HOLLINGSWORTH ARMS Aturcona Bend. Argent. 3 Holly Leaves. Slipped. Vert. CREST

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HOLLINGSWORTH ARMS
Aturcona Bend. Argent. 3 Holly Leaves. Slipped. Vert.
CREST : A Stag Lodged, p.p.r.
MOTTO: Disce Ferenda Pali
TINCTURES OR ARMORIAL COLORS, ETC.
Colors Tinctures Precious Stones Planets Virtues
Bbe A Sapphire Jupiter Loyalty
zure
White Argent Pearl Lana Innocenc
Green Vert Emerald Venus Love
DESCENDANTS
of
entine HolKngsworth,
it
First Printing
Louisville, Kentucky
JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY, INC.
1925
Second Printing
with Section Two
Atlanta, Georgia
PEACHTREE PRINTING, INC.
1976
SECTION ONE
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
TO MY GRANDMOTHER
JULIA ANN HOLLINGSWORTH
I have with pleasure and with the assistance of many members
of the family added to the memoranda of names collected by Wm.
B. Hollingsworth of Baltimore and printed in 1884, corrected some
errors, and no doubt made others. Corrections and additions will be
appreciated.
There are thousands of the descendants of Valentine Hollings
worth, Sr., not included, because I did not have their addresses.
It is to be hoped that some member of the family will, some day,
write a "History of the Hollingsworths,'' as many of them have helped
to make history in the United States since 1682.
J. ADGER STEWART.
4780 Ashbottom Road
Louisville, Ky.
December 1924
Although I haven't written a "History of the Hollingsworths," I have
attempted to add to the decendants of the Hollingsworths by recording the
families who have decended from Aaron Hollingsworth and Ruth Rogers.
G VII-6. Refer to page III, Section Two.
Ema Plunket Ivy
924 Rockinwood Drive
Athens, Georgia 30601
March 1976
HOLLINGSWORTH HALL
CHURCH, NORTHEASTERN PART OF CHESHIRE, ENGLAND
T
HE Hollingsworths have held their own all along the ages. They
were an old Saxon family said to have settled in the North
eastern part of Cheshire, as early as 1022, in which year the
ancestral estate, Hollingsworth Manor, in Cheshire, was pur
chased. The name represents a locality, from the estate of that name,
near Mottram, in the county in question. The name comes from the
two words, "holly" and "worth," a farm, meaning a farm of holly trees.
Annals dating from the Norman conquest, speak of "the hundred of
Macclesfield or Maxfield," known in the Domesday survey as "the hun
dred of Hamstan," and one of the Manors mentioned in these ancient
books is that of Hollingsworth Manor, situated on the edge of the great
woods of Macclesfield. The visitation of Cheshire by the official
herald in the year 1580 includes "John Hollingsworth, Gent," and
"Robert Hollingsworth," among the gentry residing in the hundred
of Macclesfield." A further record speaks of Robert Hollingsworth
of Hollingsworth Hall, from whom the family is descended, and who
was Magistrate for the counties of Chester and Lancaster. The church
of the family and- the hall, both several centuries old, are still
standing, and upon both are emblazoned the family Coat of Arms.
The late owner, Captain Robert Hollingsworth, the last representa
tive of the English branch of the family, died in 1865. The estate
is said to include 625 acres and to be valued at 20,000 pounds. Pictur
esque red-berried holly trees abound upon the estate, and when one
realizes its nearness to the edge of the Macclesfield woods, the arms
and crest handed down for generations acquire a picturesque significance.
The tinctures of the shield are azure, suggestive of the blue sky, argent,
of the silvery streams that flow through the woodlands, and vert, of
the green leafage of the forest trees. The virtues of these colors are
equally beautiful, expressing loyalty, innocence and love. The Crest
is a stag, recalling the Saxon Earls of Cheshire and merry hunting scenes,
and three glistening holly leaves suggest Christmas in merry England.
Motto—Learn to suffer what must be borne, or, bear patiently what
must be borne. The usurpation of that Saxon shire by the Norman
Earl, Hugh Lupus, no doubt suggested the motto. At any rate the
records state that these freemen of Hollingsworth and the seven other
manors that make up Macclesfield, paid their yearly tax to the usurping
earl and held their manors in undisturbed possession.
It is probable that the Hollingsworths went over to Ireland from
England with other planters, early in the 17th century.
The name Hollingsworth, so widely known and honored in the
United States, is spelled severally: Hollingworth, Hollonsworth, and
Hollingsworth. The last spelling has been clung to by a large majority
of the descendants of the founder of the family in America, who was
Valentine Hollingsworth and who came to the New World from Ireland,
in 1682, the year in which William Penn arrived in the Delaware, in
front of which is now the city of Philadelphia, Pa. The Hollingsworth
family was noted for its enterprise and industry, and many of its mem
bers were largely engaged in the manufacture of flour, and were the
owners of a number of mills on the branches of the Elbe River in Cecil
Co., Md., New Castle Co., Del., also in Virginia, South Carolina, and
in other states, and later of shipyards, steel mills, etc.
• • • • •
The family flower or tree is the holly tree. In Kentucky and
neighboring States, the holly should be transplanted in the month of
August.
VALENTINE HOLLINGSWORTH, SR.
THE original immigrant ancestor of the American family of
Hollingsworth was a member of the Society of Friends, and
many of his descendants adhere to that faith. He was the son
of Henry Hollingsworth of Belleniskcrannel, Parish of Legoe,
County Armagh, Ireland, and of Catherine, his wife, was born at
Belleniskcrannel "about the year 1632," and was married April 7, 1655,
to Ann Ree, daughter of Nicholas Ree of Tanderagee, County Armagh.
She was born about 1628, at Tanderagee, and died February 1, 1671.
He then married, April 12, 1672, Ann Calvert, daughter of Thomas Cal
vert, of Dromgora, Parish of Segoe, County Armagh, and of Jane, his wife.
In 1682, Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr., and his family, accom
panied by his son-in-law, Thomas Connaway, and by John Musgrave,
an indented servant, sailed from Belfast for the Delaware River, arriv
ing a few months after William Penn's arrival in the good ship "Wel
come." He settled on a large plantation of nearly a thousand acres on
Shelpot Creek in Brandy wine Hundred, New Casde (now Del.) Co.,
about five miles northeast of the present city of Wilmington, and not
far from Port Christian, or Christiana of the Swedes. Not long there
after a monthly meeting was established, the sessions being mainly held
at Hollingsworth's House. In 1687 he granted "unto friends for a
burying place half an acre of land for ye purpose, there being already
friends buried in the spot." The section in question soon became
known as the "New Worke" or "New Ark," now the thriving town
of Newark, Del. That Valentine Hollingsworth was a man of extra
ordinary ability and influence is demonstrated from the fact that almost
immediately after his arrival in the New World, he was called upon
to hold office and participate in public affairs. He was a member of
the first Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, shortly after William
Penn's advent, that of 1682-3; also of the Grand Inquest empaneled
October 25, 1683, to consider the famous case of Charles Pickering and
others charged with counterfeiting. He served in several subsequent
sessions of the Assembly, those of 1687, '88, '95 and 1700, from New
Casde County, and was a Justice of the Peace from the same county.
He was also a Signer of Penn's Great Charter and a member of the Pro-
Provincial Council. He died about 1711. His second wife, Ann Cal
vert, died August 17, 1697. Both were buried in the old burial ground
at Newark, Del., which he had presented to the Friends in 1687.
2 THE HOLLINGSWORTH FAMILY
ISSUE 1ST MARRIAGE (ANN REE)
I. Mary*—Born January, 1656, at Belleniskcrannel, Ireland. Died
1746. She first married Thomas Conoway, about 1684, who
died July 17, 1689, and then Randal Malin, in 1693. More of
Mary later.
Hi Henry*—Born September 7, 1658, at Belleniskcrannel, Ireland.
Died at Elkton, Cecil Co., Md., 1721. He married Elizabeth
Atkinson, August 22, 1688. More of Henry later.
Iii. Thomas1—Born March, 1661. More of Thomas later.
IV. Catherine*—Born May, 1663. Died June 29, 1746. Married
George Robinson, November 2, 1688. More of Catherine
later. Issue 2nd marriage (Ann Calvert).
V. Samuel*—Born January 27, 1673, in Ireland. Died 1748.
Married Hannah Harlan, 1701. More of Samuel later.
VI. Enoch*—Born June 7, 1675. Died young, 1687.
VII. Valentine, Jr.*, of Kennett, Pa—Born November 12, 1677.
Died 1757. Married Elizabeth Heald, 1713, Ireland. More
of Valentine later.
VIII. Ann*—Born October 28, 1680, Ireland. Married James Thomp
son, 1700.
IX. John*—Born February 19, 1684, New Castle Co., Del. Died
1722. Married Catherine Tyler, in 1706,
X. Joseph*—Born May 10, 1686, New Castle Co., Del.
XI. Enoch' again—Born about 1688. Died September 26, 1690.
B-2. MARY HOLLINGSWORTH
Daughter of Valentine and Ann (Ree) Hollingsworth. Born
January, 1656, at Belleniskcrannel, Ireland. She first married Thomas
Conoway, about 1684, who died July 17,1689. She then married Randal
Malin, 1693.
ISSUE 1ST MARRIAGE (THOMAS CONOWAY)
I. Elizabeth Conoway*—Born September 7, 1687. She first married
Charles Booth, 1705. Married Thomas Crabb, 1720.
II. Ann Conoway*—Born about 1688. Married Philip Taylor Tune
10,1705. J
III. Sarah Conoway'—Born about 1689. Married 1709 or '10, John
Yearsley. A daughter married John Heald, 1744.
ISSUE 2ND MARRIAGE (RANDAL MAUN)
IV. Hannah Malin'—Died young.
V. Rachel Malin*—Born April 25, 1702.