialised in researching the Bristol Sugar Industry in the 1940s onwards ... his notes, files, essays etc are held at Bristol Record Office) published in 'Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeoligical Society for 1944, Vol 65', which can sometimes be found for sale s/h online, is certainly held by Cheltenham Library, and probably in the Bristol libraries and archives.
I V Hall researched everything in depth, but he hadn't managed to find Anthony Wood's marriage, or his earlier children. His work is a very interesting read.
He suggests Wood was "a man of some wealth and skill as a sugar baker at the time of his arrival in Bristol."
The taxes for St James Bristol 1667 show the rental for the sugarhouse premises split between Ellis and Wood, 4s 6d and 1s 8d. He suggests that Wood had ownership of at least one of the tenements on site, possibly confirmed by its passing to Morgan Smith, Wood's son-in-law, on his death. (Morgan Smith married Elizabeth Wood, and ran a sugarhouse nearby, with his son of the same name continuing the business after his death around 1716. His will at
www.mawer.clara.net/willsZ.html#smith2 ).
It would appear that Anthony Wood did much of the buying of the raw sugar, that often arrived in Bristol by devious routes.
Son Joseph Wood was apprenticed to a Bristol grocer, "his widowed mother Joan finding apparel" (1688).
By 1704 both sons Joseph and Samuel had property worth £600 (Poll Bk).
In 1696 Mrs Wood lived in Barrs Lane, and there's a suggestion that a few years earlier she may have been involved in business with Morgan Smith.