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From: "Marilyn Lilley" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Hood
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:26:56 +0200
In-Reply-To: <E52D6B0D2DAA4C12976C00ADD1A817D3@ianb97489b76bc>


Info from Dave Hood and Geoff Chew below, seems that the info is coming
together!
Marilyn

This from Dave Hood:
In reply to your query aboutHoods immigrating from Ireland and moving to
> Cathcart: my Grandfather Fred (known as Robin to most) Hood was a dentist
> who moved to Hogsback from Durban (they may have stayed in Cathcart too
but
> I'm not sure about that). They (Robin and Iris) bought and ran the
Hogsback
> inn. He still practiced as a dentist and had a number of patients from
> Cathcart. Iris eventually moved to an old age home in Cathcart. Their
> daughter, Wendy married John Perks and they ran a cafe, "The Woodpecker"
in
> Cathcart for a while. Not sure about the Grahamstown link and this all
> happened last century, not 1800's. My father and brother (Chris and
Andrew)
> went to St Andrews in Grahamstown and I studied at Rhodes.
>
> Iris and Robin immigrated to SA from England. We do have Irish ancestors
but
> I don't know off hand the genealogy.
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
>
> Dave Hood

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Chew [mailto:]
Sent: 11 July 2011 12:17 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Hood


Good to have those details. As "Robin" Hood was Frederick Jamieson
Hood, then, the marriage between him and Iris was:

Name:HOOD, Frederick J
Registration District: Watford
County: Hertfordshire
Year of Registration: 1935
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
Spouse's last name: Houghton
Volume No: 3A
Page No: 2859

Name:HOUGHTON, Iris H
Registration District: Watford
County: Hertfordshire
Year of Registration: 1935
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
Spouse's last name: Hood
Volume No: 3A
Page No: 2859

And here are the details from Ancestry24 about his son Chris Hood,
from the register of boys who attended St Andrews College Grahamstown:

Surname: HoodFirst Name: Christopher Robin Jamieson
Entry Number: 6287 Details: son of F.J.; b. 28.5.44; Espin; Form MIV.
Dr. F. Jamieson Hood P.O. Hogsback via Alice C.P.

Geoff


-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Ian
Currie
Sent: 11 July 2011 09:08 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Hood


It was indeed Iris Hood who ran the nursery at their home at Hogsback. She
was the wife of Robin Hood, the dentist. I vaguely remember a connection to
the Hogsback Inn, but I cannot be certain.

Regards
Ian Currie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Chew" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Hood


To be honest I don't remember the first names of the Hoods at the
Hogsback Inn, It may well have been the Robin Hood (dentist)
mentioned by Ian, but I can't be sure: we knew them slightly from
visiting friends staying at the Inn, but our family used to stay at
another of the resorts.

I have an old guide to Hogsback, unfortunately undated, but I guess it
must be from the late 1950s or even later. Its advert for the
Hogsback Inn (phone number Hogsback 6) mentions the owners as being a
Karl and Hilde Heil, but it also advertises the Hogsback Nursery
(phone Hogsback 13) run by an I. J. HOOD. (The phone numbers date it:
when we started staying at Hogsback about 1946 or 7, the phone
exchange was called Arminel; a "Hogsback" post office and exchange was
set up only I guess around 1949 or 50. It was a marvellous shared
party line with a woman sitting there putting through all the calls -
the number of rings told you whether it was your call or not, but you
could always pick up the phone and listen to whoever was on the line
talking to someone else! I remember as a small child attacking the
phone box and being rewarded with a huge deluge of tickeys that came
pouring out!)

Geoff

On 29 June 2011 06:23, Alec and Debbie <> wrote:
>
> There were a few siblings of my Grandfather about whom I know nothing so
> it
> is possible that one of their offspring could have been involved but to
> date
> I have not discovered anything relating to Hogsback. Do you know what
> their
> first names were?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Geoff
> Chew
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 11:13 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Hood
>
> Are these the HOODs who ran the Hogsback Inn (formerly the Hogsback
> Hydro) around the 1950s?

--
Geoff Chew



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