Today at the library I looked up the Hood death/funeral notices in the Sydney Morning Herald but sadly nothing at all for your George Hood 1915. I guess he simply died and then they buried him, no frills.
But here are John and Ruth Hood's entries.........
SMH Friday May 1926, page 9
The relatives and friends of the late John Ryley Hood late of Mosman, are kindly invited to attend his funeral which is appointed to take place this Friday morning in the Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood. On arrival of funeral train, friends travel by funeral train and alight at No. 4 platform in cemetery.
METCALF AND MORRIS (Amal) LTD, PARRAMATTA
SMH Thursday 28 August 1919, page 5
HOOD: Friends of Mr John Hood and family are kindly invited to attend the funeral of his beloved wife and their beloved mother to leave her late residence, Ulla Horn, Cabramatta Rd, Mosman this day at 11.15 for mortuary station thence to Rookwood Cemetery.
T. J. ANDREWS, Funeral Director, 25 Enmore Rd, Newtown. Phone: L1138
Also, John you may have some convict connections if it can be proved that Mary Ann Whitney who married Charles Golding is the daughter of James Whitney and Elizabeth Pearce.
James Whitney, ship Tottenham 1818, sheep stealing. Father of Elizabeth Pearce was Thomas Pearce, ship Coromandel 1804, stealing lead from church.
There is some information to be found on the Port Jackson - Convict list on Worldconnect about this family and a link to a website which has reference to Mary Ann Whitney marrying Charles Golding. I think somewhere in this post there is reference to a birth for Mary A Whitney 1825, but this Mary died in 1833. There was another Mary A Whitney born to this family in 1838 who was the one that married Charles Golding.
Cazay
