Harrower Family Tree » Beatrice Hood (1879-1917)
Personal data Beatrice Hood
Sources 1, 2, 3, 4- She was born on January 12, 1879 in East Benhar, Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland.Sources 1, 2, 3, 4
Birth date from Gravestone
- Emigrated on October 21, 1882, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.Source 2
- Emigrated on November 4, 1882, New York, Verenigde Staten.Source 3
- Resident in the year 1881: 25 Kirkland Rows, Dreghorn, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 1
- She died on December 13, 1917 in Glendo, Platte County, Wyoming, USA, she was 38 years old.Sources 4, 5
- She is buried after December 13, 1917 in South Lincoln Cemetery, Diamondville, Lincoln County, Wyoming, USA.Sources 4, 5
- A child of Peter Hood and Mary O'neil
Household of Beatrice Hood
She is married to John Tudehope Weir.
They got married on April 12, 1898 at Latter-day Saint Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Verenigde Staten, she was 19 years old.Source 6
Child(ren):
- Ethel Weir ± 1899-± 1976
- Mary Weir ± 1900-± 1935
- Margaret Weir 1910-1910
- John Thomas Weir ± 1914-± 1961
- Ellen Beatrice Weir ± 1903-± 1964
Notes about Beatrice Hood
1. http://www.hoodfamily.info
Beatrice Hood; b. 12 Jan 1878 East Benhar, Whitburn, West Lothian; d. 13 Dec1917.
2. On 21 October 1882, Mary O'Neil and and her children, Thomas, 13, Peter, 11, Margaret, 9, Angelina, 7, and Beatrice, 4, sailed to America on the ship “Abyssinia” from Glasgow, Scotland. They landed in New York on 4 November 1882.
3. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23112582 (See Web Links)
Beatrice Hood was the daughter of Peter Hood and Mary O’Neil. She was born in East Benhar, Whitburn, West-Lothian, Scotland on the 12 January 1879. The family moved to the Whitburn area in 1873. It is there they had their last four children, Beatrice being the youngest child.
Peter and Mary Hood had joined the LDS Church 1855, a short time before they were married. They had been strong members of the Church and wanted to comply with the urgings of the Church to move “to Zion” to raise their family. On 21 October 1882, when Beatrice was four years old, Mary (the mother) and her youngest children sailed to America on the ship “Abyssinia” from Liverpool, England. They landed in New York on 3 November 1882.
Their destination was Almy, Wyoming, where new mines were being opened in Unita and Lincoln Counties. They settled in Almy, Wyoming and soon many of their immediate family members, who were still in Scotland, joined them there. Beatrice grew up in Almy where they had good schools and an active LDS Ward for the family to attend church. John Weir, who Beatrice later married, also came to Almy from Scotland a few years earlier. They both grew up in Almy and had known each other since childhood.
Most of the men and fathers in Almy were colliers, but Beatrice had the added advantage of having a mother who had her own bakery shop, as she had in Scotland. She provided the town with delicious baked goods. Hot cross buns were her specialty!
On April 12, 1898 Beatrice and John Tudehope Weir were married in the Salt Lake City Latter-day Saint Temple. They lived in Salt Lake for the first few years of their marriage. They had three children while living there, but Beatrice went home to Almy to be with her mother when she delivered her first two girls, Ethel and Mary. Ellen was born in Salt Lake City, Margaret was born in Glenco and John “Jack” Jr. was born in Diamondville.
The Weir family moved to Glencoe, Wyoming when John could not find work in Salt Lake City. In Glenco he became a mine foreman which was a very good job. Life was a little different in Glenco. There was no LDS Branch so the children were taught the Gospel in their home on Sunday. They had a school for the children, but the facilities were not what they had been used to in Salt Lake.
After John T. Weir, Jr. was born in 1914, Beatrice’s health deteriorated. She had probably had rheumatic fever as a child, as so many children did in the 1800s and early 1900s. The medical researchers later discovered that those children who had rheumatic fever, developed mitral valve heart disease as adults and caused early deaths. By early, some died in their late teens and others in their thirties or forties. Beatrice was strong enough to give birth to five children, but as she got older she did not have the strength to care for them. She died in Glenco, Wyoming at the young age of 39 years.
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- 1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Mary O'Neil Hood Parish: Dreghorn; ED: 3; Page: 39; Line: 2; Roll: CSSCT1881_184 1881 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1881 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 3/4 April 1881. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online Husband Peter Hood living in America in 1881
Record for Mary O'Neil Hood
Name: Mary Hood
Age: 45
Estimated birth year: abt 1836
Relationship: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Wilsontown, Carnwath
Registration Number: 589
Registration district: Dreghorn
Civil Parish: Dreghorn
County: Ayrshire
Address: 25 Kirkland Rows.
Occupation: Housekeeper
ED: 3
Household schedule number: 176
Line: 2
Roll: CSSCT1881_184
Household Members:
Name Age
Mary Hood 45 Head
James Hood 21 Coal Miner . Cadder
Annie G Hood 21 Daughter-in-Law. Powerloom Weaver. Riccarton
Thos Hood 13 Coal Miner . West Calder
Peter Hood 10 West Calder
Margaret Hood 8 West Calder
Angelina Hood 6 West Calder
Beatrice Hood 3 East Benhar - UK Outgoing Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, Record for Mary O'Neil Hood and Family Ancestry.com. UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Outwards Passenger Lists. BT27. Records of the Commercial, Companies, Labour, Railways and Statistics Departments. Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies. The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England.
Record for Mary O'Neil Hood and Family
Ship: Abyssinia (October 1882)
Name Age Born
HOOD, Mary 45 1837
HOOD, Thomas 13 1869
HOOD, Peter 11 1871
HOOD, Margaret 9 1873
HOOD, Angelina 7 1875
HOOD, Beatrice 4 1878
Note: BMR, p. 381
Origin: Glasgow
Year: 1882, Date: 21 Oct, Departure: Glasgow. Ship: Abyssinia. To where: New York. - New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, Record for Mary O'Neil Hood and Family Year: 1882; Arrival: New York , United States; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll: M237_459; Line: 12; List number: 1559.
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Name: HOOD, Mary O'Neil: Age: 45. Estimated birth year: 1836. Gender: Female.
Name: HOOD, Thomas: Age: 13. Estimated birth year: 1869. Gender: Male.
Name: HOOD, Peter: Age: 11. Estimated birth year: 1871. Gender: Male.
Name: HOOD, Margaret: Age: 9. Estimated birth year: 1873. Gender: Female.
Name: HOOD, Angelina: Age: 7. Estimated birth year: 1875. Gender: Female.
Name: HOOD, Beatrice: Age: 4. Estimated birth year: 1878. Gender: Female.
Departure Date: 21 Oct 1882
Arrival Date: 4 Nov 1882
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland
Destination: United States of America
Place of Origin: England
Ethnicity/Race/Nationality: English
Ship Name: Abyssinia
Search Ship Database: View the Abyssinia in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York
Line: 12
Microfilm Serial: M237
Microfilm Roll: M237_459
List Number: 1559
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States
Source Citation: Year: 1882; Arrival: New York , United States; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll: M237_459; Line: 12; List number: 1559. - Hood Family and Coal Mining, Hood family and Coalmining http://www.hoodfamily.info/hood/hood.html http://www.hoodfamily.info/otherfamilies/juner/juner.html#i785 A history of the descendants of David Hood from 1715 to the 1800's and information on Coal Mining in Mid and East Lothian, Scotland.
Hood or Hoods?
This family's surname originally started off as 'Heads'. Other spellings found have included Heids, Huds and Hoads. It soon became Hoods in most records but from the early 19th century the 's' began to be dropped until 'Hood' was used exclusively.
For consistency 'Hood' in preference to Hoods or Heads in this website is used mainly for consistency.
See also other families Juner - United States Deaths, 1879 -1917 Record for Beatrice Hood Weir United States Deaths Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 June 2020), memorial page for Beatrice Hood Weir (12 Jan 1879–13 Dec 1917), Find a Grave Memorial no. 23112582, citing South Lincoln Cemetery, Diamondville, Lincoln County, Wyoming, USA ; Maintained by Marie Gaisford (contributor 48436813) .
Beatrice Hood Weir
Birth: 12 Jan 1879 Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland
Death: 13 Dec 1917 (aged 38) Glendo, Platte County, Wyoming, USA
Burial: South Lincoln Cemetery, Diamondville, Lincoln County, Wyoming, USA
Memorial #: 23112582
Bio: Beatrice Hood was the daughter of Peter Hood and Mary O’Neil. She was born in East Benhar, Whitburn, West-Lothian, Scotland on the 12 January 1878. The family moved to the Whitburn area in 1873. It is there they had their last four children, Beatrice being the youngest child. Peter and Mary Hood had joined the LDS Church 1855, a short time before they were married. They had been strong members of the Church and wanted to comply with the urgings of the Church to move “to Zion” to raise their family. On 21 October 1882, when Beatrice was four years old, Mary (the mother) and her youngest children sailed to America on the ship “Abyssinia” from Liverpool, England. They landed in New York on 3 November 1882.Their destination was Almy, Wyoming, where new mines were being opened in Unita and Lincoln Counties. They settled in Almy, Wyoming and soon many of their immediate family members, who were still in Scotland, joined them there. Beatrice grew up in Almy where they had good schools and an active LDS Ward for the family to attend church. John Weir, who Beatrice later married, also came to Almy from Scotland a few years earlier. They both grew up in Almy and had known each other since childhood.Most of the men and fathers in Almy were colliers, but Beatrice had the added advantage of having a mother who had her own bakery shop, as she had in Scotland. She provided the town with delicious baked goods. Hot cross buns were her specialty!On April 12, 1898 Beatrice and John Tudehope Weir were married in the Salt Lake City Latter-day Saint Temple. They lived in Salt Lake for the first few years of their marriage. They had three children while living there, but Beatrice went home to Almy to be with her mother when she delivered her first two girls, Ethel and Mary. Ellen was born in Salt Lake City, Margaret was born in Glencoe and John “Jack” Jr. was born in Diamondville.The Weir family moved to Glencoe, Wyoming when John could not find work in Salt Lake City. In Glencoe he became a mine foreman which was a very good job. Life was a little different in Glencoe. There was no LDS Branch so the children were taught the Gospel in their home on Sunday. They had a school for the children, but the facilities were not what they had been used to in Salt Lake.After John T. Weir, Jr. was born in 1914, Beatrice’s health deteriorated. She had probably had rheumatic fever as a child, as so many children did in the 1800s and early 1900s. The medical researchers later discovered that those children who had rheumatic fever, developed mitral valve heart disease as adults and caused early deaths. By early, some died in their late teens and others in their thirties or forties. Beatrice was strong enough to give birth to five children, but as she got older she did not have the strength to care for them. She died in Glencoe, Wyoming at the young age of 39 years.
Family Members
Parents
Peter Hood 1834-1904
Mary O'Niel Hood 1836-1909
Spouse
John Tudehope Weir 1877-1944
Siblings
James Hulton Hood 1861-1897
Mary Niel Hood Smith 1864-1952
Thomas Hood 1868-1931
Peter West Hood 1870-1937
Children
Ethel Weir Vickrey 1899-1976
Mary Weir Moffat 1900-1935
Ellen Beatrice Weir Barnum 1903-1964
Margaret Weir 1910-1910
John Thomas Weir 1914-1961
Maintained by: Marie Gaisford (48436813)
Originally Created by: Bob Rohwedder (46891226)
Added: 26 Nov 2007
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23112582
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed 14 February 2020), memorial page for Beatrice Hood Weir (12 Jan 1879–13 Dec 1917), Find A Grave Memorial no. 23112582, citing South Lincoln Cemetery, Diamondville, Lincoln County, Wyoming, USA ; Maintained by Marie Gaisford (contributor 48436813) . - Findagrave, Beatrice Hood Weir Birth: 12 Jan 1879 Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland Death: 13 Dec 1917 (aged 38) Glendo, Platte County, Wyoming, USA Burial: South Lincoln Cemetery, Diamondville, Lincoln County, Wyoming, USA Memorial #: 23112582 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23112582
Beatrice Hood Weir
Birth: 12 Jan 1879 Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland
Death: 13 Dec 1917 (aged 38) Glendo, Platte County, Wyoming, USA
Burial: South Lincoln Cemetery, Diamondville, Lincoln County, Wyoming, USA
Memorial #: 23112582
Bio: Beatrice Hood was the daughter of Peter Hood and Mary O’Neil. She was born in East Benhar, Whitburn,West-Lothian, Scotland on the 12 January 1878. The family moved to the Whitburn area in 1873. It is there they had their last four children, Beatrice being the youngest child.Peter and Mary Hood had joined the LDS Church 1855, a short time before they were married. They had been strong members of the Church and wanted to comply with the urgings of the Church to move “to Zion” to raise their family. On 21 October 1882, when Beatrice was four years old, Mary (the mother) and her youngest children sailed to America on the ship “Abyssinia” from Liverpool, England. They landed in New York on 3 November 1882.Their destination was Almy, Wyoming, where new mines were being opened in Unita and Lincoln Counties. They settled in Almy, Wyoming and soon many of their immediate family members, who were still in Scotland, joined them there. Beatrice grew up in Almy where they had good schools and an active LDS Ward for the family to attend church. John Weir, who Beatrice later married, also came to Almy from Scotland a few years earlier. They both grew up in Almy and had known each other since childhood.Most of the men and fathers in Almy were colliers, but Beatrice had the added advantage of having a mother who had her own bakery shop, as she had in Scotland. She provided the town with delicious baked goods. Hot cross buns were her specialty!On April 12, 1898 Beatrice and John Tudehope Weir were married in the Salt Lake City Latter-day Saint Temple. They lived in Salt Lake for the first few years of their marriage. They had three children while living there, but Beatrice went home to Almy to be with her mother when she delivered her first two girls, Ethel and Mary. Ellen was born in Salt Lake City, Margaret was born in Glencoe and John “Jack” Jr. was born in Diamondville.The Weir family moved to Glencoe, Wyoming when John could not find work in Salt Lake City. In Glencoe he became a mine foreman which was a very good job. Life was a little different in Glencoe. There was no LDS Branch so the children were taught the Gospel in their home on Sunday. They had a school for the children, but the facilities were not what they had been used to in Salt Lake.After John T. Weir, Jr. was born in 1914, Beatrice’s health deteriorated. She had probably had rheumatic fever as a child, as so many children did in the 1800s and early 1900s. The medical researchers later discovered that those children who had rheumatic fever, developed mitral valve heart disease as adults and caused early deaths. By early, some died in their late teens and others in their thirties or forties. Beatrice was strong enough to give birth to five children, but as she got older she did not have the strength to care for them. She died in Glencoe, Wyoming at the young age of 39 years.
Family Members
Parents
Peter Hood 1834-1904
Mary O'Niel Hood 1836-1909
Spouse
John Tudehope Weir 1877-1944
Siblings
James Hulton Hood 1861-1897
Mary Niel Hood Smith 1864-1952
Thomas Hood 1868-1931
Peter West Hood 1870-1937
Children
Ethel Weir Vickrey 1899-1976
Mary Weir Moffat 1900-1935
Ellen Beatrice Weir Barnum 1903-1964
Margaret Weir 1910-1910
John Thomas Weir 1914-1961
Maintained by: Marie Gaisford (48436813)
Originally Created by: Bob Rohwedder (46891226)
Added: 25 Nov 2007
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23112582
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 20 November 2020), memorial page for Beatrice Hood Weir (12 Jan 1879–13 Dec 1917), Find a Grave Memorial no. 23112582, citing South Lincoln Cemetery, Diamondville, Lincoln County, Wyoming, USA ; Maintained by Marie Gaisford (contributor 48436813) .
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