Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameBetty (Housekeeper), Step GGGG Grandmother
Spouses
1Edward WOODIN, GGGG Grandfather
Birthabt 1747
Death20 Jun 1814, Dacca, Bengal, India
BurialChristian Cemetery, Wari, Dhaka, Bangladesh
OccupationMerchant
FatherUnknown WOODIN
Unmarried
Notes for Edward (Spouse 1)
A possible match is as follows
Parish Records St. Ann, Blackfriars, London
Baptism April 13, 1755, Edward Woodin son of Henry and Jane Woodin.
[The birth year seems appropriate.] [The year and London matches the year and location from the Fennel Family Tree by Jennifer J.]
British in India Directory
Edward Woodin, secretary to Mr. Taylor Commercolly [Kumarkali, Kushtia district, Khulna Division, Bangladesh from Fennel Family Tree], Lord Holland 1771
The East India Register and Directory 1804
Bengal, European Inhabitants
Gibson, Robert, taylor Cossitollah street, Calcutta, 83
Gibson, George, coach-maker and undertaker, ditto
Gibson, William
Gibson, Charles W. mariner
Gibson, John Europe shopkeeper, ditto, 81
. . .
Wooden, E. Dacca
His will dated June 7 1814, begins
In the Name of God Amen I Edward Woodin residing in the City of Dacca in the Province of Bengal being in an indifferent state of Health, but of Sound and disposing mind and memory and being desirious to Settle my Worldly affairs whilst I have strength and capacity to do so make and Publish my last Will and Testament . . .
he mentions
his dearly beloved sister Susanna Jones of the City of London in the Kingdom of Great Britain
his daughter Anne Gibson [age 26] [nee Woodin] is provided for by Marriage, yet as a Mark of Paternal Affection for her Exemplary character as daughter, mother and wife I give and bequeath to her the sum of Five Thousand Calcutta Sicca Rupees
Betty his housekeeper
his Natural born daughters Mary Woodin [age 20] and Elizabeth Woodin [age about 17] and Natural born son Thomas Woodin [age 19]
[Since he leaves his household possessions equally to his housekeeper Betty and his natural children Mary, Elizabeth and Thomas, this seems to imply they are a family unit - probably mother and children, or the housekeeper acted as the mother or nanny to his children born of locals. Another family historian states the baptismal record of these three children does not give a mother, while his older daughter Anne’s mother is given as Mary Derozanio.]
Robert Gibson [son in law, his daughter Anne’s husband]
George Chisholm, Town of Calcutta, Merchant [the executor?]
Natural Born Son William Woodin [age 22]
Edward Woodin departed this life June 20, 1814
In the statement of his goods dated August 2 1814 he is referred to as a British Subject and a resident of Dacca in the province of Bengal.
[It would seem he was either born in Great Britain or his parents were British.]
Lists of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Bengal, C. R. Wilson 1876
English Cemetery, Dacca, Bengal [Now Dhaka, Bangladesh]
Sacred the the memory of Mr. Edward Woodin, who departed this life on the 20th June 1814, Aged sixty-seven years.
from https://en.banglatribune.com/Journey/news/89713/Colonial-structures-in-Dhaka
Colonial structures in Dhaka
Dhrubo Alam
Published : 19:10, Jan 24, 2020 | Updated : 19:14, Jan 24, 2020
Dhaka, a city with 400 years of rich history and heritage, has surprisingly lower number of colonial structures when compared with Kolkata. The city evolved from a military outpost to a trading post and finally the Mughal capital of Bengal. As a trade and production centre, the city was bustling with businessmen from many countries and race. Almost all the European merchants and their respective ‘East India Companies’ at least had a factory here. Most of them also settled here and erected quite a few structures in the city. Nevertheless, the city still has few of them and remaining, scattered in different areas. Some of them, which deemed prominent and fairly significant in the history of Europeans in Dhaka; are featured in this article.
and
English Cemetery of Narinda
The Anglican cemetery is situated in the then Northeast corner of the city, present day Narinda. It was consecrated by bishop Heber in 1824. He described it as being about a mile distance from the inhabitants and inhabited portion of the city; surrounded by the wilderness or jungle. He saw elephants with 'mahouts' roaming around in that area. The cemetery still had plenty of space back then and was tastefully laid out with avenues.
The most prominent object is a 'moorish' Gateway which now stands almost at the centre of the enclosure and a monument which was known as 'Mr Colombo's Tomb' to the locals. The original cemetery must have been considerably larger and had more tombstones. It is unknown from when the cemetery was there. It is shown as a burial ground in the Rennell's map (1780-1781). There are few plaques which were from 1724-1725, so it can be assumed that, the place has been used as a cemetery from late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.
[If this is the same cemetery in which Edward Woodin was buried, it was concecrated 10 years after his burial.]
see wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_cemetery,_Dhaka
Parish Records St. Ann, Blackfriars, London
Baptism April 13, 1755, Edward Woodin son of Henry and Jane Woodin.
[The birth year seems appropriate.] [The year and London matches the year and location from the Fennel Family Tree by Jennifer J.]
British in India Directory
Edward Woodin, secretary to Mr. Taylor Commercolly [Kumarkali, Kushtia district, Khulna Division, Bangladesh from Fennel Family Tree], Lord Holland 1771
The East India Register and Directory 1804
Bengal, European Inhabitants
Gibson, Robert, taylor Cossitollah street, Calcutta, 83
Gibson, George, coach-maker and undertaker, ditto
Gibson, William
Gibson, Charles W. mariner
Gibson, John Europe shopkeeper, ditto, 81
. . .
Wooden, E. Dacca
His will dated June 7 1814, begins
In the Name of God Amen I Edward Woodin residing in the City of Dacca in the Province of Bengal being in an indifferent state of Health, but of Sound and disposing mind and memory and being desirious to Settle my Worldly affairs whilst I have strength and capacity to do so make and Publish my last Will and Testament . . .
he mentions
his dearly beloved sister Susanna Jones of the City of London in the Kingdom of Great Britain
his daughter Anne Gibson [age 26] [nee Woodin] is provided for by Marriage, yet as a Mark of Paternal Affection for her Exemplary character as daughter, mother and wife I give and bequeath to her the sum of Five Thousand Calcutta Sicca Rupees
Betty his housekeeper
his Natural born daughters Mary Woodin [age 20] and Elizabeth Woodin [age about 17] and Natural born son Thomas Woodin [age 19]
[Since he leaves his household possessions equally to his housekeeper Betty and his natural children Mary, Elizabeth and Thomas, this seems to imply they are a family unit - probably mother and children, or the housekeeper acted as the mother or nanny to his children born of locals. Another family historian states the baptismal record of these three children does not give a mother, while his older daughter Anne’s mother is given as Mary Derozanio.]
Robert Gibson [son in law, his daughter Anne’s husband]
George Chisholm, Town of Calcutta, Merchant [the executor?]
Natural Born Son William Woodin [age 22]
Edward Woodin departed this life June 20, 1814
In the statement of his goods dated August 2 1814 he is referred to as a British Subject and a resident of Dacca in the province of Bengal.
[It would seem he was either born in Great Britain or his parents were British.]
Lists of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Bengal, C. R. Wilson 1876
English Cemetery, Dacca, Bengal [Now Dhaka, Bangladesh]
Sacred the the memory of Mr. Edward Woodin, who departed this life on the 20th June 1814, Aged sixty-seven years.
from https://en.banglatribune.com/Journey/news/89713/Colonial-structures-in-Dhaka
Colonial structures in Dhaka
Dhrubo Alam
Published : 19:10, Jan 24, 2020 | Updated : 19:14, Jan 24, 2020
Dhaka, a city with 400 years of rich history and heritage, has surprisingly lower number of colonial structures when compared with Kolkata. The city evolved from a military outpost to a trading post and finally the Mughal capital of Bengal. As a trade and production centre, the city was bustling with businessmen from many countries and race. Almost all the European merchants and their respective ‘East India Companies’ at least had a factory here. Most of them also settled here and erected quite a few structures in the city. Nevertheless, the city still has few of them and remaining, scattered in different areas. Some of them, which deemed prominent and fairly significant in the history of Europeans in Dhaka; are featured in this article.
and
English Cemetery of Narinda
The Anglican cemetery is situated in the then Northeast corner of the city, present day Narinda. It was consecrated by bishop Heber in 1824. He described it as being about a mile distance from the inhabitants and inhabited portion of the city; surrounded by the wilderness or jungle. He saw elephants with 'mahouts' roaming around in that area. The cemetery still had plenty of space back then and was tastefully laid out with avenues.
The most prominent object is a 'moorish' Gateway which now stands almost at the centre of the enclosure and a monument which was known as 'Mr Colombo's Tomb' to the locals. The original cemetery must have been considerably larger and had more tombstones. It is unknown from when the cemetery was there. It is shown as a burial ground in the Rennell's map (1780-1781). There are few plaques which were from 1724-1725, so it can be assumed that, the place has been used as a cemetery from late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.
[If this is the same cemetery in which Edward Woodin was buried, it was concecrated 10 years after his burial.]
see wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_cemetery,_Dhaka