Thanks dobfarm
The nearest I think I could find was a Jno Head in the Selby Parish records, but I don't have all the Selby Land Tax images for each year to see if a Head also appears there, indicating Hood and Head were separate surnames.
But HEAD might not appear anyway in the Land Tax, as some Occupiers are not listed in the multiple Tenements, or multiple occupancy residences. Also some properties were subject to other Tithe and old Manor Rents and Levies, separate to Land Tax. At some point you could even pay to have the property removed from Land Tax.
For example our old village Pub was subject to a Fee Farm Rent and a then a Quit Rent for a period of years from the date of Sale, when it was sold off, by Tomkinson, one of the Lords of the Manor. The Pub Occupiers and Licensees don't appear in our Parish or Township Land Tax, despite other Tomkinson Tenants being listed. A magazine of the 1930s says our Pub The Plough Inn of Stockingford was called an Ancient Hostelry. Before 1813 it was known by the Sign of the Holly Bush.
I am desperate for a window of improvement, so that we can visit some Archives.
Yes, John Hood of Scarborough (later of Selby, Mariner) appears to have lost every child baptised (Parish Baptisms) except Maudland who was also Parish baptised.
John Hood might have thought, it's time to change faith, or perhaps his Wife Elizabeth Hood (nee Spencer) was behind the Baptisms him being away at Sea, and John Hood was always a Protestant. There was also many many NC Chapels including Presbyterian in Scarborough (see also Colin Hinson's information online with photos).
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Scarborough#ChurchesScarborough Presbyterian accounts and papers back to 1725
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N13976323If they had their own Selby protestant Chapel to finance, they wouldn't want to pay Church Rates, or Parish charges.
However, the Land Tax was by Parliamentary Act and if your property was subject to the Tax, the Occupier and/or the Owner had to pay it.
Mark
Added:
The 1803 Transfer Registration (from the Wakefield Registry) from John Spencer, Gent of Selby, indicates John Hood and Robert Nicholson (1802) were Occupying a House divided into two Tenements in Millgate, Selby.
Hood is not listed in Mountain's 1800 which only lists Principal Inhabitants (Gentry / posh) of Selby, but John Hood's property has a Garden or Orchard, so not your hovel or one or two room residence tucked away off an alley Court (High density housing).
This suggests John Hood the Mariner was not wealthy, but comfortable off, hence living to 82 years of age.
Selby was on the main sailing route to London, with Ship Building Yards. Possibly John Hood moved to Selby to take advantage of the Canals and some fellow Merchants were also Dissenters and Quakers (probably accounts for the Quaker Wedding Witness at Charles Turner and Maudland HOOD's Marriage), besides C of E Merchants. Although the Parish Church buried nearly everybody, of whatever faith.
Dissenting education was usually good, because their followers could not usually get Parish Church Dole money, they needed their followers to be able to support themselves and they were looking for the future Ministers able to speak at Meetings. I have discovered that Dissenting Ministers also went to University or their Training Academies, so Dissenting education and Teaching was and is not to be sniffed at, as second rate.
One site online claims there was a Ship Builder at Selby, that they don't know the name of.
I am hoping to go to Wakefield and look through them Property Indexes at associated surnames.
Thank you, Mark
