The use of 'Aliases' is something which before now I have always associated the term with something unlawful until I found this;
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....fe/Aliases.htm
which gives a totally different value the term and where I need assistance.
I have in my ancestors a George Wood,a smuggler, who was shot dead in 1784 at Hastings and have never found his birth nor his father.
However the search goes on and what I have found with an incident at Hastings and from the book called 'The Smugglers' by Lord Teignmouth and Charles G Harper page 137 there is this;
'There was an indictment in the Admiralty Court on 30th October 1769 of 13 men for piracy and murder on the high seas; namely,Thomas Phillips,elder and younger, William and George Phillips,
Mark Chatfield,Robert Webb,Thomas and Samuel Ailsbury,James and Richard Hyde,William Geary alias Justice alias George Wood'.
Of this group Thomas Ailsbury,William Geary,William Wenham and Richard Hyde were hanged at Execution Dock November 27th.
My question is with William Geary who had two aliases (Justice [ presumably William as 1st name ] and George Wood) ..... could this 'George Wood' have been the father of George Wood who was shot in 1784?.
Hope so
Joe
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....fe/Aliases.htm
which gives a totally different value the term and where I need assistance.
I have in my ancestors a George Wood,a smuggler, who was shot dead in 1784 at Hastings and have never found his birth nor his father.
However the search goes on and what I have found with an incident at Hastings and from the book called 'The Smugglers' by Lord Teignmouth and Charles G Harper page 137 there is this;
'There was an indictment in the Admiralty Court on 30th October 1769 of 13 men for piracy and murder on the high seas; namely,Thomas Phillips,elder and younger, William and George Phillips,
Mark Chatfield,Robert Webb,Thomas and Samuel Ailsbury,James and Richard Hyde,William Geary alias Justice alias George Wood'.
Of this group Thomas Ailsbury,William Geary,William Wenham and Richard Hyde were hanged at Execution Dock November 27th.
My question is with William Geary who had two aliases (Justice [ presumably William as 1st name ] and George Wood) ..... could this 'George Wood' have been the father of George Wood who was shot in 1784?.
Hope so
Joe
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