138. Samuel Hollingsworth
Neither Samuel nor Jacob served in the Revolutionary War, probably because of their Quaker background.
151. Samuel Harlan
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.
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.
153. Daniel Hollingsworth
Daniel inherited Coolookbeg. Believed to be ancestor of the Hollingsworths of Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
Daniel was in Arklow in 1766, He held a plot of ground and a house in the town, paying to Lord Carysfort the landlord. His uncles William and Thomas Hollingsworth were just south of town, at Cronelusk, and like Daniel had been there at least from 1750.
Old Daniel (1730-1811) might be the very same person memorialized and semi-fictionalized in the often told tale of the sailor who ran away with "Lady Spottiswoode". She was disowned by her father and was quite a love story for its time.
Daniel's death is registered in the Parish of Killena, but believed to be buried in the Old Ballycanew Church Yard.
Ellenor Spottiswoode ? Graham? Prestage?
Ellenor SPOTTISWOODE- was born in 1758 in Coolookbeg, Ireland. She died on 18 May 1843. She was buried in Gorey Christ Church Cemetery. She married Daniel HOLLINGSWORTH "Sr"- in 1777.
157. Thomas Hollingsworth
Thomas received the 56 acres of Tomduff from his father who leased them for the lives of Thomas, Willam his brother and Thomas Tackaberry, son of Edward Tackaberry of Kilnew, Kilmuckridge, in 1761. Thomas took possession of this farm, a further lease dated 22 Feb 1770.
On May 23, 1798 the Rebellion broke out in County Wexford. A few days after, Ballycanew village was taken by the rebels under the Guidance of Rev. Michael Murphy, Roman Catholic Priest who had served that village and used his chapel for seditious meetings for years. At the battle of Arklow on 9th June, it is said that his head was taken off by an English cannon ball. The shops, houses and farm properties of most of the Protestants in the parish were looted or destroyed. Some of the more helpless residents were shot or otherwise murdered in a most fiendish manner. Luckily, Thomas Hollingsworth escaped, though it is not known how, exactly, unless he fled to Dublin as did many.
Thomas is buried in the old churchyard of the adjoining parish of Ballycanew and rests there along with his parents, an uncle, and all of his brothers.
Alice is buried beside her husband, Thomas Hollingsworth in the Ballycanew Churchyard with a great slab marking their resting place about 6 feet by 3 feet and 6 inches thick, bears the following shallow-cut inscription:
Beneath this stone lieth the remains of Thomas Hollingsworth of Tomduff, who departed this life 7 June 1822 aged 82 years. Also his wife Alice (Allis incorrectly on stone), departed this life 18 Jul 1834 at 82 years.
262. Jane Ellenor Hollingsworth
The records show that Abraham and Jane held a lease of Townland in Ballyhaddick of a farm house, offices and buildings. A later rental shows she was "Mrs Jane Parslow, widow of Abraham. Other occupiers were William, Henry, Robert and John Paslow or Parslow.
The Paslows are all descended from a Cromwellian settler named Thomas Parslow or Paslow who obtained a grand in that area of Ferns in the late 1600s.
159. John Hollingsworth Jr. shopkeeper
A deed made after John's death dated December 4, 1792, Number 300286, which settles property on John Hollingsworth Jr., Ballycanew, shopkeeper, as his father's executor, as due from debts, is witnessed by Thomas Pielow, John Robinson, Dublin, William Hollingsworth, Cranacrower and Nicholas Hollingsworth, County Wexford farmer.
The last record of John before burial is to be found in the state papers. He filed two petitions for losses due to the ravages of the Rebellion. The first filed 8 Oct 1798, claimed losses of provisions, household and shop goods to the amount of 83:3:9d. The second filed 9 Nov of the same year for losses of car (cart or wagon), furniture and apparel, being nine pages long.
Descendants say that he served in the War of 1812 and was killed or died in service in 1812. This is still to be proven.
John was shopkeeper and the second son of John and Elizabeth Hollingsworth of Ballinakill. He was raised at Ballinakill and probably educated by private tutors, the usual method of the wealthy Protestant farmers of the time, and was quite educated for his time.
The abode of his widow, Elizabeth, given in the entry of her burial was Bracana (Bracanagh) which was next to Cranacrower. She possibly went to dwell with her brother-in-law William Hollingsworth, who lived at Cranacrower.
After her husband John died she went to live with her brother-in-law William in Cranacrower and had lease holds in Bracanagh.
Elizabeth's uncle John Hunter Gowan of Gorey, he was the Hero who saved Gorey from the Terror. Gowan lived out his life in peace and died in his 90s. His son Ogle R. Gowan imigrated to Canada and founded the Loyal Orange Lodge of British North America.
Probably died young, the next child was also called Elizabeth two years later.
Elizabeth was believed never to have married. She may be the same Elizabeth buried at Gorey in 1853, "age 67".
267. Martha Hollingsworth
Martha and Benjamin were married in 18 Sep 1810 by Thomas Moore, witnesses were Benjamin Hartley and William FitzHenry.
Benjamin was a Publican.
160. Martha Hollingsworth
William Robinson married, by licence, 1770, Martha of Ballinakill.
William had a lease for land in Townland of Ballinclery, Parish of Ballycanew, dated 4th June 1792 for three lives aged about 61, 50 and 50 years. This farm had been leased to his father Richard Robinson, by Richard Earl of Anglesey, being 69 1/2 acres on 11 Oct 1738. Also named was his mother Elizabeth and Hugh Bolger (Bulger) Jr. son of Hugh Bolger of Ballinclery. The lease consisted of a Farm House, Offices, Out buildings, gardens and land.
William Hollingsworth became heir to a full third of the "lands of Clonard or Great Fowkestown, County Dublin", by right of his wife, from his father-in-law, John Jones, who was possibly murdered in the Rebellion of 1798. He divided it upon the his three daughters, Martha, Susanna and Jane.
William was of Brackernagh and Cranacrower, Ballycanew and a gentleman farmer.
Between 1799-1824 William is listed in the Vestry Minutes along with his brother and cousins. On 11 Jan 1819 at a Vestry meeting John Hollingsworth was given a pew on North side of the altar, William and Nicholas Hollingsworth received pews on South side of the altar, John Hollingsworth and Nicholas Hollingsworth were present.
The document made in Ireland was a Marriage Settlement between two men named Hollingsworth. It is recorded at Volume 782 of Deeds, page 33, and bears the Registration Number 529168. The main parties (who unfortunately are not identified as to their relationship to the Principal Witness, Fredk. Hollingsworth) were "William Hollingsworth of Bracanna... & John Hollingsworth the Elder of Cranacrower...in the County of Wexford." Both these places are Townlands in the aforesaid Parish of Ballycanew. These men were completing marriage articles involving the settlement of "the lands of Clonard, in the County Dublin," by William Hollingsworth the Younger, of Ballinakill..." John Hollingsworth had married William's daughter, Susannah Hollingsworth, undoubtedlly a 1st or 2nd cousin, at Ballycanew Protestant Church in 1819. In the same year, William's son John had married John's daughter Esther, in the same church. But we found no marriage settlement in this case, John the Elder not having been blessed with the possession of fruitful lands. William Hollingsworth of Bracanna settled part of these same lands upon the families of two of his other daughters - Martha, who married George Kidd, and Jane, who married Richard Gainfort. (Incidentally, the Kidds subsequently emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, along with Susannah's son Edward Thomas Hollingsworth, who worked in the Pay Office of the "Enquirer" for fifty years!) While it is assured that our Frederick Hollingsworth was some relation to all these people, the deed doesn't show it.