Researching the origins and genealogy of the surname worldwide
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…
While in the midst of researching the Canadian emigration of the Hoodlesses via John Hoodless and his family, I discovered that his older sister Sarah has a memorial in St Mary’s Church, Wigton stating that she died in Canada on 30th August 1856 at the age of 82. Sarah married Thomas Jacques who died after…
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….
In June 1837 William Hoodless (1776-1855), the eldest son of William Hoodless and Isabella Atkinson, advertises the sale of the Parkhead property and we can glean quite a lot of information from this small newspaper item. As background information we know that his father William had died in 1817 and his mother Isabella had died…
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…