Hello All
Claire, I'm very pleased you had a 'weird day' as you call it, finding a Hood for your own tree.
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My late Great Uncle, Jack Hood (Solicitor) was a representative, along with a Kenneth William Freer for:-
Frederick John Arnall THOMPSON, Gentleman, who died 3rd January 1958, of :-
Swithland
27 Prideaux Road,
Eastbourne,
Sussex.
The GRO site says it has only indexed up to 1957, so can't get an age, nor even year of birth?
EDIT Can't find an E & W Birth.
SCULCOATES 1910, BIRTH is Frederick James Ashton THOMPSON.
St George Hanover Square 1897, BIRTH is Frederick John Alexander THOMPSON.
A possible marriage to a Richardson (Ethel M.) at Lincoln, Dec Qtr 1936?
My Grandma Hood moved up to Scotland, but used to come from Scotland to Eastbourne for her holidays.
Also the name of his house
Swithland.
Swithland Wood in Charnwood Forest Leicestershire and Manchester areas.
An unverified source is suggesting circa 1840 that :-
Catherine Thompson, Swithland, Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire.
My 2 x Gt Grandparents, George & Cecilia Hood have John Sidney Hood, birth registered in the District of Barrow upon Soar 1878.
Hoping, that Frederick John Arnall Thompson, Gent., is actually related to my Hoods by Marriage/s at least?
Be nice to get someone, who is distant and not in my direct line and then find new information!
Regards Mark
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Alumni_Oxoniensis_(1715-1886)_volume_4.djvu/198See Foster's Yorkshire Collection. Thompson, Harry Thompson Arnall, 1S.
Joseph Arnall, of Belgrave, co. Leicester, arm. BRASENOSE COLLEGE, matric. 15 Jan., 1883, aged 18 ; B.A. 1887,
assumed the additional surname of THOMPSON.
