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THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 51, December 2017 the Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772 THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 51, December 2017 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772 A Bojewyan Family Bojewyan is a small hamlet close to Pendeen and St Just in Penwith. Nearby hamlets are Trewellard, Boscaswell, Carnyorth. There were Hollows in each of these hamlets, mostly they are recorded in records as miners and/or farm labourers. They often alternated between the two occupations. This is the story of one family that lived in Bojewyan, or more accurately Bojewyan Stennack, for at least three generations. Some of the family stayed in Bojewyan others moved to many parts of the world.. For the full story go to page 4. Also inside This Issue The future virtual Zennor to South Africa reality? This is the story of the sort of migration that many of the Hollows made. It starts in We value tapes and videos of our Zennor, then moves to Redruth, then Falmouth, then Kenwyn near Truro, and then on family that we have at the moment. to London. From London this family splits again, some to South Africa and another to The use of Virtual Reality in family America. Henry Hollow (1803-1863) was a carpenter/builder in Kenwyn He married history may provide us with a Mary Blake in 1829 and they had ten children, six of whom (four boys and two girls) fascinating advance on tapes and videos in the future. survived into adulthood. In the late 1850s two of the boys moved to London. After Page 3 Henry’s death in 1863 the rest of the family also moved to London where one by one they married and commenced families. This story continues on page 8 Looking for Hollows in Colorado Hollow Spotting Carla Garner charts a voyage of discovery involving another Hollow family from the St Just/Pendeen area, this one from the hamlet of Trewellard. Page 11 DNA tests explained. Family historians are now offered three sorts of DNA tests. Each test provides different information that may help further our family history research. The adverts for the tests often don’t explain fully what you may learn from each type of test Page 13 The Hollow Log 1 ============================================================================================ Avis Verona HOLLOW. Avis died on 22 November 2017 Hollow Spotting at the Kerikeri Retirement Village. Aged 87 years, wife of At the Movies Trevor for 64 years. Mother A visit to the movies to see the film “Hampstead” was and mother-in- rewarded with a spotting in the Credits of Bob Hollow, law of Chris Special Effects. Bob was featured in Hollow Log 24 in 2004. and Murray It was nice to see he is still working on films. He had moved Squire and into TV and commercials but his filmography on imdb.com Martin and shows he has worked on about 20 film projects since 2004. friend of On the net Davena. Nana of Scott, Ainslie Searching for and Byron. info on Great Kenneth Grandmother Hollow of the of Emilia. A South African service for Avis story I came was held at the Ted Robinson Memorial Chapel, Kerikeri across another Retirement Village, Kerikeri on Saturday 25 November... Ken Hollow, a singer who Published in The New Zealand Herald on Nov. 23, 2017 made two Avis and husband Trevor were featured in Hollow Log 30, albums and 2 when they visited Cornwall. demo singles in the 1970s. Jeanette BOWMAN nee HOLLOW, passed away on This Ken October 11, 2017 in Lancaster, PA. Jeanette was the daughter Hollow lived of Paul Q Hollow and Agnes Cumens. This Hollow family in Kent and is from another line of Hollows that go back to also migrated from Cornwall to Pennsylvania. They came as Zennor. Some ended up migrating to the coal mine area of farmers rather than miners before moving to other work. Pennsylvania, Lackawanna County. A short article on this Storm Tragedy family is in Hollow Log 45. Ben Hollow and his partner Lauren Brownlee were in Obituaries Chirnside Park, Victoria when they were struck by lightning Gladys Dawn ROBBINS('nee HOLLOW) Gladys died in during an electrical storm on Friday 17th November. Lauren Adelaide 4th November 2017. Gladys was born in Broken was killed and Ben was severely injured and was hospitalised Hill, NSW 18th June 1930 and was the second child to Philip in a serious but stable condition. Walter and Ben is from a family of Hollows who migrated from St Ives Catherine to Healesville, Victoria that were featured in Hollow Log 27. HOLLOW. She married William Bernard ROBBINS in Broken Hill. They were the owners and operators of Robbies Milk Bar in Broken Hill South for many many years. Information from Ruth and Wally Hollow. The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 2 ============================================================================================ H E L L O T HERE The Future – Virtual This is a bumper edition. Three pretty extensive stories, I had Reality? so much help I would have felt bad if I held one over for the In family history and indeed local history too we often used next edition. Issue 52 might be a small one. tapes or videos to record personal experiences and stories For the Bojewyan story I must thank a lot of people, from older people. They become particularly valued and Michael, Paul, Stuart, and, Tracey Hollow from Scotland, treasured when the person has passed on. In a recent TV Steve Murphy from California, Gail Wheeler from Canada, program I saw what might be a future development in family and Tom Davidson from Scotland. history and local history. For the South Africa story, I thank George Tyler (New The program was about Virtual Reality. The technology Zealand), Rob Hollow (England), and Rose Hollow (Ireland). where a 3D world can be created, and then accessed, using a virtual reality headset. Inside the headset is a screen. The Thanks to Carla Garner (Colorado) for the Colorado story. headset hides your immediate environment; you can only see The bulk of this issue’s stories came through contacts made the 3D world that the screen presents. on Facebook through the Hollow Family History Group list. In the program an avatar, a 3d image, such as you might see If you are on FB and want to meet other Hollows seek us via in a video game, of a participant’s grandfather was created. Google or find me on Facebook and send me a friend This involved the actual grandfather sitting down and request. answering a lot of questions about his early life, his family etc. A video is taken of him answering the questions. The video is S T O P P RESS then processed to create a 3D moving image, used for virtual reality, an avatar, of him answering. They then used the A further note to the A Bojewyan Family story. technology from phones and computers that enable voice commands. Such as Apple’s Siri and the voice command The William Gibb story is still evolving as I get new system in navigation systems. Using this technology the information. William Gibb actually owned all of the avatar responds to questions asked of it. The avatar you see is Kilcreggan Cottages and was probably House Factor to his particularly realistic. own properties. Prior to owning the Kilcreggan Cottages he owned properties in Paisley and Arrochar. The ‘Kilcreggan The result was a virtual reality experience where the avatar Estate’, the family believed David’s parents owned, would was able to be asked questions and he/it responded. The have been the Kilcreggan Cottages. After William Gibbs‘s questions didn’t have to be the same as those asked or in the death they did pass to Josepha and eventually her children. same order. The people in the program all had an emotional reaction to this technology. Virtual reality has the brain T H E HOLLOW W EBSITE believing the grandfather is actually there. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chollow/ In the program we see how when several cameras are used taking video images, using multiple lighting setups an avatar The database is updated monthly. It may be worth checking can be created that is almost impossible to distinguish from your family as sometimes changes are made because of new the real person. information. The database is very much a work in progress. This technology would take sound and video recordings to a C ONTACT new level. Imagine a grandchild viewing and questioning a Colin Hollow edits the Hollow Log, comments and grandfather that they never knew. contributions are always welcome. The Program was “Meet the Avatars”, a program in the Write to 2 Keeley Lane, Princes Hill, 3054, Victoria, Catalyst series from the Australian ABC. Aussies can catch up Australia. Or e-mail: [email protected] with it on ABC iView. Internationally the film can be downloaded from this web address Hollow and variants Holla, Hollah, Hollaw and Hollowe are http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4718816.htm registered with The Guild of One-Name Studies. It is an hour long program; the section on creating an avatar The Guild member is Colin Hollow (Mem.No. 3056). is covered in the second half of the program, ©No material in this newsletter to be produced without permission. The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 3 ============================================================================================ settlement consisted of three rows or terraces of granite stone A Bojewyan Family cottages built specifically for the miners and our Hollow This story came together from two seemingly unrelated family lived in one of them as did many of the families, the contacts I made in the rather diverse Hollow family. The first Trembaths for example who they married into.
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