477. Virginia Lee Montroy
Tom,
On my side of the house in your site we have the family of Lawrence and Ethel Montroy with their thirteen children. You have worked with me to list full names and birthdate. May I sent short bio's of each of the children; like marriage and children and small info bits for your posting? If so they will come in a little at a time. Virginia, the oldest, will prepare one and it may take years for the rest. I am hoping this will be bait to make the rest follow suit.
The second child in this family is Gerald and they have adopted a ten year old Chinese girl with no knowledge of any language, but Chinese. This was a year ago and she is near grade level and way out front in mathematics, science. Virginia, a teaching nun, has been tutoring her. She is very sharp and direct and the fun story was asking what she wanted for Christmas. She has now a brother, graduate of Northwestern law school and a member of Gerald's firm and a sister who is married to an lawyer. Kate, the ten year old chinese sister said. "What are they asking for". my my.
Hope you both had a good weekend and can take it easy. Tell me about your selling and down scaling the operation. Future plans, enjoy life and travel?
harry 8/27/2006
511. Timothy Cornelius Healy Healy
Virginia Says Tim arrived in USA on Ap;ril 26, 1983
498. Robert (Bob) Bendorf
Bob just retired from the federal service--he was a nurse practioner, they live in Clarksville, TN.
499. Allan G. Bendorf
Al, my husband, is a nurse anesthetist, and semi-retired. He works 2-3 days a week at an eye clinic, mostly does anesthesia for cataracts.
500. Thomas James Hollingsworth
Tom is a graduate of Southern High School and Johns Hopkins University with a B.S.
Degree in Business Management. As a young man he shipped out in the Merchant
Marines with the Seaman’s International Union and traveled as far away as Japan
and Korea. Spent two years in the Army and was assigned to the United States Army Advanced Marksmanship Unit at Fort Benning. USA AMUBefore moving to Idaho Tom was very active with the Lacrosse Foundation at Johns
Hopkins and had a history in sports in high school and college. Tom has continued
his service volunteering while in Idaho on various boards such as the North Bench Fire Board,
Sheriff's Dept, Translator and P&Z to name a few.Dear John & Doug: (dated January 22, 2007)
When I was very, very young I remember my father saying bad things about Catholics (my mother was Catholic and separated from us ), I ask him why he didn't like Catholics and he said they ran us out of Ireland. Obviously he heard this from his father and grandfather.I had forgotten all about that until after my DNA match proved I was of Irish decent. I had put it completely out of my mind and considered myself English based on the fact that I could only trace my family back to Manchester, England in the mid 1800s.
A couple things have registered with me due to the last couple emails I have received from you.
Number #1: Yes, the Wexford Hollingsworths had always claimed their ancestors came from England.
I always thought it was because they didn't want to be Irish, I think I was wrong about that assumption.Number #2: Yes, Valentine and probably most of his family went to England to escape the rebellion because of their Quaker influence, plus the will to live. Many of the Jews were smart enough to do the same thing before Hitler came to power.
For the past couple years I too, like Bill in Dublin, have always felt my lineage goes back to Valentine's brother Thomas born abt 1634. I have always felt it was his brother Thomas that signed things along with Valentine, not Valentine's son.
There is a lost generation between Thomas born abt 1634 and Samuel born abt 1710 and John born abt 1713. I believe these two men to be brothers and most likely born in England.
I believe that Samuel 1710 is the sire of the Arklow family and John 1713 is the sire of the Ballycanew family. Bill in Dublin traces his family back to Samuel and I trace my family back to John. If Bill doesn't match with his DNA, that would blow that theory out of the water, but I would bet anything he will match .
I don't think it was a coincidence that my ancestor James (born 1811 Ballycanew) settled in Manchester when he mustered out of the army in 1845, I now feel he had a family history in Machester. That would also coincide with the Wexford families claiming to come from that area of England.
The England theory would certainly explain the absents of any records in any of the counties pertaining to Hollingsworths after the rebellion of the 1640s. And like I said earlier, your last couple emails really seemed to hit home and get me thinking.
Another obvious fact is the Wexford Hollingsworths were not Quakers, they were Church of Ireland, and a good reason why they didn't accompany Valentine to America. They stayed in England for one more generation before going back to Ireland as young men, and this time to the peaceful south, which was to prove not a very good idea in the long run.
Thanks for letting me express my thoughts and taking the time to read them,
Best Regards, Tom (Ballycanew)
In 1993, the Boundary County Idaho Translator board’s chairman, Tom Hollingsworth began a series of negotiations with the Forest Service and US West to construct a state of the art 12X36 communications building. These negotiations lasted over 3 years. The Chairman and Translator Board’s efforts in those long and sometimes frustrating negotiations netted our county an estimated overall saving of $50,000. In addition, all equipment is now housed in a secure and weatherproof modular building with room for future expansion.
History of the Boundary County Translator District
1966-PresentIn 1993, the board’s chairman, Tom Hollingsworth began a series of negotiations with the Forest Service and US West to construct a state of the art 12X36 communications building. These negotiations lasted over 3 years. The Chairman and Translator Board’s efforts in those long and sometimes frustrating negotiations netted our county an estimated overall saving of $50,000. In addition, all equipment is now housed in a secure and weatherproof modular building with room for future expansion
516. Marc Thomas Hollingsworth
Marc is a graduate of Baltimore County Woodlawn High School and Saint Mary’s College of Maryland with a degree in Economics. He graduated with honors and was awarded the Saint Mary’s Scholar Award for excellent. He spent many years working for Bell Atlantic - Verizon and took an early out after 17 years to pursue a career in Chinese studies.
As a youngster Marc enjoyed playing sports such as baseball and lacrosse. He loved to ski and became interested in bike racing in his later teen years narrowly missing death traveling down a mountain near Ellicott City and hitting a car head on. Marc like his sister Andrea has always work hard at doing whatever endeavor that interested them at the time to perfection.
517. Andrea Hollingsworth
Andrea is a graduate of Mount DeSales in Catonsville, Maryland, University of Maryland and the Baltimore International Culinary Institute. Andrea is currently employed by a large New England company and lives between her homes in Framingham, New Hampshire and Cape Cod.
2/16/2007
Dad- I just want to tell you and Toni how much you mean to me. I keep
having these memories pop in my head.... of different times we've been
together. I remember Marc and I in the back seat of a car with you and
mom in the front seat....you pulled over and picked up a piece of
furniture...we drove for a while and discovered bees were in the car..do
you remember this...where were we???I hope you know how much I cherish my childhood and what you have done
for me. I appreciate the person you made me. My life is wonderful
because of you . I know I did a lot but you are the one who turned me
into who I am today.We will be down the cape this weekend, just the 2 of us.....tomorrow
night we are going to dinner with the $$ you gave us. We are going to
the Impotent Oyster in Chatham, you and Toni went there for lunch.Xoxoxo
Andrea
Carolyn Jane(Toni) Sias Hollingsworth
Toni’s father was a reporter in the White House at the time of Toni’s birth. Shortly afterwards she, her sister Nancy and her father and mother moved to Sioux City, Iowa where Toni spent the rest of her childhood. She later went on to Iowa and Iowa State finishing her education with a Master Degree in Botany. Two of Toni’s passions are her love for gardening and watercolor painting, both of which she excels in.