Wonder how much of a coincidence given the surname Bainbridge in your post - that the Bainbridge Hood family in Beverley records - mentioned on a thread before - wonder if there could possibly be a link
Claire
Hello Claire, dobfarm and All
Mr Bainbridge struck me too.
One of the Bainbridge Hoods married a Pearson, whether any link between any of them and my Hood at Selby, I don't know.
However, I like this William Hood (born circa 1780), as I can't find an IGI Birth / Baptism. My George Hood baptism is also unknown, but known to have been born circa 1785 - 1787 and believed to be born Yorkshire.
My reasoning is, if two Hood baptisms can't be found, then they might be brothers / same family.
Colin Blanshard Withers book and Hugh Wallis site only shows Romaldkirk Registers up to 1772/1773 and from no reply, seems this William Hood's baptism is not on the subscription sites either, so a whole family of Hood offspring could be missing online?
GibsonRegarding Richard Gibson, he was in Little Britain, in 1810 when the Certificate of Conformity was issued (per TNA indexes), but noticed a comment on Rootschat that he was on the Selby Land Tax in 1811?
From what I can gather a Certificate of Conformity was issued when the bankrupt was discharged and no longer bankrupt, so it might have been Gibson who turned the business around enough to satisfy his Creditors and simply sold it to George Hood, perhaps cheaply. Shame Gibson's Bankruptcy Commissioner file was not kept as any relationship might have been confirmed. Hoping to get to see if the Manor Rental records shed any light regarding Gibson to Hood Tenancy changeover.
Barnard Castle DocumentI have emailed Durham Special Collections, as it is 3 folios, but a document with a Demandee/Damandant, a Tenant and a Vouchee sounds like a
Common Recovery and the last one I saw, was around the time that the Lord of the Manor had died. All three parties went to Westminster appearing in person.
It is some type of Legal process relating to an Estate / Manor. A Vouchee appears in person but makes no defence and being in default, the Court gives judgement to the demandant or recoverer. [Something like that. Not to be taken as Legal advice - see also the old Legal books on the subject]
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hApgMgaBOrgC&pg=PA339&lpg=PA339&dq=Manors+Recovery+Demand+Tenant+%22Voucher%22&source=bl&ots=3X_cn0R-kB&sig=inj1cdS09xuDoNdu5SSk-4_0f7I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilipvomZPSAhWnDMAKHVefBLUQ6AEIGjAARegards Mark