A History of the Hole Family in England and America BY CHARLES ELMER RICE, ALLIANCE, OHIO. ILLUSTRATED WITH 42 PORTRAITS AND ENGRAVINGS With Appendices on the Hanna, Grubb, DouglaS-Morton, Miller and Morris Families. Ti-IE R, Al, SCRANTON PUBLISHING CO., ALLIANCE, OHIO. ]~) \. '\_ ( I I l I~ j] 1 I j ) LIMITED EDITION, OF WHICH THIS IS NO.----- CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE. Norse aud Englisll origin of t:ie Hole Family.......... ............. 5 CHAPTER II. The Holes of Clannaborough.. ... ............... .. ... .. ....... .. ... ......... r r CHAPTER III. Genealogical Table from Egbert to Charles Hole..................... 16 CHAPTER IV. Tlle Holes of Devonsllire.... .... ......... ........ .... .......... ...... ........ 19 CHAPTER V. The Very Rev. Samuel Reynol·ls Hole, D~a.u of Rochester, and Samuel Hugh Francklin Hole. ... ......... ...... ......... ..... 22 CHAPTER VI. Generations from \Vi:liam the Conqueror to Jacob Hole........... 3l CHAPTER VII. The Fells of Swarthmoor Hall. ............. : .. 39 CHAPTER VIII. Tlle Descendant~ of Ti10mas and :\Iargaret Fell. ........ 50 CHAPTER IX. Descendants of the :\leads an<l Thomases ...... 53 CHAPTER X. Descendant,; of Jacob and Barbara Hole in the United States, excepting those of their son Charles Hole........... .............. 59 CHAPTER XI. Descendants of Charlf"s and M3ry Hole, excepting those of their oldest son, Jacob........................ ...... ....... ....................... 65 CHAPTER XII. Descendants of Jacob and l\Iary (Thomas) Hole, excepting those of their sons, Charles and John.......................................... 78 CHAPTER XIII. Descendants of Chas. Hole and Esther (Hanna) Hole. ..... 99 CHAPTER XI\'. Descendants of John Hole and Catharine (Hanna) Hole.. II 2 Memorial Pdge... ... ............ .. ...... ........ ........... ........ ............. .. 123 Appendix A. Notes on the Hanna Family............ .... ............ 124 Appendix B. Lineage of the Douglas Family (Earls of Morton) 127 Appendix C. The Miller and !\-!orris Families......................... r30 Appendix D. Pedigree of Grubb of Horsenden... ........... .. ... r33 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. r The Very Rev. Samucl'Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester Cathcd ral. ........................................................ Frontispiece. Opposite Page 2 Hon. Leonard Hanna Hole................... ................ ............ 5 3 Caunton Parish Church.............................. ....................... 19 4 Caunton Manor.................................... ........................... 20 5 Rochester Cathedral.......................................................... 26 6 Swarthmoor Hall .................................................... ,,........ 39 7 Marsh Grange.................................................................. 50 8 Herman Norville :Morton................................ .................. 55 9 Tomb of Archbishop John Morton..................................... 55 10 l\Ioses T. Jl,lorton......... .......... ........................................ 57 II Sarah Eleanor Douglas Holtz ............................................. 58 12 Henry F. Hole ................................................................. 62 13 Jesse Hole and Elon Hole ............................................... .. 69 14 Anna M. (Heald) Hobson ............................................... .. 76 15 Sandy Spring Friends' Meeting House ............................ 77 16 Mary Thomas Hole .......................................................... 78 17 Carleton Hotel, Sketch by Louis J. Hole........................... 8o r8 Dr. Wm. Penn Preston ................................................. .. 82 19 Judge Lindley Warren Morris............................................. 85 20 Raebel Schooley Hole............................. ..... ... ............... 86 21 Prof. Israel P. Hole.................. .. ................... ........ ........ 88 22 Sunset on the Bluff-Indian River, Sketch by Louis J. Hole.. 89 23 Dr. James Hole ................................................................ 90 24 John Green............ ........ ................................ ................. 93 25 Mary Green .. ... .. .... .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .... ..... ..... .... .. .. .... .. 94 26 Fred E. Hole............ ......... .............................................. 97 27 Tomb of Bishop John Thomas..................... ....... ... .......... 97 28 Prof. Allen D. Hole .......................................................... 104 29 Robert Hole............ .. .. .. .. .... ... ... ......... ... ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 105 30 Martha Whittlesey Hole.............................. .. ................. rn6 31 Judge Warren Watson Hole ............................................... rn8 32 Dr. Charles Morlan Hole .................................................. uo 33 Rev. Edgar T. Hole ........................................................ III 34 John Hole ..................................................................... u2 35 Catharine Hole ............................................................... II3 36 Lemuel Hole .................................................................. - II4 37 Unity Stanley Hole .............. ............................................ 114 38 Caleb Hole ................................................................... II9 39 Esther Hole Penrose and Rachel Hole Rice ........................ 121 40 William Herbert Rice ...................................................... - 12:z 41 Hon. Marcus Alonzo Hanna ............................................. 125 PREFACE. When the writer of this book visited his relative Dean Hole, at Rochester, England, that very Reverend, learned and witty prelate gave him all possible assistance in compiling the Hole Family His­ tory, but informed him that when he (the Dean) was still a young man, at Caunton, he remembered finding his mother's rolls of butter come to the house enveloped in large leaves of vellum, which on closer inspection revealed the dates of birth and baptism of the Dean's ancestors for some hundreds of years back. The Caunton Parish Registers had been thus used for culinary and domestic purposes and the resultant evils and losses would be difficult to determine. Through this butter transaction the Holes probably lost several an­ cestors. Such an explanation is worth many apologies. In our own country, where records are not well kept, the difficulty of procuring adequate data has been greatly increased by the religious views of those who took literally Paul's advice to "Avoid foolish questions and genealogies, for they are unprofitable and vain." (Titus III., g.) The writer of the Hole book is obliged to confess that more than once be has been inclined to consign certain members of the family who have persistently neglected to answer letters and interrogatories, to that "Hole in the bottom of the sea," where Mr. McGinty is sup­ posed to have found his place of final sepulture. The splendid iudiffereuce of those who were in a position to give dates and facts will account for many of the gaps and omissions in this volume. In preparing the genealogy of the Hole family, which has been made possible through the generosity of Leonard Hanna Hole, of N. Y., I have been especially helped by and here acknowl­ edge the kindly services of Mr. Henry F. Hole, of Fairbury, Ne­ braska; Mrs. Annie M. Hobson, of Athens, Ohio; Dean Hole, of R.ocbester, England, and Judge Warren W. Hole, of Salem, Ohio, CHAS, ELMRR RICR, Alliance, Ohio, Jan. 1, r90-4. CHAPTER I. NORSE AND ENGLISH ORIGIN OF THE HOLE FAMILY. Jacob Hole and Barbara his wife sailed from Plymouth, England, in 1740 and landed after a tedious voyage of many weeks, in Phila­ delphia. Just where these founders of the Hole family in Awerica came from has never been known to their descendants. And it was not nr:til the summer of 1900. when the writer was sent to Europe to procure data, 1,earch records and write a family history, that we so much as knew their nationality. It h'ld been a tradition in the family th'.lt facob Hole was Ger­ man and came to America from Germany; yet no proof whatever had ever been produced to substantiate the claim or prove the theory. The various intermarriages into the best English families of Pennsyl­ vania and Virginia seemed to indicate that the Holes were of English origin. A thorough search of English recorcs and genealogies bas clearly shown that the name is Eaglish, though of Norse origin, and a visit to the English branches of the family, to the Estates and Free­ holds belonging to them, has enabled the writer to give a tolerably complete and full account of the Holes in England and America. Devonshire, in the south-west of England has been the home of the Hole family for the last one tbousan1 years. The E,tate of St. Giles, near Baruslaple, in that county has been owned by HENRY HOLR, until 1835, when the 20th Henry in succession died. By.the ordinary computation of the length of a generation this would take us to the year I 175, A. D., when the first Henry Hole owned the estate. Hugh Hole, Barrister, of London, the son of the very Reverend Samuel Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester, says, '·The first Hole of whom I have any recorci was my namesike Hugh of Hole, who is re­ corded ia the Annals of the Parish of Lindby is Nottinghamshire, \some few miles from our home of Caunton) as owning land there in the year r240. In that district, we are direct descendants of the Northmen and I have lived in Norway some 16 years and speak the three Scandinavian dialects.