THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 51, December 2017 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772

A Family Bojewyan is a small hamlet close to and St Just in . Nearby hamlets are , Boscaswell, . 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 , then Falmouth, then Kenwyn near , 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 . 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.

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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 (), 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. of the contacts was seven years ago. Steve Murphy from The cottages were built into the valley wall and so had no California made contact. His grandfather, John Thomas back yard. They fronted onto common ground so gardens for Hollow (1905-1970), was born at Bojewyan, Pendeen, vegetables were built at the front Cornwall and migrated to the US with of the cottages. his brother Arthur in 1929. The Family

The tin mining flourished in the This year I have taken the Hollow John Thomas Hollow, b. 1869 at , CON, d. 19 Nov 1915 at St Just, CON mid 1800s but declined by the family history to Facebook and I made +Nanny Warren Trembath, b. 1874 at , late 1800s and by the early 1900s contact with a fairly large Hollow CON, m. 21 Mar 1891 at Pendeen, CON, d. 1954 at Liverpool North, ENG the village population was very family in Scotland, mostly around ├── Mary Elizabeth Hollow, b 1891 much reduced. The rows fell into Ayrshire. This family went back to ├── Beatrice Jane Hollow, b. 1893 disrepair and were only rescued David Hollow (1926-1984) but there ├── Ellen Hollow, 1895, by grants in the 1980s that was a brick wall. The family had no ├── Susan A Hollow, b. 1895 provided for restoration. They knowledge of his parents. This story is ├── Hilda Hollow, b. 1897 are now sort after residences and of how these two contacts, seven years ├── William Richard Hollow, 1898 ├── Irene Hollow, b. 9 May 1899 many are holiday cottages. apart came together and put life into ├── Cepha (Josepha) Hollow b. 1900 d. 1904 some data that had been just a listing This family’s story in Bojewyan ├── Olive Hollow, b. 1902 began when Richard Hollow of births, deaths and marriages. ├── Henry Hollow, b. 1903 (1819-1903) and his family Firstly let’s look at Steve’s family ├── John Thomas Hollow, b. 1905,. moved to the area in 1850. He story. Steve’s grandfather was part of a ├── Josefa (Josepha) Hollow, b. 1906 ├── Arthur Hollow, b. 1908 alternated between farm very large family that lived At ├── Violet May Hollow, b. 1909, labouring and mine work. The Bojewyan, a small hamlet near ├── Garfield Hollow, b. 1912 father of twelve children, his last Pendeen. └── Myrtle Hollow, b. 1914 born son was John Thomas The colours show where each person lived at some point. To understand the context here we Black U.K., Red Scotland, Blue U.S.A. Hollow (1869-1915). He was to need to know something of the hamlet produce this large family that of Bojewyan and go back one more generation in this Hollow Steve Murphy is a part of. John Thomas Hollow (1869-1915} line. and Nanny Warren Trembath (1874-1954) were married at Pendeen in 1891. They went on to have sixteen children, Bojewyan is a small hamlet between the larger villages of eleven girls and five boys. Pendeen and Morvah on the Penwith Peninsula in One girl, Cepha, died aged three but all the West Cornwall. Higher other children survived Bojewyan was originally a very ancient farming into adulthood. settlement but tin From baptism records streaming and mining and census records it is became a strong part of clear the family lived at the settlement. Bojewyan Bojewyan Stennack. Stennack, close by, is a In the late 1800s and early creation of tin working - 1900s many families left the name Stennack Bojewyan Stennack but actually means ‘tin this family of Hollows place’’. The houses here remained there longer were built in the early than most. In the 1911 1800s when both Higher census the family is still Bojewyan and Bojewyan there. The eldest two Stannack experienced rapid growth due to the tin mining. daughters have left home, Mary Elizabeth had married and Our family of Hollows lived in Bojewyan Stennack. The Beatrice was working in another house as a servant. All the

The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 4 ======other children living at the time are recorded there. It is A hint on researching U.S. shipping records. There are two difficult to find what happened to the family from there on pages to look at; a search engine will throw up just the first unless there is a marriage or death. page. To get the second page you have to click on the arrow for next image, usually top left corner. I used Family Search The family follows the path of many Cornish families of this to find these, it is free to use unlike Ancestry or FindmyPast. time, many stay in Cornwall but many move away, sometimes within the U.K. but many to the U.S. The women of the Marriage in Grass Valley family mostly went into service before being married. The Within two years the Hollows had moved to Grass Valley in men stayed in mining. The patriarch, John Thomas Hollow California. We know this from the marriage of Garfield died in November 1915. With the exception of Mary Hollow in 1932; he was married on 15 Sep 1932. His Elizabeth the children were still unmarried and ranged in age marriage certificate provides a lot of information. He was from 22 down to 1 year old Myrtle. It would have been up to living in Grass Valley as was his witnesses, his brother John the older children to support the family, remembering that and his sister Myrtle. Just 10 days later it was Myrtle being around them WWI was raging. At the end of the war the married. She married Henry Irving James, the man who older girls began to get married William Richard married in accompanied John and Arthur Hollow to the U.S. Myrtle’s 1923 and remained in the area. By 1929 the family had pretty witnesses were her bother Garfield and sister Violet. much dispersed. We can assume all the family who migrated to the U.S. were In 1929 John Thomas Hollow Junior and his brother Arthur now living in Grass Valley, a mining town in Nevada County, migrated to The U.S. They sailed on the ship Ascania to California. Both Garfield and Henry James were listed as Quebec Canada on the 9th miners on their marriage November 1929 and then entered certificates. the U.S. at Detroit Michigan on the 19th November 1929. They were Although John T Hollow was living in Grass Valley travelling in a party of seven young his love was in Minnesota. men from St Just, one of whom was Henry I. James who we will meet He went back to Minnesota to marry Mildred Carson in again later. The ships papers report St Louis on the 9th Feb them as wanting become permanent residents. Migrants also had to 1933. This only left Violet unmarried. She does marry nominate a relative or friend they in 1934 but we will were going to join in the U.S., the Hollows and Henry James continue her story later. nominated William Trembath who The 1940 U.S. census was living in Detroit. William Trembath was the brother of shows two families still in Grass Valley, John and Mildred Nanny Hollow, John and Arthur’s mother. The boys were with a daughter Marion living next door to Henry and Myrtle counted on the 1930 U.S. census lodging together in Ely City, James and their daughter Sylvia. Both men are miners at the St Louis, Minnesota so they didn’t stay long in Detroit. gold mine. Nanny Hollow, Arthur, Garfield, and Violet do There was movement amongst the other members of the not appear to be on the 1940 census. In other records Garfield does turn up. He married again in 1940, this time in family too. On the 16th May 1930 four more of the family England at Omskirk which is a town close to Liverpool in arrived at the Port of Quebec on the SS Empress of Scotland. They were Nanny Hollow the mother, and her children Lancashire. In 1941 a child, Sylvia, was born to them in Bellshill, Scotland, probably while on a visit. Violet (age 20), Garfield (17) and Myrtle (16). They entered the U.S. via Vermont on May 24th 1930. Records show they It would appear that Garfield returned to England in the expected to become permanent residents, their friend or 1930s, presumably with his mother Nanny living with him. relative was also William Trembath, Nanny Hollow’s brother. She was to die in Liverpool in 1956. Garfield’s brother John also died in Liverpool, in 1970. Steve Murphy relayed the The ship’s manifest also includes a physical description of each passenger. Nanny Hollow , mother of sixteen children family story that John’s first wife, Mildred, died in 1963. John went on to marry again in 1964. The story was that one the was just 4’10” (147 cm). Her daughters were 5ft and 5’1”, “condition” of his marriage to Estelle Keeny was that Steve’s Garfield 5’7”. John was 5’10” and Arthur 5’9”. We learn a lot from these manifests. grandfather wanted to go back and visit Cornwall. After John remarried, he did take a trip back to England in 1970 were he visited siblings. Sadly during that trip he took ill and passed

The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 5 ======away. It must have been when he was visiting his brother Christina b1933 all registered at Old Kilpatrick. Hugh Garfield in Liverpool. His body was taken back to the U.S. McVeil/McNeil died in 1939. Ellen subsequently married and he is buried next to his first wife Mildred at Grass Valley. George Frew in 1944. Ellen died in 1975 aged 80. His second wife Estelle died at Grass Valley in 1993. It seems likely Ellen and Hugh encouraged Josepha and What about the Scottish Connection? Violet May to join them to find work. Josepha found work at The Scottish story started with me finding many Hollows North Ailey farm at Cove and then in 1926, a child, a living in and around Ayrshire west of Glasgow. The family marriage. Violet May returned to Cornwall at sometime and went back to David Hollow (1926-1984). The Scottish births, migrated to the US with her mother, brother Garfield and deaths and marriage indexes are sister Myrtle in 1930. While family available online. David’s birth was members in the U.S. were finding registered at Kilcreggan and Cove. partners there, Violet May returns to Scotland to marry John Potter The family had no knowledge of Murphy at Rhu. Rhu is on the David Hollow’s parents except that coast opposite Rosneath and quite they owned Kilcreggan Estate. A close to Cove. See the map. In search of my Hollow database failed 1956 Violet and John migrate to to find any leads on who David’s the U.S. Violet for the second parents were. Michael Hollow, one of time. David’s grandchildren, decided to obtain David’s birth certificate. On Back to the marriage of the certificate his father is not listed Josepha Hollow to William but his mother was. She was Josepha Gibb. Hollow. David was born at North My research on William took a Ailey Farm, Cove and his mother positive turn when I contacted the Josepha was a farm servant. Facebook page of North Ailey Farm; still operating it is now a farm and equestrian centre. Through the people of North This opened the way to many discoveries. Josepha is a Ailey farm I found a relative of William Gibb in Canada. I distinctive name and it immediately linked this family to the was also directed to the Facebook page “Memories of Grass Valley Hollow family. They are the only Hollow family Kilcreggan” and through that page I found another relative of I have that have used this forename. William, this one in Scotland, with more information. How did Josepha end up in Scotland? William was born in 1859 in Paisley the ninth and last child of I began to search the Scottish records and came up with these a House Factor and Church Officer. House Factor is a entries that seem part of the family. Scottish term; a house factor looks after property for its  Josepha Hollow married William Gibb at Kilcreggan owner(s). This can be looking after house repairs of houses 1926 rented out, or farm or estate cottages or the like. It could also  Josepha Hollow then married John Dunlop McCully involve collecting rent from the tenants for the landlord. at Blythswood (Glasgow) in 1934  Violet May Hollow married John Potter Murphy at I found that William married twice, once in 1902, he was 43 Rhu 1934 his wife 44, they didn’t have children, his first wife died in  Ellen Hollow married George Frew at Kelvingrove 1925. He then married Josepha Hollow who it is believed (Glasgow) in 1947. worked for the Gibbs. It seems William needed a woman to We know that Josepha, Violet May and Ellen are sisters, look after him. Prior to his marriage he had lived with his Ellen being the oldest. widowed mother in Paisley and worked as a House Factor You will recall that I wrote that at the end of WW1 the family also he had an interest in a china and porcelain retail shop began to marry. One of those marriages was Josepha’s sister, with his sister Elizabeth. He then lived with his sister Ellen Hollow, who married a Hugh McVeil, registered at Elizabeth at Arrochar on Loch Long. When Elizabeth passed in 1918. Hugh McVeil was Scottish and returned away in 1902 he was soon married to a Euphemia Granger with his wife Ellen to Scotland. They settled somewhere who was of his own age back in Paisley. At some point the around Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire. Old Kilpatrick is not couple moved to Kilcreggan where William continued as a shown on the map but is about 15 miles SW of Helensburgh. House Factor. When Euphemia died in 1925, William then I found their name changed in the records to McNeil. They married Josepha Hollow in 1926. It doesn’t seem he was had at least three children, John b1920, Elizabeth, b1925 and David Hollow’s father; otherwise David would have been

The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 6 ======given the Gibb name. John McCully’s death, he Instead Josepha kept the may have died during WWII Hollow name for David or they may have separated through two marriages. and he moved from Scotland. William Gibb was living at 9 Sunnyside Cottage, David Hollow (1926- Kilcreggan as was 1984) Josepha when they Between family knowledge married (recorded on and birth Death and their marriage marriage records we have certificate) and when he been able to piece together a died in 1934 (recorded little of David’s life. It seems on his death certificate). that he would have spent One Gibb family much of his first eight years contact believes Josepha of life at Kilcreggan. His mother‘s second marriage would worked for William and Euphemia at 9 Sunnyside Cottage have taken him to Old Kilpatrick. Old Kilpatrick is about 15 before Euphemia’s death. Moving to North Ailey Farm may kms from Glasgow central on the North bank of the river have been necessary late in Josepha’s pregnancy. Clyde. The family would have been there for at least two It is hard to work how the story unfolded in Cove and years then another child was registered in Glasgow. Kilcreggan. It seems that William was quite a dependant In 1945 David and Jessie Brown McClung’s marriage was person. William did spend time in Australia, he was there registered at Hillhead, Glasgow. In 1946 the couple’s first when his father died in 1887, he was 28. He did return to child was born at Drymen which is about 30 km NW of Paisley to live with his mother and probably took over his Glasgow. David worked as a resident farm labourer/farm father’s House Factor business. hand and moved around in this occupation. David and Jessie We are left with the had three more thought that maybe he children and just did an honourable they were thing and provided registered at protection for Josepha Kilcreggan in within marriage at a 1948 (the village time when she would David spent his have needed support. early life), Provan William Gibb died on (Glasgow) in April 25th 1934 at 1949 and Kilcreggan. Josepha Bellshill in 1955 marries again in 1934, which is 14 km to John Dunlop SE of Glasgow. McCully. The marriage The family was registered at recollection is that around 1959 they moved to Ayrshire Blythswood (Glasgow) she had at least three children to looking for farm work. David found work as a lorry driver, McCully. Myrtle Hollow McCully was born in 1935, the birth delivering large milk urns for the dairy farms in the area, so registered at Old Kilpatrick and a Catherine McCully’s birth not farm work but farm related. was registered there in 1937. Old Kilpatrick is on the Clyde close to Glasgow and it is where Josepha’s sister Ellen’s David made North Ayrshire his home. The county is SW of children were registered too. A William McCully’s death in Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde. Some in the family have 2011 in Helensburgh (next to Rhu) is recorded, his mother moved away but there is still a strong Hollow presence in and was a Hollow and he was 71 years old so born 1940. His around the towns of Ayr, Dalmellington, Old Cumnock birth was registered as both a Hollow and a McCully. Kilmarnock and Irvine. David and Jessie’s ashes were spread at Kilcreggan. Josepha McCully died at Rosneath (opposite Rhu on map) in 1981, she was 74 years old. I have not found her husband, Colin Hollow

The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 7 ======Zennor to South Africa Henry Blake Hollow (1845-1910) was the third of his four brothers to move to London. A carpenter, he married Ellen Mills Townsend, a widow in 1866, and together they had seven children. The second born was William John Robert Hollow (1873-1937) and he was to make the move to Boksburg in South Africa.

William John Robert Hollow broke the family tradition of carpenters and became a print compositor. A treasured possession of one of his grandsons, Rob Hollow, is the Indenture Paper he signed to theirs during the said term And the said become an apprentice compositor. William John Robert Hollow Their said Apprentice in the Art of a compositor The transcription of this document makes interesting reading. That they an shall teach and instruct or cause to be taught and Be aware, the use of capitals seems to have followed none of instructed paying unto the said apprentice six shillings our now generally accepted rules. per week for the first year(55hours per week), 7/- per week for the 2nd year, 8/- per week for the 3rd year, 10/- per week This Indenture Witnesseth That William John Robert Hollow for the 4th year, 12/- per week for the 5th year, 14/- per week for the son of Henry Blake Hollow of 80 Blurton Road, Lower Clapton, 6th year and 16/- per week for the 7th year: but London with the consent of his such wages shall not be paid when from illness, accident or any other father (certified by his execution hereof) cause, the said Apprentice shall not doth put himself Apprentice to The Botolph Printing Works, 1 be at his work for the said Masters , such lost time to be deducted at the Crosskey Square, Little Britain rate of time and a half. , in the City of London. And for the true performance of all and every the said covenants and to learn their art and with them after the Manner of an apprentice serve Agreements either of the said Parties bindeth himself unto the from the 31st October 1887 Other by these Presents In Witness whereof the Parties above names to unto the full endant of seven years from thence next following to fully these indentures interchangeably have put their hands and seals complete and ended During The thirty first day of October 1887 and in the which term the said apprentice his Masters Fiftieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady faithfully serve their secrets keep their lawful Victoria by the grace of God og the commands every of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the where gladly do. he shall do no damage to his said Faith Masters nor see to be done of others but his, Power and in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight shall tell Hundred and Eighty Seven or forthwith give meaning to his said Masters of the William John Robert Hollow name He shall not waste the Goods of his said Henry Blake Hollow Masters Witnesses J Chadband J M Simson nor tend them unlawfully to any. He shall not commit fornication nor contract matrimony within Not only was William to learn the art of a the said term He print compositor he was to live a very staid shall not play Cards or Dice Tables or any other Victorian life for the duration of his unlawful Games whereby his said Masters may apprenticeship at least. have any loss with their own goods or others during the said term Marriage and family without licence of his said Masters. He shall neither buy In early 1901 William married Mabel Bettis in nor sell He shall not haunt Taverns or Playhouses Hackney, London. Their first born was a son nor absent himself from his Masters service Leslie William born in 1902. Soon after the unlawfully But in all things as a faithful apprentice small family migrated to South Africa, and he shall behave himself towards his said Masters and had three more children, Malcolm Henry,

The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 8 ======born 1903, Kenneth, b 1905, and Margaret b 1912. The Malcolm Henry Hollow (1903-1970) family settled in Boksburg, Transvaal where William Malcolm Hollow the second eldest son also had become a established his own printing business, called Boksburg printer and eventually taken over the running of the business. Printers. A business of that name still operates in Boksburg. He married Hazel Ann Douglas and they had two daughters, Margaret and Jean. William wasn’t the first of his family to migrate to South Africa. His brother, Henry Charles Hollow (1871-1902) was Kenneth Hollow (1905-1978) married to Janet Watson at Dundee, Natal, in 1894 There Kenneth Hollow qualified as a teacher at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, commonly known as Wits were four children from the marriage. He was to die there in University, in the mid thirties. He specialised in Science and 1902 just about the time brother William migrated to South Africa. William wasn’t the last to migrate to South Africa Math and first post was at Boksburg High school. At the outbreak of WW2 he joined up with the army medical corps either, another brother Ernest Arthur Hollow (1879-1917) and was transferred to a hospital in Barberton in the died there in 1917. He married Maude Fearn in 1906 in London and they had a child, Elsie, born in London in 1909. Transvaal that catered for the wounded from the Middle East. He then moved to Cape Town in 1943 with the There was also movement to South Africa on Mabel’s side of Government Health Dept in Pathology. He eventually carried the family too. Mabel’s brother Kenneth was also in South on with his studies and took a doctorate degree in Science at Africa in 1907 and is commemorated on William Hollow’s tombstone in the cemetery in Boksburg. Mabel’s sister Winifred also moved to S.A. after 1910 with her husband Frederick Weekes and their two children.

Although they were Londoners the Hollow brothers still seemed to have been attracted to mining areas. Boksburg had gold mines and coal mines; Dundee was a coal mining town. At least initially they seemed to find mine related work. William’s Family Stellenbosch Leslie William Hollow (1902-1971) University near Cape Leslie’s first occupation was a mine fitter in Boksburg. He Town. His thesis was married Mary Winifred Madden in 1927. Their first child was based on the then Roy William Hollow (1927-2008) who also became a mine new antibiotic fitter. When Roy was a child the family moved to Dundee, in penicillin. the South African Provence of Natal. They had another child Kenneth had married in Dundee, Peter Leslie Hollow (1937-2014). In Dundee Mary Knight in the Leslie changed occupations and became a senior manager in mid thirties and they the Talana Glassworks in Dundee. His son Roy also joined had two boys, Rob the glassworks. Peter joined the banks and at one stage and Trevor. Due to emigrated to America and later returned to South Africa. political pressure the

The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 9 ======family migrated to Broken Hill (Northern Rhodesia) in the Australia, and New Zealand. There are still some Hollows in early 1950's and Kenneth became a teacher again. During the South Africa. Federation of the Rhodesia's and Nyasaland he was Thanks to Rose Hollow, Rob Hollow, George Tyler and the transferred to Southern Rhodesia as school inspector. He was other members of the family who provided information for again transferred in 1956 as Headmaster of Broken Hill High. this article. All photos are from Rob Hollow’s collection. At the break-up of the Federation he returned to Southern Rhodesia and became a teacher at Hamilton High School. His Colin Hollow son Rob describes him as a quite person who was a positive influence on many people. Odd Spot Margaret Hollow (1912-1994) This small block work building in the hamlet of Bojewyan Margaret lived in Boksburg with her parents and was Stennack was constructed in the early 1900s and had a sign, preparing to get married when her boyfriend was killed Bojewyan Men’s Institute. This makes it one of the earliest during a miner’s strike. Eventually she married Stanley Albert “Men’s Sheds”. The building still survives although The Tyler in Cape Town in 1945. They were actually related. Men’s Institute doesn’t. It was built at a time when many had Stanley’s grandmother was the daughter of Margaret’s grandfather’s wife Ellen Townsend. Ellen had been widowed when she married Henry Blake Hollow.

Stanley Tyler was born in Pretoria to George Henry Tyler and Florence Coffin, he had two siblings, Mavis and Frank. George was a monotype mechanic who worked for the Government Printer. Stanley also took up this profession but

moved away from Bojewyan but the Hollow family had not. It is quite probable that the Hollow man were part of the group that used the shed. The shed along with Bojewyan Stennack and the surrounding hamlets are being studied as part of a heritage and archaeological survey conducted by the went on to be a proof reader. Stanley’s father moved to Cape . Two reports are available at the links Town to take over the Government Printer business there. below. Stanley worked in his father’s business. Margaret and Stanley The Men’s Shed Movement is big in Australia but there are had two children in Cape Town, Joy and George. Their son now groups in the UK, NZ and Ireland and probably other George suffered from pneumonia each year and also places. The last three links go to parts of a larger article with contracted TB. Under doctor’s advice the family moved to great photos of Bojewyan’s current buildings and landscape. Durban to escape the Cape Town winters that were contributing to George’s bouts of illness. Cornwall Industrial Settlements Initiative BOJEWYAN (St Just Area) http://www.historic- Their stay in Cape Town coincided with Margaret’s brother cornwall.org.uk/cisi/bojewyan/CISI_Bojewyan_report.pdf Kenneth’s time in Cape Town. Kenneth was there when Margaret married in 1945 and gave away the bride The Bojewyan History and Development bridesmaid is Stanley’s sister Mavis Tyler.. https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/3638439/Bojewyan_3_ History-and-Development.pdf Margaret and Stanley bought a “Tea Room” in Durban but had to give up the business when Margaret suffered ill health. Bojewyan Architecture, Geology & Building Materials Son George’s memory is of tough times for the family in https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/3638436/Bojewyan_Ti Durban with both parents having to work. Stanley passed tle-and-Contents.pdf away in 1978, Margaret in 1994. Bojewyan Preservation and Enhancement The family have scattered across the globe again, the third https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/3638441/Bojewyan_5_ and fourth generations live in England, Ireland, America, Preservation-and-Enhancement.pdf

The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 10 ======determined, needed further (on site) investigation; especially Looking for Hollows in since Nevadaville was only two hours away by car from our Colorado Rocky Mountain home. And the Gilpin County Courthouse is in Central City, Colorado, a few miles from Nevadaville, it “You’ll never find anyone related to me.” he said. “Once my turns out. parents died I am the only one of my name left.” I started making phone calls and found the marriage and land “Everyone has cousins, even if they don’t know them yet.” I records for the county are held in the Clerk of Recorders told him. He didn’t believe me but decided he’d better Office at the courthouse. I called this office and asked about humor me in my efforts. visiting to look at the records. The woman in charge was After several conversations over coffee I found his mother’s confused as to why we’d want to examine them, but she family was part of a group of miners that came over from invited us along anyway. I secretly wondered why she didn’t Cornwall to the United States in the late 1870’s. They get it, obviously she wasn’t a genealogist. I made an eventually settled in the state appointment to come of Colorado to mine gold in out that next week. Gilpin County – the Gregory Excited, was my state Load. How hard must it have of mind for the next been; the adjustment from a few days as I plotted seaside home, green fields and and pondered what well established communities, sort of information to an arid land of hard granite, we might find about scrub bushes and twenty foot Craig’s family. Finally deep snow in the Rocky the time came for our Mountain winters. trip over the Husbands, sons and single mountains to a real men came first to Nevadaville, ghost town and a or Nevada City as it was once thriving mountain city called. Married men’s families (albeit a small one). often followed after. And We arrived too early many stayed in Colorado, even on that fall morning when the gold played out. to call in the Craig’s ancestors remained courthouse, so it was and most moved down to decided to visit Golden, Colorado to work in Nevadaville first. the coal or clay mines. Few buildings Having found Craig’s remained but the dirt grandparents and great- streets were still grandparents names from his visible up the hillside maternal side; I went about from Main Street. reviewing the Federal Census’ from the later 1800’s in Gilpin And the rusting hulks of mine shafts and houses could be County. And in the midst of all these Richards, Maddern’s, seen looking downhill from town. All was quiet as an autumn Harvey’s and Grenfell’s was an Elizabeth Wallow? She was wind rattled the yellowing Aspen leaves on the sparse trees living in the home of Thomas Oats Harvey in 1900. Her growing about. In contrast to the current atmosphere of the occupation is listed as housekeeper. Where was Lucy town are records and Old Timer’s tales which talk about a Richards Harvey, Craig’s great-great grandmother? Turns out once robust population that divided the town in half, one Lucy Harvey died at only 38 years in 1886 leaving Thomas side Irish and one side Cornish – both working in the hard- Harvey alone to raise their youngest son. rock gold mines. These folks supported a number of saloons and legitimate businesses; a meat market, clothing stores, Wallow? Wollow? Why couldn’t these census takers have hardware stores and other amenities usually found only in been chosen for their penmanship?! higher population centers. The sound of stamp-mills Searching on-line and brought up many possibilities for pounding ore in Central City could be heard all over town. Elizabeth’s last name. But none of them a sure thing. This, I Nevada was loud and flourishing when Craig’s family lived

The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 11 ======there. Today the town is as quiet as nearby Bald Mountain the mini ipad has a small screen and there were just too many Cemetery. records! It would be a week before I would be able to offload the photos to my laptop and review the details on a larger Craig and I walked among the graveyards silent sentinels with screen. names and dates inscribed on them that told tales of short lives, and the often hard deaths, of these Pioneers of That opportunity to sit down and review the photographs Nevadaville and the Bald Mountain area. The dappled light was when I discovered a marriage record for Craig’s great- and shadow, from the many Quaking Aspens planted many grandfather Thomas Oats Harvey and Elizabeth Ann years ago, fell across the grave-markers of Craig’s great- Hollow! They were married on the 20th of April 1901 in grandparents. He studied these in quiet contemplation, then Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado. Her last name was marvelled as I pointed out great-uncles and aunts, older “Hollow!” cousins of his mother and her father. But in all the cemetery In 1901 Craig’s great-grandfather was sixty-six years old and we surveyed, I did not find the grave of Elizabeth -either Elizabeth was in her late 50’s. So she must have been Wallow, or any name similar. Was that really how her last married before. Had she come to the US by herself and name was spelled? married here or was she married back in England? Were Finally it was decided that we should get to the courthouse. there any children in her life? Or maybe she was a “spinster” We had limited hours to spend in Gilpin County and I and finally decided to marry Thomas in her later years? And wanted to cram as much family oriented activity into the day what happened to her after Craig’s great grandfather died in as we could. June 1902? We arrived at the An effort to find the beautiful old brick answer to the last building and found the question brought me Clerk & Recorder Office to the 1910 Federal inside. Colleen looked Census for Gilpin perplexed when I asked County, Colorado. what holdings she had, In it was found but she explained that the Elizabeth A. Harvey land records were now living as “head of available digitally. I asked house” on Main about the marriage Street in Nevadaville. records. She told us they She was sixty-one were not digitized and she years old with no would have her clerks occupation listed. bring out which ever ledger we wished, but we could only Recorded in the same dwelling was a boarder, Thomas look at one of the large old books at a time. My eyes lit up Roberts. He was a thirty-five year old single man with the and Craig was as bewildered at my excitement as Colleen. So occupation of miner. But what of Elizabeth’s early years? the clerk retrieved the first and oldest book available. Craig Was her family left back in England? Was she originally from was fascinated with holding the 150 year old tome in his Cornwall as many of Craig’s family were? Ah hah! Colorado hands. He was even more intrigued when I told him we were took a State Census in 1885. Perhaps she would be listed looking for his family names. There were so many of his there! And she was! “Eliz Hollon, thirty-eight years, wife.” relatives just in the first marriage book that I was forced to She was in the enumeration at the top of page 17, Gilpin speed up the recording process. We found a last name in the County, District 2, dated 1 June 1885. Going back to the index, turned to the page of record, found the name again bottom of page 16 there is “Jno Hollon, boarder in dwelling and photographed it without reading the record in any detail. number 155.” He is a forty-four year old miner. No children Craig sat and turned and I stood over his shoulder to live in the household. Time to look through overseas records photograph each of the written treasurers. Hours passed and for John and Elizabeth. then the sun was moving toward the horizon as we worked At the urging of Colin Hollow, I looked through images of on the forth book. Finally it was time for dinner and the trip Cornwall’s marriage records on familysearch.org and found back over the mountain to home. their marriage recorded on the bottom of page 166. While we were eating at the local diner I tried surreptitiously “1869...St. John’s Church...Parish of Pendeen...County of to look at some of the documents we’d photographed, but Cornwall...May 15...John Hollow, his X mark, age 27.

The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 12 ======Condition: bachelor, Rank or profession: miner, Residence: complaint, John Hollow, aged 54 years. He leaves a wife at Nevada, Trewellard, Father’s name and surname: William Hollow, and many friends who considered him an honest and industrious man...” Profession of father: miner. Elizabeth Ann Williams, her X Author's note: I am still mark, age 25, spinster, Pendeen, searching for information on the John Williams, miner. They were fate of Elizabeth Williams married in the parish Hollow Harvey. She seems like church...after Banns. Now I was she must have been a person to really involved. What happened to know and was a very strong John? woman. My job as a family In 1880 he and Elizabeth were researcher and writer is to “bring living on Nevada Street in Central the past into the future” and City, Colorado. He was mining leave a legacy of information to and she, keeping house. They are the descendants of those who both in their thirties and the went before. So I will keep census says that neither can read searching till I find the answer to nor write. No children are living with them. So something her mystery. happened to John Hollow between 1885 and 1900. Mining Carla Garner, October 2017 accidents were a constant danger during those years. Several of Craig’s male relatives came to an early demise due to mining accidents. This mystery bothered me and prompted my search of death and cemetery records of the area where DNA Tests John and Elizabeth lived. Still nothing was revealed. And A word of explanation of the DNA tests available for then a random act of genealogical kindness brought me the genealogical purposes. There are three basic types of tests answer to John’s fate. available to us in family history now. Each has a different purpose so it is important to have worked out what you want Previously, I’d made friends with Liz, a volunteer for the to get from a DNA test as they are still reasonably expensive. Foothills Genealogical Society. The geological foothills are the base of the Rocky Mountains along the “mineral belt” in We have two types of DNA in each cell of our bodies, Colorado. The genealogical foothills are the counties of Chromosomal DNA and Mitochondrial DNA. Each of our Clear Creek, Gilpin, Jefferson and Park. FGS helps preserve body’s cells has a nucleus that contains 46 chromosomes. the historical and family records from these counties. They are organised in pairs, we have 23 pairs. We get 23 chromosomes from our mother and 23 from our father. One Recently, I’d offered the FGS a copy of a CD made from the of the pairs is called the sex chromosomes, known as the X photos of Craig’s Gilpin County family marriage records. Liz and Y chromosomes. Females have two X chromosomes, was stunned at the time and told me that the society director, one from their mother and one from their father. Males have Dave Forsyth, previously sent people to the County Recorder an X chromosome and a Y chromosome, the X from their to obtain copies of their family’s marriage records, only to mother and a Y from their father. have these people told that the office did not have them. Because of my contribution, Dave talked directly with Mitochondrial DNA is in each of our cells but not in the Colleen and she agreed to work with the society to make the nucleus. There are small amounts compared to what is found records available. From this I got a big thank you and Liz in the nucleus and it is found in tiny structures called asked me to send our family sheets to her so she could “keep mitochondria. The mitochondria are found in the egg cells an eye out” as she went through the society’s records. Many produced by females, there are some mitochondria in sperm times Liz emailed me scans or photos of records or but they are destroyed during fertilization. So all the newspaper clippings related to Craig’s relatives. Then there mitochondrial DNA we have comes from our mothers. was the day that she sent me a copy of a newspaper clipping Both sorts of DNA are used in DNA tests but in different ending the mystery; what happened to John Hollow. ways. From the Weekly Register-Call, Central City, Colorado, 14 Y DNA test. December 1894: When I commenced the Hollow DNA Project it was based Another article dated Dec. 11, 1894 in The Colorado Transcript around this test. Sections of the Y chromosome are analysed. stated, “Died, at Thomas Pearce’s ranch on Belcher Hill, of miner’s The Y chromosome is only found in males and is passed on from father to son unchanged. When I say unchanged that is

The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 13 ======not entirely true. Mutations may occur, that is a spontaneous Autosomal Dna test (atDNA test) alteration to a part of the chromosome. Once made that This test tests part of the 22 pairs of chromosomes you have mutation is passed on to the son and his son and so on. But that are not the sex chromosomes that you have inherited mutations apart, the Y chromosome I have is the same Y from your parents. When your first cell was formed, when a chromosome my dad had and his dad and all my male sperm fertilised and egg cell. The sperm cell contained 21 Hollow ancestors had. chromosomes or autosomes from your dad. The egg cell from your mum also contained 21 chromosomes. However There are 111 markers, sections of the Y chromosome, that in creating the sperm or egg the process forming the sperm testing companies have identified and analyse. You can opt to or egg breaks each chromosome and recombines it so the have 12, 25, 37, 67 or 111 markers analysed. The more new chromosome will contains bits of chromosome that markers analysed the higher the cost of the test. For most came from your mum and bits that came from your dad. This family history purposes the 37 or 67 was considered the happens in each new generation so all of us have bits of starting point. At each of the marker points the test will DNA from our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and identify how many times the DNA chemical molecules are so on back. Your DNA will even differ from your siblings in repeated at that point. The number of repeats can vary from the amount of DNA from your forbears. The autosomal 8 times to 22 times. The test result you get back for a 37 DNA then is a mixture of DNA from our maternal and marker test will be a list of 37 numbers that is the number of paternal lines. repeats that you have at each marker. Because the Y chromosome is passed on entirely in each generation. A The atDNA test identifies bits of DNA from all our grandfather, father, son should have the same sequence of autosomes. And then tries to find other people who have numbers. If they differ, it may be at a marker where a some of the same bits of DNA. These people will be mutation (change) has occurred. relatives, the more similar bits the closer the relative is the general rule. It can happen though that a cousin may have This means that the 37 number sequence I have is the same more similar DNA to you than a sibling. sequence all my male Hollow ancestors had, with the exception of any mutations that might have occurred over the Unlike the other Y DNA test, in this one having siblings take generations. Fortunately the rate of mutation is quite small, the test is useful, even recommended. The test finds people an average rate of one mutation per 200 years. who are related. The testing company will give you a list of people that match with you and give an indication of the We have now had many distantly related Hollows tested and closeness of the match. Then the work begins of finding how have found a sequence that identifies the Hollow DNA. If a these matches fit into your family tree. The testing company Hollow male doesn’t have that sequence it will be because a also analyses your DNA to learn your ethnicity and will give non Hollow male has intervened in the trail of ancestors. you a breakdown of it and a graphic of the migration pattern This is called a non-paternal event. A male has acquired to of the different ethnic groups. the Hollow name from their mother or adoption or name change or some other means. At the moment it seems that The atDNA test can help identify family, it may be there is one Hollow sequence, the other sequences found can particularly helpful in cases of adoption or where a non- all been explained to be non-paternal events. This is a strong paternal event has occurred. It will also give you a breakdown indication that The Hollow family goes back to one Hollow of you ethnicity. In this instance taking into consideration (or Holla) male that took on that name. both your male and female lines, unlike the Y DNA test.

This test will also give you a breakdown of you male There are many companies that offer DNA tests but you ancestors ethnicity. need to be clear about what you want from a test, then choose the appropriate type of DNA test to have. There are Mitochondrial DNA tests. (mtDNA tests) many companies offering DNA tests for genealogical study. mtDNA tests use the fact that our entire mitochondrial DNA Some like AncestryDNA and 23andMe. only offer the is inherited from our mothers. The test is then used to follow atDNA test. Others like FamilytreeDNA, National the female line. The other difference is that both men and Geographic Genographic and Chromo2test offer the full women can take this test. This test is less useful for family suite of tests. history unless you want to answer a question like “did these two people have the same mother…?” or to find the ethnic I have attempted to show the differences in the various origins of your mother or to find out if someone is adopted. genealogical DNA tests. They are quite different to those tests used in medicine or in police investigations. Generally speaking it is not a test used much in family history research. Colin Hollow

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