I have been thinking, all these Hood Businesses at Gateshead and Newcastle would have taken some personnel and running:-
1811 Newcastle and Gateshead Directory
HOOD Ropemakers
Hood, Winship, and Co. South-shore.
Hood and Haggie, South-shore.
Wharfingers
Hood and Ryle, Quayside
Simpson's Pontop and Tanfield-moor, Wortley Main, Team, South-moor, Derwent Main, Garesfield, Denton Main, Gateshead, Gateshead-park, Sheriff-hill, Tynedale, Wylam-moor, and West Main.
Office Broad-chare.
Hood Elizabeth
[It seems they were suppliers to Collieries]
General Merchants
Hood & Co, Broad Chare, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Public House
Hood, Bee-hive, Close, Newcastle upon Tyne.
The New Flesh Market
Hood George, Butcher
[According to the Duty Paid on Apprentices in 1796 and newspaper notice of an 1814 Marriage, George Hood of Morpeth, trained as Butcher and was a Butcher at the time of his marriage, so the Butcher in the 1811 Directory is likely to be him, Father was Alexander].
London Gazette, 1st Dec'r 1812, Rope Makers
Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore carried on by Robert Hood and David Haggie, as Ropers, at Hillgate, in Gateshead, in the County of Durham, under the firm of Hood and Haggie, was dissolved, by the death of the said Robert Hood, on the 29th August last ; and the business hath since been carried on by the said David Haggie alone.- All debts due to and from the said Partnership will be received and paid by the said David Haggie, at the Ropery Office, in Hillgate aforesaid.- Dated this 2d November 1812.
David Haggie.
Robert Stodhart.
John L. Angas.
John Ryle.
Executors of Robert Hood, deceased.
London Gazette, 6th March 1813, Glass Makers
Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore carried on by John Robertson, George Sowerby, John Ryle, William Birkinshaw, and Robert Hood, in or near Pipewellgate, in the Parish of Gateshead, in the County of Durham, as Glass Manufacturers, was dissolved, as to the said William Birkinshaw, on the 3d day of August now last past, as to the said Robert Hood upon his decease, which happened on or about the 29th day of August now last past, and as between the said John Robertson, George Sowerby, and John Ryle on the day of the date hereof : As witness the bands of the said parties the 18th day of February 1813.
John Robertson.
Geo. Sowerby.
John Ryle.
William Birkinshaw.
John L. Angas,
Acting Executor of the said Robert Hood, deceased.
1811 Directory
Hood and Ryle, Quayside, Wharfingers.
Hood and Ryle, Quay, Wharfingers, from The Picture of Newcastle, p.294
WHARFINGERS .- Goods are forwarded to and from all places by the following wharfingers:
Nichol, Ludlow, & Co. High Crane.
Thomas Robson, Quay.
Joseph Snowball, Folly.
Thomas Snaith, Broad Chare.
Bradshaw and Hood, Quay.
Wm. Anderson and Son, Pilgrim Street.
Page 306 Additions and Corrections
Page 294. The present Wharfingers in Newcastle, are:
Nichol, Ludlow, & Co. High Crane
Thomas Robson. Quay.
Thomas Snaith, Broad Chare.
Hood and Ryle, Quay.
Wm. Anderson and Son, Pilgrim Street.
Coulson Hall, & Co. Quay.
J. H. Hudson, Quay.
William Thompson, Quay.
A part of this Impression is correct.
1815 London Gazette, 15th April
THE Partnership carried on by Elizabeth Wood, Taylor Winship, and George Henderson, as Coalfitters, Timber Merchants, and Ship Owners, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, under the firm of A. Hood and Company, was the 31st day of December now last amicably dissolved, so far as regards the said Taylor Winship, and will be carried on by the remaining partners, under the firm of A. Wood and Company : As witness our hands the 2d day of January 1815.
E. Hood.
Taylor Winship.
Geo. Henderson.
1815 London Gazette, 18th April
In the Gazette of Saturday last; in the advertisement of a Dissolution of Partnership between E. Hood, Taylor Winship, and Geo. Henderson, for Wood, read Hood ;
1816 London Gazette
Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership carried on by Taylor Winship, Jonathan Sorsbie, William Harle, and, Henry Wright, as Rope-Makers, in the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Gateshead, in the County of Durham, under the firm of Winship, Harle, and Co. was on the 11th day of May now last amicably dissolved .- All persons therefore who stand indebted to the said Partnership are requested to pay their respective debts to the said William Harle; and all persons who have any demands upon the said Partnership are requested to send in the particulars of their demands to the said William Harle, that they may be discharged : As witness their bands the 21st June 1816.
Taylor Winship.
Jon. Sorsbie.
Wm. Harle.
Henry Wright.
Many of the records of Hood and Haggie, Ropemakers, survive, I will enquire if they might list the personnel working for them around 1800.
Mark
