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John can you access my personal email address via rootschat? I am not keen to post it. thanks for that info I am very keen to have pics of Samuel and any other Hoods. I can only reciprocate with Hoods decended from John Ryley.
I have a personal website which has an email address/contact on it. I am well known for winning the Archibald Prize in Oz so just google that. I'm the only hood to have ever won it.
cheers hoody

Hi John
Dad (Max Hood) has asked a couple of questions and is fascinated to know more about Sam.
He had information that.
William Hood was proprietor of Willam Hood Ironfounders at 76 Cavendish Road Reading from a trade Directory from about 1850 to 1880.
When he retired he sold to Great Western Iron Works who extended the business.
The works were bombed in WW2 as I mentioned before but this clarifies a few details he has.
He says the trade journal mentions a son Frederick who also appears in 1871 census.
Dad also found the family was buried in the old Reading Cemetery as follows.
Marina Hood 1877
Frederick 1886 aged 44
Elizabeth 1890 aged 81
William 1892 aged 83
Dad was looking for Samuel so do you know where he died or where he is buried?
Dad and I are wondering if there are two or more Hood foundry works where was the other one? Did Sam work from Edwards or from William’s foundry in Reading.
Dad has it that Sam and Elizabeth lived at York St Derby in 1841 do you agree?
Many thanks John
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Hoody     

Hi John,
This is my first try at Family research.
I cant help with Samuel Hood much except to tell you what my 86 year old dad Max Hood has anecdotally told us about him often over the years.
Dad tells the story of Sam being the Sales person at their foundry in England. Fred his brother ran the foundry.
Dad thinks the foundry was called Hood something and he and mum went there when in the UK to find it was blown up in WW2
Sam would go to Paris all the time to sell the Iron Lace which they made. It was very popular and sold well over there but not so well in the UK. (it later became very popular in Australia. Hence the Australian connection)
Sam had a second family in France and when his English wife Elizabeth (nee Ryley) died he brought his French wife to the UK to look after the English children and blended all the children together. Dad always thought all the children were Sams.
John Riley Hood born 1839 or 1841. d. 1924 in Sydney
Samual Hood b. 1872 in Glenelg South Australia. d. 1953 in Sydney
Albert George Hood b. 1896 Newcastle NSW d. 1959 Tasmania
Maxwell George Hood b. 1923 Manly NSW
Me b. 1950 Sydney NSW
cheers Hoody