strong circumstantial evidence, if not proof, of the assumptions we
publish here!
Henry's mother died in Ireland. The writer found her burial
record in Lurgan book, page 293, as follows:
"Ann Hollingsworth (wife to Vollantine Hollingsworth) of
Ballyvickarannell** deceased the first day of the second month ANNO DOM:
1671, and was buried in ye burying place of ye people of god at
Monreauerty."
**Tbe spelling here is much closer to the true spelling Ballyvickcrannell,
than in the family record on page 203 where it is given as
Bellevickcrannell which Albert Cook Myers took for "Belleniskcrannell"
and which was carried on by the late Joseph A. Stewart in his family
history of 1925.
This is the first time we have seen where Ann (Ree) Hollingsworth
was buried. "Monreauerty" is now called Moyraverty, about two miles
northeast of the farm at Ballyvickcrannell. Most of the Friends of Seagoe
Meeting were listed as buried there. (Inquiries will be made!) A
tombstone would be a rarity, but a possibility which cannot be overlooked.
In August, 1688, the same month in which he was married, the
lands of Henry's father were sold to Rev. Henry Jenney, Prebend of
Mullaghbrack Parish (a clergyman of the Church of Ireland) as shown
in the index to fines and recoveries. Thus Ballyvickcrannell went out
of the Hollingsworth family. It is our opinion that Henry acted in his
father's behalf, but Valentine may have returned to Ireland to conduct
the proceedings. His name, however, does not appear upon the list of
witnesses to Henry's marriage. (See further, page 27.)
The predominance of Yorkshire families among the Quakers of Seagoe
Parish, being in close association with the Hollingsworths, may be a
strong indication that Valentine Hollingsworth's own father, Henry, came
from Yorkshire. In this issue we publish the entries we found in the
registers of Calverly, Yorkshire. At Ballyvickcrannell, the only other
Hearth-tax-payer with Valentine Hollingsworth in 1664, was "William
Smurfit". Smurfit, Smurfoot, etc., is also a Yorkshire surname, though a
rather unusual one taking a number of forms.
(See HR Vol. 1, page 102, column 1, lines 28 & 29.)
Watch for more articles about Lurgan Quaker Record Book in the
columns of HOLLINGSWORTH REGISTER.
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