The Hollow Log, Issue 45 Page 2
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 45, December 2014 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772 Discovering Cornish Relations and I NSI DE T H I S I SSUE Family Roots Hollow Spotting Robert Hollow, catholic priest, from outback Queensland journeyed back to Towednack in I am always looking for Hollow Spottings from around the world. Cornwall to where his great grandfather Thomas Hollow (b 1856) lived before leaving for Page 2 the antipodes in 1879. Robert tells of his experience in two articles in this Hollow Log. Non-Paternal Events A story showing the value of talking to people when researching your family history, often not all of the story is in the records. Page 3 In Search of Trevega A trip to Cornwall during Robert’s sabbatical hit an emotion spot when talking with distant cousins, breathing the air of his ancestors and retracing those ancestors’ footsteps. Page 4 Two Bobs Worth There are 37 Robert Hollow’s in my Hollow database. Two of them met this year in St Ives. Page 7 Robert Hollow with his fifth cousins, Charlotte Murt and Elizabeth Knowles outside the door of the Towednack Church. A Novel by a Hollow…at Last! I counted up the references to A Hollow Novel Hollow authors in editions of the Hollow Log. There are 17, all but Last Issue I reported finding a crime novel that one of their books are non-fiction had a Hollow as the main character. I am rapt to books. This one will break the say that 2015 will see the publishing of a crime drought. The exception is Victor Sydney Hollow’s childrens’ story, novel written by a Hollow. The Little Silver Ring published in Mike Hollow has been spotted as a book author 1947. before. Hollow Log 20 Page 8 Not so long ago I was in touch with Mike and in Origin of Hollow via the conversation was lamenting the fact that I hadn’t found a Hollow who had authored a Holla via place name novel. That is when Mike confided in me that he If Hollow originated from Hallow may be able to change that if his plans came to the name for moor then why isn’t pass. They did and here is the cover. the name more widely distributed? Read the background to how it came This has puzzled me since I began about in Mike’s article in this Hollow Log.. the Hollow one name study. I outline my current theory. Page 9 followed by interment at Towednack Church, the church Hollow Spotting where she was married all those years ago.. Another Perth Hollow Another Hollow Author The photo appeared in the Neil Hollow has co-authored this book. This exert from one Rossmoyne Raiders Football critique of the book. Cub Year Book 2014 (Western Australia) with the “The authors say the purpose of the following text. book is to raise awareness of oil depletion among Christians and to Deacon Hollow. Deacon had a suggest some practical solutions. It great first season of Auskick. He, does both of those and more besides, as like numerous other boys, has been this is a more comprehensive and in attendance virtually every week. analytical book than I expected. It is Deacon’s season has seen him full of well researched comparisons of develop into a confident player, different technologies, with detailed very fast, and always willing to sections on different renewable energy chase down the ball. Well done on your season. sources – all described with non- Deacon is the son of Corey and Leonie Hollow, (see Hollow technical clarity. It anticipates Spotting in Hollow Log 44). questions and common objections and addresses the oil situation in its full Obituaries environmental and economic context. HOLLOW. Ronald James (Ron) 09.12.1924 - 11.08.2014 Neil is descended from William Hollow and Urslea Cock via Passed away at Wantirna, Victoria. Husband to Thelma. Father the Hollow family that lived in Fowey during the 19th century. to Annette, Geoffrey, Garry and Tony. Father-in-law to Jenni. Grandfather to 7 grandchildren and great grandfather to 2 Hollows in Uniform great grandchildren. Brother and brother-in- law of Kath and These images courtesy of “Gravesecrets at your Fingertips!” at Jim Garner, uncle of Linda, Alan, Angela and Michael. Brother http://www.ww1anzac.com/ of Bernie (dec. ), brother- in-law of Nola Hollow. Member of the Ringwood Bowls Club If you are looking for WWI images or are willing to share yours this is an excellent site. HOLLOW Ann died peacefully at West Cornwall Hospital on Tuesday, 23rd September 2014. Doris Ann was aged 93 years I have included two images, Arthur Hollow, Son of John and lived at HOLLOW and Elizabeth nee LAWRENCE of Adelaide, SA. Newgate Arthur was killed in Belguim in 1917 (left), and Edward Bungalow, Campbell Hollow from Tasmania and son of John Hollow Trink Farm, St and Elizabeth Coullin. (right) Ives up until 16 days of her death. Wife of Robert, mother of Elizabeth, Charlotte and Emma, mother-in-law of Robert, Roy and David, grandmother to Christopher, Simon, James, Louis and Dominic and step grandmother to Ian and a proud great- grandmother. Doris Ann and her husband Robert celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary this year. A Requiem Mass was celebrated at The Church of The Immaculate Conception, Rosevean Road, Penzance on Saturday, 4th October at noon The Hollow Log, Issue 45 Page 2 Non-paternal Events Non-paternal events are one of the things that complicate DNA studies in genealogy. Such an event is usually an adoption or a birth out of wedlock. That is, an event that sees a male take on a surname that is not his biological father’s surname. Peter Arneson discovered a non-paternal event in Pennsylvania that had gone unnoticed when using the conventional family research methods of birth, death, marriage and census records. The records seemed to indicate that Edward John Hollow and Edith Sickles had just one son, Edward James Hollow who in turn had eight On 29 August 1916 the Scranton Republican newspaper reported:- children. Peter when researching this family as part of his tree made contact with one of Edward James’ children, John. John confided that FORMER LOCAL WOMAN IS KILLED BY TRAIN his father found, when he applied for a wedding licence, that he was DURYEA, Pa., Aug. 28. not a Hollow but a Hensley. Mrs. Phillip Hensley, of this town, a former resident of South Scranton, was His parents were actually Philip Hensley and Elizabeth Johnson. killed Saturday night when struck by a Lehigh Valley freight train on the Phillip was a half brother of Edward John Hollow. They had the Duryea crossing in the Cut off. She was walking to her home after making same mother. What caused the name change was very tragic. purchases at a local grocery store. The woman is survived by her husband and ten children, the youngest of the latter being but nine months old. Three years later a Scranton Republican, report on 23 August 1919 Hello There stated:- No news on the DNA front, no new tests to report. I am Philip Hensley, aged 49 years, ,for the past few years a car Inspector for the D., hoping to make a renewed effort to recruit Hollow males to L. & W. railroad, died yesterday afternoon at the home of his son, .Phillip join the DNA project, meanwhile family history continues Hensley, Jr., of 336,4 North Hyde park avenue. Mr. Hensley's death was due to to be made. I hope you find the contents here interesting. heart trouble and followed a lingering illness. The ten children were taken in by various members of the family. Odd Spot Edward John Hollow and wife Edith brought up Edward James who A Cornish dad is attempting the world’s longest loom band, would have been four years old when his mother died. Edward after one that fits around the harbour at Mevagissey, his Cornwall home. Two weeks in his band was 6 metres long, 256 finding he was a Hensley, did change his name legally to Hollow, and metres to go. He expects the project to take a year. married as a Hollow. But that’s not all. Phillip was one of three children of Richard and The Hollow Family Website Caroline Hensley. Richard died in 1870 and Caroline appears to have migrated to Scranton in Pennsylvania, her children eventually turned The website is updated on a monthly basis now. In the Hollow Log, details of families are often quite brief. You up there too .I have not found when they arrived. Caroline began a can use the Hollow Database section on the website to get relationship with a John Hollow probably in Pennsylvania in about further details of individuals and families. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chollo 1875 and is listed as Hollow in the 1880 census with two sons, w/ Edward and Charles Hollow. John was married to Mary Glasson in Redruth in 1872 and had one child in 1874. John may have moved to Pennsylvania to work as a miner, Caroline lived in Redruth before Contact moving to Pennsylvania where she had children to him in 1876, 1878, Colin Hollow edits the Hollow Log and welcomes contributions. 1882, and 1889. Meanwhile back in Cornwall Mary Glasson had two Write to 2 Keeley Lane, Princes Hill, 3054, Victoria, more children in 1879 and 1882 called them Hollow and remained Australia. e-mail: [email protected] there until her death in 1910. She did not marry again and in each Hollow and variants Holla, Hollah, Hallo and Hallow are census she was recorded as ‘married’ but was without her husband registered with The Guild of One-Name Studies.