Hello
Thank you, your link was very interesting about dried Lady's Bedstraw used for stuffing beds.
My Grandmother gave a lot of accounts, but I was no more than about 8 and I fear the detail over 50 years is lost. Also mentioned by her was the Fleur de Lis symbol in a discussion with my Mum's Father, they thought it unlikely to be HOODs, which prompted a discussion about Raven and Rook like birds.
Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots, King James VI and I, the Stewarts / Stuart and Battles:- Bannockburn; Prestonpans, Culloden, were all mentioned by my late Grandmother.
Another Hood line (some were Quakers) descending from our George Hood of Selby mentions an "oil painting of Burns" in a Will. I enquired to see if that Hood line were still Quakers, they are not it seems, my contact coincidentally knew of them, but apparently they had little family knowledge. No direct response.
Oh I wish she had written the detail down.
My Hood relations say they only knew our Hood line back to the Richardson marriage, so if anything of my Grandmother is true, it possibly may come from the Female side of a Marriage.
My Grandmother had died, before I became interested about 25 years ago, when trawling the Census Reels was done in an Archive.
Mark
