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THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 51, December 2017 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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: chollow@netspace.net.au

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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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