Simon Hood - Simon Hood > Hoot of Norristown: Parents? Sibs??

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68849406/simon-hood

Lived at 217 Penn St. in Norristown in the 1880 Census with his second wife, Catherine. Occupation was laborer.
by 1884 a (brother?) name John was living there as well

In the 1870 Census he appears with his wife Magdalena. His occupation is Carter.

In the 1850 Census he appears with his wife Magdalena. His occupation is shoemaker. Place of birth shown is Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

research Hoods of Montgomery county

• 1820s Peter and John Hoot (sic) in Gwynedd
  • Henry Hoot 26-44 in Gwynedd
    • w/one male under 10
• 1830s Peter Hood in Gwynedd
• [https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/cen_1840/? name=_Hood&count=50&name_x=p_1&residence=_Montgomery-Pennsylvania-USA_2087&residence_x=_1-0 1840s]
• 1850's Simon in Norristown

He may be a son of Frederick Hood or Henry Hood and his wife Ann née Greaver who married in Skippack in Aug 1804

Then again, he may be a twin of John Bilger Hood, for in 1884 a John Hood (bricklayer was living with Simon at 217 W. Penn St, Norristown (or so reads the 1884 Norristown directory )
BIRTH 12 OCT 1810 • Upper Salford, Montgomery County
DEATH 22 AUG 1895 • Sellersville, Rockhill, Bucks County

investigation of all the above leads one to predict that Simon is a descendant of Lieut. Johan Philip Hoot
~• not that Simon's daughter married a Bean whose mother, Mary Weber is in the same family of Webers that married in the Hood/Hoot/Huth line... See Abraham Weber