Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
It’s Anzac Day here in New Zealand as I write. And to honour those who served, I have been researching some Hoodless forebears, or in this case a Huddless, who served in World War II. What interested me about Ronald Huddless and his WWII experience was the fact that he was a Prisoner of War…
John Hoodless, eldest son of Joseph Hoodless, married Adelaide Sophia Hunter on 14th September 1881 after they met through mutual friends. John was clearly an astute businessman, building J Hoodless Furniture & Co, Ltd into a successful venture in Hamilton, Ontario. By the late 1880’s they were building a manion on Main Street in Hamilton,…
1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia The first Canadian Census was conducted by territory, since Canada was not officially a united country until 1867. In the 1851 census collection, which was the first completed, a Hoodless household is recorded in Hamilton, Ontario. Robert Hoodless 24, a chair maker and…
1st conviction – 3 months
2nd conviction – 3 months
3rd conviction – 3 months
4th conviction – 6 months
While researching this one name study I come across many variant spellings that don’t quite meet my criteria, (hodl, hudel, hudes, hodel etc.) and most of which relate to folks with European roots – such as German, Dutch, Hungarian and so I don’t include them as part of my study . However I recently came…
John Hoodless (1834-1912) was a cousin of Gerrit L Hoodless and William J Hoodless, both of whom immigrated to the United States in the mid 1800s and whose experiences I’ve documented on the site previously. John’s father, James Raithby Hoodless was brother to Gerrit and William’s father, Captain William Hoodless, who arrived in New York,…
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…
On 19th March 1833 a ship called the John Wells sailing from Liverpool, England, arrived off the New Jersey seaboard, sailed up the Delaware River and arrived at the port of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, the gateway to the state of Pennsylvania – the Keystone State. Two passenger cards tell the story of Susan Hoodless, aged 32…
There is a book published by the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in 1934 which reproduces a survey undertaken in 1603 by Lord William Howard, of his recently acquired lands known as the Barony of Gilsland. Gilsland covered an area to the east of Carlisle, meeting the border with Northumberland, and at times…