Several of the historical references to Woodward Mudd his family and associates are quite unusual and interesting. Also, he played a pivotal yet short role in The Rookery Practice chain, the longest practice chain of Newmarket, in which his connection to William Sandiver 2 is key, although their exact relationship remains a little unclear.
The year of Woodward Mudd’s birth is also unclear, since at his burial in 1818 the parish register says that he was 34 years of age but his memorial stone records 35! Nevertheless, he was baptised in 1785 at Hunston, a village in Suffolk about 25 miles east of Newmarket. His father was Thomas Mudd, a farmer according to Woodward’s 1818 will. However, he appears to have been from a medical family. In 1796, the Gedding parish register (a village 8 miles south of Hunston) records the death of ‘Richard, son of Richard Mudd of Barham in this county & Susan his wife (late Woodward Spinster)’, at the age of 60. Surely this must have been where Woodward’s unusual first name came from, the two Richards likely being his grandfather and great grandfather, so Susan Woodward his great grandmother. The younger Richard at least was a medic, according to an inscription written on the inside of his glasses case after his death, describing him as a ‘Surgeon and Apothecary’. After him there was a whole clan of Gedding medics called Mudd.
Stanton House, Norton, where Woodward Mudd was an apprentice to Benjamin Lane Clayton from 1801-1805 – the inset shows inside the apprentice’s room (window as indicated) above the small surgery section of the house (see below or click image for source and acknowledgements etc., ref. Image 1).
Woodward Mudd however was apprenticed to a medic named Benjamin Lane Clayton of Norton (a village only 2 miles south-east of Hunston). He was an apprentice there from 1801 to 1805, evidenced by an unusual inscription written on the back of a drawer from the dispensary at Stanton House, Norton, where Benjamin Clayton lived and practised (see an image of the house on the right and the drawer below). The front of the drawer shows that it was for ‘MAGNES. CARB. POND’; three other drawers have survived, for ‘ALUMEN PULV., POTASS. BICARB. and CRETA PRAEP’, old apothecary recipe ingredients. There are also two other slabs of wood surviving with these drawers, and various names and other writings on them. Of particular interest the forward thinking James Burman of Lynn wrote in 1795, ‘When this you have, or this you see[;] If I am dead, remember me’ (so here we are remembering him on talkingdust.net, over two centuries later! – see an image in the references below). It’s known that the apprentices used a bedroom accessed via a stepladder through a trapdoor above the surgery part of the house, which at the time of writing still exists (see image inset above right). Also during his time in Norton, Woodward Mudd was alleged to have been responsible for the conception of two children, a son to Susan Barrell and daughter to Mary Leech.
The front of the drawer referred to above, inset with a photograph showing the surviving drawers and slabs (top right), a slab mentioning ‘Woodward Mudd Hunston’ (top left), and the lower half inset with the back of the ‘MAGNES. CARB. POND.’ drawer shown, mentioning ‘W Mudd’ then underneath ‘W Mudd bound apprentice to Mr. Clayton Norton January 8th {1801 1802 1803 1804 1805} time to stay’ (see below or click image for source and acknowledgements etc., ref. Image 2).
The historical records next show Woodward Mudd resident at Walsham-le-Willows, a village 3 miles the other side of Hunston from Norton, where presumably he’d set up in practice after his apprenticeship. The 1806 Mary Leech case describes him as late of Norton, likely therefore in Walsham. Then the Suffolk Benevolent Medical Society and Suffolk Medical Book Club mention him at Walsham between 1811 and 1813. From there he made his sudden move to Newmarket, in 1813.
The circumstances surrounding this move are not completely clear. On 24th June 1813 he’s recorded in practice at Walsham-le-Willows. On 29th June William Sandiver 2 died at Newmarket. On 3rd July Woodward Mudd wrote a public notice that appeared in The Bury and Norwich Post on 14th July (Newmarket’s local newspaper at the time) stating, ‘W. MUDD, SURGEON, &c. BEING REMOVED from Walsham-le-Willows to NEWMARKET, humbly solicits the favours of the employers of the late much-respected Mr. Sandiver, and the public in general.’ It’s not entirely clear from this statement whether it was an audacious opportunistic move, or in some way arranged. The latter seems much more likely given the apparent rapidity of the move (had he been covering for William Sandiver 2 during his final illness?) and the fact that William Sandiver 2 is named so soon after his death like this (the notice was dated before William Sandiver 2 was buried even, although published shortly afterwards). Interestingly, and perhaps giving a clue about how such notices were used, one with similar language was placed by Robert James Peck in 1819 on Woodward Mudd’s death, and they were in documented partnership together, which nevertheless appears to have been a brief handover arrangement during a terminal illness (see below), so perhaps this was a similar situation but arranged more acutely? Moreover, there are other reasons to connect Robert James Peck to William Sandiver 2, and Woodward Mudd seems to form the bridge (see the pages on William Sandiver 2, Robert James Peck and The Rookery Practice Chain for a parallel discussion). It’s also of note that the only other practices in town at this time, those of Walter Norton and James Hustler, did not place similar notices in the press. Either way, Woodward Mudd clearly saw himself as in some sense succeeding William Sandiver 2, and some patient’s presumably thought the same since he continued in practice at Newmarket.
Very shortly after his move to the town he married Ann Saffery from Downham Market, Norfolk. They had two children baptised at All Saints’ church in Newmarket, Edmund Woodward Mudd in 1815 and Ann Susannah Mudd in 1816.
Sadly however Woodward Mudd died in his mid 30s only 5 years after his arrival in Newmarket, passing his practice on to Robert James Peck following their short partnership in 1818 mentioned above – see the page on Robert James Peck for more on when he likely arrived in town. Woodward Mudd made a will in the July of 1818, presumably knowing that he was terminally ill. In that he described himself as ‘Surgeon and Apothecary’ and interestingly left his ‘medical books and plates’ and ‘surgical instruments and apparatus’ to his son Edmund Woodward Mudd, who subsequently became a Land Agent in Norwich (dying even younger in 1835, at the age of about 20). Very strangely Woodward Mudd’s house and contents were advertised for sale in the weeks preceding his death and the reason for the contents sale was given as ‘changing his residence’? This almost implies that he didn’t know that he was going to die, but the will making implies otherwise and the timing of the sale seems too coincidental. It’s perhaps better explained as a rather novel euphemism, and forward planning regarding his survivors. After his death the family moved to Norwich, where his wife died in 1820, but she was brought back to Newmarket for burial.
The adverts for the Mudds’ Newmarket house and contents are so detailed that they paint a fascinating picture of the lifestyle enjoyed by an early 19th century surgeon-apothecary – at least by this one, at a relatively young age (see details in references below). These identify his house as being in Cambridgeshire (consistent with his children having been baptised at All Saints’ church as opposed to St Mary’s in Suffolk). It’s also described as being in east Newmarket, with good views of the principal street (presumably the High Street). This would suggest perhaps a house very near to Heath Cottage or Cheveley House, both of which were used later as surgeries; especially the latter seems a very strong contender, and it seems to be present on the 1787 and 1821 maps (see the page on Cheveley House for details). It’s of particular note that his house was described as having a surgery on the ground floor. Also of interest is that his medical books are listed in one of the contents adverts (that had been left to his son in his will?), but more of note is their subject matter: medical, surgical and midwifery, showing that he was typical of a surgeon-apothecary of this period; a true all-rounder (see The history of medical treatments, training, qualifications and regulation for more detail).
It’s of note that despite some apparent youthful indiscretions, Woodward Mudd ended well: at his death it was said of him that, ‘He possessed those essential qualities in the medical character – a tender, sympathizing, and benevolent heart, formed upon the basis of genuine philanthropy.- The poor, to whom he was the friend as well as physician, will sincerely regret his loss.’ As mentioned above, the practice was continued by his partner Robert James Peck (apparently new in town) who placed his interestingly worded notice in The Bury and Norwich Post on 1st January 1819: ‘Mr. PECK, SURGEON, of NEWMARKET, respectfully informs the inhabitants of that Place and Neighbourhood, that he purposes to continue the Practice carried on by the late Mr. Mudd and himself; and he hopes by unremitting attention to secure the same encouragement and support so liberally afforded to his Predecessor and late Partner.- Mr. P… flatters himself he shall be found deserving of that confidence and patronage he respectfully solicits, and be enabled to give to the Friends of the late Mr. Mudd satisfaction equal to that which they derived from the attendance of that gentleman’ (see the page on Robert James Peck for an image). Also as mentioned above, this notice is remarkably like that placed by Woodward Mudd when he apparently took over from William Sandiver 2, although this notice is longer and uses the handover partnership method, of which there are many examples on this website (e.g. Floyd Minter Peck and William Henry Day later in The Rookery practice chain, and many in other practice chains of Newmarket.
Woodward Mudd’s memorial at All Saints’ church, Newmarket, now high up in the porch (see below or click image for source and acknowledgements etc., ref. Image 3).
Woodward Mudd was buried at All Saints’ church, Newmarket, on 30th December 1818, where a memorial has relatively recently been re-discovered (in 2015), nearly two centuries later. It’s unusually difficult to see, having been moved during rebuilding work in the 1860s and placed high up on a wall in the porch. A transcript from before the rebuild indicates that it was originally against the southern outside wall of the old church. It was designed to ‘To perpetuate the memory of WOODWARD MUDD. SURGEON who departed this life the 23. Decr. 1818.’ (see image on the right). Perhaps now it’s on the internet it will more successfully achieve that purpose, along with the rest of this page!
Image 1: Photographs taken in 2017 (edited and annotated in 2019), by the author of talkingdust.net, taken and used here with kind permission of the owners of Stanton House, 2017 (see the references below).
Image 2: Photographs taken in 2017 (edited in 2019), by the author of talkingdust.net, taken and used here with kind permission of the owners of the drawers and slabs, 2017 (see the references below).
Image 3: From a private collection (cropped); image ©, reproduced with kind permission of Dr Robin Slowe.
Image 4: Photograph taken in 2017, by the author of talkingdust.net, taken and used here with kind permission of the owner of the slab, 2017 (see the references below). [Note: this image is in the references below as well.]
Note: see comments regarding images and copyright © etc. on the Usage &c. page as well.
1785, 14th August: Woodard the son of Thomas Mudd and Mary his wife was baptised, Hunston, Suffolk. Reference: Microfiche of Hunston parish register (fiche 2), (Suffolk County Record Office, Bury St Edmunds). [Note: the second ‘w’ appears to be missing from Woodward, although the writing is not that clear.]
1796, 4th July: Inscribed inside the glasses case of Richard Mudd: ‘Monday July 4th 1796 1/2 past nine in the Morning died Mr Mudd an eminent Surgeon and Apothecary of Gedding in this County. Born Dec’br 27th 1737.’ Reference: http://www.college-optometrists.org/en/college/museyeum/online_exhibitions/spectacles/eighteen.cfm (accessed 9th May 2016).
1796, 7th July: ‘Richard, son of Richard Mudd of Barham in this county & Susan his wife (late Woodward Spinster) was buried’, aged 60, Gedding, Suffolk. Reference: J552/5, microfilm of Gedding parish register, (Suffolk County Record Office, Bury St Edmunds).
1801, 8th January: Written on the back of a drawer from the dispensary at Stanton House, Norton (where Benjamin Clayton lived and practised): ‘W Mudd bound apprentice to Mr. Clayton Norton January 8th {1801 1802 1803 1804 1805} time to stay’ and on an associates slab of wood ‘Woodward Mudd Hunston’. Reference: I personally saw this drawer and took the images above at Stanton House on 8th May 2017, together with more of the other three drawers, the two associated slabs of wood, and those of the old surgery and apprentices’ room above it, thanks to Mr McBrien the owner of the house at the time, a retired surgeon who had worked at Newmarket Hospital and The West Suffolk Hospital. [Note: see image below for the message of James Burman of Lynn mentioned in the main text above.]
From one of the slabs of wood, both of which are written on by James Burman of Lynn, this one dated 1795 at the start of his apprenticeship, which was to end in 1802 and having just his initial, which looks more like an ‘I’, but the other slab of wood reveals that his name was James – partly visible above Woodward Mudd’s name in the top left inset of the image above (see above or click image for source and acknowledgements etc., ref. Image 4).
1801, 16th November: Tax paid regarding Woodward Mudd’s apprenticeship to Benjn. Lane Clayton, Norton, Suffolk, Surgeon &c. Indenture date 27th February 1801. Reference: Online image of apprenticeship tax records held at The National Archives, ancestry.co.uk (accessed 30th April 2016).
1803: Woodward Mudd of Norton reputed to be responsible for the son of Susan Barrell of Norton. Reference: FL612/7/34/1 and FL612/7/33/2, (Suffolk County Record Office, Bury St Edmunds).
1803, 8th March: Joseph, son of Susan Barrel [sic] born (baptised 10th March), Norton, Suffolk. Reference: J504/8, microfilm of Norton parish register, (Suffolk County Record Office, Bury St Edmunds).
1806: Woodward Mudd late of Norton, surgeon, alleged to be responsible for the daughter of Mary Leech of Norton. Reference FL612/9/2/1, (Suffolk County Record Office, Bury St Edmunds).
1811, 11th April: ‘At the Annual Meeting of the Suffolk Benevolent Medical Society, held at the King’s Head Inn, Stowmarket… Mr. Woodward Mudd, of Walsham, was elected a Member of the Society’. Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Apr 17 1811: 2.
1813, 24th June: ‘W. Mudd, Walsham le Willows’ listed as a member of the Suffolk Medical Book Club. Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Jun 30 1813: 2.
1813, 29th June: Under deaths, ‘Yesterday se’nnight, aged 74, Wm. Sandiver, Esq. an eminent surgeon of Newmarket; his death will be universally lamented, as his life was actively and entirely employed in the discharge of every office appertaining to the Christian character.’ Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Jul 7 1813: 2. [Note: ‘se’nnight’ presumably means seven night (one week as opposed to fortnight), i.e. here a week ago yesterday from Wednesday 7th July being Tuesday 29th June – see the same word used in several other references below.]
1813, 3rd July: Woodward Mudd arrived in town to take on William Sandiver 2’s patients. ‘W. MUDD, SURGEON, &c. BEING REMOVED from Walsham-le-Willows to NEWMARKET, humbly solicits the favours of the employers of the late much-respected Mr. Sandiver, and the public in general.- July 3, 1813.’ Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Jul 14 1813: 2.
1813, 6th July: William Sandiver buried, St Mary’s Church, Newmarket. Reference: J552/9, microfilm of Newmarket St Mary’s parish register, (Suffolk County Record Office, Bury St Edmunds).
1813, 29th July: Under marriages, ‘On Thursday se’nnight, Mr Mudd, surgeon, of Newmarket, to Miss Ann Saffery, daughter of Edmund Saffery, Esq. of Downham, in Norfolk’. Reference: Cambridge Chronicle and Journal. Friday Aug 6 1813: 3.
1815, 12th July: ‘W. Mudd, Newmarket’ listed as a member of the Suffolk Medical Book Club. Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Jul 19 1815: 1.
1815, 12th November: Edmund Woodward son of Woodward & Ann Mudd of Newmarket baptised. Reference: Microfiche of Newmarket All Saints’ parish register (fiche 6), (Suffolk County Record Office, Bury St Edmunds). [Note: Woodward is referred to as a ‘surgeon’.]
1816, 28th November: Ann Susannah daughter of Woodward & Ann Mudd of Newmarket All Saints’ baptised. Reference: Microfiche of Newmarket All Saints’ parish register (fiche 6), (Suffolk County Record Office, Bury St Edmunds). [Note: Woodward is referred to as a ‘surgeon’.]
1818, 25th July: The will of Woodward Mudd of Newmarket in the county of Cambridge Surgeon and Apothecary (probate 22nd January 1819). Interestingly this mentions his father Thomas Mudd, farmer of Hunston. He leaves his ‘medical books and plates’ and ‘surgical instruments and apparatus’ to his son Edmund Woodward Mudd. Reference: The National Archives, Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, PROB 11/1612.
1818, 1st December 1818: ‘DESIRABLE RESIDENCE, NEWMARKET, CAMBRIDGESHIRE. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Messrs. ISAACSON, At the Rutland Arms Inn, Newmarket aforesaid, on TUESDAY the 1st day of December, 1818, at Four in the Afternoon, (unless sooner disposed of by Pri-vate Contract, of which due notice will be given) ALL that desirable and substantial brick and slated sash-fronted RESIDENCE, most eligibly situate in the town of NEWMARKET; comprising, on the ground floor, a dining-room, small parlour, and surgery; on the first floor, a drawing-room and 3 bedcham-bers; 4 convenient attics, a kitchen, back kitchen, large coal house, store room, pantry, beer and wine cellars, on the basement; a laundry (formerly a 2-stalled stable, to which purpose, at trifling expense, may it may again be converted) with corn chamber over the same, a 3-stalled stable and coach-house, with hay chambers; a small garden in front, inclosed [sic] by a wall surmounted with iron palisades, yards and other conveniences. The above is situate at the East end of the town of Newmarket, and commands fine views of the principal street in that town and the neighbour-ing country. The premises have lately been put into thorough repair, and are replete with every convenience for the residence of a genteel family. May be viewed any Tuesday previous to the sale upon application to Mr. Mudd, the proprietor, of whom further particulars may be had, and of the Auctioneers, Moulton, near Newmarket.’ Reference: Cambridge Chronicle and Journal. Friday Nov 27 1818: 2. [Note: there was a similar advert in The Bury and Norwich Post the week before. Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Nov 18 1818: 2.]
1818, 17th December: ‘ELEGANT MODERN HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Capital Gig Mare, 6 years old, Saddles, Bridles, &c. NEWMARKET, CAMBRIDGESHIRE. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Meesrs. ISAACSON, Upon the Premises, on Thursday the 17th of December, 1818, And following Day, The elegant and valuable modern Household Furniture and other Effects, the Property of Mr. MUDD, Surgeon, who is changing his residence; comprising several handsome lofty sacken-bottom bedsteads with mahogany pillars and rich morine hangings, colours yellow, French grey, and white; tent and servants’ bedsteads, superior featherbeds, bolsters, and pillows, Marseilles quilts and counterpanes, fine Witney blankets, mattresses, child’s swing cot complete, mahogany, wainscot, and painted chests of drawers and dressing tables, washings stands and night tables, chimney glasses in rich gilt frames, and dressing glasses in mahogany ditto, set of elegant drawing-room chairs with stuffed seats, in chintz cases, Grecian couch to correspond, on brass socket castors, handsome chintz and morine Venetian window curtains, set of mahogany dining tables with circular ends and turned legs, in-laid, pair of handsome mahogany card tables, in-laid, Pembroke ditto, capital mahogany pedestal side-board with drawers and cupboards, remarkably fine wood, set of dining-room chairs, mahogany frames and satin-hair seats, Windsor and chamber chairs, dining and drawing-room carpets, bedside and bed-round ditto, quantity of Brussels stair carpeting, hearth rugs, polished steel and brass fenders and fire-irons, dinner service of blue and white Worcester ware, sandwich service, two sets of handsome breakfast china, and a quantity of useful glass and earthenware; copper boi.ers [sic], sauce, stew, and frying pans, 30-hour clock, set of block tin dish covers, capital mangle with rollers complete, mahogany butler’s tray, tea and coffee urns, japanned tea-trays, and various other articles of useful furniture, particularly worthy the public attention, being in the best preservation and little inferior to new. The Out-door Effects consist of a neat taxed cart and harness, clever bay mare, 6 years old, of superior action, and quiet to ride and drive, saddles, bridles, new side-saddle, horse cloths, garden stone roller, about 1 ton of hay, coomb of peas, quantity of tiles, slate, timber, fire-wood, &c. Particulars of which will appear in Catalogues to be had 10 days previous to the Sale, at the Bell Inn, Bury; Red Lion, Cambridge; Bell and White Hart, Mildenhall; the Inns in the neighbourhood; Place of Sale; Mr. Rogers, book-seller, Newmarket; and of the Auctioneers, Moulton, or at their Office, Newmarket. N.B. May be viewed on the Wednesday previous to the Sale, which will commence each day precisely at Eleven’. Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Dec 9 1818: 3. [Note: interestingly, essentially the same advert appeared in The Bury and Norwich Post on 13th January 1819, except he’s described as ‘the late Mr. Mudd’, the sale is to be on 14th and 15th January, and there is an additional paragraph that mentions several medical books: ‘Also several Books, consisting of the Medical Repository, complete to the present time; Medical and Chirurgical Transactions; Smellie’s Midwifery; Smellie’s Plates, folio, &c.’ Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Jan 13 1819: 2. It’s also in the 6th January edition, without the books. Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Jan 6 1819: 2.]
1818, 23rd December: Under deaths, ‘On Wednesday last, most universally and deeply lamented, in the 35th year of his age, Mr. Woodward Mudd, surgeon, of Newmarket.- He possessed those essential qualities in the medical character – a tender, sympathizing, and benevolent heart, formed upon the basis of genuine philanthropy.- The poor, to whom he was the friend as well as physician, will sincerely regret his loss.’ Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Dec 30 1818:2.
1818, 23rd December: Memorial to Woodward Mudd. ‘To perpetuate the memory of WOODWARD MUDD. SURGEON who departed this life the 23. Decr. 1818. Aged 35 years. Resurgam’. Reference: Memorial high on the wall of the porch at All Saints’ church, Newmarket. [Note: see image above.], [Note also, apparently these memorials were removed from the old church that was demolished in the 1860s and put into the new porch. Thanks to Dr Robin Slowe for supplying this information, who found the memorial whilst re-decorating the church in 2015 and recognised the name from my research. It’s high on the wall, making it unusually difficult to see.], [Note also, ‘Resurgam’ is a Latin reference to the resurrection of the dead.], [Note also, interestingly there an old transcript of memorials which reads ‘On a small stone against the outside of the south wall, “To Perpetuate the memory of Woodward Mudd surgeon who departed this life the 23 Dec 1818 Aged 35 Resurgam and also of Ann his wife Daughter of the late Edward Saffery Esqr. Of Downham Market who died Oct 13 1820”’. So this appears to date from before the memorial was moved and indicates that there was a lower half that has not survived. The transcript is not dated, but there are no memorials on it before 1827, so likely it was made in the late 1820s, well before the 1860s rebuild and when the memorial was quite new. Reference: J562/69, microfilm transcript, (Suffolk County Record Office, Bury St Edmunds).]
1818, 30th December: Woodward Mudd of All Saints’ parish buried, aged 34. Reference: Microfiche of Newmarket All Saints’ parish register (fiche 9), (Suffolk County Record Office, Bury St Edmunds).
1819, 1st January: ‘Mr. PECK, SURGEON, of NEWMARKET, respectfully informs the inhabitants of that Place and Neighbourhood, that he purposes to continue the Practice carried on by the late Mr. Mudd and himself; and he hopes by unremitting attention to secure the same encouragement and support so liberally afforded to his Predecessor and late Partner.- Mr. P. having been in extensive Practice at Elham, in Kent, for several years, flatters himself he shall be found deserving of that confidence and patronage he respectfully solicits, and be enabled to give to the Friends of the late Mr. Mudd satisfaction equal to that which they derived from the attendance of that gentleman. Newmarket, Jan. 1, 1819.’ Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Jan 6 1819: 2. [Note: see the page on Robert James Peck for an image.]
1819, 16th January: ‘To DEBITORS and CREDITORS. ALL Persons to whom the late Mr. MUDD, Surgeon, of Newmarket, stood indebted at the time of his decease, are requested to send their respective demands to Mr. Peck, Surgeon, of the same place, within two months from the date hereof; and all persons who stand indebted to the Estate and Effects of the late Mr. Mudd, are requested by his Executors to pay their respective debts to the said Mr. Peck, who is duly authorised to receive the same, within the said period.- Newmarket, Jan. 16th, 1819.’ Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Feb 3 1819: 2. [Note: a similar notice dated 1st January appeared on 6th January, except with a fortnight’s deadline. Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Jan 6 1819:3.]
1820, 13th October: Under deaths, ‘Last week, at Downham in Norfolk, Mrs. Mudd, relict of Mr. Mudd, surgeon, late of Newmarket’. Reference: Cambridge Chronicle and Journal. Friday Oct 20 1820: 3. [Note: this was also reported in The Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Gazette as ‘Yesterday se’nnight, in St. Giles’s, Anne Mudd, relict of the late Mr. Woodward Mudd, surgeon, of Newmarket, and daughter of the late Edmund Saffery, Esq. of Downham Market’. Reference: The Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Gazette. Saturday Oct 21 1820: 3., and in The Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury as ‘On Friday se’nnight, in Norwich, Ann relict of Mr. Woodward Mudd, surgeon, of Newmarket, and daughter of the late Edm. Saffery, Esq. of Downham Market.’ Reference: The Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury. Friday Oct 27 1820: 3.]
1835, 14th October: The will of Edmund Woodward Mudd of the City of Norwich Land Agent (probate 24th December 1835). Reference: The National Archives, Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, PROB 11/1855.
1820, 20th October: Ann Mudd of ‘Saint Giles Norwich’ ‘Relict of Woodward Mudd [Late?] surgeon of this parish’ buried, aged 45. Reference: Microfiche of Newmarket All Saints’ parish register (fiche 9), (Suffolk County Record Office, Bury St Edmunds). [Note: see comments above regarding Woodward Mudd’s memorial, under which she appears to have been originally mentioned, before it was moved to its new position in the 1860s.]
1835, 22nd November: Under deaths, ‘On Sunday se’nnight, at St. Giles’s, deeply lamented, Edmund Woodward, only son of the late Woodward Mudd, Esq. surgeon, of Newmarket, and grandson of the late Edmund Saffery, Esq. of Downham Market.’ Reference: The Bury and Norwich Post. Wednesday Dec 2 1835: 3. [Note: this was also reported in the Huntingdon, Bedford and Peterborough Gazette as ‘Sunday se’nnight, at St. Giles’s, Norwich, deeply lamented, Edmund Woodward, only son of the late Woodward Mudd, Esq. surgeon, of Newmarket, and grandson of the late Edmd. Saffery, Esq. of Downham Market.’ Reference: Huntingdon, Bedford, & Peterborough Gazette. Saturday Dec 5 1835: 2.]
1846, 26th December: The will of Anne Susanna Mudd of the City of Norwich Spinster (probate 2nd August 1850). This mentions ‘Sarah Mudd the widow of my late brother Edward Woodward Mudd’. Reference: The National Archives, Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, PROB 11/2118.
Cockayne EE, Stow NJ. Stutter’s Casebook, A junior hospital doctor, 1839-1841. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, Suffolk Records Society volume XLVIII; 2005, (General introduction, the training of doctors, pg xiii-xvi).
Suffolk Medical Biographies. http://www.suffolkmedicalbiographies.co.uk/Profile.asp?Key=1533 (originally accessed pre October 2013). [Note: see comments regarding this website on the Francis Greene page], [Note also, with reference to those comments, when originally accessed this website did not have the references to Woodward Mudd’s connection to Newmarket, William Sandiver 2 or Robert James Peck, which have been added as a result of my research.], [Note also, this website, which covers the whole of Suffolk, also outlines details regarding the medical Mudd family of Gedding, which has not been investigated further by myself given this website’s Newmarket focus, and I have not checked the Gedding primary sources, aside from the death of Richard Mudd above, where the name Woodward is mentioned.]
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