Career
The fifth of nine children, the oldest being Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (1870–1922), performing under the stage name Marie Lloyd. Seven of the siblings took up stage careers. This ceased, when the eldest sister made her professional debut at the age of fifteen.
Daisy, made her own first professional appearance in a play entitled My Willie at the South London Palace, on 17 March 1890.
She went on to perform a solo musical act, making the most of her petite and dainty figure. She was thought to have been the prettiest of the sisters.
They had two children, Donald (1902) and Dorothy Grace (1906). They moved to Kensington, but Donald fell ill the following year, and their fortunes were under pressure.
Her husband died on 24 September 1911, aged 39.
Daisy Wood died on 19 October 1961, aged 84 at her home in Banstead, Surrey.
