Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
In 1889, 20-year-old William Hoodless boarded the SS Buffalo in the port of Hull bound for New York. The manifest tells us he was “in charge of horses” by profession a groom, so he may have worked his passage across the Atlantic in that capacity. William was born June 1868 on a farm in the…
My previous post about Gerrit Lansing Hoodless mentions him recorded in the 1855 New York State Census. He was living with his wife in the house of a W J Hoodless, in Brooklyn, and I had no definite family connection at the time for them. I have since found an obituary for his mother, clipped…