THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 53, December 2018 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772 Inside This Issue Three Stories of the Hollow Spotting These spottings add some colour Cornish Diaspora to this issue John Hallo (1833-1916) on Page 2 left and Thomas Hallo The Hallo Family (1836-1916) on right were The Hallo family have a strong mining brothers from St presence in Australia. They came Just. They were part of a from St Just and Mousehole and family whose surname was are part of the larger Hollow incorrectly recorded in the family. parish records as Hallo Page 3 instead of Hollow and they decided to stick with Hallo. The Wallis Influence Their story on page 3 Family names are not uncommon in genealogy. What is striking about this family is that a name has been carried through both female and male lines for five generations. This photo is of John Stevens Page 8 Hollow (1843-1925) and his The Story of William wife Mary Wallis (1845-1908) Alfred Hollow was taken outside their home at Bowling Green Terrace in (1909 – 1983) St Ives circa 1901. Growing up in a family that handed down almost no folklore The diminutive Mary must or family history, I realized I didn’t have been the dynamic Mary really know my father or his as her surname, Wallis, has ‘story’. My father was a man who been carried down each carried scars and even wounds generation since amongst her throughout his life. Those scars descendants. and wounds came from childhood, The story begins page 8 young adult-hood, and a military career that technically ended (but never really finished) with a stretch of over 1,400 days as a prisoner of war under the Nazi regime in Hohenfels, Bavaria. This short biography is my attempt to learn about my father’s life, and perhaps understand something of the wounds and scars that damaged his life. Robert Hollow, 2018 Page 10 This photo was taken at Norseman Western Australia c1929. The happy young miner on the left is Bill Hollow (1909-1983). His family were miners from St Ives who migrated to New Zealand and then to Australia. Bill’s story begins page 10 The Hollow Log 1 ============================================================================================ The boys were made welcome in Cornwall by their fifth Hollow Spotting cousin, Charlotte Murt whose family were long time residents of Towednack. Robert told the story of his first visit to Two new Hollows Trevaga in Hollow Log 45. It is great to welcome two new Hollows to the World. This is Zoe and Rebekah Hollow, the daughters of two Londoners, David and Lizzie Hollow. Zoe arrived in June 2015 and she is making welcome Rebekah who was born in May this year. Obituaries HOLLOW, Anthony James (Tony) 12.11.1945 - 10.5.2018 Best friend and much loved husband, father, father-in- law and Pa He is survived by wife Ellen, sons Aaron and Nathan his daughters in law Sarah and Nicole and the grandchildren Patrick 8 yr Lily 6yr Logan 6yr and Lawson 4 yr. Tony passed away in Melbourne. HOLLOW, Joan Emily Née Sirrell Suddenly in Leeds General Infirmary on Thursday 25th October, Joan aged 91 years. Wife of the late John, mother to Carolyn and the late Janet, grandma to Janet and her two great grandsons. Published in The Yorkshire Post on Nov. 23, 2018 Return to the old country There were two Aussie Hollows in Cornwall earlier this year. Brothers Robert and Steve Hollow explored the haunts of their Hollow ancestors. The pic shows the boys at the Trevega mine in Towednack, birthplace of their gg grandfather Thomas Hollow (1856-1909). Towednack is west of St Ives. The Hollow Log Issue 53 Page 2 ============================================================================================ So we are left with the surname The Hallo Family Hallo having its origin in St Just Holla to Hallo in Penwith. What may have commenced in the St Just parish The change in surname from Holla to Hollow has been well registers as a variation in the way documented in the Hollow Log previously. The oldest records, back to early 1500s, use the name Holla and over Holla or Hollow was recorded became the name that some the centuries a gradual change occurred until the surname families identified with. Holla ceased being used in the mid 1800s. The earliest record using the surname Hallo is the baptism of Note: The parish of St Just included quite a large area Johan Hallo in 1683 at Quethiock, not a parish that any around St Just (see map). There Holla was known to frequent. The next was Grace Hallo in 1704 at Paul. The entry reads “Grace the daughter of James Hallo are many villages in the parish. The baptism records show the (nation- Gall--) was Baptized May 7th 1704”. The “nation- Gall—“ Hallo family lived in the villages reference suggests James may have been from Gaul ie France. Unfortunately that is of Trewellard the only child of James and Hallo found so far in the Paul records. Carnyorth. In 1846 a In the mid 1700s the new parish surname Hallo was of Pendeen used, somewhat was inconsistently, especially created. in the parish of St Just The in Penwith. In the St Pendeen Just birth registers a parish family may have births church was recorded as Holla, closer to Hollow and Hallo. The the Hallo name Hallo continued residences to be used in some so some families. In the panel on baptisms, the right is a descendant marriages, chart of John Holla born c1705 at Madron (Penzance) but burials were registered there. who moved to St Just around 1734. The lines highlighted in Some of this family also had Yellow are John’s descendants who used the name Hallo. their children baptised in the Don’t try to read it though. In a readable form the chart runs local Methodist chapels. to seven A4 pages, I have had to reduce it drastically. I The mass of yellow in the centre include it just to show that the name was taken up in some Holla/Hollow families but not others and that in some of the chart in the panel at right began with one Thomas Hallo families it remained in use for generations. (1811-1884). He married Mary My research has shown that the name HALLO remained in Trezize in St Just and they had the parish of St Just alone until well into the 1800s. It five children one of whom died disappears in some branches because of a generation in a line as an infant. Thomas Hallo was that produced only daughters. In others because families a blacksmith; most of his male moved to other parishes or overseas. The name HALLOW relatives were miners. appears in many other parishes, most frequently Ludgvan, but it doesn’t morph into HALLO. The Hollow Log Issue 53 Page 3 ============================================================================================ In 1844 Mary died leaving Thomas with four children under ten years old. Thomas married again in 1845 to Eliza Descendants of Thomas Hallo and Trawavas Badcock. They married at the church in Paul, Mary Trezize Eliza was from the village of Mousehole, pronounced Mouzel, nearby. In 1841 Thomas was living in Trewellard. In This is a stripped back descendant chart to aid keeping track of the various people mentioned in this story. If you wish to learn further the 1851 census he was living at nearby Carnyorth with his details of a person, find them on the website at http://hollow.one- family and another son, born to his new wife Eliza. name.net/ By the 1861 census he and his family had moved to Thomas Hallo, b. 1811, d. 1884 +Mary Trezize, b. 1811, m. 1832, d. 1844 Mousehole. He was still a blacksmith and remained living in ├── John Hallo, b. 1833, d. 1916 Mousehole, apart from a short time in Australia, until his │ +Elizabeth Honor Richards Tregenza, b. 1834, m. 1854, d. 1917 death in 1884. │ ├── Honor Ann Hallo, b. 1856, d. 1873 │ ├── Christiana Hallo, b. 1857, d. 1956 Thomas’ descendants have consistently remained with the │ │ +Ralph Goldsworthy, b. 1858, m. 1879, d. 1930 │ │ ├── Mary Annie Goldsworthy, b. 1881, d. 1884 surname Hallo. The great bulk of Hallo families around │ │ ├── Ralph Goldsworthy, b. 1885, d. 1950 today can be traced back to him. The panel to the left is the │ │ ├── John Hallo Goldsworthy, b. 1887, d. 1953 │ │ ├── William Tregenza Goldsworthy, b. 1889 descendant chart of the first two generations of Thomas’ │ │ ├── Annie Vinard Goldsworthy, b. 1891 family. │ │ ├── Clement Stanley Goldsworthy, b. 1893, d. 1939 │ │ └── Elizabeth Honor Richards Goldsworthy, b. The Hallos in Australia. 1894, d. 1895 │ ├── Thomas Hallo, b. 1858, d. 1950 In researching the Hallo family in Australia I have been │ │ +Agnes Alice Morris, b. 1864, m. 1892, d. 1943 │ │ ├── Roy Tregenza Hallo, b. 1893, d. 1954 helped by a booklet, “Hallo │ │ └── Kenneth Loudon Hallo, b. 1895, d. 1982 Ancestors” written by Howard │ └── William Hallo, b. 1866, d. 1924 │ +Ann Bartle, b. 1868, m. 1892, d. 1948 Richard Hallo (1905-1999), │ ├── Ruby L Hallo, b. 1893 published in 1984. Howard was │ ├── William Clement Hallo, b. 1894, d. 1989 │ └── Myrtle A Hallo, b. circa 1898 researching family history before ├── Mary Holla, b. 1835, d. 1840 the explosion of genealogical ├── Thomas Hallo, b. 1836, d. 1916 │ +Eliza Morley Hooper, b. 1846, m. 1865, d. 1919 resources in libraries and of course │ ├── Eliza Mary Hallo, b. 1865, d. 1865 now online. Howard struggled │ ├── Thomas Richard Trezise Hallo, b. 1866, d. 1904 │ │ +Emma Forrest Crossett, b. circa 1866, m. 1894, d. with the mix of Holla, Hollow 1944 and Hallo in records.