George Woods

[*Sandra*]

Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for blood relatives of Pvt George Woods - The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment - Service No 3105 - died 23/8/1921 - buried Preston (New Hall Lane) Cemetery -

Research has shown Pvt Woods is buried at New Hall Cemetery. The Commission are in the process of producing a headstone to mark his grave.

UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923

Pvt George Woods - Service No 3105 - died 22 August 1921
Corps, Regiment or Unit L.N.Sallic
Spouse / Widow Lydia.

Could this be Lydia Bradshaw ? A Marriage registered December 1914 - Preston 8e 953
George Woods and Lydia Bradshaw.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:26D6-7S6

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

On the 1911 census 3 Robert St Preston. Lancashire

George Woods   38 widower. Boarder
Lydia Bradshaw   43 widow. Head.
Alfred Bradshaw   15
Margaret Ellen Bradshaw   12
Annie Bradshaw   9

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X494-VQW

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Sandra

[Radcliff]

St Peter Preston,
22nd March 1896,
Alfred Bradshaw
Father Joseph,
Mother Lydia,
abode, 10 Milton Street,
sister Margaret Ellen baptised 14th September 1898, abode 22 Higginson Street,
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Marriage details,
St Mary Preston,
28th September 1895,
Joseph Bradshaw 34 Overlooker, widower of New Hall Lane,
father not recorded,
Lydia Marston aged 26 spinster, of 4 Wilton Street,
father Joseph Henry Marston, mechanic,
witnesses , Henry Gregson and Mary Threlfall,
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[Radcliff]

The marriage you have put a link up to was according to Lancashire BMD ,
Was at Preston St Peter, in 1914,

there are a couple of Joseph Bradshaw deaths that could have been Lydia's first husband,
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Preston burial Ground register

Joseph Bradshaw, aged 41 buried September 16th 1903,
abode 160 Atkinson Street,
public grave , reference aa ,1105,3rd internment

[Radcliff]

Was George a soldier perhaps before he married Lydia,
a driller , electrical engineers as occupation in 1911 ,