For the purpose of elimination here's some surnames from Sarah's parentage (including step father Wilkinson)
Arundel - Grandparents: George ARUNDEL and Hannah EYRE
Grt grandparents: Joseph EYRE and Hannah PYGOT
Mathew ARUNDEL and Ann JACKSON
Wilkinson "step" grandparents Edward WILKINSON and Margaret TWIST
"gt grandparents John TWIST and Rebecca CRABTREE
William WILKINSON and Jane ??
and just to put James' parentage here for future reference (obviously only from the Russell side)
Russell Grandparents William RUSSELL and Mary BURTON
Gt grandparents John RUSSELL and Martha HOTCHSON
Edward BURTON and William SILVERWOOD
From Part 3 of the George Hood Burial where? ... thread (now completed)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=742806.msg5964598#msg5964598
Quote from Goughy Reply #174 of 08 November 2015
Hi Mark
I thought it would be useful to just put down James and Sarah's family for "tracking purposes"
Mary Ellen Hood b Selby 1853
Elizabeth Cook Hood b Selby 1854
Adeline Hood b Selby 1855
Sarah Hood b Selby 1856
John Wilkinson Hood b Selby 1858
William Russell Hood b Selby 1861 [born 1860, registered 1861]
James Alfred Hood b Sunderland 1863
George Arundel Hood b 1865 Selby
Bernard Pearson Hood b 1870 Scarborough
In the 1871 Census, Mary Ellen Hood is staying with a Dobson family in Bowling, Bradford and is stated as "cousin". The head of household is Thomas Duckworth Dobson b 1829 Wakefield and his wife Mary Ann b 1833 London, Middlesex. Thomas Duckworth Dobson married Mary Ann Bateman in 1855 in Selby.
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Hi
That "George" on Sarah Arundel's "Illegitimate Child" Baptism record, must be her Grandfather? In the back of the Wesleyan Register George Arundel is their "Society Steward".
So when Sarah Arundel puts John Arundel on her Marriage Certificate for Father, she is definitely suggesting she is a result of an incestuous liaison, or both her parents were Arundel.
Because if you are a known illegitimate Daughter to Mary Arundel, you don't put John Arundel for your Father on your Marriage, with George (on the Illegitimate Register entry), unless your Father was actually John Arundel. It makes no sense to me, to make it look like an incestuous relationship, if it wasn't incest.
James Hood's decendants were led to believe that Sarah Arundel's Father was a male Arundel, when she was both known to be illegitimate and her Mother was Mary Arundel.
John Wilkinson might be no more than Sarah Arundel's Step-Father by marriage to the Mother, only.
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Wilkinson might be yet another surname also with links to my mystery George Hood, descent.
When a George Hood appears in the Knottingley Land Tax in 1813, the owner is George WILKINSON and the year before (1812) a John COOK was occupying the same premises.
Image extracts here ...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=758380.msg6086926#msg6086926Regards Mark