I have added an image to Reply #6, regarding George Kiddell Hood, whose death notice appears in June 1864 and a William Hood, Merchant was his Father.
The Will of Sarah Hood of Bristol, Widow, 1857, names both:- George Kiddell Hood and James Wasson Hood as her Sons.
So the two HOOD businesses at Bristol listed in the May 1817 image (see Reply #6) must be linked to the same Hoods.
Just wondering now, if the William Hood of Bristol, Corn Factor, who died and was buried in 1821 as a Non-Quaker, was their Grandfather?
The name "Kiddell" appears to be from George Eveleigh Kiddell who died in Bristol in 1842 aged 71 and was co-owner of the Hassan, the Waterloo & others with William Hood & James Wason. The 1841 census shows his PoB as Ireland.
George Eveleigh Kiddell was the executor of the 1798 estate of Benjamin Kiddell of Charleston, South Carolina. The estate value was £6,491 17s 11d, although the inventory & a subsequent Bill of Sale makes unsettling reading.
ADDED: Benjamin & Elizabeth Kiddell were baptising children in the Lewins Mead Presbyterian Chapel, Bristol in the 1770's.
Hi Jomot
Your addition, regarding the baptising of the Kiddell's children in the Presbyterian Chapel is most interesting.
I have read in an old US book, that US Quakers buried a Non-Quaker, who was a Presbyterian Minister.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_ScotlandProtestant - Presbyterian
John Calvin (Calvinism)
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We know the main Hood characters of Bardon Park, Leicestershire, were religious dissenters, along with other Hood families.
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Led to believe our Hoods originated in Scotland. Our William Hood, born Selby Yorkshire, England 1816, being the firstborn Son and being outlived by Jane Hood, alias Jane Casson Hood, probably means that our Hood family papers are with the Cassons in the USA, as claimed by another enquirer on the internet, who has no contact information.
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Quakers, the Society of Friends burying Non-Quakers, I believe would likely indicate that the deceased had NO allegiance to the Church of England / Anglican.
But the Parish Church might still memorialise some in death, because some had local status and wealth.
Regards Mark