Thomas Kavanagh a relative too? You Valentine Hollingsworth descendants think your problems are big! Try us Wexfords for a while - 28 years and Zilch!
All in St. George Parish.
Thanks to Subscriber and Correspondent Don Clarke, 1784 S. Deshon Rd.
Lithonia, Georgia 30058 4 Jan 1988. From English Crown Grants in St.
George Parish in Georgia 1755-1775, by Pat Bryant, Surveyor General Dept.
p. 89. These men were the sons of Stephen3 Hollingsworth and wife Anne
Robinson. (Henry2 etc.) Zebulon4 being ancestor of the late William
Bryant Hollingsworth shown on p. 30 above. Details about the families
of both men are still very hazy. Both Valentine and Zebulon claimed
to have 6 children when they arrived in Georgia. (See Item 3 on
p. 29 above for another notation of Zebulon.)
Donald Clarke also satisfied one of our longings with respect to the
will of Jacob4 Hollingsworth of Franklin County, Georgia, the full
text of which has been published here ages ago-(HR Sept 1966,
pp. 104-105 - date of the will 15 May 1815). The Court of Ordinary
met 4 Nov 1822, Garret L. Sandidge, James Mitchel and John C. Aderhold,
Esq. Justices present. "A Will being presented to this Court at this
present Term of Jacob Hollingsworth the same being proven in open court
is ordered to be Recorded." It is safe to say Jacob had died about a
month or two before this court, and would have appeared in the 1820
Census of Franklin County, except that this was one of two counties
whose schedules are missing! (Georgia Franklin County Minutes, Court
of Ordinary, Mar 7th, 1814 to July 7th, 1823 etc. (1940) p. 126 a,
WPA project.) Stewart, P. 143 gives 1826, or thereabouts.
You will need HR July 1985 pp 19-20 to understand this Story in
full. Our cousin Thomas Hollingsworth, aged 19, sailed to New York
and died his first night in a hotel room by blowing out the gaslight
instead of turning it off. (Sure an' they didn't have gaslight in
rural Wexford in the 1880s!) We already printed his death certificate
which shows he died on 25 Feb 1889 at 3:30 P.M. by asphyxia due to
inhaling 'Illuminating Gas,' at 129th and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan.
So I went to look for the ship he came over on and found it. The
vessel was the Nevada, manifest signed 21 Feb, 1889, filmed by the
National Archives on M-237 roll 530, List 195 B. It sailed out of
Liverpool and stopped at Queenstown, Ireland carrying, 21O passengers,
including, in the 2nd Cabin from Queenstown:
177. Thomas Hollingworth (sic) 18, male, farmer, citizen of Ireland,
destination U.S.A., 1 piece of baggage, for protracted sojourn.
(Protracted it would be - forever in St Michael's Cemetery.)
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