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Henry Hollingsworth in Dublin!

    It wouldn't be wise to hold back hot Irish discoveries, hoping 
to get more before writing an article.  Usually there is nothing more 
to find, due to the destruction of the Record Office in Dublin on Fri 
30 June 1922.  Hence, with nothing much to hope for here is another 
scoop, just found by me, Harry Hollingsworth, your editor.
    HENRY HOLLINGSWORTH (my own birth name) has been found in the 
Subsidy Rolls for the Liberties of Donore, County Dublin, in the years 
1665, 1666 and 1668! (Mormon film roll 258503, Tenison Groves collec-
tion, Record Office, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Box 12, section
15036.) Mr Groves copied these rolls completely way back at the turn 
of the century - by hand.  After the originals were destroyed in 1922, 
he typed them out and they now represent the only copies of these 
records known to exist. (Groves should be canonized!  He really is 
the Saint of Irish Records!)
    Below, I will copy these sections completely, first, for yours 
and my own future reference, and second, as a tribute to Tenison
Grove's methods.  As a professional genealogist, all he really had
to do was to copy out only the surnames be was assigned to. Instead,
he copied out whole documents, some huge ones.  If one of us had hir-
ed Tenison Arthur Groves to research the Ho11ingsworths, you may be 
sure he would have copied every document he got his hands on.  My own 
impossible lineage would possibly be possible, instead of impossibly 
impossible, had Groves researched it.
    In the 1665 Subsidy, the name is entered as "Hen Hollywoorth."
The 1666 roll (which was the first item I encountered) lists the name 
as Henry Hollingsworth.  It was a distinct jolt to see that name in 
that locality.  The 1668 entry had to be searched for more carefully. 
It is "Hen Hollings!"  The name is coupled with another assessee: 
Willm. Kelly and they were put down for � 1.10 (one pound, ten shill
ings).  The 1663 Hearthmoney tax roll for Donore is on page or sect-
ion 15042 on film 258504, but the man is not listed.  Nor is he on 
the Subsidies for 1663, or one marked "166_," the usual way of noting
an undated roll, though near in time to the dated ones.  There are no 
records later than the 1668 roll, so I can't guess when his residence 
in the Liberties of Donore terminated.
    Several of Henry Hollingsworth's neighbor's include one Bethel 
Dobar (Dobarr) (which reminds me of Slingsby Bethel of London, the 
second high sheriff along with Henry Cornish), widow Reynye or Reyney 
Thomas Vinton (Vynton) and Thomas Brookes.  One Philip Cooley's name 
also persists in the same section of the rolls. These people probab-
ly were not peasants by any means, for the subsidies usually were put 
on the gentry, since the peasants of that time could hardly cough up 
a farthing, let alone a Pound Sterling.  These were the years of the 
Restoration of the Monarchy under King Charles II., with the Puritan 
beast, Cromwell, deservedly dead and buried, then exhumed and hanged 
in chains for his treason and regicide against the King's father.  
Then, too, the plague was raging in London, quelled only by the aw- 
ful Great Fire of 1666.  The subsidies were not levied for this set of 
circumstances, though they may have been extended on their account.
    This man could easily be the father of Valentine, the Henry 
Hollinworth of 1630-32, Ballyvickcrannell, Co Armagh.  History proves 
all the Protestants around Portadown had to flee their homes or face 
a horrible death at O'Neill's bloody hands.  We have no way to tell

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