When Walter A Wooding was born on 27 April 1902, in Bolton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edwin Wooding, was 26 and his mother, Mary Lilly Ashton, was 22. He married Geraldine Louise Clark on 6 September 1924, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died on 18 June 1973, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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English (Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire): from Middle English wodinge ‘the cutting of wood’ (Old English wudung), probably a derivative of Middle English wode ‘wood’ or the Old English verb wudian ‘to cut wood’. The name may have been occupational, for a wood-cutter, or topographic denoting a person who lived at a place where wood was cut.
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