Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
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…
On 28th October 1858 Ellen Wells of Tattershall, Lincolnshire married James Andrew Raithby Hoodless of North Somercotes, Lincolnshire. James was the cousin of Gerrit L Hoodless, their father’s were brothers. The newly wed couple lived the ag-lab rural life in North Somercotes, on the Lincolnshire coast, a little south of the Humber estuary. On the…
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,…
Elizabeth was the eldest of Archibald Hoodless II and Esther Atkinson’s children. Born in Wetheral, Cumberland, she went to live with her widowed Grandfather (Archibald Hoodless Snr) and her Aunt Jane from the age twelve. She was still living with them in 1871 when Archibald ran the Wetheral grocers shop. So it seems to have…