THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 32, December 2006 The Hollow Family Researchers‟ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772

Hollow Redhead In response to the photo of my little redhead grandson in the last Hollow Log I received INSIDE THIS ISSUE these photos of another new Hollow and a note from his Dad, Richard Hollow. Patraic Cormac Stephen Hollow was born 5 May 2005. Hollow Redhead A Hollow trait? A redheaded babe also in Ann Belmont‟s family and Joyce Litt reported she always wanted one but was unsuccessful. Pages 1

Hollow Spotting A wide selection for this Log including some additions to our growing list of Hollows in uniform. This time from the U.S.A. I am always after more so if you can help Page 2 James Anthony Rillston Hollow Keith Hollow writes of a multi- talented member of the Hollow clan. Page 5

Falmouth Hollows in London Tom Barry has extended our knowledge with notes on a branch of this family reported on previously in Hollow Log 26.

Page 7 The hamlet of Trowan, St Ives. Photographs courtesy of Mango Homes www.mangohomes.co.uk The Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Keith Hollow has worked close to home this time with background, I am writing in connection photos and Hollow data on one of with your first “bluey”. his local churches. Looking at the photograph I Page 10 could not help but find some similarities with our own bluey-Patraic. Perhaps it is New Hollow something to do with the eyes, Researchers I am not sure however there is The full list of Hollow researchers is something. on the Hollow website is being Richard Hollow updated. If your name is should be there but isn‟t. Let me know. Page 12

The Hollow Log 1 younger years were influenced by time spent at the Simon Hollow Spotting Ranch in Brown's Gulch. His love for old cars was shown by From Keith Hollow his working at several body shops during the 1950s and '60s, and by his membership in the Butte Lifters Hot Rod Club. I recently mentioned that whilst Mum was in hospital After working for the Anaconda Co., General Contractors Jacqueline P Hollow (nee Bennetts) was in the same ward and and others, he went to work for Butte- Bow as a I had a chat with her. machinist where he remained until his retirement in 1996. The following announcement and obit refers to her Upon retiring, he worked with his son Bill at Hollow husband's (Michael Howard) uncle who recently died at Contracting, and could be found there right up until his . Kenneth Roy was elder brother of Thomas Rufus death. 1921-1963 and great-grandson of William Glasson and Mary He married Nancy (Brancamp) Hollow on August 30, 1958, Ann Rule. and together they raised five children. Jack fulfilled his dream HOLLOW - On Saturday October 21st 2006 peacefully at by building a cabin at Echo Lake where he and Nancy had Treliske Hospital, Kenneth Roy aged 87 years of Hayle. many family and holiday gatherings. His dream will remain a Funeral service on Friday, October 27th in St. Elwyn's Parish family cornerstone for future generations. Church at 9.00 a.m. followed by cremation. Jack was preceded in death by his parents, Stella and Jim Obituary Hollow; and brother, Jim Hollow. MR K R HOLLOW, HAYLE He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Nancy; son, John, of Juneau, AK; sons and spouses, Jerry and Deena Hollow of The funeral service of Mr Kenneth Roy Hollow, of Hayle, Nampa, Idaho, Bill and Kate Hollow; daughters and spouses, took place recently at St Elwyn's Parish Church, Hayle, Sue and Mike Lasher, Sandy and Dan McGee, all of Butte; followed by cremation at Penmount. grandchildren, John and Miranda Hollow, Mindy, Kaylie and Mr Hollow died at Treliske Hospital aged 87. The service was Jordan Hollow, Kyle and Kelli Hollow, Shauna, Colin and conducted by the Rev Rosemary Wickremasinghe. Mr D Cal Hollow, Brett and Bryon Lasher, Tyler and Kaden Woodger, organist, accompanied the hymns 'The Old Rugged Hollow, Conor, Abby and Noah McGee; great-grandchildren, Cross' and 'All things bright and beautiful'. Kameryn Fournier and Hayden Hollow; sisters and spouses, Mourners: Mr and Mrs M H & JP Hollow (nephew and Betty and Ray Callahan, Patsy and Gene Byrnes; sister-in- niece); Mrs L Hollow (sister-in-law); Stephen Hollow (great laws, Betty Hollow and Mary Jo McMonigle; brothers-in-law nephew), Mr and Mrs W Hollow (nephew and niece); Dawn and spouses, Bill and Nancy Brancamp, Bob and Elvie Hollow (great niece, Caleb Hollow great great nephew); Brancamp, Dave and Tammy Brancamp, Ed and Mary Lou Audrey Collins (niece, Brian Collins and family); Jean James Keyes, Joan and Paul Hockabay; aunts, Marjorie Pack, Phyl (niece, Danny James, nephew); Kerry James (great niece), Mr and her spouse Joe Chiuminatto; and numerous nieces and and Mrs M Beare (niece and nephew), Evelyn Jasper (niece), nephews. Mr R Hollow (nephew), R Johns (great nephew), Adam You were loved and you will be missed. Tap 'er light, Dad! Chapman, Phylis Bawden (niece), Jean Masters (niece), Published in The Montana Standard on 9/11/2006. Christine Smitheram (Jonathan Smitheram), Barbara James (James family). When I looked in the Montana Standard archives I found this. Colin There were family flowers only. Donations for Air James Hollow, 70 Ambulance are being received by the funeral director, Paul James “Jim”' Hollow died Tuesday Sherris, Foundry Lane, Hayle. morning in Butte. He was born Aug. 8, From Lindsay Dally 1931, in Butte to James and Stella (Barnicoat) Hollow. He received his Found in the Montana Standard death notices at education in Butte schools and graduated http://www.legacy.com/mtstandard/DeathNotices.asp from Butte High School. Jim worked at John E. "Jack" Hollow Hennessy's Department Store before working 25 years at Newbro Drug Co. He John E. (Jack) Hollow, 69, died Friday, Sept. 8, 2006, in St. later worked as a Teamster for Butte- James Healthcare after a courageous battle against pancreatic Silver Bow government. Jim also served cancer. Jack was born in Butte on Feb. 19, 1937, to James his country for 10 years in the Naval Reserve. Jim married and Stella Hollow and remained in Butte all his life. His Betty Lou Spencer on Aug. 29, 1953, in Butte's St. Lawrence

The Hollow Log 2 Church. He was a charter member of Big Butte Fire treasures, the Women's Suffrage Petition (1891) reflects the Department and a lifetime member of the Centerville dedicated work of those women, who went from door to Volunteer Fire Department. He was also a member of the door across Victoria to collect the signatures. Its tremendous Silver Bow Parks Athletic Club and Butte Teamsters Union. length earned it the name of the „Monster Petition'. He was an avid Green Bay Packers fan. Jim enjoyed the time The original petition is approximately 260 metres long and he spent with his good friends at his home on Georgetown 200mm wide and is made of paper pasted to cotton or linen Lake. He was preceded in death by his father, James Hollow; fabric backing, rolled onto a cardboard spindle which rests on mother, Stella Hollow Gould; mother- and father-in-law, Pat a Perspex stand. It takes three people three hours to unroll and Bruce Spencer; and infant son, William Hollow. the petition from one spool to another – a slow and careful Surviving relatives include his wife, Betty Hollow of Butte; process. son, James Hollow and his children James and Jodi Lynn Hollow of Oklahoma; daughters and sons-in-law, Linda and From Ann Belmont Stan Williams and their children Craig and Jeff Williams of Ann Belmont monitors the Cornish List on Rootsweb for Butte, Patty and Kevin Kramarich and their children Amanda Hollow references, her latest are: - and Matthew Brusati of Great Falls; sisters and brothers-in- law, Betty and Ray Callahan, Patsy and Gene Byrnes; brother West Briton, 21 Aug 1840, Friday and sister-in-law, Jack and Nancy Hollow; sisters-in-law and BIRTH:On Sunday, the 9th instant, at St. Just in , the brothers-in-law, Marlene and Jim Smith, Patsy and Bing Cain, wife of Mr. Wm. Hollow, of twins, a son and daughter. Helen and Terry Gavigan and Bill Spencer; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. West Briton, 21 Aug 1840, Friday I haven’t been able to connect their James back to a family in Cornwall This is a very interesting post because it gives a description of so any suggestions about the line would be welcome. Colin Adelaide in 1840 and there is also a Hollow birth - haven‟t had one for a while, so good to see. Ann From Lisa Powell Emigration. The following are extracts from a letter from Hi Colin - I don't know if you have come across the Nicholas Player, in Adelaide, to his father, E.P. Player, of Women's Suffrage petition website . Adelaide, February 29th, 1840. - Dear Father, - We (http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/WomensPetition/), I arrived here on the 6th of February. The captain behaved very did search for Hollow and two came up: well to us in letting us have a cabin, and never charged anything for it, and Christmas-day he gave us a bottle of wine, and sometimes used to take Nicholas in the cabin and give him bread Hollow, E. A. 13 Hyland Street, South Yarra and butter. We saw plenty of whales, and caught some birds, that Hollow, J, Mrs 103 Rowe Street, North Fitzroy measured ten feet from point of wing to wing. We never saw land but once, and then it looked like a cloud; and we never met but Background one ship, and she would not answer our colours, or else I should In an extraordinary effort to gain have sent you a few lines by her. We had eight births on board, the right to vote for all Victorian and Candy's wife lost her child and had another. Adelaide looks women, a handful of dedicated a very curious place until a person gets used to it, and so many women took to the streets in 1891 emigrants coming make things very dear. Within this last to collect signatures for a petition fortnight we have had 1,000 emigrants, and they say if it to present to the Parliament of continues for about two years longer, it will be a fine place. Things Victoria. The result was an have been as cheap here as in , but at present they are as impressive collection of close to follows: - Bread and flour, 1s. per lb.; butter, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d.; 30,000 signatures from women meat, 10d.; salt ditto, 10d; porter, 2s. per quart; beer, 1s. 6d.; from all walks of life. bottled porter, 3s.; milk, 10d. per quart; potatoes, 5d. to 6d. per lb.; fowls, 10s.; cats, 20s. each; eggs, 6d. each; cheese, 2s. 6d. per Tabled in Parliament in September lb.; apples, 3d. to 4d. each; soap, 2s. 6d. per lb.; starch, 1s. 6d.; 1891, with the support of then hay, £18 per ton. Your house that Edward lives in, would bring Premier James Munro, the petition £300 a year. We pay £30 per year for two little rooms. We have sought that „Women should Vote Women's Suffrage Petition, 1891 had some very heavy rain since we have been here. A horse that at on Equal terms with Men'. Photograph: Laura Daniele home is worth £25, is worth here £125. Spirits are twice as dear Now one of the State's archival here as at home. There are a great many natives here, but they are

The Hollow Log 3 very quiet people; they are not more than a quarter of a mile from Date of Birth: 06/22/1923 us, and the greater part naked. The other night they had a row, Date of Death: 10/26/2000 and killed a child by accident, roasted it, and ate it. We have very Buried at: Section Q SITE 665 Ft. Custer National hot winds; we are never without wind, but it blows quite hot, and Cemetery, Augusta, MI everywhere it looks like the heat coming out of the top of a lime HOLLOW, Edmund M kiln, very wavy. People look forward for winter here as you look Pvt US Army for summer. Times at present are not so brisk as they have been. World War II There are several carpenters out of work, but the first place that I Date of Death: 12/21/1944 asked for a job I had work, at 13s. per day. As soon as work is Buried at: Section H SITE 551Ft. Rosecrans National a little brisk, I shall try to get more. There are a great many Cemetery, San Diego, CA people here with bad eyes, and almost every body is afflicted with something on first coming in the colony. I have lost three days' HOLLOW, Emil John work with swelled ankles, and Susan is now washing them with Private US Marine Corps hot vinegar while I am writing, for I am going to work again; a Date of Death: 10/07/1920 day's work here being of great consequence where things are so very Buried at: Section B ROW 1 SITE 19-A Ft. Lyon National dear. They have had a good harvest at Sydney, and they say in a Cemetery, Las Animas, CO little time, bread will be much cheaper. Pray God send it, for we HOLLOW, James eat the worst brown bread, and then it costs us 21s. per week for Pvt US Army bread, for the children are very hearty, and so are we altogether. Buried at: Section 5 SITE 2380 Ft. Smith National Cemetery, The weather is so hot we have no coal; we burn wood like the St Fort Smith, AR farmers, which makes it look very homely. Susan don't like it very well, nor do any first comers; but I think I shall like it very HOLLOW, James Michael well, especially when things get a little cheaper. I have seen Brock, Pfc US Army he is working at the printing. I have seen Mr. Clark's daughter, KOREA of ; she is very well. We both join in our love to you, and Date of Birth: 06/08/1933 remain, Your dutiful son and daughter, N. and S. Player - P.S. Date of Death: 01/20/1996 - Onions, 1s. 6d. per lb.; greens, 4d. per head; cucumbers, 2s. Buried at: St. John‟s Episcopal Cemetery, Bullhead, SD Each. The country is delightful. HOLLOW, Robert M US Navy Korea BIRTH: On Sunday, the 9th instant, at St. Just in Penwith, Date of Birth: 02/24/1936 the wife of Mr. Wm. Hollow, of twins, a son and daughter. Date of Death: 04/23/2000 18 Dec 1840, Friday, West Briton newspaper Buried at: : St Joseph‟s Cemetery Lynn, MA DIED: On Monday last, at , Mrs. Ann Hollow. HALLOW, JAMES (Would be 14/1/1840). Pvt. Infantry CIVIL WAR West Briton, Jan 22 1841 BMDs Date of Death: 12/15/1890 BIRTH: JANUARY 22, 1841 – BMDs Buried at: Section H ROW 23 SITE 1Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, OH At Truro, on Monday last, the wife of Mr. Henry HOLLOW, of a daughter. (Would be 18/1/1841).

American war graves A search at the site below shows the following additions to our Hollows in uniform list. If you can help me place these men in families please contact me, as I have not been able to place any of them. http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1

HOLLOW, Clyde R Cpl US Army World War II

The Hollow Log 4 assault into Singapore, an operation that fortunately never James Anthony Rillston transpired. Hollow, A.R.I.B.A., F.R.S.A. After demobilisation he returned to Colyton and set-up home with Della. He was employed by the City Council and 1922 – 2005 when not at work spent his time studying architecture by James Anthony Rillston Hollow died at Derriford Hospital, correspondence course, eventually qualifying as a Chartered on the 3rd June 2005 after a long battle against Architect. Anthony had showed considerable interest in cancer. Following cremation on 16th June, structures of all types from an early a service of thanksgiving to celebrate his age and it was therefore not life and work, was held at St Andrew‟s surprising that he eventually made his Church Church, , Cornwall, later career as an architect and designer. the same day. After qualifying he set-up his own successful practice in , Anthony Hollow was born on 24th . August 1922 in , Devon, the first child of Wallace and Phyllis Mary His excellent reputation spread and Hollow. His father, Wallace, was from a recommendations to various august long line of sea-faring stock, initially from bodies followed; he became an in West Cornwall and later from adviser and designer for the National . Trust and a Dioscesan Surveyor for a large part of Devonshire. The Anthony‟s grandfather, Richard William successful business expanded and was Hollow a Master Mariner and captain of responsible for building the Safari the „Pride of the Channel‟, was lost at sea Restaurant at Knowsley for Joe Lyons when the ship was driven ashore on the and game-keepers cottages for Lord French Atlatinc coast during a fierce Derby. He was appointed architect storm in 1897. Anthony‟s great great for Blundell‟s School and worked on every building bar one grandfather had drowned in similar circumstances when his in that complex. ship the „William‟ was driven ashore at Morte Bay, Devon in 1850. Therefore grandmother Mary Louisa Hollow (nee Many prestigious jobs followed but it was in his retirement Rillston) insisted that her son Wallace would remain on land that he became involved with the work that he loved the and he became a Bank Clerk, thus ending the line of family most with the Dioscesan Advisory Committee in Truro. This mariners. group of elderly, but learned members, met monthly to resolve problems arising in the large number of church Wallace married Phyllis Mary Sanders, the daughter of Jim buildings in Cornwall. Work covered many areas, from the Sanders a Fell Monger and local businessman from design of disabled access for the public to the complete Barnstaple, in 1921. Anthony, born in 1922, was followed by rescue of ancient buildings, the prevention of water brother Humphrey in 1931 and sister Bridget in 1936. penetration in church towers, to the provision of catering and Aged 13 Anthony went to Allhallows School at toilet facilities. Anthony‟s work was meticulous and thorough where he began playing rugby at fullback and years later and his attention to detail in every job, large or small, was played in that position for Exeter. He met Sedella Irene remarkable. Good design pleased him immensely and he Pearce, from Colyton in Devon, at Art School in Exeter and loved modern designs and concepts. they were married in 1943 on Anthony‟s embarkation leave in Sedella died in 1980 and Anthony married his second wife the Royal Air Force. During his service in the Second World Nancy at Buckland Monochorum, Devon in 1982. War he learned to fly, first in England in Tiger Moths and later Harvards in Canada. On one of his Tiger Moth flights Anthony and Nancy purchased the Calstock Boatyard and it he struggled to get the plane airborne and on landing later, was here that he undertook his last big project. He designed discovered that he had an assortment of airfield lighting and built their final home, Lantern House for which he won equipment hanging from his tailplane! an award from the Cornish Buildings Group. Lantern House embodies all those modern concepts that Anthony so loved. A posting to India then followed where he learned to fly The house is built on pillars to provide protection from flood Horsa Glinders in preparation for a „Arnhem type‟ airborne water from the neighbouring Tamar, and to compensate for higher water levels that are likely to result

The Hollow Log 5 from global warming; an example of Anthony‟s meticulous planning.

Anthony Hollow was charming and courteous, a true gentleman in every sense of the word. He was greatly loved and is missed by Nancy, and all those who were Lantern House, fortunate to know him. Calstock Boatyard ♠ Keith Hollow

Odd Spot Is nothing sacred? This was reprinted in our paper in Melbourne.

The database was last updated on December 31st 2006. It

E L L O HERE may be worth checking your family as sometimes changes H T are made because of new information. The database is very I have had to abandon my practice of sending The Hollow much a work in progress. Log by normal mail to some Hollow researchers. Each copy

takes me at least 20 minutes to print and I printed and sent 22 copies. I am sorry to have to do this but I am so far C ONTACT behind and I have not been able to catch up. If you know of Colin Hollow edits the Hollow Log, comments and someone who normally gets a print version and now has an contributions are always welcome. internet connection or access to one please let me know so I Write to 11 Dorothy St. Croydon, 3136, Australia. Or e- can get a copy to them. mail: [email protected] Hollow and variants Holla, Hollah, Hollaw and Hollowe are T H E HOLLOW W EBSITE registered with The Guild of One-Name Studies.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chollow/ The Guild member is Colin Hollow (Mem.No. 3056). ©No material in this newsletter should be produced without The Hollow Log 6 permission. London until the 1870s, in 1901 he was out of the building Falmouth Hollows in trade and working as an Olimans manager and living at London Leyton in Essex. The focus of this article is Samuel Alfred Hollow‟s son Notes from Tom Barry Samuel James and his children Annie Emma and John Continuing the story of the Falmouth Hollow‟s movement to Samuel. Samuel Alfred and Emma Hudson had nine children. London and beyond. The story of the Falmouth Hollows was There is a family story that Samuel Alfred had built his own commenced in Hollow Log 26. Henry Hollow and wife Mary boat, which he had sailed round the coast to London with his Blake had four sons, all carpenters who moved to London in family on board. However Samuel James was the third child the late 1850s, 1860s and 1870s. Their eldest son Samuel and the only child of the family born in Truro. His siblings Alfred was the first to move, he married Emma Hudson in before and after him were born in London, so there must be Islington in 1858 and was working as a carpenter in the 1861 more to the story. In 1881 Samuel Alfred was a foreman census and living in Finsbury (London suburb?). Interestingly builder but by 1901 he was running a grocer shop in West his wife Emma was listed as a coffee house keeper. Ham. Interesting because many members of this family including His son Samuel James Hollow married Annie Jane King at Samuel Alfred himself moved from the building trade to West Ham in 1884. They had two children, Annie Emma and keeping shops. Maybe it was Emma‟s influence. John Samuel. An apprentice carpenter in 1881 by 1901 Samuel Alfred‟s siblings continued the movement away from Samuel James had also moved to the world of commerce and Cornwall. James Edward Hollow moved to London then the was a linen draper in East Ham. Samuel's wife had died in USA where he stayed in the building trade. Henry Blake 1917, it is said of a heart attack during a Zeppelin raid. Hollow continued in the building trade until his death in 1910 During the early part of WW2 Samuel was living at Park but some of his children moved to South Africa. This is a Farm, Banwell Somerset with his granddaughter Annie Quick recent discovery and research on this branch is continuing. but, when the house was badly damaged by a sea mine that John Resuggan Blake Hollow didn‟t make the move to

Samuel James Hollow Samuel James Hollow (1862-1943) taken circa Circa 1939 at Park farm , Banwell, SOM 1884. photo was taken by John Smith, grandson of Samuel.

The Hollow Log 7 parachuted into the orchard, he moved to stay with his son Quarter Master Sergeant for his Company in the Army John in Norwich and died there on 13 November 1943. Service Corps. His sense of humour and the contributions to the morale of his unit can be gauged from a menu he Annie Emma Hollow produced in Tripoli, Syria for the Victory Christmas Dinner Annie Emma Hollow, daughter of Samuel James Hollow and of 1918. Annie Jane King, was born 29 Jan 1886 in West Ham. She is said to have been educated at a convent school and to have During the course of the war Annie's address changed, played the piano at the Town Hall in Stratford (East showing that she left East Ham and returned to Birmingham London). After Annie married Wilfrid Stanley Smith they to be near her family. After the war they may have returned opened a shop next door to her parents, probably in East to the East End and the shop (believed to sell groceries and Ham, near the Docks. During the war, after her mother died newspapers). They spent some time in Orpington, in September 1917, Annie moved with the children, Annie before they moved to Norwich. John became an agent for born 1905, Doris 1907 and John 1910 to Weston-super-Mare. Royal London Insurance and rose to area superintendent. He We think the family must have made friends there when they encouraged his son Eric and brother in law Wilfrid Smith, visited Weston before the war. husband of Annie Emma Hollow, to join the same company. In 1917, Wilfrid Smith was sent to Russia as a blacksmith in, A second child, Doreen, was born in about 1922. strangely, a naval contingent that fought with their armoured He is remembered as having a great sense of humour and cars on the Eastern Front. It cannot have been long after being clever with words. He was very methodical and his they reached the front to the East of Kiev that they got shed was exceptionally tidy. There were rows of tools caught up in the Russian Revolution and were lucky to get hanging up in order of size, hammers, pliers etc. His garden out of Russia alive. Wilfrid wrote an account of the was also very neat and at one time he kept hens. expedition. Even after the war he was sent out to Mesopotamia and Persia, again with armoured cars, to assist He was very proud of his connections with Cornwall and the the White Russians in the unsuccessful counter revolution family often went there on holiday. Truro was a particular but any account he wrote about that expedition is now lost. It focus, with breakfasts cooked en route on Moor. would have been well after 1918 when he finally got back to He told his son Eric that his grandfather (Samuel Alfred England. Hollow, born Truro in 1833) was a carpenter and that he had Sometime after his return, on the advice of hi brother-in-law John Samuel Hollow, Wilfrid also joined Royal London Insurance and he too eventually became an area superintendent. Both before and after Wilfrid retired, he and Annie moved many times, finally to Banwell, Somerset, initially to a bungalow and later to stay with their daughter Annie at Park Farm where they both died, Wilfrid 20 Nov 1961 and Annie 25 Oct 1965. John Samuel Hollow John Samuel Hollow, Samuel James Hollow and Annie Jane King „s second child, was born 2 October 1889, in West Ham registration district. After completing school he became a pupil teacher. He married Annie Davies, in about 1915. Annie came from a Welsh Baptist family and was one of at least six children. Her family may have moved to Birmingham, where it is thought John and Annie married. A postcard was written to her mother and another to her sister in Erdington in 1918. Their first address was in East Ham. John was in the Army Service Corps. Their son Eric was born in August 1916, whether before or after John left for duty in the army is not known. The first known card from him was from Egypt in November 1917. Cards were sent frequently from places in Palestine and then Syria, the last dated 1.2.1919. John was John Samuel Hollow (1889 – 1970)

The Hollow Log 8 built his own boat, which he had sailed round the coast to London with his family on board. However, as his wife and all the children except Samuel James, the second child, were born in London, it is possible that this account has changed in retelling over the years. John's father, Samuel James was born in Truro in about 1863, followed his father as a carpenter and a few of their tools survive. John moved house quite often. He always blamed his wife for this but as his sister and also moved many times, it may have been a Hollow characteristic. John and Annie had a house in Drayton on the outskirts of Norwich, and later moved to North Walsham, which is about 5 miles from the coast. From there they went to Lincoln to be near their daughter Doreen. They lived in at least two places there before deciding to move to an old people's home. Sadly John died before they actually moved in, which would have been in the winter of 1970/71. Annie lived for another two or three years.

Menu produced by John Samuel Hollow in Tripoli, Syria for the Victory Christmas Dinner of 1918 While they were in Norwich and North Walsham John and Annie owned a holiday chalet on the coast at Bacton. They spent a lot of time there rather than in their house as they got older. John had a great love of the sea and in his later years he loved to sit and watch it. He was also very fond of cricket. He and his son had both captained the same local side when they were in the East End of London. ♠ Tom Barry 25 October 2006 All photographs and images supplied by Tom Barry Note: There was not space for a descendant chart to help Doreen Hollow, daughter of John Samuel Hollow keep track of people mentioned in this article. To see the relationships Use the database on the Hollow website. Click on „Hollow database‟, then „Index of Persons‟ and track them from there.

The Hollow Log 9 Benson on the 4th October 1881, the eve of the festival of St Cornish Churches John the Baptist.The new church was created out of the Parish of St Mary and was dedicated to St John the Baptist, The Parish Church of St John the Baptist, the Patron Saint of Penzance. At that time the Borough‟s Penzance crest was the severed head of St John the Baptist on a Usually referred to as ‘St John’s’, Penzance, the church charger. Pensans, which in the means of St John the Baptist celebrated it’s 125 year anniversary „Holy Headland‟, was the original name for Penzance. It was on the 4th October 2006. named after the site of an ancient chapel which had existed

On the 15th February 1879, Prebendary Philip Hedgeland, the on the headland where St Mary‟s Church now stands and Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Penzance, called a meeting to close to where the town was originally sited. Although not an discuss the project of building a new church to serve the exact translation of „Holy Head‟ it is thought that the word rapidly expanding population of the eastern area of the town. association was the likely reason for the selection of crest and This led to the laying of the foundation stone at the northeast patron saint. corner of the church on 23rd June 1880 by Prebendary

Hedgeland, and to the consecration of the new church by the Lord Bishop of Truro, the Right Reverend Edward White

The Hollow Log 10 The ancient crest of Pensans architect Mr J Piers St Aubyn, provided for a three stage tower and spire above the south porch but unfortunately the funds available were insufficient and the tower and spire were never completed.

The chancel, screened by wrought-iron panels and gates is graced by a magnificent painted altar table and reredos of eleven panels.

The belfry, in the south porch, accommodates a single bell inscribed „Peace and good neighbourhood 1713 JP‟. The bell, which was originally purchased for St Mary‟s Chapelry, fell into disuse and was used as a „Fire Bell‟ in the towns Shambles Market in Princes Street from 1825. Having again become unused, the bell was purchased by Prebendary The ancient crest of Penzance. This carved head Hedgeland in 1880 and was donated to St John‟s by him. of St John the Baptist is mounted above the door of the Old Courthouse on the Market House The south porch has, on its inner wall, a slate memorial building in the centre of the town. erected in 1925 to those of the parish who made the ultimate sacrifice during the Great War of 1914-18. There are twenty The church was originally designed to accommodate a six names which include the two below:- congregation of six hundred (attendance today is approximately one tenth of this figure) and consists of a Hollow. H Pte DCLI chancel 34 feet long and nave 74 feet long. The height of the Hollow. Thos. B ERA RN nave to the apex of the roof is 50 feet. They are Howard Hollow whose photograph appeared in The church is built of local Castle-an-Dinas granite, with Hollow Log 5 and Thomas Bryant Hollow who was born at St Ives in 1875. Thomas and Howard were distantly related being 5th cousins, 1 removed. Both names are also recorded on the towns‟ war memorial, at the Altar, reredos and east-window , near the harbour. The east-window, installed in 1901 is a memorial to Queen During the Second Victoria and depicts the World War, on 20th Ascension of Christ. June 1941, the church

The reredos, made by Messrs was damaged during a H.H. Martyn of Cheltenham to a German bombing raid design by G.H. Fellowes Prynne, on the town when a was installed in 1902 followed by number of bombs fell the High Altar table in 1908. The panels on both are believed to on the parish. One have been painted by the exploded in the church designers’ brother, Edward A. garden, adjacent to the Fellowes Prynne, R.B.A. east-end of the church, badly damaging the east window and a large area of the roof. The blast also dislodged two crosses which fell from external dressings of Ham Hill stone and internal dressings of the roof. Doulting stone. The original design for the church, by

The Hollow Log 11 Interestingly, during the same raid, the house of Richard 15 Aug 1909 Alfred George Hollow Alfred James & Amelia Hollow and his wife Maria, at 10 Barwis Hill, took 21 Jul 1912 Cyril Hollow Alfred James & Amelia a direct hit and was raised to the ground, both survived the incident although others in Marriages Penzance were Date Names Age Father less fortunate. 03 Nov 1897 John James Brown 28 Samuel Brown Barwis Hill had Mary Margaret Hollow 27 Edward Hollow also been the home of 17 Sep 1899 James Henry Williams 21 Nicholas Williams Thomas Bryant (deceased) Hollow Richard Trenoweth and Maria Hollow who mentioned survived the bombing raid on St John’s parish above who during the Second World War. with his wife Harriet and Elizabeth Ann Hollow 19 George Hollow daughter 10 Jul 1906 Thomas Bryant Hollow 31 John Hollow Valerie Ann, Harriet Hodge 25 Jacob Hodge lived at „Skerryvoe‟ 11 Mar 1913 John Charles Clemens 21 William Clemens where Thomas Alice Hollow 22 Richard Henry Hollow Bryant died on 9th August 26 Jun 1915 Charles 36 William Samuel Pengelly 1918, aged 43. Eliza Jane Hollow 35 John Hollow His death was a result of the injuries he had incurred while serving in the 04 Apr 1925 Richard George Johns 23 Richard Johns during the First World War. Florence May Hollow 21 Richard Henry Hollow

Parish Registers 19 Jul 1950 Richard Henry Trevor Hollow 20 Henry Hollow

Registers of Baptisms are from 1881 and those for marriages Elizabeth Cotton xx Edwin Charles Madron from 1882. 27 Mar 1967 John Henry Hawkey 22 John Edgar Hawkey There are no Burial registers as there have been no burials in (deceased) the church grounds, however a number of Hollow funeral Barbara Hollow 24 Cyril Hollow (deceased) services have been held at the Church but the records are not ♠ available. . Keith Hollow The following Hollow entries have been recorded: New Hollow Researchers Baptisms Mary Pascoe Date Name Parents [email protected] 05 Dec 1890 Alice Hollow Richard Henry & Annie Mary is a descendant of Albina Hollow and Thomas Henry 10 Sep 1893 William Edward Hollow Richard Henry & Annie Pascoe. Albina one of the Hollows through Matthew 03 Oct 1896 Ada Hollow (adult) Richard & Harriet and Eleanor Warren Travena.

23 Oct 1896 Howard Hollow Richard Henry & Annie Valerie Goodman/Kimberley L French

06 Jul 1900 Gladys Mary Hollow Richard Henry & Annie [email protected]

02 May 1900 Percy Hollow George & Elizabeth Mother/daughter Valerie and Kimberley are descendants of Minnie Hollow and James Floyd who migrated to U.S.A and 12 May 1904 Florence May Hollow Richard Henry & Annie lived in Akron Ohio. Minnie was an aunt of James Anthony 26 Apr 1908 Valerie Ann Hollow Thomas Bryant & Harriet Rillston Hollow featured on page 5 of this Hollow Log.

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