William Wood was a watchmaker from a Little Bolton family, he was born in 1903, the son of a machine fitter William Thorpe Wood, and working at 72 Newport Street in Bolton in 1939, he had a wife Elizabeth Thomas Pritchard who he married at St James the Apostle on 26th June 1920 while they lived at 190 Waterloo Street, Little Bolton.
They had a son Rowland Derek born in 1931.
There are no records showing what happened to William and Elizabeth and their dates of death are as yet, unknown.
There are no known examples of his work.
Waterloo Street in Bolton with the steeple of The Church of St James the Apostle in the distance.