Henry Wood was born at Midley in 1855, the third son to have been born there to Thomas and Elizabeth Duff Wood. His older brother Thomas emigrated to South Australia towards the end of 1876, and (as the first born William had died of Typhoid Fever several years before at the age of only sixteen) Henry was from that time the senior of what was eventually a family of thirteen brothers and sisters in the Romney Marsh. Henry was 15 when the census was taken in 1871, already working, of course, as did all the brothers in the Romney Marsh as an ‘agricultural labourer’. Around thirteen years later when young Julia Wood wrote back to Thomas when he made contact again after six or seven years in South Australia, her brief report from Lydd on Henry, or rather Harry as he was generally called, was merely “Harry he goes to work as usual”.  In May 1886 when Julia again wrote to Thomas in Australia after he had sent a photograph of himself, “your brother Harry and we all think you have altered a good deal”. It is disappointing, indeed rather surprising, that Julia should not have said more about Harry in that last letter: for when she wrote it he had married, at the age of thirty, only a few weeks before, on 12 April 1886.
Harry and Rose had two daughters. When the youngest daughter, Daisy, married in 1920 a wedding photograph was taken with Harry and Rose on each side of the bride and groom. The other persons are unidentified, probably Daisy’s husband Barnes family:

Harry died at Lydd on 17 March 1936, aged 80, as we can read from the account by his wife Rose written six months later to Thomas Wood’s daughter Martha Browne in South Australia.

The above letter and photographs are in the possession of Judith Lloyd, Adelaide.

Almost certainly there was only one grandchild: Henry Barnes born in 1922.
The photograph on the right was presumably taken during the second world war. The last heard of Henry Barnes and his mother Daisy was of news passed in a round-about-way via Caroline Wood in Hastings in May 1959: “They both seem to be very well – just now she doesn’t like the house they are in and wants to move to New Romney. I don’t know if she will be lucky enough to get a house, if she did it would be near Henry’s work”.