When Agnes Hood was born on 6 December 1879, in Huron, Ontario, Canada, her father, William Hood, was 45 and her mother, Margaret Cochrane, was 36. She married Archibald Gemmill Penman on 18 March 1902, in Huron, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Red Deer, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1911 and Alberta, Canada in 1916. She died on 4 March 1958, in Howick Township, Huron, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 78, and was buried in Howick Township, Huron, Ontario, Canada.
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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English hod, hood, hodde ‘hood’, either for someone who wore a hood (like the medieval folk hero Robin Hood) or who made and sold hoods. In Kent and Sussex the name may sometimes have been confused with Hoad .
English: from the Middle English personal name Hod(e), a variant of Ode or Odd with prosthetic H-; see Ott and Oates and compare Hodson 2.
English and Scottish: variant of Hudd, from the Middle English personal name Hudde, Hutte, which could represent Old English Hud(d)a or its ancient Germanic equivalent Hud(d)o, but is more likely from Anglo-Norman French Hud(de), a pet form of Hugh.
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