Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
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…
Archibald Hoodless second of his name in the Wetheral branch was baptised here at St Mary’s Church, Rockliffe, a rural village on the banks of the River Eden close to the estuary where the river enters the Solway Firth. Timeline Archibald was baptised on 7th October 1827 in the small village of Rockcliffe, near Carlisle…
Timeline William Hoodless was baptised on 16th May 1819 in Wetheral, Cumberland, the oldest child of Archibald Hoodless and Elizabeth Clark. In 1841 he appears in the Census living with his parents in Wetheral and his three brothers, Archibald, Jacob and James. They are living a rural farming life. In 1851 he is still single…
In the course of researching my Cumbrian Hoodless branch for this site, I became aware of an entirely separate Hoodless branch in Cumbria living alongside my known branch, the Wetheral branch. Frustratingly, I have been unable to connect the two branches even going back as far as I can into the late 1600’s. However, I…