Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
I had known for many years, before writing the post on my ancestor Harold Hoodless, that he had died during WWI. He was remembered within our family as the person who had written from France to suggest the name “Louvain” for a girl when he knew that his niece (my great grandmother) Mary Jane was…
This is the tree of Thomas Hoodless, fifth child of William Hudlass and Jane Harrington Timeline 1816 Thomas Hoodless was born and was baptised at High Head on 19th May 1816 Things go dark with Thomas for a while in the records and I have been unable to locate him on either the 1841 or…
Timeline 1829 -1887 Jacob is born in Wetheral in 1829, the fifth child of Archibald Hoodless and Elizabeth Clark and his baptism takes place at Rockliffe in Cumberland, England. Rockliffe is a small village north west of Carlisle close to where the Esk and Eden Rivers converge and enter the sea. This places the family…
If you zoom in to the tree of William Hoodless descendants you will notice the lone inconspicuous name tag of his eighth child, Harold, born on 29th July 1893 in the mining village of Ellenborough near Maryport. He did not marry and he left no children but his short life was remarkable and brave. In…
William Hoodless is my 3 x Great Grandfather and probably the reason why I have had a life long interest in genealogy and ultimately have undertaken this one name research. It was he who inherited and kept up the documentation of births, marriages and deaths in the family bible which he inherited from his mother…
John Hoodless is my 4 x Great Grandfather. He was the sixth child of William and Jane and his baptism took place on 12th June 1819 at High Head in Cumberland (Cumbria). “High Head” was used interchangeably as the name of Ivegill, a small hamlet close to the ancient castle of High Head. High Head…
On the 4th February 1626 the last will and testament of Richard Hoodlesse, yeoman of Sundridge, Kent, went through probate at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. The old form of written English is tricky to read in parts but my amateur translation into modern terms reveals a few facts about Richard’s net worth on his…
Timeline Barnard was born the third son to William and Margaret in Wetheral and was baptised there on 11th May 1800. On 8th November 1828 there is a marriage record for Barnard Hoodless of Wetheral and Agnes Atkinson of Kirkby Stephen marrying at Gretna Green in Scotland. A second marriage takes place on 30th December…
Timeline Archibald Hoodless was baptised on 14th April 1793 at Wetheral, the second child of William and Margaret. 2nd November 1817 he marries Elizabeth Clark of Cotehill, Cumberland. Their first child William is baptised 16th May 1819 at Wetheral. 29th July 1821 a daughter is baptized Margaret. Her name is spelled Hadless on the document….
Timeline Born at Wetheral and baptised on 11th December 1791 the eldest of William and Margaret’s children. Marries Jane Harrington at St Mary’s Carlisle on 12 November 1807. William is 16 years old and Jane has just turned 20 years old. They have 8 children whose births are recorded between 1808 and 1827 at Ivegill,…