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trying get any info on my grandfather alfred harold wood last record m/navy 1936 married to a may hill in 1918

Where was he born?

Is this his birth?

Alfred Harold Wood
in the England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915

Name: Alfred Harold Wood
Registration Year: 1893
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration district: Strood
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: 2a
Page: 557

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Alfred H Wood
in the 1901 England Census

Name: Alfred H Wood
Age: 8
Estimated birth year: abt 1893
Relation to Head: Son
Gender: Male
Father: George Wood
Mother: Emma Wood
Birth Place: Northfleet, Kent, England
Civil Parish: Northfleet
Ecclesiastical parish: Perry Street All Saints
County/Island: Kent
Country: England
Registration district: Strood
Sub-registration district: Northfleet
ED, institution, or vessel: 09
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 716
Folio: 96
Page Number: 21
Household schedule number: 127
Household Members:
Name Age
George Wood 43
Emma Wood 40
George Wood 11
Alfred H Wood 8
John Wood 5
Dorothy J Wood 1



Harold A Wood
in the 1911 England Census

Name: Harold A Wood
Age in 1911: 18
Estimated birth year: abt 1893
Relation to Head: Son
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Northfleet, Kent
Civil Parish: Northfleet
County/Island: Kent
Country: England
Street address: 35 Nelson Road
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Potman And Barman
Registration district: Strood
Registration District Number: 45
Sub-registration district: Northfleet
ED, institution, or vessel: 4
Household schedule number: 35
Piece: 3837
Household Members:
Name Age
George Wood 53
Emma Wood 51
Harold A Wood 18
John Wood 15
Dorothy Wood 11
Annie Hampton 25 - visitor, born Edinburgh

Marriages Sep 1918 (>99%)
Cook Margaret E Gouge Strood 2a 1733

Fleet Herbert B Slemmings Dover 2a 1733

Gouge Arthur Cook Strood 2a 1733

Hills May Wood Strood 2a 1733

Wood Alfred H Hills Strood 2a 1733

From FindMyPast:

Merchant Seamen Transcription

First name(s) ALFRED HAROLD
Last name Wood
Age -
Birth year 1892
Birth day 14
Birth month February
Birth place Gravesend
Birth county Kent
Place GRAVESEND
Discharge number -
Identity certificate number 338776
Card type CR10
Date range 1918-1921
Series BT350

I often find these records to be a year or so out on the birth year.

Rating is greaser. Nice photo on the card.

???

Alfred Wood
in the New Orleans, Passenger Lists, 1813-1963

Name: Alfred Wood
Arrival Date: 24 Mar 1928
Port of Arrival: United States
Birth Date: abt 1892
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Nationality: British
Port of Departure: London, England
Ship Name: Gymeric
Race: English


He's a greaser, 5'8", 10st 11lbs

Another of several voyage records:

A greaser, 5'8", 140 lbs.

Alfred Wood
in the New Orleans, Passenger Lists, 1813-1963

Name: Alfred Wood
Arrival Date: 22 Jun 1922
Port of Arrival: United States
Birth Date: abt 1891
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Nationality: British
Port of Departure: London
Ship Name: Narragansett
Race: English


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Alfred Wood is a common name, so don't know if this is him or not - deserted from the ship in New York:

Alfred Wood
in the New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Name: Alfred Wood
Arrival Date: 22 May 1918
Birth Date: abt 1893
Age: 25
Port of Departure: Lpool,eng
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Tennyson

On Narragansett again, but 20 lbs heavier - 160 lbs:

Alfred Wood
in the New Orleans, Passenger Lists, 1813-1963
Name: Alfred Wood
Arrival Date: 2 May 1922
Port of Arrival: United States
Birth Date: abt 1893
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Nationality: British
Port of Departure: Rotterdam
Ship Name: Narragansett
Race: English

After 1936 there are various records of an Alfred Wood, born c1891, 5'7" - but he's a steward - quite a jump up from a greaser, if it's the same person:

Alfred Wood

in the New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Name: Alfred Wood
Arrival Date: 28 Apr 1939
Birth Date: abt 1891
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/ Nationality: English
Port of Departure: Southampton, England
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Aquitania


EDIT: No, I don't think this is the same person - he's a waiter in earlier years - 1918 and thereabouts.

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Thanks to you all for your help
I am still looking i will need to chase up some of the info what i do know is on his m/navy id card his last ship was no 149647 on25.3.33
And compleated on 18.1 35
I can find no info after that anywere thanks again all info is helpful tha last ship he sailed on was cymbeline tanker as all the others gymeric narragansett cordella to name a few
Thanks again

He may have died abroad, and his death record not be available online.

Or he may have died in the UK, but there are a few death records on Ancestry (for example) of men called Alfred H Wood, or just Alfred Wood, born 1892-3.
You would have to buy all the certs to find out if he was one of them - an expensive undertaking.