Elizabeth HOLLINGSWORTH-was born in 1720 in Kennett Twp, Chester, Pennsylvania. She died after 1754 in , Union, South Carolina. She was buried in Family Farm, , South Carolina. She married Samuel HARLAN "Sr"-29702 in Aug 1745/1746 in Old Sweedes Hundred, Wellington, Delaware.
They had the following children:
M i George HARLAN "Sr"-
M ii Samuel HARLAN "Jr"-
M iii William HARLAN- died in 1808.
F iv Betty HARLAN- was born in 1746 in , Chester, Pennsylvania.
M v Aaron HARLAN- was born in 1746 in , Chester, Pennsylvania.
Samuel HARLAN "Sr"- was born about 1726 in Kennett Twp, Chester, Pennsylvania. He died in Near Union, Court House, Union, South Carolina. He was buried in On His Farm, Union, South Carolina. He married Elizabeth HOLLINGSWORTH-16093 in Aug 1745/1746 in Old Sweedes Hundred, Wellington, Delaware.
Alternate place of death: Laurens District, South Carolina....
Sarah was one of two daughters of Valentine II to marry into Harlan Family....alternate date of marriage Mar 1745/1746.
They had the following children:
F i Sarah HARLAN-29709.
M ii Samuel HARLAN-29728.
M iii Joshua HARLAN-29730 died in , , South Carolina.
M iv George HARLAN-29731 died in 1813.
M v Jacob HARLAN-29733.
F vi Elizabeth HARLAN-29735.
F vii Mary HARLAN-29737 was born in 1748.
M viii Aaron HARLAN "III"-29739 was born in 1752. He died on 6 Aug 1806.
M ix James HARLAN "Sr"-29741 was born on 8 Jun 1765. He died on 5 Sep 1842.
M x Valentine HARLAN-29743 was born on 8 Oct 1766. He died on 16 Nov 1852.BALDWIN-29705. married Charity HARLAN-29704.
Aaron HARLAN "II"-29703 was born in 1724 in Kennett Twp, Chester, Pennsylvania. He died in 1798 in , Union, South Carolina. He was buried in Old Harland, Graveyard, Union Dist., S.C.. He married Sarah HOLLINGSWORTH-16094 in May 1746 in Holy Trinity, Old Swedes Church., Wilmington, Delaware.
Aaron's parents:
Aaron HARLAN "I"-29695.Aaron married Sarah HEALD-29696.
Sarah HEALD-29696.Sarah married Aaron HARLAN "I"-29695.
They had the following children:M i George HARLAN-29701.
F ii Charity HARLAN-29704.
F iii Mary HARLAN-29706.
F iv Elizabeth HARLAN-29694 was born in 1709/1720. She died on 26 May 1768.
M v Aaron HARLAN "II"-29703 was born in 1724. He died in 1798.
M vi Samuel HARLAN "Sr"-29702 was born about 1726.
Valentine left small pittances to his children, Valentine, Elizabeth and Sarah. He may have disapproved of their conduct within the Quaker religion.
"Parish Church of Ballycanew January 1, 1760" That the seat (pew) next to Roger Woodroofe, John Hollingsworth and Richard Robinson shall belong to James Redmond, Samuel Hollingsworth, Benjamin Thackaberry, Fossey Thackaberry and their successors..." Signed by John Hollingsworth, Church Warden and others.
Samuel was believed to have been born abt 1710 , location not known, most likely England. Samuel was probably formally from Cronelusk, Arklow Parish, County Wicklow and settled in Coolookbeg right next to Ballinakill.
He married prior to 1730, no record of the marriage has been found mainly due to the loss of all parish records. This Samuel is the first of a long series of Samuels in this line.
In Hollingsworth Register articles in Vol 4, pp.87-89 and 5 pp 156-161, this writer (Harry Hollingsworth) asserted that Nicholas Hollingsworth (1762) of Ballycanew townland, farmer, was possibly the son of John Hollingsworth of Ballinakill (1713-1791). John's will did not name a son Nicholas, but did mention a "nephew Hollingsworth". Further investigation - still without proof - could indicate Nicholas was the son of Samuel Hollingsworth of Coolookbeg, brother of John in the Arklow Family.
Samuel was a gentleman farmer and the father of Daniel Hollingsworth (1736-1811) who inherited Coolookbeg, believed to be the ancestor of the Hollingsworths of Scotch Plains, New Jersey who were noted hat and fur manufacturers from 1870 to about 1920.
In May 1769 Samuel signed a lease with his brother John for the Coolookbeg land, one of the witnesses was John Hollingsworth, his nephew who would have been 21 years old at the time. Samuel's oldest son Daniel was named in the lease as was John's oldest son John.
Samuel was buried on Jan 11, 1799 in Ballycanew Protestant churchyard, County Wexford, at the age of about 89, no stone marks the burial place. Samuel's unknown wife was deceased before his death.
Samuel may have died as a result of the 1798 Rebellion, which had raged from 23 May until October, only eight months before his death. As did thousands of suffering loyalists, as they were named, Samuel Hollingsworth entered a claim for his losses, which were in the amount of 9 pounds plus, with the loss of meadow and household goods, sustained at the home residence in the townland of Coolookbeg. His claim was filed Nov 20, 1798.
154. Samuel Hollingsworth
Samuel's wife Diana died most likely in childbirth, there is no record at this time of Samuel remarrying or any record of children.
William was believed to be a seaman and is thought to have died a bachelor.
71. John Hollingsworth link to Tom 4th gr grandfather
John Hollingsworth and Elizabeth lived at Ballinakill at least from 1746, and probably earlier. In 1746 when John Hollingsworth obtained his first sublease on the lands from John Colley ( John Colley had gotten the lands from Nicholas Tackaberry) of Ballywater, he was given the whole farm "except Mogue and Daniel Murray's holdings." The Colley name appears in the St. Mogue's vestry records along with our Hollingsworth, and the Colleys were interrelate with other families of the "minor gentry" around County Wexford.
The Hollingsworth name is an early Saxon name originating around 1022 when this family moved into northeast Cheshire, England and purchased an estate named Hollingsworth Manor. The name means a "Farm of Holly Trees". The Doomsday survey made during the Norman Conquests lists this manor as lying on the edge of a great woods at Macclesfiel. A visitation by an official herald in 1580 included the gentry, John Hollingsworth, Gentleman and Robert Hollingsworth of Hollinsworth. A further record of the time period states that Robert of Hollingsworth Hall is of whom the family descends. He was listed as the Magistrate for the counties of Cheshire and Lancaster. The church and hall belonging to this family that contain the Hollingsworth Coat of Arms is still standing. The last family member to own the hall, Capt. Robert Hollingsworth died in 1865. The motto included was "Learn to suffer what must be borne." NO PROOF THAT THE COUNTY WEXFORD FAMILIES HAVE ANY RELATIONSHIP TO THE CHESHIRE, ENGLAND EVEN THOUGH DESCENDENTS CONSTANTLY MADE THE CLAIM THERE SURNAME CAME FROM ENGLAND. NO MENTION OF COUNTY ARMAGH, WE NOW KNOW THE WEXFORD HOLLINGSWORTHS AND VALENTINE HOLLINGSWORTHS ARE A DNA MATCH.
There are at least two generations missing between the birth of Thomas Hollingsworth abt 1634 and John born 1713 of Ballinakill Ireland. (I believe those lost generations to be a Thomas and one John.) TJH
The Wexford-Wicklow family tell us that their first settlement was made at Ballinakill, Parish of Ballycanew, Co. Wexford, in 1665. But others of the same family say that the first man came with Cromwell. So, take your pick. NEITHER IS PROBABLY TRUE, ARMAGH TO DUBLIN TO CRONELUSK TO BALLINAKILL IS MORE LIKELY. Time and much research may establish the veracity of one or another of these traditions. It is obvious now in 2005 because of DNA match to the Henry-Valentine Sr., that this family migrated from County Armagh most likely in the mid to late 1600s.
John's father is lost to history at this time, although it is quite possible his grandfather was Thomas Hollingsworth, brother to Valentine Sr. Taking the opportunity to advance an educated guess, like Harry Hollingsworth liked to do, I imagine John's father and maybe grandfather moved to the Dublin area or England and then the family moved south to Cronelusk. From Cronelusk branched out to Ballinakill and the Ballycanew area in the 1730-1740s.
Harry Hollingsworth in Vol 4, Sept 1968 on page 92, says "I have a sneaking suspicion that THOMAS HOLLINGSWORTH was the father! the fact that he appears no more after 1765, and that John's eldest son was named Thomas, are my two reasons, both of them good ones." This lays before us the implication that John and his brother Samuel came down from Arklow around 1740.
Harry Hollingsworth (HR) has been unable to find any reference to John Hollingsworth before 1746 in County Wexford. Where was he and his father Thomas before 1746? When we find this out then we will know how and when our family migrated from Armagh to Wexford.
Ballycanew Church: John Hollingsworth signed his name and was present at a vestry meeting on 8 April 1765.
John Hollingsworth was at the vestry meeting on 20 April 1778. Ditto, 6 April 1779
7 Oct 1761 A Vestry held in the parish Church of Ballycanew appointing Mr. John Millar and John Hollingsworth overseers for the high roads in the Parish of Ballycanew.
A letter dated 30 October 1963 from the Land Registry Central Office in Dublin addressed to Harry Hollingsworth (HR) states that John Hollingsworth was part owner of lands connecting Ballinakill, Monroe and Tomagaddy. (Interesting these three areas were connected.) It goes on to say the as of 30 April 1930 the land was transferred to Elizabeth Warren and that the present owner is John O'Brien of Ballinakill.
Thomas Hollingsworth the Pirate !!
by Harry Hollingsworth....(continued from last week)
The fact that Ireland, and the cities of Galway and Dublin, are involved here, adds a glow to another spark of our memory: Refer, please, to HOLLINGSWORTH REGISTER, Vol. 1, No. 1, April, 1965, page 48, under the heading, "The Spottiswoode Fortune." There, you will read the story of a "sailor" or mariner, named "John Hollingsworth," who plighted his troth to the only daughter and heir of "Lord Spottiswoode," supposedly a Peer in East India a long time ago. John and Eleanor Spottiswoode ran off (against her father's express command) and married. The old man cut them off from his huge fortune, but set clauses in his will whereby those "of the 7th generation afterward" could collect the money, etc., etc....Now, this story is a popular tale among the Hollingsworth of today, in Dublin and the County Wicklow. But few, if any, take any stock in it, least of all, your editor. There apparently were just "no such people." Certainly no "Lord Spottiswoode", a Peer or any other kind of a gentleman, in any period who fits this description, has been found. But sudden discovery of this THOMAS HOLLINGSWORTH, Pirate, is the nearest to any of the details we have yet come, and here is why:
The Legend of the Spottiswoode affair is varied by the different members of the families of the County Wicklow or County Wexford Hollingsworths who remember it. Perhaps it is varied again, each time it is retold! But one variation says that "the first Hollingsworth who came to Ireland came from America...." Add to this the legend that he was a mariner or sailor, but not one of any class standing! Could he have been this Thomas Hollingsworth? Could he have returned to Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland, settled down and raised a family? The reader, now and in the future when this article is reviewed, must realize that this writer is in no way attempting to "start a rumor." This article, aside from the fact of the two separate Hollingsworth references, is not attempting to make fact out of a fancy or a tradition! This should be remembered.
Arklow has been a haven for mariners and involved in a maritime industry for centuries. At least four Hollingsworths were ship's captains, owning their own vessels, or mariners, out of that seacoast village-port, in the nineteenth century, and descendants collateral are still in the business there and in Dublin and Wicklow today! Arklow was the home - the parish, Manor or Lordship thereof- of the Hollingsworth from at least 1750 as shown by deeds registered at Dublin. (See REGISTER, Vol. 2, No. 2 page 71, #128949.) They were Gentleman Farmers in Cronelusk, a townland just south of Arklow town, about one mile. The mountains called Big Arklow Rock and Little Arklow Rock are in that neighbourhood, and the Arklow Lightship, once commanded by a grandson of one of these Hollingsworths, is off the coast, in St. George's Channel. The countryside near that place is described and the most beautiful in all Ireland. It is about forty miles south of Dublin.
This writer is certain that the family at Cronlush (sic) in the early eighteenth century, was the original "planting," from which his own branch at Ballycanew, Co Wexford, grew, starting in 1746 when John Hollingsworth, Sr. (1713-1791) made his first lease of the farm called Ballinakill. (REGISTER, July, 1965 p. 60 #8, Reg. #105099.) John was one of three known brothers, the others being Samuel of Coolookbeg, Co Wexford, and William of Cronelusk, Arklow, Co Wicklow (1724-1808). The original lease for Cronelusk has never been found. (This writer has been looking for it for two years and it appears never to have been recorded.) But we know from later deeds that it was for the lives of William Hollinsworth and of his brother, Samuel. The implication here is that there was a third party omitted in this recital. Land tenure for lives was usually for three lives: A man, his two sons, or a man, his brother and his son, or wife and his brother, etc. Perhaps one of the "lives" had literally expired. The land was paying a yearly rent of L11.0.6d, according to the Head-Rent deed cited 128949, a detail left out in our other article above alluded to.
We have no idea of any great implication, about the name of the father of these three men, John, Samuel & William. But one other Hollingsworth was named, in connection with this land. What was his Christian name? Why, THOMAS, of course! He had possession of the lands of Cronelusk as of March 26, 1765, as shown in our July, 1965, issue, page 60, No. 10, Registration 157152. This is the only reference to him we have! Was he the "third life" in the lease? Was he the father of the others? Was he the Pirate? You tell us! Have other members of the family put the lid on this story before?
END.....Thanks Harry for another great article!
The marker over their grave is a slab of rock estimated to weigh half a ton, being some 6 feet in length, 3 or 4 feet wide, and about 5 inches thick. It was place on the grave flat. The first inscriptions read this way:
Here lies the body of Elizabeth Hollingsworth
who departed this life in November, 1781, at aged (7+ ) years.
Also the body of John ( ) Hollingsworth of Ballinakill
who departed this life May the 12th, 1791 aged 78 years.
THIS AMIABLE COUPLE LIVED IN PEACE & TRANQUILLITY AND DIED LAMENTEDAlso Buried with his parents is: Samuel Hollingsworth died March 25, 1815, age 48 yrs
Ann Hollingsworth relict of Samuel Hollingsworth
died April 1st 1849 aged 85 yrsElizabeth's grandfather was Nicholas Tackaberry, and for the first time in our family history the name Nicholas appears.
The two small townlands of Munro and Ballinakill are the southern most in Ballycanew Parish and butt up against Tomagaddy in Monamolin Parish and also are on the edge of Gorey Barony.
This ancient lease, recorded at the Dublin Registry of Deeds in Henrietta Street, has been in our notebooks for 20 years. It tells us just who was tenant on the lands which became the leasehold of John Hollinsworth (1714-91) in 1746, but in no way implies that Thomas Kavanagh was related to Hollinsworth. Dr McLysaght shows (Irish Families, p. 189) that it is a true Irish surname, and one of a few never to bear the prefix Mac or 0. He reports: The Kavanagh territory
Abraham is believed to have never married. He lived in Ballycanew Parish, this son is conjectured because he existed as a person, and there seems not another better likely place for him.
75. Thomas Hollingsworth link only
Thomas's stone in The Wesleyan Cemetery reads: "Sacred to the memory of Thomas Hollingsworth Born in Wexford, Ireland July 12, 1795. Died at Mount Holly Farm, Nov. 21, 1842. "I would not live always (was his motto) and now the conflicts of his life are past and an eternity in Heaven gained through faith in Jesus blood."
Thomas was a "soap boiler & tallow chandler", and had as a young apprentice James Gamble who went on to become the maker of "Ivory Soap", and the owner of Proctor and Gamble Company. It was said that James Gamble paid for Thomas's grave as a thank you for their long and rich association together.
This Thomas is most likely a cousin to Nicholas and Samuel of Ballycanew, ancestors of Thomas James Hollingsworth and Donald Page Hollingsworth.