Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
There is a book published by the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in 1934 which reproduces a survey undertaken in 1603 by Lord William Howard, of his recently acquired lands known as the Barony of Gilsland. Gilsland covered an area to the east of Carlisle, meeting the border with Northumberland, and at times…
While in the midst of researching the Canadian emigration of the Hoodlesses via John Hoodless and his family, I discovered that his older sister Sarah has a memorial in St Mary’s Church, Wigton stating that she died in Canada on 30th August 1856 at the age of 82. Sarah married Thomas Jacques who died after…
I’m not sure who originally shared this photograph on Ancestry but I would like to thank them, because it is supposedly a picture of John Hoodless, purportedly known by the nickname “Squire”. Born in August 1786 in Sebergham, Cumberland, he is the sixth child of William Hoodless and Isabella Atkinson of the fascinating Parkhead/Caldbeck branch….
William Hoodless (1776-1855) saw three of his sons join the merchant navy and become master mariners, masters of their own vessels they sailed to far flung destinations in the service of trade and commerce for the British Empire. William the eldest (1804-1876) made a good living for himself and retired in comfort, although childless. Robert…
William Hoodless land surveyor (1776-1855) had four sons. Three of those sons chose to take up the high risk occupation of merchant seaman and travelled the world, sailing the high seas, shipping a variety of cargo from ports around the world. No doubt they were raised to be ambitious, improve their prospects and go out…
This is the face of the man who saw something in William Hoodless (1776-1855) and enable him to transition from the rural grind of a life of farming to the professional status of a man about town. John Christian Curwen was born John Christian on 12 July 1756 to John Christian of Ewanrigg and Jane…
William is baptised on 10th December 1776 at St Kentigern Church, Caldbeck not far from the family home at Parkhead. Eldest son of William Hoodless and Isabella Atkinson. William marries local girl Elizabeth Gill at Castle Sowerby on 20th April 1800. We know they relocate to Workington shortly after the marriage because their children, starting…
In June 1837 William Hoodless (1776-1855), the eldest son of William Hoodless and Isabella Atkinson, advertises the sale of the Parkhead property and we can glean quite a lot of information from this small newspaper item. As background information we know that his father William had died in 1817 and his mother Isabella had died…
We met William Hoodless (1679-1759) and his wife Jane the earliest or “founding” members (that I can find) of the Parkhead Hoodlesses who are DNA linked to the Wetheral Hoodlesses somehow way back. I share 10 cM of DNA with a descendant of the Parkhead branch and for now, I am assuming it is via…
Elizabeth was the eldest of Archibald Hoodless II and Esther Atkinson’s children. Born in Wetheral, Cumberland, she went to live with her widowed Grandfather (Archibald Hoodless Snr) and her Aunt Jane from the age twelve. She was still living with them in 1871 when Archibald ran the Wetheral grocers shop. So it seems to have…