Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
It’s Anzac Day here in New Zealand as I write. And to honour those who served, I have been researching some Hoodless forebears, or in this case a Huddless, who served in World War II. What interested me about Ronald Huddless and his WWII experience was the fact that he was a Prisoner of War…
1st conviction – 3 months
2nd conviction – 3 months
3rd conviction – 3 months
4th conviction – 6 months
In 1889, 20-year-old William Hoodless boarded the SS Buffalo in the port of Hull bound for New York. The manifest tells us he was “in charge of horses” by profession a groom, so he may have worked his passage across the Atlantic in that capacity. William was born June 1868 on a farm in the…
My previous post about Gerrit Lansing Hoodless mentions him recorded in the 1855 New York State Census. He was living with his wife in the house of a W J Hoodless, in Brooklyn, and I had no definite family connection at the time for them. I have since found an obituary for his mother, clipped…
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…
On 28th October 1858 Ellen Wells of Tattershall, Lincolnshire married James Andrew Raithby Hoodless of North Somercotes, Lincolnshire. James was the cousin of Gerrit L Hoodless, their father’s were brothers. The newly wed couple lived the ag-lab rural life in North Somercotes, on the Lincolnshire coast, a little south of the Humber estuary. On the…
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….
I’ve long understood that the county of Lincolnshire on the east coast of England was a hotbed of Hoodlesses from my searches through documents and registers. However, I had no idea where to start researching them since there was no obvious connection to my Cumbrian Hoodless clan. From the review of the 1841 England Census…
Searching the 1841 England Census for occurrences of the “Hoodless” name reveals 186 results with a variety of similar spellings (Hoodlass, Headless, Hudlass, Hadless, Hoadless). Across England, these 186 individuals are found in only nine counties. By far the highest concentration is in Lincolnshire, followed by Cumberland. This indicates that the oldest Hoodless roots lie…