Who is JAKE HOOD, linked to Hood of Selby - Any help please?

[BushInn1746]

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Jake Hood  1870  Male  34  White  1835-1836  England  4

Hello All

Thanks dobfarm, Jomot and thanks for all replies.

Age at last Birthday 34.

Be interesting to find out, if this murder is more than a story and if any Death Certificate / enquiry, gives anything else, about Jake's origin?

Kind regards Mark

[ShaunJ]

- Those "Jakeq" items are definitely Jabez

- The "Jake" Hood in New York in the 1870 census looks to me like John Hood. It's certainly John Hood in the 2nd Enumeration

- the Nugget Gulch story is just that -  a work of fiction!

[BushInn1746]

Hello All

I've seen the word Gulch referred to before in Mining Books, regarding the 19th Century US Gold Rush.

A member of the Stanley family called theirs "Last Chance Gulch".
http://www.nuneatonlives.co.uk/reginald-stanley/

There is a partial shipping document to New York featured here
http://www.reginaldstanley.com/american-adventures-.php

Place called 'Alder Gulch' here
http://www.reginaldstanley.com/searching-for-gold-in-montana-.php

So a prospectors/miners site they called 'Nugget Gulch' is highly possible.

Regards Mark

[ShaunJ]

So a prospectors/miners site they called 'Nugget Gulch' is highly possible.

It's just a story. Lots of papers ran fictional tales like this in amongst their news coverage.

[Jomot]

Someone on Anc* has a couple of photo's labelled as John Hood (Jake) 1919-1944.  I don't think this is 'your' Jake, but its worth bearing in mind that Jake could just be a name by which someone was known within the family.

Was the address you mentioned in connection with Jake or someone else?  It doesn't seem to have been occupied by a Hood in 1939.

[BushInn1746]

Hello All

In the Lichfield Mercury 4th February 1898, they have a column entitled:-

The Klondyke Goldfields.
           ----------
The Mother Lode Found.

The "Daily News" correspondent, writing at
Victoria (B.C.), on January 11th, says:- The mother
lode of the Klondyke goldfields has been discovered,
and quartz mining on the Upper Yukon is assured
as a permanency! ...

I have managed to get this extract on my screen for a save and "Nugget Gulch" is definitely a place.

As for the Jake Hood newspaper story and whether it is based on any truth, remains to be seen.

In 1941 Edwin C Hood, definitely refers to Byefield Lodge, Selby and items of "Jake Hood".

Regards Mark

[dobfarm]

Before you take it too far, Jack (Jak) is common as a family name for John and Jim for James. (Bob for Robert and  Bill-Billy for William)

Jacobus was another old name for James

Jacob = James

Jac -Jaq (sound's  Sh'ac) for a short - of a French first name

1941 long time after 1786 (or before)-- Through William son of George Hood d 1845 (Esti circa born 1783 to 1791)

[..claire..]

Bushin1746 discusses that he has a copy of the Will of Jane Casson Hood.

Is this the same seven piece document that Anc* have in their "Pennsylvanian Will and Probate Records" - dated c1896.

Is it the same woman or just a coincidence ? I haven't a world sub so can't elaborate further 

[Jomot]

Looks like the same woman - Jane Casson Hood of West Field in the parish of Brayton. Appoints her son Edwin Hood and daughter Marion the wife of George Scaum of Pontefract as trustees.  Mentions money she has previously lent to another son, Alfred, out of her Uncle Peacocks estate.

Cover states Testamentary Documents for use with the Pennsylvania Rail Road Company.
Filed April 30 1896

Added: The will also mentions a Tea Caddy left to Edwin, along with 'my own scrap book'.  Wasn't there a mention of a tea caddy or something on the first post, which seems to have been amended?

Added: She also leaves him her photographic album.