Hi!
First I want to thank yet another poster for fantastic renditions of this photograph!
I have no idea how I can ever thank you enough!
I have no idea why I didn't see it before either!
Secondly, BushInn1746, how extraordinarily fascinating!
It could indeed be the same family. In fact, I rather hope that it is, because that sounds like quite the tale!
Isn't it unfortunate, all those things one should have recorded before it was too late?
Of the people in the photograph, one is the descendant of William Hood and Mary Twedle or Twidle, who married on the 12th of december 1790. The other one is that person's spouse.
The photograph was taken in Beverley.
Now, the first child I can find born to William Hood and Mary Twidle is a son named John who was baptised on the 9th of January 1792.
Nor can I find a son named George amongst their numerous children.
Looking closesly at the dates above, there does not appear to have been time to have another child between the date of their wedding and the baptism of their son John, the time spanning barely a twelve-month.
However, there is something interesting. A boy named William Hood is baptised on the 12th of December 1790. The church records tell us that his parents are 'Wm. Hood & Mary his wife'.
This must be the son of the above couple, baptised on his parents wedding day.
Sadly baby William dies soon thereafter and is buried on the 5th of January 1791.
(The third child baptised is also called William, who is baptised on the 26th of May 1793.)
Could your ancestor have been another premarital baby? Who was baptised as George Twedle or Twidle, or perhaps not at all? And then was given as a matter of course his father's last name when the marriage took place? (I have seen this many times.)
The easiest thing would of course be to reject the this out of hand, but there are some interesting links. The Beverley one for one thing, second, your ancestor appears to have had a bit of money, so did several of the other children of William Hood and Mary Twidle, based on the evidence that photographs exist of three of them.
