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Thomas Kavanagh Before John Hollinsworth
Continued

Thomas Kavanagh a relative too? You Valentine Hollingsworth descendants 
think your problems are big! Try us Wexfords for a while - 28 years and 
Zilch!


Additiona1-----Hollingsworth Grants in Georgia-----Additional

All in St. George Parish.
  • (1) Valentine Hollingsworth was granted 50 acres bounded on the s.e. by his own land, July 5, 1774, entered in Book of Grants H, p. 107.
  • (2) Same man, 200 acres, a11 sides vacant, 2 Jan 1772. Book I, P. 495.
  • (3) Same man, 150 acres, surveyed 25 Nov 1771, (Plat Book M, p. 49), bounded east by John Mann, west Abraham Sapp, south Stephen Murray. Granted 6 Oct 1772, Book I, p. 780.
  • (4) Zebulon Hollingsworth was granted 150 acres, all sides vacant, on 2 Aug 1774, as per Grant Book M, p. 201.
    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.)


  • Probate of Jacob Hollingsworth Will
    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.
    


    Star-Crossed Tom Holligsworth's Last Voyage

    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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