THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 36, December 2009 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772

A Hundred Years of Stories to Tell A hundred years of Hollow history is represented in this photograph. The baby, Lewis INSIDE THIS ISSUE Oliver Hollow, was born on 18th September 2009. He is the son of Phillip Lloyd Hollow and Sarah Louise Hobson. His great grandfather, Alfred George Hollow, born 26 July A Hundred Years of 1909 in , is holding Lewis Oliver. George celebrated his hundredth birthday this Stories to Tell year in Penzance with his family. He and wife Lavorna now have five great Penzance has been the home for this grandchildren. Hollow family since 1825. Lewis Oliver Hollow’s grandfather, Roger George knew his own great grandfather for 31 years. His great grandfather was Richard Keith Hollow, was a long-time Hollow who lived until he was 104. The connection to Penzance for this line of Hollows contributor to the Hollow Log. Keith passed away in 2008. (See began when Richard’s parents, Edward Hollow and Alice Rowe, married in the Madron Hollow Log 34.) This family have (part of Penzance) church in 1825. been featured in Hollow Logs 4, 6, 11,12, 24 and 28. Page 1

Hollow Spotting A Hollow spotted in an Australian Rules football team in Adelaide and spottings from the death notices across the world feature this issue. Page 2 John Hollow aka Kistle Issue 35 of the Hollow Log featured the family of John Hollow and Mary Kissel Jenkin who migrated to New Zealand from Ludgvan, Cornwall in 1874. The saga continues with the unusual story of how some Hollows in the family became Cornwalls in their pursuit of music and the dramatic arts. The Cornish have a strong musical heritage, this family certainly showed that interest and ability. Page 3

Montana Hollows The state of Montana ranks 4th in area, but 44th in population amongst U.S. states. However two separate Hollow families have made it their home. In the early 1900s two James Hollows (unrelated) settled and raised families in Butte and Helena. Some of members of each are still residents there. Page 11 Alfred George Hollow cradles his newest great grandchild Lewis Oliver Hollow Photograph courtesy of AndrCoan tHollowinued Page 5

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Hollow Spotting From State Library of South Australia images In the Port Adelaide Pirate Football Club team photos for 1904 and 1905 was C Hollow or as known in the Hollow database Charles Samuel Hollow born 1888. He is second from left in the back row. In another photograph, the 1905 photo where he has graduated to a sleeveless guernsey showing his muscles is held at the State Library of South Australia too. To see it click here.

From Lindsay Dally and Vicky Hollow John Hollow Port Adelaide Pirate Football Club, Premiers 1904. Image from State Library of South Australia. (June 9, 1917 - November 28, 2009) Hollow, Jack – of Clio, age 92, Also from Lindsay Dally died Saturday November 28, 2009 HOLLOW, Valerie May. _ Passed away on December 13, at his residence. Funeral services 2009. Aged 86 years Dearly loved wife of the late William will be 11 AM Tuesday, Robert Hollow. Dearly loved mother of Maxine Loving December 1, 2009 at the grandmother to Tracy and Jimmy; and Lyndall. Loving great- O’Guinn Family Funeral Home in grandmother to Cydney, Brady, Jameson and Keegan. Dearly Clio with cremation to follow. loved mother of Ian, mother-in-law to Cecilia. Loving Rev. Fr. Gerald J. Ploof grandmother to Emma and Lachlan, Laura and David. officiating. Friends may call at the Loving great-grandmother to Evangeline. A gracious lady funeral home on Monday from 3- much loved by all and a beautiful human being. 9 PM and on Tuesday from 10 AM until time of services at 11 AM. Contributions in Jack's memory The Adelaide Advertiser, 15 December 2009 may be made to the Flint Junior Golf Association or the charity of one’s choice. From the Melbourne Herald Sun in September 2009 Jack was born June 9, 1917 in Plymouth, to the late Charles and Minnie (Moulder) Hollow and lived in the Clio area since 1973. HOLLOW. - Leonard Thomas (Len). Passed away at John served in the US Army during WW II. He married Lucy Ringwood Private Hospital on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 Aged Ellison on June 19, 1965 in Otisville. Mr. Hollow retired form 61 years Loving husband of Wendy. Proud and devoted Chevrolet V8 Engine in 1980 and was a member of the UAW Local father of Melissa, Samantha and Katie, father-in-law of #659. He loved golfing, also enjoyed poker, going to the casino and Simon. Dearly loved Pa of Emma, Aidan, Tessa and Ethan. doing puzzles. Loved son-in-law of Margaret and Jack Freckleton. The long journey ends Surviving are: wife Lucy; 3 daughters, Rose (James) Adams of Flint, Vicky Hollow of Clio, Cindy (Tim) Morley of Topinabee, MI; 3 HOLLOW (Hackett). - Susan. Passed away on Sat. Sept. 19, grandchildren, Jon, Elli and Benjamin; nieces: Mary (Ralph) Berger 2009 A caring, loving mother to our great kids Steven and and Faith (Robert) Kisel, both of NC. A sister, Isabelle Willett, also Sarah. Not having you around will be hard to handle. We will preceded him in death in 2005. Material above taken from miss you terribly. Unfair you had to go so early, it sucks. Love http://www.oguinnfh.com - Wayne, Steven, Sarah and Lisa.♠

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John Hollow (railway porter) aka

ELLO HERE Kistle Cornwall (singer, performer, teacher) H T The last member of this New Zealand Hollow family to Nadelik Lowen ha Bledhen Nowyth Da or Merry cover is John Hollow born 1856 Ludgvan. John was the first Christmas and a Happy New Year born of John Hollow and Mary Kissel Jenkin. He came to

My apologies, there are a lot of births, deaths and New Zealand with the family in 1874 and in the same year marriages data in this issue. I have put in basic descendant married Ellen Organ. Tying children to John and Ellen was charts to try and help but have removed some details to difficult because his parents were still having children in

keep the size down. To get more complete BDM data look Christchurch at that time too. The family lay almost dormant

in my files until I was contacted be Gwyn Gillard who asked up the individuals in the Hollow database on my website. if I knew about a family of musicians in N.Z. around 1899 and onwards whose surname was Cornwall but who were T HE HOLLOW WEBSITE quite likely to have been Hollow. Her interest was in their bellringing, she is researching a book on the bellringers of

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chollow/ Australia and New Zealand. Through a N.Z. website (Papers

The database was last updated on December 29th. It may be Past) she had found reports and advertisements of the family worth checking your family as sometimes changes are and was able to list most members of the family. When I made because of new information. The database is very went to the New Zealand Hollow births the Cornwall names much a work in progress. corresponded with the name of Hollow birth registrations in

Christchurch. And thus the whole family story began to unfold. O DD S POT John Hollow and Ellen Organ had eight children and music The name of the football team featured in Hollow and performance were very important in the family’s lives. Spotting, the Port Adelaide Pirates, may have a Cornish The full details of the family are given in a box on page 10 origin. The Cornish Rugby team is known as the Cornish but briefly the children from oldest to youngest were

Herbert, Reginald, Francis, Frederick, Ethel, Gertrude, Pirates. There is not a strong link to pirates in Australia, so perhaps the name came from people of Cornish origin. Gladys and Horace. In their musical life the family was The surnames of the people in the photo reveal a few known as the Cornwall family and was led by the patriarch Cornish names, they are: Coulter, Hollow, Hayes, Wilcox, John Hollow known in the music world as Kistle Cornwall.

Naulty, Sparshott, Young, Oaten, Downs, Hazzallin, Kistle being a variation of his mother’s middle name Kissel.

Perhaps it was from Mary Kissel Jenkin that the music Wadlow, Hancock, Crick, Gurr, Leedham, Wyld , McDonnell, Leedham, Trestrail, Baker, Halliday, Hirst, influence came from. John’s story and those of his siblings Wyld, Diment, Rees. Adelaide is a very Cornish place. written about in the last Hollow Log show clearly that music was a strong force within the family.

Although “Cornwall” was the stage name the family used, ONTACT C births deaths and marriages were recorded with the surname “Hollow” until the 1910s, then both may be used until finally Colin Hollow edits the Hollow Log, comments and some remained with the name Cornwall. The Papers Past contributions are always welcome. website provides numerous references that enable us to build Write to 2 Keeley Lane, Princes Hill, 3054, Victoria, up the story of this family. Australia. Or e-mail: [email protected] John’s early life

Hollow and variants Holla, Hollah, Hollaw and Hollowe In the 1880s John Hollow was a railway porter living with his are registered with The Guild of One-Name Studies. family at Sydenham, an inner city suburb just south of the

The Guild member is Colin Hollow (Mem.No. 3056). Christchurch central business district. For sixteen years of his working life he was head porter at Christchurch Railway

station, which is in Sydenham. John was active in the music ©No material in this newsletter should be produced and singing life of Christchurch while he was a railway porter. without permission. There are concerts reported in the Christchurch paper, The

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Star, where John Hollow sings in the 1880s and 1890s. His Cornwall. To fully understand the significance of this I have brother Ernest was active in the same period. In September to introduce information on the family from another source. 1884 two separate concerts in the one week featured John’s sons Herbert and Reginald. Referred to as the masters Financial Problems Hollow they appeared regularly together over the next three In February 1898 John Hollow was in court at his own years. (See extract below.) At the first concert reported they bankruptcy hearing. The papers from this episode are were seven and six respectively. Even in 1886 they had to available from the Archives Office in Christchurch and stand at the piano in order to play. amongst them is a statement from both John and his wife The Christchurch paper gives us brief Ellen that describe the family’s circumstance. It transpires that snatches of the family life of John Hollow. In March 1883 the family’s John left New Zealand for newly acquired home was destroyed England in about 1893 to study music. In fact there is a John in a fire (see report opposite). This must have been a devastating blow. It Hollow listed on the S.S. would have been quite a feat to own Hohenstaufen as a saloon passenger in the Port of a house on a railway porter’s wage. In th the years following the fire the Melbourne on 26 June 1893 Hollows seemed to take every and his destination is Genoa, Italy, the nearest port to Milan. opportunity to perform. The concerts were sponsored by many disparate So it is quite likely that John groups such as, the ladies of the studied in Italy first and then went on to London as he later Orange Lodge, the Literary Society, the Wesleyan Band of Hope, the from The Star 22 Mar 1883 claimed in publicity for his Mayor and City Council and the concerts and music school. He took £55 with him and left behind £17, with his wife. His Students of Truth (see the last Hollow Log). This is similar to what John’s brothers were doing around the same period. two oldest sons Herbert and Reginald had government The Hollows were also members of the Christchurch positions and the next boy Francis had an apprenticeship. There were five other children living at home. The plan was Estudiantina Band. The Estudiantina Band was a Spanish banjo, guitar and mandolin band that had been formed in that the working boys would contribute to the living expenses st 1893 after a visit by a Spanish band. The Hollows were very of the household while John was away. He returned on 1 April 1897. On April 28th Kistle Cornwall sang in the opera much involved, John’s brother Ernest sang at their concerts, son Herbert was an accompanist and another son Francis in Christchurch, it must have been one of his first played the Violin and mandolin. performances on returning. He must have decided while overseas to create the stage name of Kistle Cornwall. So after being back in the country less than a month he is playing a major role in an opera. The newspaper report did suggest that he needed a few more rehearsals but maybe they knew he was recently returned. Apart from that advice the critic was

from The Star 30 Aug 1884

The papers also show John’s family to be talented at school. Reginald won a school scholarship in 1888; he went to the Boy’s High School and won a prize in Latin at the end of the year. The same year Ethel was winning her second prize in writing and drawing at her school in South Belt, Sydenham; she also won it in 1886. The next year sister Gertrude is amongst the prizewinners at South Belt School. The Christchurch Musical Union put on a season of the opera Cavelleria Rusticana commencing April 28th 1997 and Kistle Cornwall sang the part of Tiriddu. This is the first record I have of John Hollow using the name Kistle part of review of opera Cavalleria Rusticana, The Star, 28 Apr 1897

The Hollow Log, Issue 36 Page 4 generous with his praise of Kistle’s must have made the weekly trip by performance. Son Francis began boat or perhaps he lived there for a using the name Cornwall at this time time. too. 1898 a Horror Year The plan to study overseas had the approval of his wife and family but The bankruptcy proceedings on February 8th 1898 would have been the statements made at the bankruptcy hearing show how the preceded by months of hardship and pressure in the Hollow household no plan unravelled. One of the boys, Timaru Herald 22 Nov 1897 doubt. John Hollow or his family must possibly Herbert, contracted Rheumatic fever placing a big drain on Ellen’s resources. have been working through their problems and there is little John’s expenses overseas were higher than he expected as news of them in the Star newspaper. In March, B Hollow, probably Herbert, played with the Estudiantina Band along Ellen had to send him £30 or £40 raised by selling a horse and then she sold a piano, which was really needed by the with Miss Kissel who may have been one of his sisters using th musician sons. Ellen took in a boarder but that proved a stage name of her own. On May 5 son Reginald was in court defending a £5 debt for groceries. He got off, the uneconomic and stopped after a short period. The two boys were earning £3 a week when John left; the rental was £1 a defence being that he was a minor when the debts were week. The son who had Rheumatic fever recovered and contracted. John/Kistle’s money worries continued. wanted to buy a horse so he could work for the post office In July Mr Hollow’s band played at a ball at Belfast north of and the next son wanted to buy a horse so he could travel to Christchurch and were praised for their performance. Further his music students. At one point Ellen said she had seven tragedy hit the family on September 23rd 1898 when John and children down with influenza and then two of the children Ellen’s fourth son Frederick Leonard died aged 19. There is contracted Scarlet Fever. no report that I can find that tells of the circumstances of his After John had arrived home in 1897 he rented a new house death. for the family but by the following February the debts that The first signs of the family moving beyond their horror time had mounted up while he was away had to be confronted. are seen in May 1899 when Mr and Miss Cornwall are The debts amounted to just under £150 from forty-three featured in a concert singing and playing mandolin. In creditors, many of them being grocers, fuel merchants, September Francis is playing mandolin with the Estudiantina doctors. The sort of bills a family would run up. Ellen Band and then in November many of the family are involved obviously had to shop around as the list includes eight in Christchurch’s Carnival Week. Our equivalent would be an different grocers and multiple grain merchants and other Arts festival. One of the acts was billed as the Cornwall providers. An earlier newspaper report, three years Carnival Company and it was the beginning of the family’s previously, in March 1895 showed Ellen taken to court for a stage act that was to travel all over New Zealand. The touring debt to a local business. Ellen had started immediately, in December they probably been under financial pressure appeared at Timaru, Oxford, Rangiora, and for a long time. Amberley, all towns on the South Island. In February 1900 they played Christchurch John was committed to his music career. After his opera performances he also again at the Theatre Royal before they turns up at an Estudiantina Band commenced a tour of the North Island. The newspaper reports were glowing although concert on May 28th 1897 as Kistle Cornwall along with Reginald Hollow the crowds were sometimes disappointing. and Francis Hollow among many others. Not enough to deter them though as by April they were back touring the North In August he appears again at a Estudiantina Band performance and by Island at many of the same towns they had then has formed his own mandolin visited previously. band. In November 1897 son Francis is The reports and advertisements in the advertising for Guitar, mandolin and papers build a picture of the skills and violin students in the Timaru papers. experience and involvement of the family Timaru is 164 kilometres south of members. Great use is made of Kistle’s Christchurch. A horse wouldn’t help; he experience, he is reported to have spent two Report of Carnival Week, The Star 8 Nov 1899 years in Milan and two years in London..

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This photo came from Ross Cornwall son of Francis. Francis is in the middle of the back row. No other details are known but it looks suspiciously like an early photo of the family Estudiantina band in their Spanish costumes with the boy alto, Horace at the front. Photo courtesy of Ross Cornwall

The cast of the company varies from seven to ten people at family belief is that the marriage was not popular with the least half of them Cornwall’s. The Family Troup advertised rest of the family at that time. Reginald always kept the their concerts widely and the papers also gave quite detailed surname Hollow. He lived in Napier in 1904 and worked as a reviews of their performances, which help establish the clerk. In records he is more often listed as a musician but is at talents of each of the family members. times a clerk and a salesman. Kistle’s main skill was his tenor singing but he also played In November 1905 we know Reg is living in Wellington. On cello, guitar and mandolin. Herbert was a pianist; Francis was November 30th an eight-year-old boy, Roy Hollow, wanders a basso singer and played violin, mandolin and guitar. Ethel away from his home in Nairn St. Wellington and is missing was also multi-talented, she sang and played mandolin, for three nights. When found the boy says that he lives with Guitar, violin, cello and hand bells, sleigh bells and glasses. Mrs Hollow and that his real name is Nicholson and his real Gladys was a coon song artist, danseuse, mandolinist, parents are dead. He had gone for a walk and when it got late guitarist, hand bellringer, and serio comic. Gertrude was a he was afraid to go home because he would be in trouble so singer, dancer and musician and Horace was featured as the he slept amongst some cardboard boxes on the quay for the boy alto, flautist, guitarist, and artist of Terpsichore and three nights he was away. On December 12th the boy handbell ringer. Terpsichore is an old word for dancing. The appeared before a magistrate after he had been found olde worlde language is taken straight from the newspapers wandering again. Evidence was given that he was of the time. uncontrollable and he was sent to the Wellington Receiving Home. On February 5th 1906, the paper reports, “ Reginald Reginald moves away C Hollow was directed to pay 6s a week towards the support One member of the family that appears to be missing is of John Herbert Roy Hollow, an inmate of the Wellington Reginald. One report mentions a Richard Hollow as Receiving Home”. accompanist. This could be Reginald mistakenly listed as So who is Roy Hollow? Reginald and Zelmia did not have Richard, or it could be Kistle’s brother Richard Ellis Hollow. any children as far as is known. Roy’s real name Nicholson Reginald married Zelmia Maria Mikkelson in 1902; current may have been a misprinting of Mikkelson so he may be a

The Hollow Log, Issue 36 Page 6 member of Zelmia’s family that she continuously. On the 21 Jun 1902 and Reginald looked after. He may the Cornwall Family Troup gave a have been Zelmia’s son born out of concert at Manaia, 90 Km from New wedlock. Reg and Zelmia must have Plymouth, two weeks earlier there had some responsibility for Reg to be had been concerts at New Plymouth. ordered to pay for his support. On the 28th June came the news that Gertrude Cornwall, Kistle’s Roy, I found, was at a boy’s training nineteen-year-old daughter, had died farm in 1909 and enlisted in the of consumption at Palmerston Australian Army on February 12th North that day. The death of 1915 at Liverpool, New South Wales. Gertrude is followed almost In his enlistment papers he states he immediately (July 7th) by an was born in Wellington and his next of announcement that Kistle and family kin is a brother, Herbert Hollow. He plan to settle in New Plymouth and worked in a tobacco factory and from will be taking singing and music his age would have been born about pupils. The fact that Gertrude died 1893. On March 19th 1915 just over a in Palmerston North suggests they month later he is found AWL, fined, may have had their home established detained and then discharged on in Palmerston North. One of March 24th. He was not a brother of Kistle’s brothers, Thomas, lived at Herbert that we know about. I have Wellington Evening Post 7 Apr 1900 Palmerston North at that time too. not found any other records of him in In New Plymouth Kistle gave Australia or New Zealand so he lessons in singing and daughter Ethel taught guitar, mandolin remains a mystery. and piano. The Post Office directories and Electoral rolls At the time Roy was signing up for the army in Australia Reg show Kistle and Ethel living at Devon St New Plymouth and and Zelmia were living at 18 Portland Crescent in Wellington, wife Ellen and sons Francis and Herbert all living at The Reg was working as a musician. Prior to this in the years Square in Palmerston North. Francis and Herbert were both 1908 to 1914 he is the accompanist at listed as music teachers in Palmerston North. many concerts in Wellington and in A look at the map in the last Hollow Log may 1914 he becomes secretary of the newly help with the New Zealand geography. formed Wellington Performing Alternatively if you are reading this on your Musicians Union of Workers. He is computer clicking on the URL at the end of listed as being a member of the N.Z. the article will bring up a map of N.Z. with the Army Reserves during World War I. towns mentioned marked. They remain at Portland Crescent until 1921 then they have another address in Palmerston North and New Plymouth are Wellington then they move to Australia both on the North Island. New Plymouth on possibly around 1922. They live at St the lower west coast and Palmerston North Kilda, South Melbourne, and Prahran about 230 km to the southeast. By October all inner Melbourne suburbs. Their last Kistle and Ethel had organised the Cornwall’s listing is in 1933. While in Melbourne Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club Concert in Reg worked as a car mechanic. They the Theatre Royal at New Plymouth. The then move to Paddington in Sydney concert was a great success and not only where Reg is a salesman. Both Reg and featured the Cornwall’s pupils but other Zelmia die in Wollongong (an industrial members of the family too. Gladys, now aged town south of Sydney) in the fifties, 15, sang and Horace, now aged 13, played Zelmia in 1952 and Reg in 1957. guitar and mandola. They also danced together in the concert. Kistle sang and played Back to Kistle and his family cello and Ethel led the string band on her From the concerts at the Christchurch Mandolin. Gladys’ specialty was coon songs, Carnival in 1899 to mid 1902 the family something that would be frowned on now in these politically correct times. seemed to be touring almost Taranaki Herald 2 Sep 1902

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A New Family Business Hollow’s address. The Amid Tragedy family have this knack of Given the distance between New splitting then reengaging. Plymouth and Palmerston North By 1916 Kistle has his the family arrangements are hard own address in to decipher. Ethel and Kistle are at Wellington and continues New Plymouth. Although Francis, to teach singing. In 1925 Herbert and Kistle’s wife Ellen he is back in Palmerston listed at Palmerston North it looks North teaching and he like Gladys and Horace may be at remains there until his New Plymouth, so probably their death in 1936. He was buried as Kistle Cornwall mother too. The Cornwalls put on From Taranaki Herald 4 Jan 1904 another concert again featuring in the Palmerston north not only Gladys and Horace but Cemetery. He would have also Francis and Herbert. Gladys heard that she had been been 82. Kistle had married again in 1926 to May Watson and successful in the Trinity College music exams getting 97 out they had had a son together in 1920, Eric Zance Cornwall. of a possible 99. Kistle would have been 64, May Watson 30. The fact that they took so long to get married may be tied to the fate of his On 23 September comes the sad news that Ethel has passed first wife Ellen. Whether they divorced or she died I do not away after an illness lasting twelve months. This is just over know, the last record of her that I have is the 1908 electoral twelve months after Gertrude’s death and it is possible Ethel roll where she is living with son Herbert at New Plymouth. died of consumption too. Within days the advertisement for The fact that he and May waited for six years to be married Cornwall’s School of Music (above) appeared in the local suggest Kistle may not have been free to marry until then. He New Plymouth paper. It seems too close to reason that the would have been 70 when he married May Watson. family’s loss precipitated the move of the brothers from Palmerston North. However it seems as ever the family is Gladys Moves Away working in collaboration, with Kistle’s sons joining him in his From the family publicity Gladys was a singer and musician, school of music. The Cornwall’s from Palmerston North she studied for the Trinity College music exams and became arrived in New Plymouth on Friday October 9th 1903. Francis the main support for her father in Melbourne where she started a banjo club to supplement Kistle’s mandolin and stayed until 1911. In 1914 she is living at Weber and teaching guitar club; he was also made choirmaster at St Joseph’s music. Weber is a small town about 36 km north of Catholic Church. Dannevirke on the North Island. Dannevirke becomes her The family business ads appeared daily in the Teranki Herald home when in 1916 she marries Charles Erickson from there. through 1904 and into 1905. They work hard at promoting Charles and Gladys adopted a son, Patrick Joseph Erickson their business; concerts involving their pupils are given a but did not have children of their own. Gladys was a keen couple of times a year. As is their history the family take any horsewoman and kept several horses. She was also reputed, opportunities to perform at town functions. Then in April by the family, to have sung at La Scala. Certainly given her 1905 there is an announcement that Kistle Cornwall is father’s experience it may be that she also went to Milan to teaching voice production in Melbourne and one of his pupils train in opera. This may have happened during or after her is Miss Rose Musgrove. Rose Musgrove was a well-known stay in Melbourne with her father. Returning to Weber is comic opera singer in Australia and daughter of a Melbourne curious, as it was a small town of only 100 or so people. theatre entrepreneur. To be her voice teacher would be quite Hardly a big enough population to set up in as a music a coup. teacher. It is close to Pongaroa, about 26 kms, where brother Herbert was working; maybe she was part of his teaching Kistle has left the family again and perhaps Ellen. In business. Melbourne he lives in South Yarra with daughter Gladys now 17 and is listed a music teacher in 1909. Gladys is listed as a Gladys’s husband Charles was a baker by trade but also a land domestic so must have been looking after her father. By 1912 salesman and owned several houses in Dannevirke. He died Kistle is called a professor of singing, at 117 Collins Street in 1961 and some time after his death Gladys became sick Melbourne. In June 1914 advertisements in the Wellington and was bedridden with a leg injury. Her son Patrick and his Evening Star indicate he is back in New Zealand and teaching wife cared her for. She passed away in Dannevirke in 1976; singing from 18 Portland Crescent. This was his son Reginald both she and Charles are buried in the Dannevirke cemetery.

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Herbert and Francis Many performances of his After their father left for students and himself and he takes Melbourne Herbert and a prominent life in the Francis continued together the community. Letters to the paper Cornwall School of Music in as well as appearances at town New Plymouth. Herbert celebrations indicate this. He married Amy Edith LYE on remains in New Plymouth until 15 November 1906 at New 1911 and then in 1912 he is Plymouth and Francis married teaching music in Auckland. He Florence Emily SHEARER on remains in the directories until the 31 January 1907. The 1918 when he is divorced by his brothers’ partnership began to wife Florence. unravel around 1907. At one What does not show up in the point Francis announces he is directories is that Francis moved moving to Wellington then to Melbourne for a time. This quickly announces he is has comes from the family history been persuaded not to go by relayed by his youngest son Ross. popular demand. In the end it It must have been during WWI was Herbert who left New and he was to become the head Plymouth first. He and Amy of a music college there. Perhaps had a daughter in New he was taking over where Kistle Plymouth in 1907, Iona had been. Kistle had left Keitha then a son born at Melbourne about 1914. Francis Palmerston North, Charles was busy arranging for his family Kistle Hollow Cornwall, in Francis Cornwall to follow him but instead found Photo: Ross Cornwall 1909. Frances used the name himself the subject of divorce Cornwall but hung onto proceedings for desertion. Francis returned to Auckland but Hollow as a forename. He sets up as a music teacher in was not able to save his marriage; the divorce became Palmerston North and this continues until 1916. Along side absolute in 1918. Francis was devastated by this and suffered this an H.J. Cornwall (it must be him) is listed as a music with a lack of direction for a time. In 1919 he married again, teacher in Pongaroa. The dual listings occur from 1913 to this time to Veta Beryl Gilbert a singer from New Plymouth. 1916. More geography needed here. I have supplied the link Florence, his first wife also remarried in 1920, she also to a to a map below but Pongaroa is 115 kms from Palmerston singer from New Plymouth, Albert William McEwan. Both North. The Cornwalls had a history taking their teaching to new partners had been part of Francis’ choral club in New surrounding towns but this seems a long way and I think Plymouth. Herbert may have moved to Pongaroa but the directory kept Francis and Veta had three children, Gilbert Francis in 1920, both entries going. Both Herbert and Amy were on the electoral roll at Pongaroa in 1914 and were still there in 1920. Beryl in 1922 and Ross Clifton in 1927. Gilbert and Beryl In 1921 Herbert is a music teacher living at Princess Street were born in Auckland but Ross was born in New Plymouth where the family had returned. They stayed there until about Dannevirke and remains there until 1940. His death is registered at Levin a small town close to the coast 100 km to 1936 when Francis moves back to Auckland and re- the south of Dannevirke, perhaps he had moved there in established his music teaching business there. Francis continued teach music until about 1940. Directory listings retirement. Both his death and his burial are registered as Herbert John Hollow. His wife Amy’s death was registered stop after this date, he died in Auckland in 1952 registered as with the name Hollow-Cornwall in 1972. Francis Henry Thomas Hollow-Cornwall, he was 74. Veta died there in 1987 as Veta Beryl Cornwall, aged 92. She was a Once again family ties seem to be in operation with first gifted singer, she and Francis sang together as members of Gladys and then Herbert settling in Dannevirke. Meanwhile concert parties and productions performing in Auckland. back at New Plymouth Francis too was leaving town. He and Their son Gilbert followed in his grandfather’s footsteps and Florence had two daughters there, Gwendoline Florence in went to London where he studied acting at RADA (the Royal 1908 and Alwine Alitia Norah in 1909. His life in New Academy of Dramatic Art). On return to New Zealand he Plymouth follows the normal Cornwall/Hollow pattern. established Gil Cornwall’s Dramatic Academy in Auckland.

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The Mystery of Horace training in Milan and London. Where did he get the energy The one person who seems to have disappeared from view is and drive to do that? He confronted financial ruin but the the boy alto, Horace. He was always a feature of the Cornwall drive to remain in music survived through a concert party Company’s publicity and was billed as a flautist, guitarist, that was constantly travelling throughout New Zealand. Then handbell ringer and artist of Terpsichore (dancer) as well as he moved to a teaching career, which included a stint abroad his singing. We know he attended the Central School in New in Melbourne. His children were all introduced to music too, Plymouth in 1904 and 1905 as he won prizes there. He would money being spent on their musical training, money that have been about 14 then. The next mention I have found in must have been hard to find. John/Kistle was not alone, records is in the N.Z. Army records where he is listed twice many of his siblings had the music bug too although not to as Horace Hollow, once in the Army Reserve and then in the the same extent. Army records with an official number but listed as a It seems to me that John was a man that respected tradition. defaulter. In both records his occupation is shearer and he is His use of the name Kistle, from his mother, and Cornwall from Bushy Hills, Pongaroa. This is at the time that Herbert the name of his the country of his birth. The name Hollow and Amy where living at Pongaroa so perhaps he lived with was never relinquished entirely. them. Ellen, their mother, lived for a time with Herbert’s The family’s bonds were strong too. They repeatedly moved family. Herbert being the eldest may have taken on the family carer role. It is also the time that Gladys had come back from apart then came back together again, occasionally in times of Melbourne to Weber, which is close to Pongaroa; perhaps stress. They worked together firstly as a concert party, then as music teachers. Sometimes living in the same towns. The she came to live with her brother Horace. For now Horace’s story is incomplete. story is both intricate and interesting, I hope I haven’t lost you along the way. ♠ By Colin Hollow Finally Thanks to Ross Cornwall, Christa Erickson and Gwyn Gillard for I found this to be a remarkable family story. This was a their assistance with this article. typically Cornish family leaving the mines of Cornwall for a A map that shows the towns mentioned can be seen by clicking on this new life in the New Zealand. Their music and singing became URL.or paste this in your browser. a dominant influence. For John Hollow music and singing became his life and that love was passed onto his family. He http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&m left the family for four years in the 1890s to further his sid=101111854889916767752.00047845ad560b26fbb6b&z=6

The Family of John Hollow 1856 - 1936

John F HOLLOW, b. 1856 at Ludgvan, CON, d. 6 Sep 1936 at Palmerston North +Ellen Ann ORGAN, b. circa 1855, m. 1874 at N.Z. ├── Herbert John HOLLOW, b. 1875 at Auckland, N.Z, d. 1940 at Levin, N.Z. │ +Amy Edith LYE, b. 1884 at New Plymouth, NZ, m. 15 Nov 1906 at N.Z, d. 27 Jul 1972, bur. 22 Aug 1972 at Hauraki │ ├── Iona Keitha HOLLOW, b. 11 Jun 1907 at New Plymouth, NZ, d. 1977 at N.Z. │ └── Charles Kistle Hollow CORNWALL, b. 1909 at Palmerston North, d. 29 Aug 1976 at N.Z, bur. 31 Aug 1976 at Hauraki ├── Reginald Cecil HOLLOW, b. 1876 at Christchurch, N.Z, d. 1957 at Wollongong, NSW │ +Zelmia Maria MICKELSEN, m. 1902 at N.Z, d. 1952 at Wollongong, NSW ├── Francis Henry Thomas HOLLOW, b. 1877 at Christchurch, N.Z, d. 22 Aug 1952 at Auckland, NZ, bur. 23 Aug 1952 at Waitakere │ +Florence Emily SHEARER, b. 1888, m. 31 Jan 1907 at New Plymouth │ ├── Gwendoline Florence Cornwall HOLLOW, b. 25 Feb 1908 at New Plymouth, NZ, d. 1939 at Auckland, N.Z. │ └── Alwine Alitea Norah HOLLOW-CORNWALL, b. 15 Nov 1909 at New Plymouth, NZ, d. 2003 at N.Z. │ +Veta Beryl GILBERT, b. 4 Jul 1895, m. 1919, d. 21 Dec 1987 at Auckland, bur. 24 Dec 1987 at Waitakere │ ├── Gilbert Francis Hollow CORNWALL, b. 21 Nov 1920 at Auckland, NZ, d. 9 Jan 2002 at N.Z, bur. 14 Jan 2002 at Watakere │ ├── Beryl HOLLOW-CORNWALL, b. Dec 1922 at Auckland, N.Z, d. at WA │ └── Ross Clifton CORNWALL, b. 1927 at New Plymouth, NZ ├── Frederick Leonard HOLLOW, b. 1879 at Christchurch, N.Z, d. 23 Sep 1898 at Christchurch, N.Z, bur. 26 Sep 1898 at Christchurch, Canterbury ├── Ethel Elsie HOLLOW, b. 1881 at Christchurch, N.Z, d. 23 Sep 1903 at New Plymouth, bur. 25 Sep 1903 at New Plymouth ├── Bertha Gertrude Mary HOLLOW, b. 1883 at Christchurch, N.Z, d. 28 Jun 1902 at Palmerston North ├── Gladys Olive HOLLOW, b. 1887 at Christchurch, N.Z, d. 7 May 1976 at Dannevirke, bur. 8 May 1976 at Dannevirke │ +Charles ERICKSON, b. 1881, m. 1916 at N.Z, d. 29 Mar 1961 at Dannevirke, bur. 30 Mar 1961 at Dannevirke └── Horace Hector HOLLOW, b. 1889 at Christchurch, N.Z +May WATSON, b. 1890 at Sheffield, m. 1926 at N.Z, d. 9 Apr 1971 at Christchurch, N.Z, bur. 13 Apr 1971 at Christchurch └── Eric Zance CORNWALL, b. 16 Feb 1920 at N.Z, d. 1998 at N.Z.

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Montana Hollows Two Hollow families began living in Montana in the early 1900s. The antecedents of both families are James Hollows both born in the early 1890s in Cornwall. James Thomas Hollow was born in St Just in 1891 and settled at Butte around 1923. James Wallis Hollow was born in 1892 at St Ives and settled in Helena, some 37 miles from Butte around 1915.

James Thomas Hollow 1891 – 1952. James Thomas Hollow was the youngest of six children of John Edwards Hollow and Ellen Jane Rowe of Carnyorth, a village about 11/2 miles North of St Just in the west of Cornwall. (See the accompanying map for the locations around St Just mentioned in this article). In the 1911 census James was living here with his brother John Rowe Hollow and sister Mary Ellen Hollow. Their father had been injured in a mine accident at the local Geever mine and as a result of brain injuries he received was in the County Asylum at . He was to die there in 1918. The brothers were miners, possibly at the same Geever mine. John was five years older than James and married Elizabeth Matthews in 1912. James Thomas Hollow 1891 – 1952 Photo: Jim Hollow James enlisted in the army during WWI and served as a sapper in the Royal Engineers. He served for four years and Bloomfield was not a recognised mining area then so what he survived the war. Not many survived that long in the army was doing there is unclear. The shipping record also says that during WWI. After the war James moved to Wales and James was coming to America permanently and would be worked as a miner at Treorchy in South Wales. In 1919 he seeking citizenship. married Bessie Nankervis in Wales. She came from Carnyorth Somehow James found his way to Butte Montana. Butte was too; her father was John Rowe Nankervis. The Rowe as a a rich copper mining town and many Cornish miners were second name similar to John Rowe Hollow’s suggests that the attracted there from the late 1800s so James would have Hollow, Rowe and Nankervis families were inter-related. known about the mining opportunities there. Treorchy is in the Rhondda valley of South Wales and was a In December 1926 James made major coal mining area. James would have a trip back to Treorchy to his been attracted by the mine work available. family in Wales, he arrived on It must have started out well as in 1920 his the Majestic on December 27, brother John and his family joined him in just missing Christmas. We can Wales. James and Bessie had two children, imagine he was trying to James Benjamin Hollow born 1920 and arrange for his wife and son John Elwyn Hollow born 1922. James Benjamin to join him in The Lure of the U.S. Butte. His youngest son John Elwyn had died aged two, two By 1923 James is seeking new work months after he had arrived in opportunities. On the 4th of October 1923 the U.S. he arrives in New York on the ship Homeric. In the shipping records What arrangements he came to passengers had to record whether they were we don’t know but he returned going to a relative or friend and who that alone to the U.S. on he ship was and the address. James records that he Pentland on April 23rd 1927. Main map, Mohawk on the Keeweenah Peninsula of Upper The ship’s manifest reports him is going to join his brother-in-law, John R Michigan. Inset James’ destinations in the U.S. Nankervis in Bloomfield California. File from Wikimedia commons

The Hollow Log, Issue 36 Page 11 once again as seeking to remain in the U.S. permanently. and living in the village of Boscean. He is also listed as being blind. Disabilities were recorded from the 1851 census On the 4th March 1928 James made a trip to Canada with a onwards. Mining is not a life for a blind man so perhaps his fellow miner Oxenberry Barnicoat. They crossed the border blindness was as a result of an accident after 1841. Thomas at Kingsgate, British Columbia (B.C.), their destination was married Jane Edwards in 1846 and on the marriage record his Kimberley B.C. a lead-zinc mining town and a trip of some occupation is given as basket maker, a trade that is often 450 miles (750 Km) from Butte. Oxenberry had lived in associated with the blind. In the 1861 census he is listed as a Kimberley until 1922 when he moved to Butte with his wife costermonger, a street seller of fruit and vegetables. He was Amelia and Daughters Phyllis and Rose. He was five years living in Princess Street St. Just. From the 1871 census older than James and was from Tregony, near , in onwards he is a green grocer at St Just, perhaps he is Cornwall. James and Oxenberry probably met on the mine in operating from a shop. He had five children with Jane Butte rather than in Cornwall. Possibly the pair were sizing Edwards before she died in December 1855. up the prospects in Kimberley although the border crossing papers do not report the reason for their trip. James records Jane may have died in childbirth as on the same day she was his wife as Mrs B.E. Hollow of 87 Regent St. Treorchy in buried, 28 December 1855, a child Mary Ann Hollow was South Wales but it seems that Bessie was reluctant to move baptised at the same church in St Just. This child was to die to the U.S. in three months and was buried at St Just on April 1st 1856. At this time Thomas was living at Churchtown, St Just, his The Montana Standard of Jul 14 1929 reports James has filed occupation was carrier. (Churchtowns were collections of for divorce from his wife Bessie Hollow of South Wales. She houses clustered around the parish church; many parish filed for divorce from James too. A reference in the British churches in Cornwall have them). This was in the period Archives put a date of 1930 on this, which may have been when Thomas was a dealer in potatoes (1851) and a when the divorce became absolute. James in the U.S. had costermonger (1861). In 1857 Thomas married Caroline realised his life with Bessie was at an end. On March 1st 1930 Jenkin and they were to have a further five children. he married Oxenberry Barnicoat’s daughter Rose, known as Stella. Stella is 19 and James is 39 when they were married, they go on to have five children together in Montana. There were two boys, now deceased, but they had families and the Hollow name is still known in Butte. James lived in Butte until his death on October 11 1952.

James’ family in Cornwall James had his brother John and four sisters, one dying in infancy. His father John Edwards Hollow was the son of Thomas Hollow (born 1824) and Jane Edwards. Thomas shows up in each census from 1841 until his death in 1895. In the 1841 census Thomas is a miner aged 15, then in 1851 he is married and described as a “dealer in Potatoes”

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The St Just Family November 1791 but their last four children were baptised at To put together the families I have used church records and Gulval. The last one was baptised there in 1809. I think John census records. Thomas’ children were not always in the was living in Gulval with his parents in 1809 when he married baptismal records available. Most of his children are Margaret Runnalls there in 1809. identified from the census records. John and Margaret had possibly seven children and lived To complicate matters there were two Thomas Hollows born variously at Bojewyan, Trevegean, Botallack and Carnyorth. around 1824 in this part of Cornwall. One was baptized at St Descendants of Jane Holla Just on March 9th 1824, the son of Jane HOLLA John and Margaret Hollow of +Unknown spouse Trevegean. The other Thomas ├── Silas HOLLA, b. 1722 at Zennor └── Ishmael HOLLA, b. 1723 at Zennor, CON, d. Jul 1783 at Hallo or Hollow was baptized on +Sarah STEPHENS, m. 7 Oct 1755 at Madron, d. 1800, Morvah April 25th 1824 at Morvah, which ├── Ishmael HOLLA, b. 1757 at Morvah d. Feb 1831 at Gulval │ +Elizabeth CURNOW, m. 23 Jul 1791 at Zennor, CON is close to St Just. His parents │ ├── John HALLO, b. 1791 at Morvah, d. Jun 1853 at St Just in P were John and Margaret from │ │ +Margaret RUNNALLS, b. c 1784, m. 30 Oct 1809 Gulval d. May 1853 St Just in P Eliza HOLLAH, b. 1809 at St Just in , CON Chypraze, a village near Morvah. │ │ ├── │ │ │ +William TREMBATH, b. 1808 at St Just in P, m. 24 Apr 1830 at St Just in P He went on to have a wife Jane │ │ ├── John HOLLOW, b. 1812 at St Just in P, d. Jul 1815 at Bowjewyan too. What do you do? │ │ ├── William HOLLOW, b. 1815 at Bejewyan, d. May 1867 at Trewellard │ │ │ +Mary TONKIN, b. 1809 at St Buryan, CON, m. 14 May 1838 at St Just in P Finally it comes down to deciding │ │ │ ├── Boadina HOLLOW, b. 1839 at , CON │ │ │ ├── Samuel John HOLLOW, b. 1843 at St Just in Penwith, CON the most likely without having │ │ │ └── William Henry HOLLOW, b. 1845 at St Just in Penwith, CON absolute proof. I think our │ │ ├── John HOLLOW, b. 1816 at Bejewian, d. bef 1881 │ │ │ +Ann COTTON, b. c 1809 at Sancreed, m. 1847 Pzance, d. 1890 Pzance Thomas was the son of John │ │ │ └── Elizabeth A HOLLOW, b. 1850 at St Just in P Hallo and Margaret Runnalls who │ │ ├── Margaret HOLLOW, b. 1818 at Bejewyan married in Gulval in 1809. This │ │ │ +unknown spouse │ │ │ └── Elizabeth Jane HOLLOW, b. 1837 John Hallo was also born in │ │ │ +Henry NOY, b. 1817 at St Just in P, m. 20 Apr 1840 at St Just in P Morvah. The line starts with Jane │ │ ├── Elizabeth HOLLOW, b. 1821 at Bejewyan, St Just in P │ │ │ +Thomas GRENFELL, b. 1815 at Madron, m. 9 Jun 1838 at St Just in P Holla who had two base children │ │ └── Thomas HOLLOW, b. 1824 at Trevegean, St Just in P, d. 1895 at Pzance (born out of wedlock) baptised in │ │ +Jane EDWARDS, b. 1829, m. 12 Jul 1846 Madron d. Dec 1855 St Just in P Zennor in 1722 (Silas) and │ │ ├── John Edwards HOLLOW, b. 1847 at St Just in P, d. 1918 at Bodmin │ │ ├── Jane HOLLOW, b. 1849 at St Just in P Ishmael in 1723. Ishmael married │ │ ├── Mary Ann HOLLOW, b. 1850 at St Just in P, d. May 1855, Boscan Sarah Stephens on 7 Oct 1755 at │ │ ├── Emily HOLLOW, b. 1854 at St Just in P │ │ └── Mary Ann HOLLOW, b. 1855 Churchtown, St Just, d. 1856 Churchtown Madron. The church records │ │ +Caroline JENKIN, b. 1837 at Madron, m. 1857 at Pzance, d. 1900 at Pzance show they were both from │ │ ├── Mary Ann HOLLOW, b. 1857 at St Just in P │ │ ├── Thomas HOLLOW, b. 1860 at St Just in P Morvah. They went on to have │ │ ├── Thomas HOLLOW, b. 1864 at St Just in P four children, Ishmael in 1757, │ │ ├── Charles HOLLOW, b. 1867 at St Just in P Alice in 1759, Margaret in 1762 │ │ └── Albert HOLLOW, b. 1872 at St Just │ ├── Elizabeth HOLLA, b. 1793 at Morvah and Mary in 1766. All were │ ├── Mary HOLLA, b. 1794 at Morvah baptised in the Morvah church. │ │ +Charles MADDERN, b. circa 1799, m. 10 Nov 1817 at Gulval │ ├── Wilmot HOLLA, b. 1798 at Zennor Their son Ishmael (b 1757) │ ├── William HOLLOW, b. 1799 at Gulval, d. 1865 at Madron married Elizabeth Curnow at │ │ +Elizabeth BAILEY, b. 1801, m. 17 Oct 1821 at Gulval, d. 1844 at Madron Zennor on 23 July 1791. We can │ │ +Mary ROWE, b. 1802 at St Buryan, CON, m. 27 Feb 1851 at Sancreed │ ├── Ann HOLLA, b. 1803 at Gulval be pretty sure it is our Ishmael as │ │ +John HOSKEN, m. 16 Jun 1824 at St Just in P he is recorded as having come │ ├── Thomas HOLLA, b. 1805 at Gulval │ └── Jenifer HOLLA, b. 1809 at Gulva from Morvah in the wedding ├── Alice HOLLA, b. 1759 at Morvah record. Morvah is less than five │ +Stephen ROWE, m. 14 Aug 1787 at St Just in P Margaret HOLLA, b. 1762 at Morvah, d. Aug 1818 at Morvah miles from Zennor. Often ├── │ +unknown spouse marriages occurred in the wife’s │ ├── Sarah HOLLA, b. 1780, d. Feb 1781 at Morvah parish even if they intended to live │ ├── Margaret Eddy HOLLA, b. 1783 at Madron │ ├── David HOLLA, b. 1788 at Morvah elsewhere. They had eight │ ├── William HOLLA, b. 1789 at Morvah children, their first-born John was │ └── Alice HOLLA, b. 1792 at Morvah, d. 1792 at Morvah └── Mary HOLLA, b. 1766 at Morvah baptised at Morvah on 6

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Thomas was their last child. The places they lived are all small James Wallis Hollow 1890 - 1960 settlements around St Just and linked to the numerous mines James Wallis Hollow arrived at New York’s Ellis Island on in the area. John was a miner and would have moved around October 14th 1909 aboard the ship Majestic from following work. Both he and Margaret died in 1853; their last Southampton England. He was from St Ives and travelling place of residence was Carnyorth. with two companions from home, John Welch Peters and The other Thomas Holla was born in Morvah, his parents are John Stevens. James Hollow was 19, the others 21 and 21 known from his baptism record, I think he was the son of Respectively. James Hollow’s occupation was given as John Hollow and Margaret Lanyon who married in St Just in teacher, Peters was a miner and Stevens a plumber. They 1806. This Thomas appears in the census records of 1841 as were all travelling to Mohawk, Michigan, a copper mining a miner living with his mother Peggy (a form of Margaret) area on the Keeweenaw Peninsula in Upper Michigan. The and brother Keeweenaw is a John. In 1851, tongue of land the and 1861 he is a juts out into Lake miner married Superior. It was to Jane. They the site of the first had a child, copper mining Margaret Jane in boom in the U.S. 1956. The family Other Hollows is missing from came to this area the 1871 census too and it will be and subsequent the subject of later censuses articles in the Log. suggesting that All our travellers they may have this time gave as migrated. their friend in the U.S. a C.Lander of Both the John Mohawk. James and Margaret Montana showing Butte and Helena (red dots). was young to be a Hollows were Map from www.mapquest.com/ qualified teacher; having children their intention at the same time though seems to be the mining opportunities in Michigan. and seemed to use the St Just church mainly for their James’ father was John Stevens Hollow, the Hollow and baptisms although three children from one family were Stevens name are often linked, so it is quite likely that James baptized at Morvah. The records don’t identify specifically and John Stevens were related. which John and Margaret the child belonged to. Sometimes their place of residence is recorded and that along with In the 1910 census James was working as a miner and census records helps to apportion the children but not with boarding with the Trevorrow family in Allouez a mining certainty. The scenario I have outlined may be incorrect. I town near Mohawk. chose the Hollow-Runnalls marriage because John was James’ WWI draft registration card signed June 5 1917 has baptised in 1891 suggesting he was born about then and his address as 14 Jefferson St. Helena North, Montana. At would have been only about 15 in 1806 when the Hollow- the next census in 1920 James is still there and has a wife and Lanyon marriage took place. If he was baptised when he was child aged nearly five. They are living with his wife Isabelle’s 3 or 4 or older then maybe there was a different scenario. As parents, John and Ellen O’Brien. James is working at a plant it is to be married in 1809, my scenario has him at been about nursery in Helena. The first decade in America was full of 18 or 19. So this John marriage must be taken with caution. change for James. Helena, Montana is just short of 1500 Thomas Hollow, the green grocer always appeared in the miles from Mohawk across the Northern states of America. census records as being born in St Just. He is working at a new area away from mining that remained The accompanying map shows how close the St Just, his livelihood for the rest of his life and he is now a family Morvah, Gulval and surrounding parishes are. Note that man. The O’Brien’s were an Irish family; John his father-in- looks closer than St Just to Morvah but Pendeen did law was 67 in 1920 and came to America in 1877. His not operate as a separate parish until 1849. mother-in-law Ellen was born in New York around 1866 of Irish parents.

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James’ Family History 1873 a John Hollow is listed as a passenger on the ship Essex James was the last born of five children of John Stevens bound for London from Melbourne. A William Hollow was Hollow (note the mixing of Hollow and Stevens) and Mary also on the same ship, his brother perhaps. The death of Wallis. His father was a miner although his history shows he Charlotte may have brought about the end of their Australian was not averse to trying new pursuits. He had spent some adventure. time in Australia. In 1861 a notice in the Victorian Police Back in St Ives John married Mary Wallis in 1876, their first Gazette alerts us that he had jumped ship in Melbourne. child was Thomas Edward Hollow born in 1880, his birth Note that Deserters from Merchant Vessels registered at Truro. In the 1881 census John and Mary, son one of his Deserted from the ship Merrie Monarch at Thomas and Mary’s mother are living at Furzeupland, companio Hobson's Bay Railway Pier, on the nights Kenwyn, a village near Truro. John’s occupation is a farmer ns was a of 19th and 20th instant: - of 16 acres. That does not mean he owned the farm, he may Stevens. James Stevens, aged 28, 5 feet 10 inches have been a tenant farmer or even just a farm labourer. It John was high, brown hair, fresh complexion, light whiskers worn round the chin, and good does seem to show that John was not reluctant to try obviously looking. something new. Their next two children were also registered not John Matthews, aged 26, 5 feet 4 inches in Truro in 1881(Mary Wallis) and 1883(John Stevens) and apprehend high, straight dark hair, sallow then Nicholas Wallis born in 1886 was registered in complexion, small whiskers around the ed as the Penzance, as was James Wallis in 1890. The 1891 census has records chin, and weak sunken eyes. Francis Gilbert, aged 18, 5 feet 5 inches John working as a copper miner living at Bowling Green show that high, sallow complexion, dark hair inclined Terrace St Ives. St Ives’ births, deaths and marriages were in 1870 to curl, no whiskers, and thin face. registered at Penzance. This is the home address that James John John Stevens Hollow, aged 19, 5 feet high, used when he arrived in America in 1909. In 1901 John dark hair, stout build, fair complexion, Stevens Stevens Hollow was a stone quarryman living in Bowling round face, no whiskers. Hollow John Basset, aged 26, 5 feet high, dark Green Terrace. married hair, sandy or carroty whiskers, freckled James Wallis Hollow was the last of five children of John Charlotte face and small grey eyes. All Englishmen. Sandon James Thomas, master of the above vessel, Stevens Hollow and Mary Wallis. A younger brother Quick in offers £2 on apprehension of each. Nicholas Wallis Hollow must have flirted with the idea of 23 October 1861. moving to the U.S. as he made a trip in 1906, destination Victoria. They must have lived near the gold mining town of Creswick Atlantic City. He was married back in England in 1907 to as Charlotte appears in the town’s hospital records as a Catherine Hocking and had two sons. A carpenter by trade he died in England aged 30 in 1916. Kate Hocking then patient in 1872. Her death was registered in 1873. In March married another brother John Stevens Hollow (Jnr) in 1919 but she too was to die in Descendants of John Stevens Hollow 1923. None of James Wallis

John Stevens HOLLOW, b. 1843 St Ives, d. 7 May 1925 at St Ives Hollow’s other siblings +Charlotte Sandon QUICK, b. 1842 St Ives, m. 1870 Vic, d Creswick, VIC migrated to the U.S. +Mary WALLIS, b 1846 St Ives, m. 1876 Penzance, d. 12 Oct 1908 at St Ives ├── Thomas Edwards HOLLOW, b. 1879 Truro, d. 26 Aug 1933 St Ives In Helena James Wallis │ +Grace Pemberthy LUKE, m. 8 Sep 1903 St Ives, d. 11 Oct 1962 St Ives Hollow and Isabelle O’Brien Minnie Wallis HOLLOW, b. 3 Oct 1903 St Ives, d. 28 Feb 1983 St Ives │ └── had four children, three girls ├── Mary (Minnie) Wallis HOLLOW, b. 1881 Truro, d. Nov 1896 at St Ives ├── John Stevens HOLLOW, b. 26 Jul 1883 Truro, d. 2 Mar 1959 at St Ives and a boy. The family still │ +Catherine (Kate) HOCKING, b. c 1886, d. Aug 1923 at St Ives has a strong presence in │ +Edith PELLOW, b. 1884, m. 1925 Penzance, d. 20 May 1951 at St Ives Helena. Helena newspapers ├── Nicholas Wallis HOLLOW, b. 6 Jun 1886 Penzance, d. 16 Aug 1916 at Penzance show they are active in │ +Catherine (Kate) HOCKING, b. c 1886, m. 7 Nov 1907 Zennor, d. Aug 1923 at St Ives │ ├── William Wallis HOLLOW, b. 16 Mar 1908 Penzance, d. 4 Feb 1969 education and sporting │ └── John Dennis HOLLOW, b. 1913 Penzance, d. 1955 Cheltenham, GLS circles. The family have been └── James Wallis HOLLOW, b. 8 Sep 1890 St Ives, d. 24 Dec 1960 Portland, OR particularly successful in +Isabelle Katherine O'BRIEN, b. 29 Sep 1892 Marysville, MT, m. c 1915, d. Oct 1975 at Portland, OR skiing and soccer.♠ By ├── Mary Ellen HOLLOW, b. 1915 Colin Hollow. ├── John Wallis HOLLOW, b. 3 Jun 1917 Helena, MT, d. 12 Apr 1991 Helena, MT ├── Margaret Jayne (Mary Kevin) HOLLOW, b. 1 Jul 1922 at Livingston, MT, d. 29 Apr My thanks to Jim Hollow for 2006 at Leavenworth, KS help with the James Thomas └── Virginia Katherine HOLLOW, b. 28 Sep 1924 at Livingston, MT, d. 25 May 2007 at Hollow story. Tucson, AZ

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