Hello
I am interested in any further information please, religious, family, property, background and if a Will exists, regarding William Hood of Bristol, a Corn Factor, dying at the Fish Ponds, Gloucestershire and buried 1821 aged 65, who was not a Quaker?
This thread is not for the Quaker section of Rootschat.
This is what I know so far about William Hood:-
Quakers Burial Note (not attached)
States:-
Not a Member
To Mary Thomas Grave-Maker.
The 26th Day of the 1st Month, 1821
Make a Grave on or before next First Day, in Friends'
Burying-Ground, at or near The Friers
and therin lay the Body of William Hood, of the Broad Wear
Peters Parish in the City of Bristol
Corn factor aged about sixty five Years
who died the Twenty fourth Day
of the First Month, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty one
at the Fish Ponds in the County of Gloucester.
Signed Jeffery Wallis
The body of the above-mentioned was buried the Twenty Eighth
Day of the first Month, 1821
Witness George Thomas for Mary Thomas Grave-Maker.
[Friers spelt Friars in the Register]
[Broad Wear spelt Broad Weir in the Register]
Good Afternoon
This Administration is another William Hudd.
28th June 1821
Admin in the Goods of the within named Wm Hudd dec'ed was granted to Eliz'th Hudd his W'd & Relict at Bristol ...
Effects sworn under £1000.
[?] & Intestate died 10th Feb'y 1817
A declaration was made that the value of his effects would not exceed One thousand pounds, by The Mark of Elizabeth Hudd 28 June 1821
Appeared personally Elizabeth Hudd of the Parish of Saint George in the County of Gloucester Widow and made Oath that she is the Widow and Relict of William Hudd late of the Parish of Saint George in the County of Gloucester and Diocese of Bristol Yeoman deceased intestate, that she will faithfully administer his Goods Chattels and [?Credits] ...
Also there is a Bond set at Two Thousand Pounds and signed by Elizabeth Hudd Widow Ambrose Hudd Basketmaker and Thomas Haskins Woollen Draper all of the Parish of Saint George in the County of Gloucester. Relating to an Act of Lord King Charles the Second, intituled "An Act for the better settling of Intestates' Estates" ...
Interesting that Ambrose HUDD was a Basketmaker.
-----------
My Sarah HOOD, nee Russell was a Basket Maker.
-----------
This is not William Hood of Bristol, Corn Merchant, buried by the Quakers as Not in Membership.
Mark