McLeod’s of Broad Run Hood Genealogy

Hood and Pender Families in Cornwall

Here is the starting point for the Hood Family who are still mostly in England. The American contingent has multiplied over the two generations now present on the western side of the Atlantic.

The Rev. Samual Hood was the father of two famous British Admirals and new minted Viscounts of Great Britain. There are more than a few musty tomes claiming to show descent from this man through children or grandchildren who never existed.
Rev. Samual Hood, Cannon of Wells

Mab’s Grandmother, Eveline Mary Hood (née Pender) — photographs at the National Portrait Gallery.

Keith Wood has done a great deal of research on the Hood family, mostly prior to the Rev. Samual Hood, Cannon of Wells. He appears to have found his connection to the Hood pedigree.
Hood Pedigree and Peerage
Wood Family

Pender Family

Visitation of Cornwall — Mab’s great grandparents, Catherine Maria and Herman Broad at bottom right of page
Margaret Paynter and Benjamin Pender
Paynter Cornish Genealogy
Margaret and Benjamin
Visitations of Devon
Visitations of Cornwall Index

BUDOCK VEAN GOLF & COUNTRY HOUSE
Budock Vean was the home of Mab’s great grandmother Catherine Maria Pender who was the last Pender to live at Budock Vean which is now a hotel. The Budock Vean Hotel is somewhere in this neighborhood overlooking the Helford River.

Budock Vean Hotel Home Page

Hotel Directory Listings on the Web
There are masses of these listings, each with a different picture but I ran out of steam and stopped with this list.
chycor
cornwall-holiday
grandheritage

Cornwall Links

Cornwall On–online
Cornish Family History Research Addresses
Cornwall Family History Society
Falmouth Packet Archives 1688-1850 — Map of Falmouth dated 1705-1724
Falmouth Packet Archives 1688-1850 — Home Page
Cornish People in Cornish Books
Gen UKI Cornwall Page
John’s Cornwall Page
Society of Genealogists (UK) — Many useful links; Bookstore has some good stuff for Cornwall
West Country Genealogy
On-line Parish Clerks (OPC) for Cornwall, England
Cornwall Online Census Project
Mawnan Community Website
Volunteer Transcriptions — Provide a growing source of elusive genealogy data.
Cornwall Parish Record Transcriptions — Site has over 130,000 transriptions of church records for Cornwall.

This information from RootsWeb is dated March 2004:
CORNISH ONLINE CENSUS UPDATE: Michael J. McCormich writes: “You might like to know that we have completed the transcription of the 1891 census returns for Cornwall. They have been transcribed, checked and validated according to the procedures of Free Census and can be accessed via the main Free Census site at: http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ or via the Cornwall Online Census Project http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/ukocp.html We have nearly finished the 1841 returns for Cornwall, plus 25 percent of the 1851 and 1861 returns.”

Royal Navy Links

HMS Richmond — RN history for American Revolution time period

Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount

By the date this picture is probably the first Viscount Hood. Henry Hood, the second Viscount, was a courtier. His son, Francis Wheler was killed in action in 1814 so the third Viscount was Henry’s grandson. I don't have to write much about the famous Admiral, Samuel Hood, who’s family name has been used for many British Naval Vessels He played a significant role in the American Revolution. Fortunately for us he was the second in command at the Battle of the Capes and could only fume at Admiral Grave’s incompetence. He did redeem English glory at the Battle of the Saints but to late to affect the outcome of the American cause.

Adm. Hood later commanded the Mediteranian fleet and captured Toulon and Corsica.

Dorset claims the Hood cousins as their own. This Adm. Hood was born in Somerset.

More Hood Links

Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport
Vice Admiral Sir Samuel Hood
Admiral Arthur William Acland Hood, Baron Hood of Avalon
Rear Admiral The Honourable Horace Lambert Alexander Hood
Somerset Gateway UK. Guided walk through Butleigh
Captain Hood & the Indians
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724-1816), Admiral — Also picture that includes brother Alexander, Lord Bridport
On this page look for — Hood pictures.
WHAT? Samual Hood "b. 1723. Son of an illegitimate daughter of George I" — News to me!? Also, article on his brother but no mention of Alexander’s mother. Click "Historical Characters" in left frame then click "British at Sea".
Castello di Nelson — Lord Bridport / Duke of Bronte
Dorset Surnames
National Register of Archives Browser — Names beginning with HO: Indicies to personal papers of Hood family members listed here. Search on Family Name of “Hood.”
Janus: The Papers of the 1st Viscount Hood of Catherington and of Rear Admiral Horace Hood — Hood Papers archive.
Hood Portraits — One, or more, of these pictures is known to have been painted by The Hon. Mabel Edith Hood. Can someone positively identify these pictures.
Links related to Manners Ancestors of wife of 3rd Viscount Hood. Haddon Hall, Bakewell, Derby, England — Ancestral home of Manners Family. Owners of Haddon Hall
Links related to Houlton of Fairleigh Castle Houlton is an ancestor of wife of 4th Viscount Hood. They were wool and clothing merchants who purchased Fairleigh Castle. The castle was already falling apart and the Houltons are thought to have mined the ruin for timbers and stone for their own manor house on the property. Paul’s Genealogy Page — Index to West Country newspapers. Bridgwater and Somerset Advertiser (Jan 1831–Aug 1831) A–F G–M N–Z 1831 18May Houlton George – Fairleigh Castle PCC Wills of Testators from Frome and nearby, 1700–1800 list of P.C.C. Wills that are available for Bradford on Avon at the Public Record Office — Two likely Houltons in this list.

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