Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
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…
I have debated with myself how much effort to put into researching the female Hoodlesses for this study. The majority of them marry, take on a new surname and all their offspring are then born with a name that is not Hoodless. Are their descendants relevant to this study? The protocol for a One Name…
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…