Upload
others
View
1
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
The Hollow Log 1
THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 51, December 2017 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772
Also inside This Issue
The future virtual reality? We value tapes and videos of our family that we have at the moment. The use of Virtual Reality in family history may provide us with a fascinating advance on tapes and videos in the future.
Page 3
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
Zennor to South Africa This is the story of the sort of migration that many of the Hollows made. It starts in
Zennor, then moves to Redruth, then Falmouth, then Kenwyn near Truro, and then on
to London. From London this family splits again, some to South Africa and another to
America. Henry Hollow (1803-1863) was a carpenter/builder in Kenwyn He married
Mary Blake in 1829 and they had ten children, six of whom (four boys and two girls)
survived into adulthood. In the late 1850s two of the boys moved to London. After
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
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.
============================================================================================
The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 2
Hollow Spotting At the Movies
A visit to the movies to see the film “Hampstead” was
rewarded with a spotting in the Credits of Bob Hollow,
Special Effects. Bob was featured in Hollow Log 24 in 2004.
It was nice to see he is still working on films. He had moved
into TV and commercials but his filmography on imdb.com
shows he has worked on about 20 film projects since 2004.
On the net
Searching for
info on
Kenneth
Hollow of the
South African
story I came
across another
Ken Hollow, a
singer who
made two
albums and 2
demo singles
in the 1970s.
This Ken
Hollow lived
in Kent and is from another line of Hollows that go back to
Zennor. Some ended up migrating to the coal mine area of
Pennsylvania, Lackawanna County. A short article on this
family is in Hollow Log 45.
Obituaries
Gladys Dawn ROBBINS('nee HOLLOW) Gladys died in
Adelaide 4th November 2017. Gladys was born in Broken
Hill, NSW 18th June 1930 and was the second child to Philip
Walter and
Catherine
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.
Avis Verona HOLLOW. Avis died on 22 November 2017
at the Kerikeri Retirement Village. Aged 87 years, wife of
Trevor for 64
years. Mother
and mother-in-
law of Chris
and Murray
Squire and
Martin and
friend of
Davena. Nana
of Scott, Ainslie
and Byron.
Great
Grandmother
of Emilia. A
service for Avis
was held at the Ted Robinson Memorial Chapel, Kerikeri
Retirement Village, Kerikeri on Saturday 25 November...
Published in The New Zealand Herald on Nov. 23, 2017
Avis and husband Trevor were featured in Hollow Log 30,
when they visited Cornwall.
Jeanette BOWMAN nee HOLLOW, passed away on
October 11, 2017 in Lancaster, PA. Jeanette was the daughter
of Paul Q Hollow and Agnes Cumens. This Hollow family
also migrated from Cornwall to Pennsylvania. They came as
farmers rather than miners before moving to other work.
Storm Tragedy
Ben Hollow and his partner Lauren Brownlee were in
Chirnside Park, Victoria when they were struck by lightning
during an electrical storm on Friday 17th November. Lauren
was killed and Ben was severely injured and was hospitalised
in a serious but stable condition.
Ben is from a family of Hollows who migrated from St Ives
to Healesville, Victoria that were featured in Hollow Log 27.
============================================================================================
The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 3
The Future – Virtual Reality? In family history and indeed local history too we often used
tapes or videos to record personal experiences and stories
from older people. They become particularly valued and
treasured when the person has passed on. In a recent TV
program I saw what might be a future development in family
history and local history.
The program was about Virtual Reality. The technology
where a 3D world can be created, and then accessed, using a
virtual reality headset. Inside the headset is a screen. The
headset hides your immediate environment; you can only see
the 3D world that the screen presents.
In the program an avatar, a 3d image, such as you might see
in a video game, of a participant’s grandfather was created.
This involved the actual grandfather sitting down and
answering a lot of questions about his early life, his family etc.
A video is taken of him answering the questions. The video is
then processed to create a 3D moving image, used for virtual
reality, an avatar, of him answering. They then used the
technology from phones and computers that enable voice
commands. Such as Apple’s Siri and the voice command
system in navigation systems. Using this technology the
avatar responds to questions asked of it. The avatar you see is
particularly realistic.
The result was a virtual reality experience where the avatar
was able to be asked questions and he/it responded. The
questions didn’t have to be the same as those asked or in the
same order. The people in the program all had an emotional
reaction to this technology. Virtual reality has the brain
believing the grandfather is actually there.
In the program we see how when several cameras are used
taking video images, using multiple lighting setups an avatar
can be created that is almost impossible to distinguish from
the real person.
This technology would take sound and video recordings to a
new level. Imagine a grandchild viewing and questioning a
grandfather that they never knew.
The Program was “Meet the Avatars”, a program in the
Catalyst series from the Australian ABC. Aussies can catch up
with it on ABC iView. Internationally the film can be
downloaded from this web address
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4718816.htm
It is an hour long program; the section on creating an avatar
is covered in the second half of the program,
H E L L O T H E R E
This is a bumper edition. Three pretty extensive stories, I had
so much help I would have felt bad if I held one over for the
next edition. Issue 52 might be a small one.
For the Bojewyan story I must thank a lot of people,
Michael, Paul, Stuart, and, Tracey Hollow from Scotland,
Steve Murphy from California, Gail Wheeler from Canada,
and Tom Davidson from Scotland.
For the South Africa story, I thank George Tyler (New
Zealand), Rob Hollow (England), and Rose Hollow (Ireland).
Thanks to Carla Garner (Colorado) for the Colorado story.
The bulk of this issue’s stories came through contacts made
on Facebook through the Hollow Family History Group list.
If you are on FB and want to meet other Hollows seek us via
Google or find me on Facebook and send me a friend
request.
S T O P P R E S S
A further note to the A Bojewyan Family story.
The William Gibb story is still evolving as I get new
information. William Gibb actually owned all of the
Kilcreggan Cottages and was probably House Factor to his
own properties. Prior to owning the Kilcreggan Cottages he
owned properties in Paisley and Arrochar. The ‘Kilcreggan
Estate’, the family believed David’s parents owned, would
have been the Kilcreggan Cottages. After William Gibbs‘s
death they did pass to Josepha and eventually her children.
T H E H O L L O W W E B S I T E
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chollow/
The database is updated monthly. It may be worth checking
your family as sometimes changes are made because of new
information. The database is very much a work in progress.
C O N T A C T
Colin Hollow edits the Hollow Log, comments and
contributions are always welcome.
Write to 2 Keeley Lane, Princes Hill, 3054, Victoria,
Australia. Or e-mail: [email protected]
Hollow and variants Holla, Hollah, Hollaw and Hollowe are
registered with The Guild of One-Name Studies.
The Guild member is Colin Hollow (Mem.No. 3056).
©No material in this newsletter to be produced without permission.
============================================================================================
The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 4
A Bojewyan Family This story came together from two seemingly unrelated
contacts I made in the rather diverse Hollow family. The first
of the contacts was seven years ago. Steve Murphy from
California made contact. His grandfather, John Thomas
Hollow (1905-1970), was born at Bojewyan, Pendeen,
Cornwall and migrated to the US with
his brother Arthur in 1929.
This year I have taken the Hollow
family history to Facebook and I made
contact with a fairly large Hollow
family in Scotland, mostly around
Ayrshire. This family went back to
David Hollow (1926-1984) but there
was a brick wall. The family had no
knowledge of his parents. This story is
of how these two contacts, seven years
apart came together and put life into
some data that had been just a listing
of births, deaths and marriages.
Firstly let’s look at Steve’s family
story. Steve’s grandfather was part of a
very large family that lived At
Bojewyan, a small hamlet near
Pendeen.
To understand the context here we
need to know something of the hamlet
of Bojewyan and go back one more generation in this Hollow
line.
Bojewyan is a small hamlet between the larger villages of
Pendeen and Morvah on
the Penwith Peninsula in
West Cornwall. Higher
Bojewyan was originally
a very ancient farming
settlement but tin
streaming and mining
became a strong part of
the settlement. Bojewyan
Stennack, close by, is a
creation of tin working -
the name Stennack
actually means ‘tin
place’’. The houses here
were built in the early
1800s when both Higher
Bojewyan and Bojewyan
Stannack experienced rapid growth due to the tin mining.
Our family of Hollows lived in Bojewyan Stennack. The
settlement consisted of three rows or terraces of granite stone
cottages built specifically for the miners and our Hollow
family lived in one of them as did many of the families, the
Trembaths for example who they married into.
The cottages were built into the valley wall and so had no
back yard. They fronted onto common ground so gardens for
vegetables were built at the front
of the cottages.
The tin mining flourished in the
mid 1800s but declined by the
late 1800s and by the early 1900s
the village population was very
much reduced. The rows fell into
disrepair and were only rescued
by grants in the 1980s that
provided for restoration. They
are now sort after residences and
many are holiday cottages.
This family’s story in Bojewyan
began when Richard Hollow
(1819-1903) and his family
moved to the area in 1850. He
alternated between farm
labouring and mine work. The
father of twelve children, his last
born son was John Thomas
Hollow (1869-1915). He was to
produce this large family that
Steve Murphy is a part of. John Thomas Hollow (1869-1915}
and Nanny Warren Trembath (1874-1954) were married at
Pendeen in 1891. They went on to have sixteen children,
eleven girls and five boys.
One girl, Cepha, died
aged three but all the
other children survived
into adulthood.
From baptism records
and census records it is
clear the family lived at
Bojewyan Stennack.
In the late 1800s and early
1900s many families left
Bojewyan Stennack but
this family of Hollows
remained there longer
than most. In the 1911
census the family is still
there. The eldest two
daughters have left home, Mary Elizabeth had married and
Beatrice was working in another house as a servant. All the
The Family John Thomas Hollow, b. 1869 at St Just in Penwith, CON, d. 19 Nov 1915 at St Just, CON +Nanny Warren Trembath, b. 1874 at Morvah, CON, m. 21 Mar 1891 at Pendeen, CON, d. 1954 at Liverpool North, ENG ├── Mary Elizabeth Hollow, b 1891 ├── Beatrice Jane Hollow, b. 1893 ├── Ellen Hollow, 1895, ├── Susan A Hollow, b. 1895 ├── Hilda Hollow, b. 1897 ├── William Richard Hollow, 1898 ├── Irene Hollow, b. 9 May 1899 ├── Cepha (Josepha) Hollow b. 1900 d. 1904 ├── Olive Hollow, b. 1902 ├── Henry Hollow, b. 1903 ├── John Thomas Hollow, b. 1905,. ├── Josefa (Josepha) Hollow, b. 1906 ├── Arthur Hollow, b. 1908 ├── Violet May Hollow, b. 1909, ├── Garfield Hollow, b. 1912 └── Myrtle Hollow, b. 1914
The colours show where each person lived at some point.
Black U.K., Red Scotland, Blue U.S.A.
============================================================================================
The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 5
other children living at the time are recorded there. It is
difficult to find what happened to the family from there on
unless there is a marriage or death.
The family follows the path of many Cornish families of this
time, many stay in Cornwall but many move away, sometimes
within the U.K. but many to the U.S. The women of the
family mostly went into service before being married. The
men stayed in mining. The patriarch, John Thomas Hollow
died in November 1915. With the exception of Mary
Elizabeth the children were still unmarried and ranged in age
from 22 down to 1 year old Myrtle. It would have been up to
the older children to support the family, remembering that
around them WWI was raging. At the end of the war the
older girls began to get married William Richard married in
1923 and remained in the area. By 1929 the family had pretty
much dispersed.
In 1929 John Thomas Hollow Junior and his brother Arthur
migrated to The U.S. They sailed on the ship Ascania to
Quebec Canada on the 9th
November 1929 and then entered
the U.S. at Detroit Michigan on the
19th November 1929. They were
travelling in a party of seven young
men from St Just, one of whom was
Henry I. James who we will meet
again later. The ships papers report
them as wanting become permanent
residents. Migrants also had to
nominate a relative or friend they
were going to join in the U.S., the
Hollows and Henry James
nominated William Trembath who
was living in Detroit. William Trembath was the brother of
Nanny Hollow, John and Arthur’s mother. The boys were
counted on the 1930 U.S. census lodging together in Ely City,
St Louis, Minnesota so they didn’t stay long in Detroit.
There was movement amongst the other members of the
family too. On the 16th May 1930 four more of the family
arrived at the Port of Quebec on the SS Empress of Scotland.
They were Nanny Hollow the mother, and her children
Violet (age 20), Garfield (17) and Myrtle (16). They entered
the U.S. via Vermont on May 24th 1930. Records show they
expected to become permanent residents, their friend or
relative was also William Trembath, Nanny Hollow’s brother.
The ship’s manifest also includes a physical description of
each passenger. Nanny Hollow , mother of sixteen children
was just 4’10” (147 cm). Her daughters were 5ft and 5’1”,
Garfield 5’7”. John was 5’10” and Arthur 5’9”. We learn a lot
from these manifests.
A hint on researching U.S. shipping records. There are two
pages to look at; a search engine will throw up just the first
page. To get the second page you have to click on the arrow
for next image, usually top left corner. I used Family Search
to find these, it is free to use unlike Ancestry or FindmyPast.
Marriage in Grass Valley
Within two years the Hollows had moved to Grass Valley in
California. We know this from the marriage of Garfield
Hollow in 1932; he was married on 15 Sep 1932. His
marriage certificate provides a lot of information. He was
living in Grass Valley as was his witnesses, his brother John
and his sister Myrtle. Just 10 days later it was Myrtle being
married. She married Henry Irving James, the man who
accompanied John and Arthur Hollow to the U.S. Myrtle’s
witnesses were her bother Garfield and sister Violet.
We can assume all the family who migrated to the U.S. were
now living in Grass Valley, a mining town in Nevada County,
California. Both Garfield and Henry James were listed as
miners on their marriage
certificates.
Although John T Hollow
was living in Grass Valley
his love was in Minnesota.
He went back to Minnesota
to marry Mildred Carson in
St Louis on the 9th Feb
1933. This only left Violet
unmarried. She does marry
in 1934 but we will
continue her story later.
The 1940 U.S. census
shows two families still in Grass Valley, John and Mildred
with a daughter Marion living next door to Henry and Myrtle
James and their daughter Sylvia. Both men are miners at the
gold mine. Nanny Hollow, Arthur, Garfield, and Violet do
not appear to be on the 1940 census. In other records
Garfield does turn up. He married again in 1940, this time in
England at Omskirk which is a town close to Liverpool in
Lancashire. In 1941 a child, Sylvia, was born to them in
Bellshill, Scotland, probably while on a visit.
It would appear that Garfield returned to England in the
1930s, presumably with his mother Nanny living with him.
She was to die in Liverpool in 1956. Garfield’s brother John
also died in Liverpool, in 1970. Steve Murphy relayed the
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
“condition” of his marriage to Estelle Keeny was that Steve’s
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 6
away. It must have been when he was visiting his brother
Garfield in Liverpool. His body was taken back to the U.S.
and he is buried next to his first wife Mildred at Grass Valley.
His second wife Estelle died at Grass Valley in 1993.
What about the Scottish Connection?
The Scottish story started with me finding many Hollows
living in and around Ayrshire west of Glasgow. The family
went back to David Hollow (1926-1984). The Scottish births,
deaths and marriage indexes are
available online. David’s birth was
registered at Kilcreggan and Cove.
The family had no knowledge of
David Hollow’s parents except that
they owned Kilcreggan Estate. A
search of my Hollow database failed
to find any leads on who David’s
parents were. Michael Hollow, one of
David’s grandchildren, decided to
obtain David’s birth certificate. On
the certificate his father is not listed
but his mother was. She was Josepha
Hollow. David was born at North
Ailey Farm, Cove and his mother
Josepha was a farm servant.
This opened the way to many discoveries. Josepha is a
distinctive name and it immediately linked this family to the
Grass Valley Hollow family. They are the only Hollow family
I have that have used this forename.
How did Josepha end up in Scotland?
I began to search the Scottish records and came up with these
entries that seem part of the family.
Josepha Hollow married William Gibb at Kilcreggan 1926
Josepha Hollow then married John Dunlop McCully at Blythswood (Glasgow) in 1934
Violet May Hollow married John Potter Murphy at Rhu 1934
Ellen Hollow married George Frew at Kelvingrove (Glasgow) in 1947.
We know that Josepha, Violet May and Ellen are sisters,
Ellen being the oldest.
You will recall that I wrote that at the end of WW1 the family
began to marry. One of those marriages was Josepha’s sister,
Ellen Hollow, who married a Hugh McVeil, registered at
Penzance in 1918. Hugh McVeil was Scottish and returned
with his wife Ellen to Scotland. They settled somewhere
around Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire. Old Kilpatrick is not
shown on the map but is about 15 miles SW of Helensburgh.
I found their name changed in the records to McNeil. They
had at least three children, John b1920, Elizabeth, b1925 and
Christina b1933 all registered at Old Kilpatrick. Hugh
McVeil/McNeil died in 1939. Ellen subsequently married
George Frew in 1944. Ellen died in 1975 aged 80.
It seems likely Ellen and Hugh encouraged Josepha and
Violet May to join them to find work. Josepha found work at
North Ailey farm at Cove and then in 1926, a child, a
marriage. Violet May returned to Cornwall at sometime and
migrated to the US with her mother, brother Garfield and
sister Myrtle in 1930. While family
members in the U.S. were finding
partners there, Violet May returns
to Scotland to marry John Potter
Murphy at Rhu. Rhu is on the
coast opposite Rosneath and quite
close to Cove. See the map. In
1956 Violet and John migrate to
the U.S. Violet for the second
time.
Back to the marriage of Josepha Hollow to William Gibb.
My research on William took a
positive turn when I contacted the
Facebook page of North Ailey Farm; still operating it is now
a farm and equestrian centre. Through the people of North
Ailey farm I found a relative of William Gibb in Canada. I
was also directed to the Facebook page “Memories of
Kilcreggan” and through that page I found another relative of
William, this one in Scotland, with more information.
William was born in 1859 in Paisley the ninth and last child of
a House Factor and Church Officer. House Factor is a
Scottish term; a house factor looks after property for its
owner(s). This can be looking after house repairs of houses
rented out, or farm or estate cottages or the like. It could also
involve collecting rent from the tenants for the landlord.
I found that William married twice, once in 1902, he was 43
his wife 44, they didn’t have children, his first wife died in
1925. He then married Josepha Hollow who it is believed
worked for the Gibbs. It seems William needed a woman to
look after him. Prior to his marriage he had lived with his
widowed mother in Paisley and worked as a House Factor
also he had an interest in a china and porcelain retail shop
with his sister Elizabeth. He then lived with his sister
Elizabeth at Arrochar on Loch Long. When Elizabeth passed
away in 1902 he was soon married to a Euphemia Granger
who was of his own age back in Paisley. At some point the
couple moved to Kilcreggan where William continued as a
House Factor. When Euphemia died in 1925, William then
married Josepha Hollow in 1926. It doesn’t seem he was
David Hollow’s father; otherwise David would have been
============================================================================================
The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 7
given the Gibb name.
Instead Josepha kept the
Hollow name for David
through two marriages.
William Gibb was living
at 9 Sunnyside Cottage,
Kilcreggan as was
Josepha when they
married (recorded on
their marriage
certificate) and when he
died in 1934 (recorded
on his death certificate).
One Gibb family
contact believes Josepha
worked for William and Euphemia at 9 Sunnyside Cottage
before Euphemia’s death. Moving to North Ailey Farm may
have been necessary late in Josepha’s pregnancy.
It is hard to work how the story unfolded in Cove and
Kilcreggan. It seems that William was quite a dependant
person. William did spend time in Australia, he was there
when his father died in 1887, he was 28. He did return to
Paisley to live with his mother and probably took over his
father’s House Factor business.
We are left with the
thought that maybe he
just did an honourable
thing and provided
protection for Josepha
within marriage at a
time when she would
have needed support.
William Gibb died on
April 25th 1934 at
Kilcreggan. Josepha
marries again in 1934,
to John Dunlop
McCully. The marriage
was registered at
Blythswood (Glasgow) she had at least three children to
McCully. Myrtle Hollow McCully was born in 1935, the birth
registered at Old Kilpatrick and a Catherine McCully’s birth
was registered there in 1937. Old Kilpatrick is on the Clyde
close to Glasgow and it is where Josepha’s sister Ellen’s
children were registered too. A William McCully’s death in
2011 in Helensburgh (next to Rhu) is recorded, his mother
was a Hollow and he was 71 years old so born 1940. His
birth was registered as both a Hollow and a McCully.
Josepha McCully died at Rosneath (opposite Rhu on map) in
1981, she was 74 years old. I have not found her husband,
John McCully’s death, he
may have died during WWII
or they may have separated
and he moved from
Scotland.
David Hollow (1926-1984)
Between family knowledge
and birth Death and
marriage records we have
been able to piece together a
little of David’s life. It seems
that he would have spent
much of his first eight years
of life at Kilcreggan. His mother‘s second marriage would
have taken him to Old Kilpatrick. Old Kilpatrick is about 15
kms from Glasgow central on the North bank of the river
Clyde. The family would have been there for at least two
years then another child was registered in Glasgow.
In 1945 David and Jessie Brown McClung’s marriage was
registered at Hillhead, Glasgow. In 1946 the couple’s first
child was born at Drymen which is about 30 km NW of
Glasgow. David worked as a resident farm labourer/farm
hand and moved around in this occupation. David and Jessie
had three more
children and
they were
registered at
Kilcreggan in
1948 (the village
David spent his
early life),
Provan
(Glasgow) in
1949 and
Bellshill in 1955
which is 14 km
SE of Glasgow.
The family
recollection is that around 1959 they moved to Ayrshire
looking for farm work. David found work as a lorry driver,
delivering large milk urns for the dairy farms in the area, so
not farm work but farm related.
David made North Ayrshire his home. The county is SW of
Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde. Some in the family have
moved away but there is still a strong Hollow presence in and
around the towns of Ayr, Dalmellington, Old Cumnock
Kilmarnock and Irvine. David and Jessie’s ashes were spread
at Kilcreggan.
Colin Hollow
============================================================================================
The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 8
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
become an apprentice compositor.
The transcription of this document makes interesting reading.
Be aware, the use of capitals seems to have followed none of
our now generally accepted rules.
This Indenture Witnesseth That William John Robert Hollow son of Henry Blake Hollow of 80 Blurton Road, Lower Clapton, London with the consent of his father (certified by his execution hereof) doth put himself Apprentice to The Botolph Printing Works, 1 Crosskey Square, Little Britain , in the City of London. to learn their art and with them after the Manner of an apprentice serve from the 31st October 1887 unto the full endant of seven years from thence next following to fully complete and ended During which term the said apprentice his Masters faithfully serve their secrets keep their lawful commands every where gladly do. he shall do no damage to his said Masters nor see to be done of others but his, Power shall tell or forthwith give meaning to his said Masters of the name He shall not waste the Goods of his said Masters nor tend them unlawfully to any. He shall not commit fornication nor contract matrimony within the said term He shall not play Cards or Dice Tables or any other unlawful Games whereby his said Masters may have any loss with their own goods or others during the said term without licence of his said Masters. He shall neither buy nor sell He shall not haunt Taverns or Playhouses nor absent himself from his Masters service unlawfully But in all things as a faithful apprentice he shall behave himself towards his said Masters and
theirs during the said term And the said William John Robert Hollow Their said Apprentice in the Art of a compositor That they an shall teach and instruct or cause to be taught and instructed paying unto the said apprentice six shillings 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 for the 4th year, 12/- per week for the 5th year, 14/- per week for the 6th year and 16/- per week for the 7th year: but such wages shall not be paid when from illness, accident or any other cause, the said Apprentice shall not be at his work for the said Masters , such lost time to be deducted at the rate of time and a half. And for the true performance of all and every the said covenants and Agreements either of the said Parties bindeth himself unto the Other by these Presents In Witness whereof the Parties above names to these indentures interchangeably have put their hands and seals
The thirty first day of October 1887 and in the Fiftieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria by the grace of God og the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith and in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Seven William John Robert Hollow Henry Blake Hollow Witnesses J Chadband J M Simson
Not only was William to learn the art of a
print compositor he was to live a very staid
Victorian life for the duration of his
apprenticeship at least.
Marriage and family
In early 1901 William married Mabel Bettis in
Hackney, London. Their first born was a son
Leslie William born in 1902. Soon after the
small family migrated to South Africa, and
had three more children, Malcolm Henry,
============================================================================================
The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 9
born 1903, Kenneth, b 1905, and Margaret b 1912. The
family settled in Boksburg, Transvaal where William
established his own printing business, called Boksburg
Printers. A business of that name still operates in Boksburg.
William wasn’t the first of his family to migrate to South
Africa. His brother, Henry Charles Hollow (1871-1902) was
married to Janet Watson at Dundee, Natal, in 1894 There
were four children from the marriage. He was to die there in
1902 just about the time brother William migrated to South
Africa. William wasn’t the last to migrate to South Africa
either, another brother Ernest Arthur Hollow (1879-1917)
died there in 1917. He married Maude Fearn in 1906 in
London and they had a child, Elsie, born in London in 1909.
There was also movement to South Africa on Mabel’s side of
the family too. Mabel’s brother Kenneth was also in South
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 Leslie William Hollow (1902-1971)
Leslie’s first occupation was a mine fitter in Boksburg. He
married Mary Winifred Madden in 1927. Their first child was
Roy William Hollow (1927-2008) who also became a mine
fitter. When Roy was a child the family moved to Dundee, in
the South African Provence of Natal. They had another child
in Dundee, Peter Leslie Hollow (1937-2014). In Dundee
Leslie changed occupations and became a senior manager in
the Talana Glassworks in Dundee. His son Roy also joined
the glassworks. Peter joined the banks and at one stage
emigrated to America and later returned to South Africa.
Malcolm Henry Hollow (1903-1970)
Malcolm Hollow the second eldest son also had become a
printer and eventually taken over the running of the business.
He married Hazel Ann Douglas and they had two daughters,
Margaret and Jean.
Kenneth Hollow (1905-1978)
Kenneth Hollow qualified as a teacher at University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, commonly known as Wits
University, in the mid thirties. He specialised in Science and
Math and first post was at Boksburg High school. At the
outbreak of WW2 he joined up with the army medical corps
and was transferred to a hospital in Barberton in the
Transvaal that catered for the wounded from the Middle
East. He then moved to Cape Town in 1943 with the
Government Health Dept in Pathology. He eventually carried
on with his studies and took a doctorate degree in Science at
Stellenbosch
University near Cape
Town. His thesis was
based on the then
new antibiotic
penicillin.
Kenneth had married
Mary Knight in the
mid thirties and they
had two boys, Rob
and Trevor. Due to
political pressure the
============================================================================================
The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 10
family migrated to Broken Hill (Northern Rhodesia) in the
early 1950's and Kenneth became a teacher again. During the
Federation of the Rhodesia's and Nyasaland he was
transferred to Southern Rhodesia as school inspector. He was
again transferred in 1956 as Headmaster of Broken Hill High.
At the break-up of the Federation he returned to Southern
Rhodesia and became a teacher at Hamilton High School. His
son Rob describes him as a quite person who was a positive
influence on many people.
Margaret Hollow (1912-1994)
Margaret lived in Boksburg with her parents and was
preparing to get married when her boyfriend was killed
during a miner’s strike. Eventually she married Stanley Albert
Tyler in Cape Town in 1945. They were actually related.
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
went on to be a proof reader. Stanley’s father moved to Cape
Town to take over the Government Printer business there.
Stanley worked in his father’s business. Margaret and Stanley
had two children in Cape Town, Joy and George. Their son
George suffered from pneumonia each year and also
contracted TB. Under doctor’s advice the family moved to
Durban to escape the Cape Town winters that were
contributing to George’s bouts of illness.
Their stay in Cape Town coincided with Margaret’s brother
Kenneth’s time in Cape Town. Kenneth was there when
Margaret married in 1945 and gave away the bride The
bridesmaid is Stanley’s sister Mavis Tyler..
Margaret and Stanley bought a “Tea Room” in Durban but
had to give up the business when Margaret suffered ill health.
Son George’s memory is of tough times for the family in
Durban with both parents having to work. Stanley passed
away in 1978, Margaret in 1994.
The family have scattered across the globe again, the third
and fourth generations live in England, Ireland, America,
Australia, and New Zealand. There are still some Hollows in
South Africa.
Thanks to Rose Hollow, Rob Hollow, George Tyler and the
other members of the family who provided information for
this article. All photos are from Rob Hollow’s collection.
Colin Hollow
Odd Spot This small block work building in the hamlet of Bojewyan
Stennack was constructed in the early 1900s and had a sign,
Bojewyan Men’s Institute. This makes it one of the earliest
“Men’s Sheds”. The building still survives although The
Men’s Institute doesn’t. It was built at a time when many had
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
Cornwall Council. Two reports are available at the links
below.
The Men’s Shed Movement is big in Australia but there are
now groups in the UK, NZ and Ireland and probably other
places. The last three links go to parts of a larger article with
great photos of Bojewyan’s current buildings and landscape.
Cornwall Industrial Settlements Initiative BOJEWYAN (St
Just Area) http://www.historic-
cornwall.org.uk/cisi/bojewyan/CISI_Bojewyan_report.pdf
Bojewyan History and Development
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/3638439/Bojewyan_3_
History-and-Development.pdf
Bojewyan Architecture, Geology & Building Materials
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/3638436/Bojewyan_Ti
tle-and-Contents.pdf
Bojewyan Preservation and Enhancement
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/3638441/Bojewyan_5_
Preservation-and-Enhancement.pdf
============================================================================================
The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 11
Looking for Hollows in Colorado “You’ll never find anyone related to me.” he said. “Once my
parents died I am the only one of my name left.”
“Everyone has cousins, even if they don’t know them yet.” I
told him. He didn’t believe me but decided he’d better
humor me in my efforts.
After several conversations over coffee I found his mother’s
family was part of a group of miners that came over from
Cornwall to the United States in the late 1870’s. They
eventually settled in the state
of Colorado to mine gold in
Gilpin County – the Gregory
Load. How hard must it have
been; the adjustment from a
seaside home, green fields and
well established communities,
to an arid land of hard granite,
scrub bushes and twenty foot
deep snow in the Rocky
Mountain winters.
Husbands, sons and single
men came first to Nevadaville,
or Nevada City as it was once
called. Married men’s families
often followed after. And
many stayed in Colorado, even
when the gold played out.
Craig’s ancestors remained
and most moved down to
Golden, Colorado to work in
the coal or clay mines.
Having found Craig’s
grandparents and great-
grandparents names from his
maternal side; I went about
reviewing the Federal Census’ from the later 1800’s in Gilpin
County. And in the midst of all these Richards, Maddern’s,
Harvey’s and Grenfell’s was an Elizabeth Wallow? She was
living in the home of Thomas Oats Harvey in 1900. Her
occupation is listed as housekeeper. Where was Lucy
Richards Harvey, Craig’s great-great grandmother? Turns out
Lucy Harvey died at only 38 years in 1886 leaving Thomas
Harvey alone to raise their youngest son.
Wallow? Wollow? Why couldn’t these census takers have
been chosen for their penmanship?!
Searching on-line and brought up many possibilities for
Elizabeth’s last name. But none of them a sure thing. This, I
determined, needed further (on site) investigation; especially
since Nevadaville was only two hours away by car from our
Rocky Mountain home. And the Gilpin County Courthouse
is in Central City, Colorado, a few miles from Nevadaville, it
turns out.
I started making phone calls and found the marriage and land
records for the county are held in the Clerk of Recorders
Office at the courthouse. I called this office and asked about
visiting to look at the records. The woman in charge was
confused as to why we’d want to examine them, but she
invited us along anyway. I secretly wondered why she didn’t
get it, obviously she wasn’t a genealogist. I made an
appointment to come
out that next week.
Excited, was my state
of mind for the next
few days as I plotted
and pondered what
sort of information
we might find about
Craig’s family. Finally
the time came for our
trip over the
mountains to a real
ghost town and a
thriving mountain city
(albeit a small one).
We arrived too early
on that fall morning
to call in the
courthouse, so it was
decided to visit
Nevadaville first.
Few buildings
remained but the dirt
streets were still
visible up the hillside
from Main Street.
And the rusting hulks of mine shafts and houses could be
seen looking downhill from town. All was quiet as an autumn
wind rattled the yellowing Aspen leaves on the sparse trees
growing about. In contrast to the current atmosphere of the
town are records and Old Timer’s tales which talk about a
once robust population that divided the town in half, one
side Irish and one side Cornish – both working in the hard-
rock gold mines. These folks supported a number of saloons
and legitimate businesses; a meat market, clothing stores,
hardware stores and other amenities usually found only in
higher population centers. The sound of stamp-mills
pounding ore in Central City could be heard all over town.
Nevada was loud and flourishing when Craig’s family lived
============================================================================================
The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 12
there. Today the town is as quiet as nearby Bald Mountain
Cemetery.
Craig and I walked among the graveyards silent sentinels with
names and dates inscribed on them that told tales of short
lives, and the often hard deaths, of these Pioneers of
Nevadaville and the Bald Mountain area. The dappled light
and shadow, from the many Quaking Aspens planted many
years ago, fell across the grave-markers of Craig’s great-
grandparents. He studied these in quiet contemplation, then
marvelled as I pointed out great-uncles and aunts, older
cousins of his mother and her father. But in all the cemetery
we surveyed, I did not find the grave of Elizabeth -either
Wallow, or any name similar. Was that really how her last
name was spelled?
Finally it was decided that we should get to the courthouse.
We had limited hours to spend in Gilpin County and I
wanted to cram as much family oriented activity into the day
as we could.
We arrived at the
beautiful old brick
building and found the
Clerk & Recorder Office
inside. Colleen looked
perplexed when I asked
what holdings she had,
but she explained that the
land records were now
available digitally. I asked
about the marriage
records. She told us they
were not digitized and she
would have her clerks
bring out which ever ledger we wished, but we could only
look at one of the large old books at a time. My eyes lit up
and Craig was as bewildered at my excitement as Colleen. So
the clerk retrieved the first and oldest book available. Craig
was fascinated with holding the 150 year old tome in his
hands. He was even more intrigued when I told him we were
looking for his family names. There were so many of his
relatives just in the first marriage book that I was forced to
speed up the recording process. We found a last name in the
index, turned to the page of record, found the name again
and photographed it without reading the record in any detail.
Craig sat and turned and I stood over his shoulder to
photograph each of the written treasurers. Hours passed and
then the sun was moving toward the horizon as we worked
on the forth book. Finally it was time for dinner and the trip
back over the mountain to home.
While we were eating at the local diner I tried surreptitiously
to look at some of the documents we’d photographed, but
the mini ipad has a small screen and there were just too many
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
screen.
That opportunity to sit down and review the photographs
was when I discovered a marriage record for Craig’s great-
grandfather Thomas Oats Harvey and Elizabeth Ann
Hollow! They were married on the 20th of April 1901 in
Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado. Her last name was
“Hollow!”
In 1901 Craig’s great-grandfather was sixty-six years old and
Elizabeth was in her late 50’s. So she must have been
married before. Had she come to the US by herself and
married here or was she married back in England? Were
there any children in her life? Or maybe she was a “spinster”
and finally decided to marry Thomas in her later years? And
what happened to her after Craig’s great grandfather died in
June 1902?
An effort to find the
answer to the last
question brought me
to the 1910 Federal
Census for Gilpin
County, Colorado.
In it was found
Elizabeth A. Harvey
living as “head of
house” on Main
Street in Nevadaville.
She was sixty-one
years old with no
occupation listed.
Recorded in the same dwelling was a boarder, Thomas
Roberts. He was a thirty-five year old single man with the
occupation of miner. But what of Elizabeth’s early years?
Was her family left back in England? Was she originally from
Cornwall as many of Craig’s family were? Ah hah! Colorado
took a State Census in 1885. Perhaps she would be listed
there! And she was! “Eliz Hollon, thirty-eight years, wife.”
She was in the enumeration at the top of page 17, Gilpin
County, District 2, dated 1 June 1885. Going back to the
bottom of page 16 there is “Jno Hollon, boarder in dwelling
number 155.” He is a forty-four year old miner. No children
live in the household. Time to look through overseas records
for John and Elizabeth.
At the urging of Colin Hollow, I looked through images of
Cornwall’s marriage records on familysearch.org and found
their marriage recorded on the bottom of page 166.
“1869...St. John’s Church...Parish of Pendeen...County of
Cornwall...May 15...John Hollow, his X mark, age 27.
============================================================================================
The Hollow Log Issue 51 Page 13
Condition: bachelor, Rank or profession: miner, Residence:
Trewellard, Father’s name and surname: William Hollow,
Profession of father: miner. Elizabeth Ann Williams, her X
mark, age 25, spinster, Pendeen,
John Williams, miner. They were
married in the parish
church...after Banns. Now I was
really involved. What happened to
John?
In 1880 he and Elizabeth were
living on Nevada Street in Central
City, Colorado. He was mining
and she, keeping house. They are
both in their thirties and the
census says that neither can read
nor write. No children are living with them. So something
happened to John Hollow between 1885 and 1900. Mining
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
John and Elizabeth lived. Still nothing was revealed. And
then a random act of genealogical kindness brought me the
answer to John’s fate.
Previously, I’d made friends with Liz, a volunteer for the
Foothills Genealogical Society. The geological foothills are
the base of the Rocky Mountains along the “mineral belt” in
Colorado. The genealogical foothills are the counties of
Clear Creek, Gilpin, Jefferson and Park. FGS helps preserve
the historical and family records from these counties.
Recently, I’d offered the FGS a copy of a CD made from the
photos of Craig’s Gilpin County family marriage records. Liz
was stunned at the time and told me that the society director,
Dave Forsyth, previously sent people to the County Recorder
to obtain copies of their family’s marriage records, only to
have these people told that the office did not have them.
Because of my contribution, Dave talked directly with
Colleen and she agreed to work with the society to make the
records available. From this I got a big thank you and Liz
asked me to send our family sheets to her so she could “keep
an eye out” as she went through the society’s records. Many
times Liz emailed me scans or photos of records or
newspaper clippings related to Craig’s relatives. Then there
was the day that she sent me a copy of a newspaper clipping
ending the mystery; what happened to John Hollow.
From the Weekly Register-Call, Central City, Colorado, 14
December 1894:
Another article dated Dec. 11, 1894 in The Colorado Transcript
stated, “Died, at Thomas Pearce’s ranch on Belcher Hill, of miner’s
complaint, John Hollow, aged 54 years. He leaves a wife at Nevada,
and many friends who considered him an honest and industrious man...”
Author's note: I am still
searching for information on the
fate of Elizabeth Williams
Hollow Harvey. She seems like
she must have been a person to
know and was a very strong
woman. My job as a family
researcher and writer is to “bring
the past into the future” and
leave a legacy of information to
the descendants of those who
went before. So I will keep
searching till I find the answer to
her mystery.
Carla Garner, October 2017
DNA Tests A word of explanation of the DNA tests available for
genealogical purposes. There are three basic types of tests
available to us in family history now. Each has a different
purpose so it is important to have worked out what you want
to get from a DNA test as they are still reasonably expensive.
We have two types of DNA in each cell of our bodies,
Chromosomal DNA and Mitochondrial DNA. Each of our
body’s cells has a nucleus that contains 46 chromosomes.
They are organised in pairs, we have 23 pairs. We get 23
chromosomes from our mother and 23 from our father. One
of the pairs is called the sex chromosomes, known as the X
and Y chromosomes. Females have two X chromosomes,
one from their mother and one from their father. Males have
an X chromosome and a Y chromosome, the X from their
mother and a Y from their father.
Mitochondrial DNA is in each of our cells but not in the
nucleus. There are small amounts compared to what is found
in the nucleus and it is found in tiny structures called
mitochondria. The mitochondria are found in the egg cells
produced by females, there are some mitochondria in sperm
but they are destroyed during fertilization. So all the
mitochondrial DNA we have comes from our mothers.
Both sorts of DNA are used in DNA tests but in different
ways.
Y DNA test.
When I commenced the Hollow DNA Project it was based
around this test. Sections of the Y chromosome are analysed.
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 14
not entirely true. Mutations may occur, that is a spontaneous
alteration to a part of the chromosome. Once made that
mutation is passed on to the son and his son and so on. But
mutations apart, the Y chromosome I have is the same Y
chromosome my dad had and his dad and all my male
Hollow ancestors had.
There are 111 markers, sections of the Y chromosome, that
testing companies have identified and analyse. You can opt to
have 12, 25, 37, 67 or 111 markers analysed. The more
markers analysed the higher the cost of the test. For most
family history purposes the 37 or 67 was considered the
starting point. At each of the marker points the test will
identify how many times the DNA chemical molecules are
repeated at that point. The number of repeats can vary from
8 times to 22 times. The test result you get back for a 37
marker test will be a list of 37 numbers that is the number of
repeats that you have at each marker. Because the Y
chromosome is passed on entirely in each generation. A
grandfather, father, son should have the same sequence of
numbers. If they differ, it may be at a marker where a
mutation (change) has occurred.
This means that the 37 number sequence I have is the same
sequence all my male Hollow ancestors had, with the
exception of any mutations that might have occurred over the
generations. Fortunately the rate of mutation is quite small,
an average rate of one mutation per 200 years.
We have now had many distantly related Hollows tested and
have found a sequence that identifies the Hollow DNA. If a
Hollow male doesn’t have that sequence it will be because a
non Hollow male has intervened in the trail of ancestors.
This is called a non-paternal event. A male has acquired to
the Hollow name from their mother or adoption or name
change or some other means. At the moment it seems that
there is one Hollow sequence, the other sequences found can
all been explained to be non-paternal events. This is a strong
indication that The Hollow family goes back to one Hollow
(or Holla) male that took on that name.
This test will also give you a breakdown of you male
ancestors ethnicity.
Mitochondrial DNA tests. (mtDNA tests)
mtDNA tests use the fact that our entire mitochondrial DNA
is inherited from our mothers. The test is then used to follow
the female line. The other difference is that both men and
women can take this test. This test is less useful for family
history unless you want to answer a question like “did these
two people have the same mother…?” or to find the ethnic
origins of your mother or to find out if someone is adopted.
Generally speaking it is not a test used much in family history
research.
Autosomal Dna test (atDNA test)
This test tests part of the 22 pairs of chromosomes you have
that are not the sex chromosomes that you have inherited
from your parents. When your first cell was formed, when a
sperm fertilised and egg cell. The sperm cell contained 21
chromosomes or autosomes from your dad. The egg cell
from your mum also contained 21 chromosomes. However
in creating the sperm or egg the process forming the sperm
or egg breaks each chromosome and recombines it so the
new chromosome will contains bits of chromosome that
came from your mum and bits that came from your dad. This
happens in each new generation so all of us have bits of
DNA from our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and
so on back. Your DNA will even differ from your siblings in
the amount of DNA from your forbears. The autosomal
DNA then is a mixture of DNA from our maternal and
paternal lines.
The atDNA test identifies bits of DNA from all our
autosomes. And then tries to find other people who have
some of the same bits of DNA. These people will be
relatives, the more similar bits the closer the relative is the
general rule. It can happen though that a cousin may have
more similar DNA to you than a sibling.
Unlike the other Y DNA test, in this one having siblings take
the test is useful, even recommended. The test finds people
who are related. The testing company will give you a list of
people that match with you and give an indication of the
closeness of the match. Then the work begins of finding how
these matches fit into your family tree. The testing company
also analyses your DNA to learn your ethnicity and will give
you a breakdown of it and a graphic of the migration pattern
of the different ethnic groups.
The atDNA test can help identify family, it may be
particularly helpful in cases of adoption or where a non-
paternal event has occurred. It will also give you a breakdown
of you ethnicity. In this instance taking into consideration
both your male and female lines, unlike the Y DNA test.
There are many companies that offer DNA tests but you
need to be clear about what you want from a test, then
choose the appropriate type of DNA test to have. There are
many companies offering DNA tests for genealogical study.
Some like AncestryDNA and 23andMe. only offer the
atDNA test. Others like FamilytreeDNA, National
Geographic Genographic and Chromo2test offer the full
suite of tests.
I have attempted to show the differences in the various
genealogical DNA tests. They are quite different to those
tests used in medicine or in police investigations.
Colin Hollow