Hi
Thanks Claire for replies.
Claire, the two Army records make interesting reading, although the Army never always used full names.
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1889: This James Hood claims to be born Selby and recorded as nearly 25 [born about 1864].
Possibly James A Hood, birth registered Sunderland, 1863.
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1892: This James Hood was from Burton, Staffordshire, but joined at SUNDERLAND, aged 21 years.
Perhaps the Staffordshire Hoods we have been looking at, at Wyrley; Congreve near Penkridge and Clay Mills Stretton, at Burton on Trent, are linked up via Sunderland?
Mark