On BBC "W D Y T Y A" there have been a few Celb's, whos ancestors were mariners, where they have found very detailed ship records of their crew on board ships, ports and arrival/destination dates at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich. Most of the coaster boats/ships would stem from London the years John Hood of Selby's life as a mariner and establish who he was or if there was more than one John Hood of Selby - One in the land tax records and maybe another visiting Selby port periodically as a mariner for John Hood the mariner the husband of Jane Hood buried Selby 1803.
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Despite Opt Character Recognition difficulties, we have found in newspapers vessels sailing to and from Hull by a Master HOOD, who according to a 1780 document description and also a Lloyds Register late 1789, there was a "J. Hood" sailing from Hull to London and later to St Petersburg [Russia].
The Hull shipping company of J. Hood, Master of the Bedale were Messrs Burton & Taylor, in Hull (1780) found by dobfarm
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=731922.msg5952833#msg5952833John Hood has appeared in a Vessels List of 1778 (featured first post in this thread) and these same Agents at various places in this other 1778 advert, are also linked to shipping company Burton and Taylor, Hull, about this time.
Burton and Taylor, in Hull, stated in 1778 that vessels from London would be routed up the Aire & Calder Navigation from Haddlesey (now the Selby Canal I believe) to the Port at Selby, before going on to the destination Port of Hull. It appears Selby was most important on the Hull to London route and vice versa.
I'm hoping it is John Hood of Selby, Mariner and possibly also confirming why he moved from Scarborough and had a house at Selby from circa 1781 (confirmed in the earliest Selby Land Tax of 1781).
Later when "J. Hood" was Master on a Ship called Centurion in 1789 his shipping company were Hewson & Co. Hull.
Masters sailing to and from Hull, would also have paid into the Hull Trinity House Pension, so I'm hoping J. Hood will appear in the Hull Trinity House, Muster Rolls (which start 1747) and other records at the Hull History Centre.
Trinity House, Hull, also had their own School from 1785 and they trained them to become Shipping Apprentices. Wondering if this may explain why Maudland TURNER (nee Maudland HOOD) had children baptised in the Hull area 1797 & 1799, perhaps she was minding young George, whilst her Father John HOOD was between London, Selby and Hull.
Hull Trinity House, even had an Adult, Navigation Evening School.
Mark