Hello All
Thank you very much for all this brilliant work and tireless effort.
Re: 1789 Selby Window Tax (images).
I saw the actual 1788 Selby Window Tax document in the flesh and I looked at this very carefully for 1788, as I was expecting to find a John Hood mentioned, but I did not.
I noted it as Jno Wood Miller (NOT STRUCK OUT by the way in 1788), as there was a fine line off the bottom of the right stick of what seemed to be a H (which you can also see on the image, I have had in MS Pic Manager restore and then darkened).
I now wonder if it was meant to say John Hood, but when any mistake creeps into these documents that are written up each year, the mistake tends to get accidentally copied.
What does the Selby Land Tax (on Anc.) say for Hood & J. Hood etc., for these years (as it usually gives the occupier, but no occupation)?
Wood should probably say HOOD
After looking at the Selby Parish Transcriptions, it is my belief it probably should say HOOD as the only John Woods (of any threat) recorded (transcribed by Yorks Arch. Soc.) are:-
29 Jul 1793 John WOOD died Selby, Sailer and a Stranger Drowned by accident aged 20 & buried in the Ch Yard.
29 Jan 1804 John WOOD baptised 2nd son of Thomas [of] Selby, Ironfounder Born 26th Jan
The following are listed as Millers:-
Henry Anderson d.1796 a Miller
John Anderson d.1798, a Miller
Joseph Anderson was a Miller when he married Mary Wilson 1799
John Clarkson and Wm Clarkson of Osgodby Hemingbrough Parish was a Miller
1779 Wm Beck was a Miller when Hannah his wife died
Richard Attey, Ottey / Otty had been Millers in the past
Wm Brown a miller
Wm Cockle was a miller 1780
Cocks was a Miller when child bapt 1796
Robert Conway of Snaith 1801
Wm Clarkson of Brayton a miller
John Coverdale a miller
Samuel Heap 1793 - 1799
Fairweather of Cliff, Hemingbrough had been a miller
James Pocklington a miller 1801
John & Richard Quartan 1812
Thomas Reed 1781
John Dean of Castleforth
James Smith 1785
Joseph Taylor 1784
Benjamin Butterfield of Hemingbrough
Is this John Hood, Miller (seemingly written as Wood) in 1788, but none to be found in the Selby Parish transcriptions, but perhaps Wood never had any event to record at Selby?
Thank you.
Regards Mark
