THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 41, December 2012 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772
Hollows in Uniform I NSI DE T H I S I SSUE Family history researchers must thank this custom of photographing service men and women in their uniforms Hollow Spotting Births still outnumbering deaths. often soon before they embark on the serious business of Amongst the deaths is another a particular conflict. I am always struck by the Hollow in uniform. youthfulness of them. Page 2 The photo at right is that of Kenneth Rogerley Hollow A Hollow Royal (1923 – 1997) he is descended from John Hollow and Connection Chesen Thomas who married in Zennor in 1695. His son Be warned, it is a remote connection. Mike provided the photograph and says “He served in Page 3 the Eighth Army in the Italy campaign and elsewhere, Records, they do not tell but I don’t have all the details”. The Eighth Army was a all of the story. British & Commonwealth Force, formed in North Africa Family historians do concentrate during 1941, where it fought and defeated the Afrika on records for births, marriages Korps. After the campaign in North Africa, the Eighth Army moved to Sicily and Italy. Later and deaths but often we need the some Units also served in Northern Europe. Mike hopes to get his father’s war records from insights and knowledge of family the ministry of defence and flesh out his father’s WWII experience. members or acquaintances to flesh out the full story. The two images below are from Adrian Hollow and they are his grandfather and father. His Page 4 A Tale of Two Graves Odd Spot of last issue presented the puzzle of one man two graves. Her is the solution but not really an explanation. Page 6 A Murder in Kent A shocking murder in 1932 furthers the story of the Hollow family who kept the name Tremayne in their line for generations. Page 7 Family Life in St Clement Newspaper reports give a glimpse of a tough life as a mason in St Clement in the 1840s and 50s.
Page 9 grandfather, on the right was Andrew Hollow (1893 – 1958), son of Richard Whitford Hollow A Reputation Restored and Emily Berriman of Hayle. This family of Hollows is descended from William Hollow and Horace Hector Hollow/Cornwall Uslea Cock who married in Zennor in 1695. Andrew Hollow was a Corporal in the Royal was thought to be a NZ army Berkshire Regiment during WWI. he was awarded defaulter in WWI. Another the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and was example of jumping to the wrong badly wounded. He did get a disability pension conclusions with records. Page 10 because of his injuries. The DCM entitled him to
an extra 6d a day for as long as the disablement pension continued. This increased and by 1956 it amounted to an extra 6/11 a week. The citation for his DCM at left. On the left above is his son and Adrian’s father Andrew Raymond Hollow. Known as Ray he served in the British Merchant Navy as a 1st Radio Officer during WWII.
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Hollow Spotting Nikita. Mother-in-law to Tony, Craig (dec.), Sofie and Phai. Published in: Herald Sun Wednesday, 7 March 2012 Births HOLLOW Fanny (nee Vaughan) On Happy New Year Thursday 10th May 2012, peacefully at I omitted this Penmeneth House Care Home, Hayle, arrival in the last Fanny, aged 99 years of Hayle Wife of the newsletter for late Donald Hollow, mother of Gordon and which I apologise. Elizabeth and grandmother of Timothy and From Christopher Jamie. Funeral service at Hayle Methodist Hollow Church on Monday 21st May at 2.00 p.m. announcing the Followed by interment. arrival of his nephew. Published in the Western Morning News on 18th Christopher said, May 2012 “Sacha Luke HOLLOW The funeral service will take Turpin and was place on Thursday 6th December, 2012, in born at 8.40 in Treswithian Downs Crematorium, Camborne, Chelsea and Westminster hospital on New Years Eve. He at 11.00am, of Elizabeth Grace Hollow, who passed away weighed 9 lb and is 21 inches tall but his foot size brings the peacefully on Wednesday 21st November at Treliske Hospital words Big Foot to mind”. aged 88 years and her beloved husband George Denis Another Nephew Hollow, who passed away peacefully on Wednesday 28th I also had November at Camborne/Redruth Community the pleasure Hospital, aged 88 years of Hayle. of a new Published in the Western Morning News on 1st nephew, December 2012 Elijah Zane Death and an addition to Hollows in Edwards Uniform arrived on September HOLLOW, Neil S, born Mar 4, 1930, died 13, 2012, he June 30, 2012, served with the US Navy in the is the son of Korean War. Neil is buried at The Tahoma Ben and National Cemetery at Kent, King county, Tegan Washington, USA. Edwards, Found at http://www.findagrave.com Ben is the son of my sister Carol who is a very proud grandmother. Spotted by Di Wheeler in the Herald-Sun (Melbourne)- Deaths Ellen Hollow was mentioned last newsletter when the births HOLLOW. - Marjorie Joyce. 1926 - 2012 Passed peacefully of two grandchildren where listed. This time she pops up in a on 4.3.12 Loving wife of Cal (dec.). Mother of Jennifer (dec.), completely different context. ♣ David (dec.), Cathy, Barry, Janet and Geoffrey. Grandmother to Mitchell, Brooke, Simone, Joshua, Anastasia and
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Odd Spot - A Hollow Royal Connection Some time ago Chris Hollow, a Hollow researcher in England, told me of a Hollow Hello There (Holla) family that married into an illustrious line. One of Chris’s traits as a family The DNA project is moving but history researcher is that he follows female lines as well as male lines. We all should do ever so slowly. Three tests have this but it does create issues for me when I am entering information into my one- been signed up for but so far no name database. When do I stop following a line when it no longer contains a Hollow? results to report. The tests actually come from each of the largest I confront this all the time but Chris takes the line where it leads him and in this case it Zennor Hollow families. The best led him to discover the illustrious links, that is, a royal connection. scenario would be if they proved to be the same, that is, they all share Bridget Holla (1730 – 1790) married Roger Watts in 1756 in Phillack, Cornwall. They the same ancestor. If not, all is not proceeded to have six children, and one son, George (1770 – 1843), married Mary lost as further Hollow tests may Pryor (1770 – 1858) in 1793 at Phillack. Chris believes that Mary Pryor’s father was show that the lines have been Arundell Pryor (1727 – 1803). Now the name Arundell is a famous one in Cornwall. broken at some point or that the two families are unrelated. Put “Arundell of Cornwall” into Google and you are given many references that start with things like “The Arundells are amongst the few Cornish families of Norman origin, and there Suffice to say we need more volunteers for testing. I have had are still fewer of French extraction who have for so long a period as at least five or six centuries been, several people express interest. I like them, traceable in that county”. A.L. Rowse, in his book Tudor Cornwall, described the hope you go on and purchase the Arundells as 'the richest and best-beloved of all Cornish families' in Tudor times. testing kit. Currently tests at Family Tree DNA are cheaper up until Chris found that Arundell Pryor descended from this Norman family, again by December 31st . following the female line. Arundell Pryor’s Hopefully I can give a fuller report mother was a Margaret Arundell (1704 – of the testing done in the next 1783) who had married a Richard Pryor Hollow Log. (1703 – 1757). Margaret Arundell’s father was John Arundall of Truthall (1670 -1716). Odd Spot Chris has followed back many generations See to right. of this Arundell family. This included some quite famous Arundells. Ralph Arundell was sheriff of Cornwall in 1259-60 and John The Hollow Family Arundell became Bishop of Exeter in 1502. Website Sir John Arundell fought for Henry VI at The website is updated on a the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 and his monthly basis now. In the Hollow grandson was one of those appointed to put Log, details of families are often down the Cornish rebellion of 1497-8. Two quite brief. You can use the Hollow Arundells served as stewards of the Duchy Database section on the website to get further details of individuals and of Cornwall in the sixteenth century and families. Arundells led Royalist troops during the Portrait in Westminster http://freepages.genealogy.rootswe Civil War. Abbey, thought to be of b.ancestry.com/~chollow/ Edward I But despite this great history it was not the Image from wikipedia.org Arundells who were directly connected the throne. John Arundell of Tolverne (11 Contact generations back from Mary Pryor) married Matilda Courtenay. Matilda was part of Colin Hollow edits the Hollow Log, the de Courtney family, an old French family, who came to England in the 1200s after comments and contributions are always welcome. quarrelling with Louis VII of France. From Matilda Courtney Chris followed through four generations of the de Courtneys and then following two more female lines Write to 2 Keeley Lane, Princes Hill, 3054, Victoria, Australia. e-mail: bought him to Lady Elizabeth Plantagenet, daughter of Edward I King of England. So [email protected] there is the connection, from Bridget Holla to Edward I, often called Edward Hollow and variants Holla, Hollah, Longshanks because he was a tall person. He ruled England from 1272 to 1307. Hallo and Hallow are registered with The Guild of One-Name Studies. The Chris goes to great pains to point out that he has not researched all these family Guild member is Colin Hollow connections himself but has relied on published family histories to find this (Member No. 3056). information. Chris is working at validating the family tree, which is a huge ©No material in this newsletter should undertaking. Family history does take you on unusual journeys. be produced without permission.
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Records do not tell all of the from this statement you maybe a little confused but suffice to say my grandmother Eileen Florence was Elizabeth's niece. She story formed a family with the foster children who resided in the Recently I had an email from Annette Phillips, a Hollow house.” descendant, giving me additional information on her Hollow To pursue this further I decided to try and find who Joseph family. Her family is Mark Hollow and Elizabeth nee Davies Charles Clow was. who arrived in Victoria in 1849 and settled in the Melbourne I searched through the Victorian BDMs and found he is bay side suburb of Brighton. When I replied to Annette I told her of a little irregularity that I had found intriguing in her recorded as the father of two other children, Queenie Gwendoline Clow born in 1875 and Ada Frances Clow born family. The inclusion of the name CLOW for the last born in 1877, both born at Berlin Victoria, also known as Rheola, a children of Edwin Davies Hollow and Mary Collins. Edwin was a son of Mark and Elizabeth and Annette’s g grandfather. small gold mining town in central Victoria about 200 km from Melbourne. The mother of these children was Ellen Watson. Edwin and Mary had eleven children; the last two were Francis Keep in mind that his other “child” was Harry Hector Clow Charles Clow Hollow (born 1889) and Hector Harry Clow Hollow (b 1894). born 1894 Bairnsdale. Bairnsdale is the other eastern end of the state of Victoria, 300 kms from Melbourne. Joseph Charles I had looked amongst the ancestors of both Edwin and Mary Clow also appears in the marriage for the name Clow and did not find it. indexes in 1902 marrying Louisa The birth registration of Francis has his Maguire. Then nothing, no death father as Edwin Hollow and his mother “I wouldn't be surprised if for Joseph, there is a death of an as Mary Hollow, Hector’s registration in fact they could have Ellen Watson in Melbourne has his father as ‘Unknown’ and his been foster children (Collingwood) in 1901. Did he mother Mary Hollow. At some time I adopted and thus the marry again after the loss of his looked under the name Clow and confusion.” wife/partner Ellen Watson? Ellen found another birth registration for Watson’s mother only is recorded, a Hector Harry Clow in 1894 birth registered in Bairnsdale. It Jane Watson. has the number 8507R, the same registration number as the Hector Harry Hollow record. This registration however My next search was in the English records. I found Joseph Charles Clow was born in Surrey in 1845 to Joseph Clow and includes the fathers name, Joseph Charles Clow. Frances Dingle. I found he married in 1868, not to Ellen 1894 Hector Harry CLOW father Joseph Charles, mother Mary Watson but to either Eleanor Mary Carter or Caroline Hollow Bairnsdale. 8507R. Elizabeth Graves. So not Ellen Watson! I give two names The ‘R’ signifies the record has been adjusted in some way because at that time each page on the marriage registry from the original. contained four names, that is, two marriages. The pairings are not shown, usually the next census record will show who Alarm bells should have been ringing but they weren’t, I had married who. In this case I have been unable to find Joseph not thought any more about it. Hector had gone on to marry Clow or the other male from that page on the 1871 census. I and have a son, but when Hector died in 1957 his father was did find Joseph Charles on the 1851 and 1861 censuses living given as Francis Clow, a new name. I had put the conundrum with his parents Joseph and Frances in Marylebone, London. on the backburner Joseph Charles Clow does however appear in the 1911 census. Annette’s reply made me relook at the family. He is living in Kensington, London with his son Charles Dear Colin Francis Clow aged 22 whose birthplace is given as Victoria, Australia. In Victoria there is no birth record for a Charles “Hector, Joseph and Francis are a little baffling. Francis Clow around 1889 but there is the birth of our Francis I looked twice and then thought that back in those days who was Charles Clow Hollow in 1889. I am pretty sure I have the right dad and who was brother was a mix up on the day especially people here, Clow is not a common name and there appears to with deaths. be only one Joseph Charles Clow in the records. I have found no death for Francis Charles Clow Hollow in Australia. I wouldn't be surprised if in fact they could have been foster children adopted and thus the confusion. Charles Francis Clow married Ethel M Firminger in Kensington, London in 1915 and sadly died only two years My great grandparents Elizabeth Ethel and Harry James Hibbs later in Willesden, Middlesex in 1917 aged 28. What would the were foster parents as nanna could not have children. I know death certificate tell us about his parents? Well not much
The Hollow Log, Issue 41 Page 4 actually, the British death certificates, unlike Aussie certificates, The practice of fostering and or adopting children continued do not include parents’ names or even the spouse’s name. in this family. Annette’s family knowledge is that Edwin and Mary’s daughter Elizabeth Ethel Hollow could not have So it seems that Francis Charles Clow Hollow and Hector children and fostered/adopted two girls. One of the girls was Harry Clow Hollow were the offspring of Joseph Charles thought to be Elizabeth’s neice born out of wedlock to one of Clow and possibly Ellen Watson. They were adopted/fostered Ethel’s sisters. She only had one spinster sister, Elsie May by Edwin and Mary Hollow. Adoptions were not legally Hollow. When Elsie May died in 1938 her death notice reads: recognised in Victoria until 1929 so strictly speaking the Hollows would have fostered these two boys. What about HOLLOW-On the 7th August. 1938, at her residence. 40 Nicholson street. Footscray, Elsie May. dearly loved daughter of their sisters? Well they were older, Queenie was having her the late Mary and Edwin Hollow, loving sister of Albert, first child in 1894 when Hector was born. Ada would have Robert, Elizabeth (Mrs. Hibbs). Arthur. Jinnie, Harry, loving been 17. They were old enough to fend for themselves or at aunt of Phillis, and foster mother of little Raymond Hansen and least not to require fostering. Robert Loaks?. aged 56 years. The Argus (Melbourne) Monday 8 August 1938 Both of the boys did still use their surname Clow. Francis lived with it in England. Hector used his later in life. His death in Elsie May Hollow was a foster mother and Annette believes 1957 is registered both as a she was the mother of one of Hollow and a Clow, when Descendants of Jane Watson his wife died in 1973 her the girls brought up by her sister surname is registered as Jane Watson, b. circa 1821 Hollow Clow. +David Melville Collins, b. 1821, m. 19 Jun 1846 at Paisley, Renfrew, SCO Elizabeth. ├── Mary Collins, b. 1854 at Greenoch, Renfrew, SCO, d.1937 at Footscray, VIC Edwin and Mary did treat +Edwin Davies Hollow, b. 1843 at St Buryan, CON, m. 1873 at Carlton, VIC, d. There is a family the two Clows as their 1925 at Footscray, VIC ├── Florence Evaline J Hollow, b. 1874 d. 1875 own. When Edwin died in ├── Albert Edwin Watson Hollow, b. 1875, d 1951 1925 this death notice was ├── Robert James Watson Hollow, b. 1876, d. 1954 at published in the paper. ├── Isabella Emily Hollow, b. 1878, d. 1878 HOLLOW.-On the 23rd ├── Elizabeth Ethel Hollow, b. 1879, d. 1959 October, 1925 at the │ +Henry James Hibbs, b. 1873, m. 1903 d. 1955 residence of his son-in-law, │ ├── Eileen Florence Hibbs, b. 1911, d 1992 Elizabeth Hibbs nee Hollow, Foster mother Mr. H. Hibbs, 41 Droop │ └── Hazel Irene Hibbs, b. 1913, d. 2010 street, Footscray, Edwin, of Eileen (her niece) and Hazel. ├── Arthur Oscar Hollow, b. 1880, d. 1953 the dearly be-loved husband of Mary Hollow, loving ├── Elsie May Hollow, b. 1882, d. 1938 father of Albert, Robert, ├── William Watson Hollow, b. 1883, d. 1884 The two boys Francis Mrs. H. Hibbs, Arthur, ├── Jennie Watson Hollow, b. 1885, d. 1945 Charles and Hector Harry Elsie, Mrs. W. Keogh, ├── Francis Charles Clow Hollow, b. 1889, d. 1917 were fathered by Joseph Francis, and Hector, aged │ +Ethel M Firminger, b. 1884 , m. 1915 Charles Clow, their mother was possibly Ellen 83 years. └── Hector Harry Clow Hollow, b. 1894, d. 1957 Watson. The Argus Saturday 24 +Catherine May Williams, b. 1895, m. 1919, d. 1973 October 1925 └── Hector William Alfred Hollow, b. 1920, d. 1984
Francis is mentioned as if he was living, perhaps the tradition of fostering it seems and maybe at times involving family did not know of his demise in England. the wider family. The other finding is that birth, marriage and It seems rather generous for a large family to adopt two more death records sometimes hide the actual story and that to find children into their family. What could motivate them to do the story a little family knowledge is required. This all this? My theory, not proven, is that the mother of the boys happened in an era where very different attitudes to adoptions Ellen Watson may have been a relative of Mary Hollow. She and unmarried mothers prevailed. Along with these different was Mary Collins before she married but her mother’s maiden attitudes the occurrence of adoptions was obscured in the name was Jane Watson. Mary and Edwin included Watson in public records. four of their children’s names. Jane Watson had five My thanks to Annette for sharing her family story and daughters; did she have another before she married? Did she photographs with The Hollow Log. ♣ have a sister Ellen? My research to date has not found a link.
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Who are the other people? William Howard Hollow’s wife Charlotte had a sister, Mary A Tale of Two Graves Alice who married a Frederick Carter in 1897. It is Charlotte’s Odd spot in the last Log I sister, buried in 1909 who was the spoke of the two graves of original inhabitant of the grave. Next William Howard Hollow. One was Violet Edith Page. The Hollows in Boroondara Cemetery, Kew adopted three children, the first one they in Melbourne, Victoria Australia called Nancy, and she died in 1921. Her and one in The Melbourne General Cemetery. The Funeral death notice is shown below. There is no notice is from the Melbourne paper The Argus of Tuesday death registered for Nancy Hollow, there is one for Nancy
23rd July 1946. I now have photographs of each Grave and invite you to pick which HOLLOW.-On the 7th May, Nancy, Page. The fact that Violet is in this grave and one he is actually buried in before you read the dearly beloved and only daughter of died at age four suggests it is Nancy Hollow on. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hollow of 76 Park and that her official name was Violet Edith street West. Brunswick aged 4 years 9 Page and she was the second person interred The Grave above left is at the Melbourne months. here. Then William Howard Hollow was General Cemetery and buried within it is "Adieu, sweet flower, nipped in the bud." th Charlotte Margaret Hollow, buried 21 May The Argus Monday 9 May 1921 interred here 24 June 1946 probably leaving 1953, aged 73, wife of William Howard no room for Charlotte. When she died in Hollow. There are no other burials within the Grave according 1953 another grave had to be found. For some reason the to the administrators of the cemetery. The family chose the Melbourne General rather inscription on the tombstone is shown than another grave within the Kew at right, you certainly expect from the cemetery. They also spent money on the inscription that William wass there. Melbourne General cemetery grave, it is The grave above right is at the in a prominent position and it is build of Boroondarra Cemetery Kew and buried grey granite. Certainly if you read the within it are William Howard Hollow, inscription on Charlotte’s grave I think I buried 24 Jul. 1946, aged 59, Mary Alice can excused for thinking that William Carter buried 20 Nov. 1909 and Violet was in this grave too. ♣ Edith Page, buried 9 May 1921 aged 4. Colin Hollow
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A Murder in Kent Jane had five children, four boys and a girl. All seem to have This story was brought to my attention by Cassay Walton in an followed their father’s footsteps into the hotel trade. In the email with a few questions, one of which was: 1911 census the three oldest boys are listed as Licensed victuallers and we know from the reports of her death their The awful murder of Jane Tremayne Swift, [and daughter and daughter Jane was married to a publican too. granddaughter'] is she nee’ Hollow daughter of William Hollow and Jane Eustice ? The murders occurred on June 13th 1932, and I was able to learn the story from Australian papers that are now online. It Cassay provided references in old papers to this story. seems it made the news across Australia and around the world. The name Tremayne immediately brought me to the family of The image here is from the Hobart Mercury, the story was William Hollow and Jane Eustice too. They used the name reported in many Australian states and in Tremayne for three of their children and many papers within each state. the name continued into the next Cassay found one of the most complete generation. James Tremayne Hollow was accounts was at The Straits Times which the subject of a story in Hollow Log 38. He is a Singapore paper. A link for this had two sisters, his youngest sister Jane report is at the end of this article. married Edward Hibbert Swift, and what Cassay suspected was correct, she was The fact that it was reported so quickly formerly a Hollow. and so widely is interesting. A couple of days later the Hobart Mercury was able Jane Tremayne Hollow was born in Lelant, to find an Australian connection, the Cornwall in 1862. The family moved to accused actually had visited Australia. A Essex in the 1870s and were listed in the reading of subsequent articles shows that there was no more to the Australian connection than that. It is not uncommon for us colonials to get excited about a remote connection such as that. The Hollow Log has given the story of two siblings in this family, there were three others, two boys Richard born 1855 and died aged six in 1861. The other boy was William born in 1859 and died in 1860 aged 14 months. The remaining sibling was Mary Tremayne Hollow born in 1858. She travelled to Australia in 1885. Her ship, 1881 the R.M.S. Liguria had sailed from census as Corn Chandlers. Jane married Plymouth on the 15 May 1885 and Edward Hibbert Swift in 1879 but they are arrived in Australia on June 24. The trip missing from the 1881 census. They are in out was not smooth; papers at the time the 1891 census with a son of 10 years old report that it she experienced extreme born in Toronto Canada. They must have heat which resulted in three passenger’s moved to Canada soon after being married deaths. The ship also experienced as their son Edward was born in Toronto in violent storms after leaving Aden. Five 1880. of the ship’s boats were lost overboard Edward Hibbert Swift had a variety of but injuries to passengers and crew were occupations according to the 1891 and averted. Mary Tremaine Hollow married subsequent censuses, commission agent, in Adelaide in January 1887 to Samuel licensed victualler and refreshment Paul Saphir. He also was English and contractor. I guess we would call him a had arrived in Adelaide on December 24 small businessman these days. Edward and 1884. Unlike Mary who travelled
The Hollow Log, Issue 41 Page 7 steerage ie below deck. Samuel Paul Hollow spent time in Canada. All Saphir travelled in the 2nd class Saloon. were associated with business. Samuel was working for the G & R The Descendants of Wills and Co who were dealers in soft goods. He went on to establish and William Hollow and manage the company’s business in Jane Eustice (The main people of this story have been Western Australia. Whether Mary and highlighted.) Samuel had known each other in England or they first met in Adelaide is William Hollow, b. 1823 at Lelant, , d. 1916 at Strood, not known. Mary life’s journey before +Jane Eustice, b. 1829 , m. 1854, d. 1910 at Adelaide is not clear. She is found in the Lelant, ├── Richard Hollow, b. 1855, d. 1861 1861 census in Cornwall but I have ├── Mary Tremayne Hollow, b. 1858, d. been unable to find her in the 1871 1952 at Penzance │ +Samuel Paul Saphir, b. c1861, m. 1887 census when she would have been 13. d. 1898 at Adelaide In the 1881 census a Mary Hollow is ├── William Hollow, b. 1859, d. 1860 ├── James Tremayne Hollow, b. 1861 at listed as a Corn Merchant in Essex. Her Lelant, d. 1920 at Penzance father and brother were also Corn │ +Eliza Marwood Vasey, b. 1864 at Stepney, d. 1952 at Penzance Merchants in Essex at that time but │ ├── Minnie Tremayne Hollow, b. were at a different address. She could c1890 Budapest, Hungary, d. c1890 │ ├── Daisy Hollow, b. 1891 Budapest, have followed Samuel to Australia. It Hungary seems to be quite adventurous for a │ └── Elsie Iolanthe Hollow, b. 1894 Budapest, Hungary woman of her age to make the trip │ +Douglas L M Thompson, m. 1914 alone. at Reigate, SUR, U.K │ └── Douglas J N Thompson, b. The Saphirs lived in Fremantle, the port 1923 at Reigate, SUR, U.K └── Jane Tremayne Hollow, b. 1862 city of Perth in W.A. In 1898 Samuel Lelant, d. 1932 at E. Ashford +Edward Hibbert Swift, b. 1861, m. 1879 died of Consumption in Adelaide. He d. 1933 had suffered from the disease for some ├── Edward William Swift, b. 1881 at Toronto, Canada, d. 1924 time. At the time of his death Mary was ├── James Tremayne Swift, b. 1886 in Fremantle selling up their house and Leyton, ESX belongings, I suppose in preparation to │ +Mary Anne Rowe, m. 1904 ├── John Swift, b. 1890 at Leyton, ESS, moving back to Adelaide. The ├── Jane Tremayne (Queenie) Swift, b. 1897 at Dorking, SUR, ENG, d. 1932 at E. newspaper notice of the sale shows that Ashford they lived quite comfortably as would │ +Thomas Champion Stemp, b. 1895 m. 1918 befit a manager of a large firm. Other │ ├── Peggy Tremayne Stemp, b. references in the Perth papers during 1919 at Strood, d. 1932 at E. Ashford │ └── Geoffrey Eustice Stemp, b. their time there show them employing 1923 at Strood, d. 1999 servants and selling a Parisian Phaeton └── Patrick Thomas Swift, b. 1899 at with ponies to go with it. They Dorking, SUR obviously had traded up as the sale lists a Phaeton with a pair of white carriage horses. Newspaper reports also show that The image of Jane Tremayne Swift I found on Ancestry, I am Samuel was a prominent Freemason and that Mary was a not a member so cannot acknowledge the source precisely. member of the Fremantle Lacrosse Club. There do not appear Newspaper images a via the Australian Libraries online to have been any children born to the couple. Samuel had newspaper archives at http://trove.nla.gov.au/ worked in W.A. for thirteen years before his death. Mary’s life A full account of the murder story can be found at after the death of her husband is unknown. Her death is recorded in Penzance in 1952 but precisely when she moved http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes193207 back to Cornwall is not known as yet. 03.2.70.aspx This family of Hollow’s story is certainly varied and full of My thanks go to Cassay Walton for bringing this story to my drama. The Three siblings who survived into adulthood were attention. ♣ travellers, James Tremayne Hollow and Mary Tremayne Saphir Colin Hollow nee Hollow spent time in Australia, Jane Tremayne Swift nee
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Family Life in St Clement received any thing of Celia Michell; but afterwards said she had had a little flour from her to make a pasty by Sunday, when she was to take it Two extracts from West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser in to Buck’s Head, as Michell was going to have a friend to tea. 1848 and 1854 give us an incite into this Hollow family’s lives in this period in St Clement part of Truro in Cornwall. George Paine, inspector of police, stated that, on Saturday, the 20th of November, when Jane Hollow was brought to the police station, she stated West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser January 14, 1848 Quarter that all she ever received from Celia Michell was a little flour, on Friday Sessions week, (the 12th of November) to make her a pasty. Celia Michell was charged with stealing fourteen pounds of wheaten flour, Samuel Teague re-called, stated that the prisoner Michell took him into the property of Matthew John Moyle, of Buck’s Head, near Truro; and the other room when she took her flour. Jane Hollow was indicted for receiving the above flour, knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Bennallack conducted the prosecution; Mr. Stokes the Mr. Stokes addressed the jury for the defence, and called the following defence. witnesses to character for honesty: Charles Cradock, butcher, for Jane Hollow; Thomas Cock, butcher, and John Penrose, of Richmond Hill, for Matthew John Moyle, the prosecutor, stated that he was in the habit of Celia Michell; and Johanna Penrose, of Richmond Hill, for both. keeping a quantity of wheaten flour in a store room in his dwelling house. Verdict, both Not Guilty. Celia Michell, his cook, always had access to the store, and was in the habit of going there to fetch what was wanted for the house. The only other Jane Hollow was the daughter of John Hollow part of the servant in the house at the time was a boy called Teague. Had often Redruth Hollow family. The 1854 extract is the report of the missed flour from the store, and had frequently seen Jane Hollow walking inquest into Jane’s father’s death that occurred on 27th in front of the house. On Wednesday, the 17th of November, about eleven December 1856. o’clock in the forenoon, saw Celia Michell go out of the house and give West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. Jane Hollow, under the veranda, a covered Friday, 29th December, 1854. basket. “he was a man of weak constitution, and that in his Inquests Cross-examined: Could not say that he had missed any flour on the Wednesday in opinion the quantity and quality On Wednesday, at the George and Dragon, question. Was not aware that Hollow used to of his food had not been proper Truro, on the body of John Hollow, mason, wash clothes for Michell. for him, and he died from aged 56 years, who died very suddenly on that day, and it was supposed that his death Samuel Teague, was in Mr. Moyle’s service, exhaustion, which he attributed was caused by his not having had a but did not sleep at the house. in great measure to the sufficiency of food. This, however, did not On Tuesday evening, the 16th of November, mismanagement of the family, prove to be the case, as it appeared that in went with Celia Michell from the kitchen to and not to any fault on the part of addition to what he was allowed by the the store room, and saw her take some flour the parish.” parish he had received within the last three out of a barrel and put it into a bag or cloth. weeks about 7s. 6d. a week from a mason She said it was a bit of flour for Jane Hollow to make a pasty with for called Trenerry, with whom he had been in the habit of working. Dr. Sunday. She told witness not to split; and witness replied “there is no fear Bullmore, who had been called to the deceased in the morning, but did not of my splitting.” She then left the store room, and put the flour in the see him alive, deposed that he was a man of weak constitution, and that back kitchen, in the corner of the shelf. Had often seen Jane Hollow in his opinion the quantity and quality of his food had not been proper for walking with Michell at the gate. She was there on the Friday evening, him, and he died from exhaustion, which he attributed in great measure to and said to Michell that she had brought back her clothes. Master was the mismanagement of the family, and not to any fault on the part of the away on the 16th. On the morning after the [19th?], the prisoners told parish. He also thought that no amount of nourishment would have kept witness that they had had a bit of a rig the night before; that Jane him alive in the unhealthy locality in which he resided - a place called Hollow’s young man was there whistling and they danced. Thomas's Court, in St. Clement Street; the whole of the arrangements for drainage and cleanliness in that locality being of the most defective Cross-examined: Did not tell master or mistress after he saw Celia description. This was confirmed by most of the jury present, who said the Michell take the flour, until the next morning. place was a public nuisance to the whole neighbourhood. There verdict was Caroline Teague, mother of last witness, saw Jane Hollow about three that "the deceased died from exhaustion, to be attributed in a great o’clock on Friday afternoon, the 19th of November; and told her of what measure to the unwholesome state of the atmosphere in which he resided." her son informed her about Celia Michell having taken flour; and that she And the jury expressed a hope that the defective arrangements of the (witness) hoped that whatever was between her and Celia Michell, they locality would be brought under the notice of the Truro Improvement would not entrust her son with it, fearing that, if he should be asked Commissioners, with a view to some steps being taken to remedy the evil questions, he would tell the truth. Jane Hollow at first denied having ever complained of.
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Another glimpse into the lives of this family is taken from the When I was researching this family’s story for the Hollow Log 1851 census. The house of John Hollow in Cook’s Row St I did contact the New Zealand Army Records unit. They were Clement were listed these people. unable to find any file on Horace. Hollow, John, Head, M, M, 51, Mason, Cornwall - Falmouth This was the state of my knowledge when I put the family Hollow, Sally, Wife, M, F, 49, Wife, Cornwall - Kenwyn story together for Hollow Logs Hollow, Sarah, Dau, -, F, 15 Cornwall - Kenwyn Hollow, Mathew, Son, -, M, 13, Scholar, Cornwall - Kenwyn More NZ paper archives are being added continuously to the Parnell, John, Sonlaw, M, M, 25, Miner Cornwall - Perran Papers Past website and recently I was alerted to a news item Parnell, Jane, Wife, M, F, 27, Wife, Cornwall - Truro Parnell, Frances, Dau, -, F, 2, Cornwall - Truro from The Manawatu Standard of 20 August 1910. Parnell, Mary, Dau, -, F, 4m, Cornwall - Truro Miners, Angelina, Lodger, W, F, 25, Dress Maker, Cornwall - Truro Miners, John, Lodger, -, M, 1, Cornwall - Kenwyn So in 1851 John lived with his wife, three children, the husband of one of his children, (Jane of the first report), their two children plus a widowed girl of 25 and her one year old daughter. Ten people in area described in 1854 as a unhealthy locality. In other words Horace was not even alive during World War I. We know John Hollow died in 1854 aged 56, his wife Sally Horace’s father had moved to Melbourne around 1905 and set died in 1861 aged 61, their son Matthew became a butcher but up as a singing teacher. We know his daughter Gladys was died in 1865 aged 27. Jane went on to have two more children with him, Perhaps his wife and now we know his son Horace but two of them died later in the 1850s aged 2 and 7. Daughter was also there. Gladys was listed on the electoral roll in Sarah didn’t marry, worked as a boot binder and charwoman, Victoria in 1909 along with Kistle but not his wife Ellen. she died in Truro in 1914 aged 78. Kistle was on the 1914 roll but not Gladys. in 1914 Kistle did The transcriptions of the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser return to NZ and was living with another son in Wellington. are publish in the Rootsweb Cornish lists and are available Gladys was married in NZ in 1916 and lived with her husband online at at Dannevirke http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wbritona When I checked the origin of the NZ Reserve lists I find that d/ it is a list of who is eligible for the Army Reserves rather than a A Reputation Restored list of actually who was in the Army Reserve. It could be explained in that the NZ authorities would not necessarily In Hollow Log 36 The story of John Hollow aka Kistle know of Horace’s death so he could still have been listed. The Cornwall was told. The fate fact that he was listed as a of one of his children Horace shearer is harder to explain. Is Hector, the boy contralto there another Horace Hollow? and cello player was not Horace was not a common resolved. There was a cloud name amongst the Hollows. over Horace as a Horace There is another Horace of a Hollow is listed in the New similar age however. Horace Zealand Army Reserve Rolls Grant Hollow was born in of 1916-17. The more worrying reference is in the Listing of Moonta, South Australia in 1885. He is also a mystery man, as defaulters in the New Zealand Government Gazette. The list apart from his birth, there are no other references to him that is ‘New Zealand WWI Military Defaulters, 1919-1921’. In both I have found in Australian records. He had a brother who records he is recorded as went off to South Africa as a being a shearer from, Bushy miner and it could be that he Hills, Pongaroa, Akitio. went there too. He could of Pongaroa and Akitio are course have gone to New towns near the town of Zealand and become a shearer. Dannevirke where Horace’s Just who the Horace Hollow in sister lived with her family. the NZ army records is we still My assumption was that Horace may have lived with her and do not know but we now know it was not Horace Hector become a shearer in the area. Hollow aka Horace Hector Cornwall. ♣
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