Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
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….
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…
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…