Eliza Woods (buried 1917)

At a glance

At a glance
Surname: 
Woods
First name: 
Eliza
Other Christian names: 
Georgiana
Gender: 
Female
Children: 
Unknown
Burial number: 
872
Born: 
17/12/1843
Died: 
14/07/1917
Buried: 
18/07/1917
Occupation: 
School Mistress; Vice Chairwoman Women's Suffrage Society
Distinction: 
Suffragist
Heene Hallmark: 
Yes
Commonwealth War Grave: 
No

The Grave

The grave
Cemetery area: 
SWS
Cemetery row: 
4
Cemetery plot: 
4
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Burial remains: 
Unknown
The headstone
Headstone inscription: 
In loving memory of Eliza Georgina Woods elder daughter of Henry W Woods of Heene died 14th July 1917 aged 73 "Here have we no continuing city but we seek one to come"

Life story

Life story

Heene Hallmark Eliza Woods 1843 - 1917 Suffragist

Eliza was born on 17 December 1843 and was living at Heene in 1851 with father Henry William Woods, an annuitant, mother Eliza, nee Tahourdin, 2 sisters, a visitor and 2 servants.

The family was still in Heene in the 1871 Census but by 1881 Eliza Georgina was a school mistress and head of an establishment at 178, Earls Court Road, Kensington, with 2 other teachers, 8 schoolgirls aged between 14 and 17.

In 1891 she was head of a larger school at Lexham Gardens, Kensington. In 1911 Eliza was living at 4, Drayton Court, Drayton Gardens, South Kensington, with Helen Maud Dowding, who had been at the school in Lexham Gardens and was also mentioned in Eliza's probate announcement.

Both women were suffragists' (that is, they supported the belief that the right to vote should be extended to more people, especially women). Eliza was Vice Ch to Women's Suffrage Society and Helen was Hon Sec to Women's Suffrage Society founded in the mid 19th century, distinct from the suffragettes' who followed Emmeline Pankhurst, the founder of the Suffragette Movement in 1903 and sought the right to vote for women through organised protest. A subtle difference.

Eliza died on 14 July 1917 at 9, Pembroke Square, Kensington.

Women over 31 who were owners of property or married to householders were given the vote in 1918, but it was not until1928, that the right to vote, was given to all women.

Burial researcher: 
Angela Levy

Further information

Birth
Date born: 
17/12/1843

Death

Death (details)
Date of death: 
14/07/1917
Age (at time of death): 
73
Cause of death: 
Unknown
Address at time of death: 
19 Pembroke Square, Kensington, London, England
Personal effects
Executors: 
Gabriel Stanley Woods status: 2nd Lieutenant HM Army: Helen Maud Dowding status: spinster
Probate pounds: 
£8,182

Census and miscellaneous information

Census information
1851 census: 

Living at Heene -

Henry William Woods, 45, head, annuitant; Eliza Woods, 44, wife; Lucy Ann Woods, 17, daughter; Eliza Georgianne (sic) Woods, 7, daughter, at home; Alice H Woods, 16 months, daughter; Jane Akert, 70, widow, visitor;  plus 2 servants

1861 census: 

Living at St Michael's College, South Bersted, Sussex - Eliza aged 17, pupil at college run by Caroline Elliot. Her cousins Margaret and Ada were also pupils

1871 census: 

Living at The Lawn, Heene, Worthing -

Henry William Woods, 65, head, an annuitant; Eliza Woods, 65, wife; Eliza G Woods, 27, daughter, no separate income; Alice H Woods, 21, daughter, no separate income; Constance C Welshman, 15, visitor;

plus a cook and a housemaid

1881 census: 

Living at 178 Earls Court Road, Kensington -

Eliza Georgina Woods, 37, head, school mistress; Adele Gabelda, 31, teacher?; Julia L Fordham, 23, teacher?; Ellen Minns,17 scholar;Constance E Powell, 17, scholar; Fanny L A Adery, 16, scholar; Selina Marriott, 16, scholar; Ethel Drabble, 15, scholar; Maria Jones, 15, scholar; Mary L Groundacre, 14 scholar; Lottie Drabble, 14, scholar;

plus 3 servants

1891 census: 

Living at 63 Lexham Gardens, Kensington -

Eliza G Woods, 47, head, school mistress; Blanche E Paull, 29, teacher; Marie C Donnay, 29, French teacher; Ethel M Dowding, 25, living on own means; Mary Crichton, 23, schoolroom maid; Henrietta M Boud, 18, pupil; Elizabeth Little, 18, pupil; Gertrude M Paget, 17, pupil; Alice M Adshead, 17, pupil; Janet C Cochran, 17, pupil; Margaret W Edmund, 17, pupil ;Eva Latham, 17, pupil; Charlotte E Little, 17, pupil; Jessie R Rutherford, 17, pupil; Maud G Micklethwaite, 17, pupil; Ethel M Gibson, 15, pupil;

plus a cook, kitchenmaid, upper housemaid and under housemaid

 

1901 census: 

not found

1911 census: 

Living at 4 Drayton Court, Drayton Gardens, London SW -

Eliza G Woods, 67, head, Vice Ch to Womens Suffrage Society, CU Womens Franchise; Helen Maud Dowding, 44, Hon Sec to Womens Suffrage Society, CU Womens Franchise;

Miscellaneous information

Note

Eliza was a member of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association and the Women's Suffrage Society, but she was not a Suffragette