to be able to spend the bitcoin balance of your address (1HgL....) you need any of these things which you should have made a back up of:
1) no matter where you made the wallet, you need the private key
2) if the address was created on blockchain.info you need your identifier and password and possibly 2FA to open your account there and spend it. read this:
https://blockchain.info/wallet/security3) if the address was created using Electrum you need either the wallet.dat file backup or your seed to restore your wallet.
~ I have a list of words (17 in fact) and have also tried 12 as the seed when restoring the account but to no avail, I even tried an older version. ~
you don't need an older version, the new version still supports old seeds.
if you have created the wallet in 2014 it must be a 12 word seed. and you can not put random words, you need the exact number of words with the correct sequence.