Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
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….