Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
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…