When Jessie Geraldine Wood was born on 20 October 1918, in Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, her father, Cornelius Graham Wood, was 31 and her mother, Muriel Jessie Deacon, was 32. She married William Hamilton Mitchell on 1 October 1955, in Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. She died on 6 November 1992, in Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74.
English: mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as French Bois and Polish Les .
English: in a few cases, a nickname for an eccentric or perhaps a violent person, from Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd).
Americanized form of French Gadbois .
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