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….
United States Federal Census taking began in 1790 a few years after the American Revolutionary War. The earliest record of a Hoodless to appear in a US Census is one Adaline Hoodless, a woman in her thirties with two teenage males in the residence aged between 15 and 20 years old. She resides in Portsmouth,…