Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
Named after his paternal grandfather Thomas Hoodless and father James Hoodless, Thomas James Hoodless served in 127th Battery of the Royal Field Artillery during WWI. Along with 125th and 126th Batteries, they made up the 29th Brigade and were originally attached to the 4th Division Infantry but left them to join the 3rd Division in…
Below is the tree of James Hoodless, which contains a story of struggle, determination and sacrifice, for all that it is compact and ends so soon. His legacy and that of his wife and family are honoured and remembered here. Timeline James Hoodless is born April 1859 at Dalston, near Carlisle to Thomas and Jane…
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…