Hi,
I am the 2x great grandson of James Hood and Sarah Arundel, and therefore George Hood is also my 3x Great grandfather. I have also been doing family history since 1992.
Firstly, I do not have the birth of George Hood either, but I may be able to offer my 'tuppence worth' and also what happened to James' children.
In the 1990's I obtained a photocopy concerning the memorials at Selby Abbey which showed that Matt'w Hood buried there was from Wistow and recently I have obtained a copy of 'The History Of The Parishes Of Sherburn And Cawood'; page 285 concerns owners and tenants of land in 1711-12 and states that the Hood's were resident in Wistow since 1379 and was 'of repute'.
https://books.google.com.pa/books?id=G2cuAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atbSo what happened to James and Sarah (Arundel)....?
They left Selby and moved to Scarborough, then Durham and then Derby.
James died in 1894 and is buried in Nottingham Road Cemetery Derby
Sarah moved to Mansfield and died there in 1911 in the Quaker Burial Ground - YES SHE WAS A QUAKER.
Also, the 'family story' our branch has always had was that Sarah Arundel was the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Arundel (the Fitzalan family).
Now their children:
Mary Ellen Hood - Married Arthur Chapman (buried Scarborough) and after his death moved to Doncaster and then died at 20 Beaumont Street, Portland Place Middlesex in 1910
Elizabeth Cook Hood - married John Blanchard Sugars and moved to Scarborough - Died there in 1935
Adeline Hood - Moved to Scarborough and married Thomas Featherstone
Sarah Hood - Moved to Balby and married William Oswin
John Wilkinson Hood - moved to Derby and married. Living at 81 Fowler Street in 1911
William Russell Hood moved to Scarborough and Durham - I don't have a lot on him at present
James Alfred Hood - My great grandfather - moved to Scarborough, Newcastle, joined the Royal Engineers and then moved to Ilkeston, Derbyshire and is buried there 1931
George Arundel Hood - Emigrated to Texas, USA and I am in contact and have visited his descendants in Texas and California
Bernard Pearson Hood - Moved to Scarborough and Durham and then to Derby. he is buried in Nottingham Road Cemetery and died in 1944.
I am living 'down south' now and so the recent discovery of Wistow means that I may have to take a trip up north to look through the original registers!.
Happy to correspond further.
Richard Taylor