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WOODE, Charles Edward
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Charles Edward WOODE, son of Enoch WOODE (c. 1844-c. 1903) and Elizabeth SPEAKMAN (c. 1841-c. 1916), was born on 2 May 1872 in Hindolveston, Norfolk. He was baptised on 7 July 1872 in Hindolveston - parents Enoch and Elizabeth. Charles appeared in the census in 1881 in Bures St. Mary, Suffolk - 9, scholar, living with parents Enoch (37, Curate of Bures) and Elizabeth (39), brother Alfred (4), and servant Elizabeth Palmer (15). Charles appeared in the census in 1891 at 11 Green West Side in Barro ..... View full FH text (See notes below)
Birth:02.05.1872 : Hindolveston, Norfolk : 1872 Q2 Aylsham Norfolk Vol 4B Page 75
Baptism:07.07.1872 : Hindolveston, Norfolk
Marriage:00.00.1902 to Margaret Ethel MARSHALL : 1902 Q2 Thingoe Suffolk Vol 4A Page 1259
1881 Census:Bures St. Mary, Suffolk : 9, scholar, living with parents Enoch (37, Curate of Bures) and Elizabeth (39), brother Alfred (4), and servant Elizabeth Palmer (15) (RG11 Piece 1826 Folio 47 Page 20)
1891 Census:11 Green West Side, Barrow, Suffolk : 18, preparing for university, living with parents Enoch (47, curate of Barrow) and Elizabeth 49), brother Alfred F (14, school boy), and domestic servant Clara Carter (19) (RG12 Piece 1448 Folio 17 Page 2)
1901 Census:Barrow Green, Barrow, Suffolk : 28, undergraduate, a visitor in the household of Frances MARSHALL (67, surgeon) and his family including Frances’ daughter Margaret E who was to become Charles’ wife (RG13 Piece 1752 Folio 23 Page 13)
1911 Census:The Rectory, Fersfield, Norfolk : 38, Clergyman in the Established Church, living with wife Margaret Ethel (38), sons Cecil Stanley Marshall (6), Francis Meredith Marshall (4) and Wilfred Derek Marshall (2), and general domestic servants Gladys Lawrence PINNOCK (16) and Laura Agnes LUSHER (14) (RG14 PN11450 RD230 SD2 ED8 SN12)
1939 Reg.:The Vicarage, Reepham Road, Walsingham, Norfolk, Walsingham, Norfolk : b. 02.05.1872 : Clerk in Holy Orders (RG101/6584F/010/8 : TSBB)
Death:08.09.1982 : Norfolk and Norwich Hospital : usual residence was The Vicarage, Briston, but died in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital : 1952 Q3 Norwich Norfolk Vol 4B Page 469
Burial:11.09.1952 at Fersfield, Norfolk
Probate:10.10.1952 at Norwich, Norfolk : WOODE the reverend Charles Edward of the Vicarage Briston Norfolk clerk died 8 September 1952 at The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital Norwich Probate Norwich 10 October to Francis Meredith Marshall Woode hotel proprietor. Effects £599 11s.
Occupation:1912 Kelly’s Directory - Fersfield - “Woode Rev. Charles Edward B.A. (rector), The Rectory”
Occupation:1933 Kelly’s Directory - “Woode Rev. Chas. Edwd. M.A. Vicarage, Briston, Melton Constable”
Elect. Roll:1908 Electoral Roll living at London Road, Attleborough, qualified as an Occupation Voter
Elect. Roll:1910 Electoral Roll living at The Rectory, Fersfield, qualified as an Occupation Voter
Elect. Roll:1915 Electoral Roll living at The Rectory, Fersfield, qualified as an Occupation Voter
Elect. Roll:1931 Electoral Roll living at The Rectory, Briston, qualified by residence and occupation
Newspaper:Diss Express, 13 March 1908 - Page 4

FERSFIELD.
CLERICAL APPOINTMENT. - On Saturday the Rev. Charles Edward Woode, B.A., was licensed to the curacy of Fersfield.
On Sunday the new vicar of Swaffham, the Rev. F. Keeling Scott (late of Fersfield), read himself in at the morning service, and preached at the evening service to a very large congregation.
Newspaper:Diss Express, 15 Dec 1911 - Page 5

FERSFIELD.

NEW RECTOR. - On the 4th inst. the Rev. Charles Edward Woode, B.A., was instituted to the rectory and parish church of Fersfield, on the presentation of Mr. Arthur Wansbrough Jones, solicitor, Norwich, on the nomination of Mrs. E. Woode of Fersfield.
Newspaper:Diss Express, 13 Jan 1928 - Page 5

FERSFIELD.

CLERICAL. - On Tuesday last, at the Palace, Norwich, the Rev.Charles Edward Woode, B.A. (for many years Rector of Fersfield), was collated and instituted by the Bishop of Norwich to the Rectory of Burgh Parva with the Vicarage and Parish Church of Briston annexed. The living is in the gift of the Bishop for this turn by reason of lapse.
Newspaper:Diss Express, 12 Sep 1952 - Page 4

THE REV. C. E. WOODE
(BRISTON WITH BURGH PARVA)

The death occurred on Monday at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital of the Rev. Charles Edward Woode. Mr. Woode, who was Vicar of Briston with Burgh Parva, had spent some years at Fersfield, moving there in 1908. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and took an honours degree in Classics. He was ordained deacon at St. Albans in 1901 and was made a priest the following year. He held curacies at Colchester and Harrow-on-the-Hill, before he came to Fersfield he was curate of Attleborough. He has been Vicar of Briston since 1928.
Mr. Woode had been fond of cricket and lawn tennis. He leaves three sons and a daughter. He survived his wife by seven months.
The funeral service, held at Fersfield Parish Church on Thursday, was conducted by the Rector, the Rev. T. E. Hopkins. The Bishop of Thetford (the Rev. P. Woodhouse) took the commital. Mr. G. P. Parnell, the organist of Briston (who also represented Briston Primary School scholars and staff), was the organist for the hymn “Nearer my God to Thee” and the 23rd Psalm.
The family mourners were: Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Woode, son and daughter-in-law; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brereton, daughter and son-in-law; Mr. John Woode and Mr. Gerald Woode, grandsons.
The Rev. Derek Woode and Mr. G. I. Woode (sons) and Mrs. B. Woode (sisters-in-law) were unable to be present.
Others present included: Mrs. L. Mears, Mr. R. L. Brooks, Mr. P. Brooks, Mrs G. B. Parnell, Mr. A. Coleman, Rev. A Karling (Rector of Thurling), Mr. and Mrs. I. Bartrum, Miss D. Bartrum, Mr. B. L. Palmer (Church warden of Briston Church, also representing Briston Parochial Church Council and Primary School managers), Mrs. S. T. Marshall, Mr. C. Spurling, Mr. R. S. Copeman, Mr. D. Bowing, Mrs. B. Burroughes, Mrs. T. H. Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs F. Ramsey, Miss M. R. Page, Mr. A. Inkpen, Mr. H. R. Hayward (Burgh Parva Church warden), Mrs. C. Cooper (the honorary secretary, Briston Parochial Church Council and the Briston’s Women's Institute), Mrs. E. H. Gill, Mr. E. G. Duffield (Church warden).
There were many beautiful floral tributes from friends and members of the family and from the Church and parishioners of All Saints’, Briston, the managers, staff and scholars of Briston Primary School, and the Parochial Church Council and parishioners of Burgh Parva.
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