Thanks Claire and dobfarm
For £10 each, I'll get the Admin copies (besides the other Wills I'm waiting for), as there was obviously some reason why James Hood had to apply for the 1880 Admins in respect of two of George Hood's unmarried deceased adult children and not it seems, for the other two, who also died unmarried.
I expect they had either been left items by George Hood (Probate 1846), or hopefully a later bequest by a relative, which remained with George's Widow, Sarah Hood until her death in 1879.
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Cecilia Westley
My 2 X Gt. Grandfather George Hood (G.H.) was with his Wife, Charlotte Hood, at Hulme in 1871 (not too far from Bowdon in Cheshire). Charlotte Hood died.
When G.H. married Cecilia Westley in 1872 at Northampton, George Hood was living in the Parish of Bowdon Cheshire.
So a big question in my mind was how did George & Cecilia meet.
In the 1871 Census Cecilia Westley (age 21, born Brentford) was a Domestic at the Bull Hotel, in Leicester.
In 1871, the Bull Hotel Proprietor was Henry A Thomson (born Jarrow) and his Wife, Mary Thomson, was nee Mary Robinson, born Carlton, Yorks (1861 Stag & Pheasant, Leicester, has Selby in the Census). In 1851 the couple were at Lincoln and he was a Spirit Merchant and Mary Thomson was born Carlton.
Tracing both the Henry Abraham Thomson and Mary Robinson back, Mary Thomson was the Daughter of John Robinson, Farmer & Ann Eddel, and Mary was baptised at Carlton 1st January 1826.
The Marriage of John Robinson of Snaith and Chapelry of Carlton, Bachelor and Ann Eddell, Spinster, by Licence, was on 1st March 1821, in the presence of Witnesses:- Wm Storr; Hannah COOKE and Hannah Eddell.
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Do you recall the 1830 William Cockin of Snaith = Ann Robinson Marriage (at Hatfield), John Hepworth and William COOKE were their witnesses.
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It left me wondering if the two COOKEs were linked.
Regards Mark
