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The Hollow Log 1 THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 27, September 2005 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445 -8772 I NSIDE T HIS I SSUE From Healesville back to Trowan James Hollow migrated from St Ives to Australia finally settling in Tasmania. One son, also James, settled at Healesville in Victoria. While researching his family history Alan Garner found the family’s original village of Trowan near St Ives has been recently been rejuvenated. Pages 1 &5 Hollow Spotting A Hollow was spotted in an unusual project from Launceston, Tasmania. Ann Belmont supplies spottings from old editions of the West Briton from the 1850s. Wally Hollow spotted a Golden Wedding anniversary in Adelaide. Page 2 More Hollows in Uniform New information on a UK National Archive website has added to our list of Hollows who have served in the armed services. Page 3 Update on the Welsh Hollows Jean Dorrington updates the story of a branch of Hollows that moved from Hayle & St Erth to Swansea. She has also been struck by the visual similarities between he family and their ancestors and other Hollows. Page 9 New Hollow Researchers The full list of Hollow researchers is available on the Hollow website. Page 10 Continued Page 5 From Healesville back to Trowan Trowan The hamlet of Trowan lies at the centre of a ring of rich green fields and enjoys sweeping views across the sea and countryside. In its heyday, the tiny granite hamlet was home to almost 100 people. That was in the 19th century, when the collection of Cornish cottages, perched on the cliffs close to St Ives had its own manor (now Trowan Vean), a blacksmith's shop, numerous cottages, a vicar, a nearby tin mine (Consol’s) and was home to a community of miners, farmers and their families. The hamlet has had great publicity recently. A company called Mango Homes has set about restoring the granite cottages and they are for sale for ₤265,000 to ₤285, 000. Interestingly one is called Hollow’s Cottage (below). It has already sold, at ₤275,000. This may be the ancestral home of the family who eventually settled in Healesville Victoria. The hamlet of Trowan, St Ives. Photographs courtesy of Mango Homes www.mangohomes.co.uk Hollow’s Cottage before restoration

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THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 27, September 2005 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772

INSIDE THIS ISS UE

From Healesville back to Trowan James Hollow migrated from St Ives to Australia finally settling in Tasmania. One son, also James, settled at Healesville in Victoria. While researching his family history Alan Garner found the family’s original village of Trowan near St Ives has been recently been rejuvenated.

Pages 1 &5

Hollow Spotting A Hollow was spotted in an unusual project from Launceston, Tasmania. Ann Belmont supplies spottings from old editions of the West Briton from the 1850s. Wally Hollow spotted a Golden Wedding anniversary in Adelaide.

Page 2

More Hollows in Uniform New information on a UK National Archive website has added to our list of Hollows who have served in the armed services.

Page 3

Update on the Welsh Hollows Jean Dorrington updates the story of a branch of Hollows that moved from Hayle & St Erth to Swansea. She has also been struck by the visual similarities between he family and their ancestors and other Hollows.

Page 9

New Hollow Researchers The full list of Hollow researchers is available on the Hollow website.

Page 10

Continued Page 5

From Healesville back to Trowan

Trowan

The hamlet of Trowan lies at the centre of a ring of rich green fields and enjoys sweeping

views across the sea and countryside. In its heyday, the tiny granite hamlet was home to

almost 100 people. That was in the 19th century, when the collection of Cornish cottages,

perched on the cliffs close to St Ives had its own manor (now Trowan Vean), a

blacksmith's shop, numerous cottages, a vicar, a nearby tin mine (Consol’s) and was home

to a community of miners, farmers and their families.

The hamlet has had great publicity recently. A company called Mango Homes has set

about restoring the granite cottages and they are for sale for ₤265,000 to ₤285, 000.

Interestingly one is called Hollow’s Cottage (below). It has already sold, at ₤275,000. This

may be the ancestral home of the family who eventually settled in Healesville Victoria.

The hamlet of Trowan, St Ives.

Photographs courtesy of Mango Homes www.mangohomes.co.uk

Hollow’s

Cottage before

restoration

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Hollow Spotting

From Debbie Woolmore

Debbie found this great photo of a Mr Hollow on the web-

site of the Launceston Family Album Project.

www.launcestonfamilyalbum.org.au

The Tasmanian International

Exhibition of 1891-92 opened on

25th November 1891 in the Albert

Hall in Launceston. Season tickets to

the Exhibition were advertised in

"The Examiner" newspaper prior to

its opening. They were issued to

anyone in the community who

wished to take advantage of free

admission to the opening

ceremonies, concerts and oratorios.

A photograph was mounted on the

season tickets, which were

effectively passports. The cost of a

season’s ticket was two guineas for

gentlemen, one guinea for ladies and

10/6 for children under fourteen.

The exhibition attracted 262,059

visitors; Launceston’s population at

the time was 17,248.

The photographer for the passport

photographs kept a master set of

1,179 photos in a large album that is now held by the

Launceston Library. Each photo is named but no other

details are given. The Launceston Family Album Project has

been launched to discover the stories behind the

photographs. Also included in the album are photos of W

Hallowes and H Hallows.

The only Hollow family known to be living in this area

were John and Elizabeth Hollow married in Beechworth

Victoria in 1860. They moved to Tasmania in the late

1870s where John became a publican. The photo is likely

to be one of their sons, John b 1865, Joseph b 1866,

Thomas Henry b 1869, Matthew George b 1875 Edward b

1879 or William George b 1882. The most likely candidate

is Matthew George Hollow b 1875 but more investigation

needs to be done.

From Ann Belmont

Ann monitors the transcripts of the births, marriage and

deaths sections of the West Briton that appear on the

Rootsweb Cornish mailing list. It is a great way of finding

dates and even events that we may not been aware of.

West Briton Friday 18 October 1850

A birth at Redruth, on the 9th instant, the wife of Mr. M.

HOLLOW, a son.

West Briton Friday 25 February 1853

A birth at Redruth, the wife of Mr. Joseph HOLLOW,

cabinet maker, a daughter.

West Briton, Friday 4 April 1853

A death at Marazion, on Monday,

Mr. John HOLLOW, aged 75

years.

West Briton Friday 29 July 1853

A death at Treveija? (Trevega), in

the parish of Towednack, the son

of Mr. Matthew HOLLOW, aged

10 years.

West Briton 5 August 1853

A birth at St. Ives, the wife of Mr.

Thomas HOLLOW, a daughter.

West Briton, Fri. Aug. 26 1853

A marriage at Geelong, on the

20th of April last, Mr. Christopher

HOLLOW, painter, formerly of

Penzance, to Miss ROSEWARNE,

daughter of Captain Rosewarne, of

Redruth.

West Briton Friday September 2,

1853

A death at Vellanoweth, in the parish of Ludgvan, on Sunday

last, Miss Mary Ann HOLLOW, aged 32 years.

From Wally Hollow

This ad from the

Adelaide Advertiser

of August 27 2005

This is Marjory

Ann Hollow a

descendant of the

Redruth Hollows.

Her father Ernest

Gordon Hollow

was a builder one

of the Adelaide

family of builders

that commenced

with her great

grandfather Arthur

Hollow after his arrival in 1879. ♠

Mr Hollow

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More Hollows in Uniform

H E L L O T H E R E

Don’t despair if you are looking for Keith Hollow’s

Cornish Churches article there are more to come. Coming

up is the St Just parish church in the next Hollow Log

T H E H O L L O W W E B S I T E

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chollow/

The database was last updated on December 2nd. It may be

worth checking your family as sometimes changes are

made because of new information. The database is very

much a work in progress.

O D D S P O T

Jean Dorrington is the second Hollow researcher who has

let me know about family likenesses amongst the photos in

the Hollow Log.

David Hollow from the USA has seen family resemblances

too. His family have a tradition of law and flying

aeroplanes.

Teaching is a career that appears in three generations of

our family. Does anyone else have similar traditions or

have recognised family likenesses in any of our photos in

the Log?

C O N T A C T

Colin Hollow edits the Hollow Log, comments and

contributions are always welcome.

Write to 11 Dorothy St. Croydon, 3136, Australia. Or e-

mail: [email protected]

Hollow and variants Holla, Hollah, Hollaw and Hollowe

are registered with The Guild of One-Name Studies.

The Guild member is Colin Hollow (Mem.No. 3056).

©No material in this newsletter should be produced

without permission.

New information from the National Archives website at

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/

The new information comes from three sources,

WW1 Campaign Medals

WW2 Seamen's Medals

Registers of Seamen's Services

Royal Navy

Baiden (Baden) Powell, Hollow

F44047, Royal Navy, born Penzance, Cornwall, 15 November

1899 son of John Hollow and Mary Hosking Mann.

Elias Frederick, Hollow

365250, Royal Navy, born Stonehouse, Devon, 07 January 1888

son of Frederick Buddle Hollow and Emma Susannah Dawe.

George, Hollow

Royal Navy, 88265, born Croydon, Surrey, 7 October 1858, son

of James Bennetts Hollow and Emily Sharp. (See notes)

George William, Hollow

Royal Navy 351539, WWI, born Bermondsey, London, 23

January 1886, son of George Hollow and Harriet Ellen Evans

(son of the above George).

Malachi alias Daniel, Hollow

97314, Royal Navy, born Devonport, Devon, 01 June 1858. Son

of William and Lavinia Hollow. Joined the navy twice first as

Malachi then as Daniel (already on Hollows in uniform list) but

used different birth dates. (See notes)

Richard John, Hollow

K42644, Royal Navy, born Hayle, Cornwall, 19 December 1887

Thomas Bryant, Hollow

268751, Royal Navy, born Saint Ives, Cornwall, served 1892-

1907. Son of John Hollow and Jane Quick Rowse.

William Edwin, Hollow

L69, Royal Navy, born Stonehouse, Devon, 21 September 1889,

son of Frederick Buddle Hollow and Emma Susannah Dawe.

Transferred to the army in WWI.

World War II

Andrew Raymond, Hollow

Royal Navy, WWII

Born 10 September 1923, son of Andrew Hollow and Elizabeth

Harris.

George Curron (Curnow), Hollow

Royal Navy WWII, Born 01 September 1902, son of Thomas

Berriman Hollow and Mary Curnow.

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Army World War I

Albert, Hollow

Private, 11229, Wiltshire Regiment, WWI

Albert, Hollow

Gunner, 321336, Royal Garrison Artillery, WWI

Alfred E, Hollow

Private, 33831, Royal Fusiliers, WWI

Alfred James, Hollow

Private, 28379, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, WWI, son

of Richard Henry Hollow and Annie Grenfell.

Andrew, Hollow

Corporal, 202122, Royal Berkshire Regiment, WWI, son of

Richard Whitford Hollow and Emily Berriman.

Elias Frederick, Hollow

Private, M2/181127, Army Service Corps, WWI, also Royal

Navy, son of Frederick Buddle Hollow and Emma

Susannah Dawe.

Frank, Hollow

Private, 60285, Royal Army Medical Corps, WWI, son of

George Hollow and Harriet Ellen Evans.

G W, Hollow

Sapper, 2554528, Royal Corps of Signals, WWI

George, Hollow

Private, 77993, Liverpool Regiment, WWI,

George W, Hollow

Sapper, 568324, Royal Engineers , WWI (probably George

William born Bermondsey see above in RN.

J A, Hollow

Private, 577, Northamptonshire Yeomanry, WWI

Jack, Hollow

Private, 2559, City of London Yeomanry, WWI

James, Hollow

Sapper, 715, Royal Engineers, WWI

John S, Hollow

Acting Company Quarter Master Serjeant, DM2 170277,

Army Service Corps, WWI

Joseph H, Hollow

TR/8/37053, Training Reserve, WWI, possibly son of

William Hollow and Bessie Whitford

S Alys, Gordon-Smith nee Hollow

Staff Nurse, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing

Service Reserve, WWI

William D, Hollow

Sapper, 504370, Royal Engineers, WWI son of Alexander

Dingle Hollow and Elizabeth Prior.

William E, Hollow

Transport Warrant Officer Class 1, 17451, Army Ordnance

Corps, WWI (could be William Edwin in Navy list)

William E, Hollow

Serjeant, 3/5528, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, WWI

(could be William Edwin in Navy list)

William Edward, Hollow

Gunner, 118530, Royal Garrison Artillery, WWI

From 1901 census

Henry James Hollow living in Kent aged 19 a private in the

Royal Marines Light Infantry. Son of William Henry Matthew

Hollow. ♠

NOTES George Hollow The family belief is that George returned to live in the St Ives area when he was a young boy and worked for a while on the St Ives fishing boats. He enlisted in the Royal Navy on 7 Oct 1876 for ten years and served on many ships up until 6 Aug 1880 when he appears to have deserted. The family story has it that he spent time working on a sheep station in Australia, returning to England when Queen Victoria declared an amnesty to all deserters from the Royal Navy. He married in 1882 so only spent a short period in Australia. When he married Harriett Evans he was working as a Railway Carman at East Croydon Station - unfortunately he had a terrible accident at the Railway and lost both his legs and was told he would never walk again. However, he refused to accept this and had two tin legs fitted and led a fully active life once again. He and Harriet went to have at least 6 children. Two of his children, George William and Frank also appear on this list of Hollow in uniform. George William Hollow also served in the RN, enlisting on 9 May 1905 for 12 years. He had given his DOB as 23 Jan 1886 Bermondsey, London and his occupation as 'Clerk'. His service records suggest he was a 'Sick Bay Attendant' and much of his service was on shore bases and the Hasler Hospital, Portsmouth and Chatham Hospital.

From Alison Hollow & Keith Hollow Malachi aka Daniel Hollow Whilst trawling through the Royal Naval records I discovered an interesting bit about Malachi Hollow. He initially joined the RN at Devonport in 1876 and was given the service number 97314 and at that time gave his date and place of birth as 1 June 1858, Devonport, Devon. He seems to have served on HMS Jackal until 1878 when he 'Ran' from the ship at Rothesay (which is on the Isle of Bute in Scotland) having spent 7 days in the cells. In June 1879 he again enlisted in the Royal Navy under the name Daniel Hollow, service number 108680, this time giving his date and place of birth as 23 August 1860 at Devonport. He served on HMS Agincourt until 1881 when it seems he was 'sussed' and spent 70 days in Gibraltar Gaol and then discharged from the service. His service record has the following statement written on it; "Has confessed that he ran from 'Jackal' in 1878 and that he was then known as Malachi Hollow". Further to Daniel (Malachi) Hollow, he is almost certainly the guy who appears in the GRO Deaths for June Qtr 1883 at Dover aged 24 under the name of Malachi West N D Hollow. With a penchant for using alternative names perhaps the 'West N' are further inventions of his. A short life for sure, surviving just two years after his dismissal from the RN; his death certificate might make interesting reading. Have found a few interesting records, several Hollows after signing-on for a naval career later served in the army in WW1.

From Keith Hollow

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From Healesville back to

Trowan cont.

This is the story of a family history journey rather than a

complete family history although I have included a

descendant chart in the side box. I live in Croydon, an eastern

suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and Healesville is

about ½ an hours drive for me up the Yarra valley into the

foothills of the Great Dividing Range. The Great Divide is a

long range of hills and mountains that stretches from western

Victoria, along the east coast of Australia through New South

Wales and Queensland.

I knew there were Hollows from Healesville, I had collected

some births, marriages and deaths and linked them together

but hadn’t done a lot of work on them. A James Hollow born

1898 in Sale Victoria who married an Eileen Norton in

Healesville in 1924. His father was James also born in St Ives,

Cornwall in 1867 and married in Prahran in 1889 then moved

to Sale then disappeared from the Victorian records. There

the story stopped until Alan Garner, the grandson of James b

1898, contacted me. He was able to tell me his great

grandfather, James b 1867, had moved his family from Sale to

Tasmania where he worked at the Mt Lyell Copper Mine at

Gormanston in southwest Tasmania.

He told me of his grandad who moved back to Victoria

around 1924 and married Eileen Norton at Healesville and

settled there working for Melbourne and Metropolitan Board

of Works (MMBW). It is likely that James, known as Jim,

would have commenced work in the mines in Tasmania, as

he was about 26 when he moved back to Victoria. The

MMBW were building a large reservoir, the Maroondah Dam,

a key water storage dam for the city of Melbourne. Jim may

have used his mining experience in Tasmania to get this job,

as he was part of the construction team on the dam. After it

was completed Jim remained with the MMBW and eventually

became Head Ranger for the MMBW at Healesville. As well

as building dams the MMBW looked after the mountain

forests that formed the

catchment area for the dam.

Between Alan’s family

information, census

records, BDM records and

some discoveries on the

internet the family story is

beginning to come

together.

A day in the life of a ranger

In Friday January 13 1939

“Black Friday” Victoria

suffered horrendous

bushfires that burnt out

almost two million hectares

of the state. At the height

of the fires Jim Hollow and

his workmate Ron

Furmston were despatched from Healesville to protect the

Continued from page 1

James Hollow (middle of picture) and fellow workers on the Maroondah Dam, circa 1924

James Hollow (left) and Ron Furmston heroes of

the 1939 fires

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Fernshaw Bridge over the Watts River “at all cost”. Equipped

with a hand pump, forty feet of hose, two buckets, shovels

and crow bar the men first dug holes in the bed of the Watts

River under the bridge. The Watts river is a small stream. In

January the flow would have been quite small so the holes

would enable the men to lie in the river covered with water

should they need protection from the fire. The surrounding

bush was a Mountain Ash forest, a tall Eucalypt that grows to

100 metres in height with thick undergrowth beneath. The

bridge was vital, the road was the only route in the area

across the Great Dividing Range to the towns of Narbethong

and Marysville beyond.

The fire was approaching with a terrific roar fanned by strong

winds. The air was full of sparks and burning debris that was

falling all about and causing spot fires on and around the

bridge. The men used the pump and hose to extinguish the

spot fires until the heat of the fire melted the hose. Then they

continued to douse the spot fires with water carried in the

buckets. The bushfire came through in the upper canopy

first, known as a crown fire. Eucalypts have a high oil content

and the treetops crackled and exploded repeatedly like a

continuous fusillade of gunshots. After the crown fire the

ground fire came through. Jim and Ron worked until the

bushfire was almost on them and then jumped into their

holes in the river. They stayed underwater holding their

breath as long as they could coming up for short breaths of

the searing hot air that burnt their throats and lungs as they

inhaled. While they did this dead and live animals and other

debris flowed past them in the river. One big possum latched

on to Jim and clung on to his clothes all the time he was in

the river. They were in the river some twenty minutes waiting

for the fire front to pass before they were able get out and

inspect the damage. The area was completely blackened, thick

smoke hung in the air, more spot fires were put out on the

bridge but it still stood, the link across the great divide had

been maintained. Jim and Ron began to walk the 18 miles

back to Healesville and were met by a gang of men sent to

find them and who were expecting the worst.

Jim and Eileen Hollow had four children and lived all of their

married life in Healesville. In 1963 Jim retired having worked

for over 38 years with the MMBW.

The Cornish roots

Jim’s father James Hollow was born at Trowan on 13 June

1867. The Hollow family had been associated with Trowan

for a very long period. Trowan’s cluster of houses, housed

the families of the farmers of the surrounding land and

miners working at the local Consols mine. James’ Great

grandfather was recorded as a resident there at the baptism of

one of his children in 1805. This was William Hollow who

married Ann Curnow at St Ives in 1793.

Descendants of William HOLLA

The Healesville Hollows line is shown in bold type.

1 William HOLLA

.. +Ann CURNOW

.........2 Ann HOLLA 1794 -

.........2 William HOLLOW 1798 - 1877

............. +Cecilia NOALL 1803 - 1834

....................3 Mary Ann HOLLOW 1825 -

........................ +Stephen MICHELL 1818 -

...............................4 Cecilia Noall MICHELL 1847 -

...............................4 William MICHELL 1850 -

...............................4 Nancy MICHELL 1852 -

...............................4 Samuel MICHELL 1855 -

...............................4 Mary MICHELL 1857 -

...............................4 James MICHELL 1865 -

...............................4 Nanny MICHELL 1865 -

....................3 Cecilia HOLLOW 1827 -

...............................4 Elizabeth HOLLOW 1846 -

........................ +Henry BROOKING 1824 -

...............................4 Catherine R BROOKING 1853 -

...............................4 William H BROOKING 1855 -

...............................4 Cecilia BROOKING 1858 -

.............................. 4 Sarah BROOKING 1860 -

....................3 William HOLLOW 1830 - 1870

........................ +Ann STEVENS 1829 -

...............................4 Mary Stevens HOLLOW 1850 - 1875

...............................4 Cecilia Ann HOLLOW 1852 -

...............................4 William HOLLOW 1854 -

...............................4 Thomas HOLLOW 1856 -

...............................4 Grace Stevens HOLLOW 1857 -

...............................4 John HOLLOW 1859 -

...............................4 George HOLLOW 1864 -

...............................4 James HOLLOW 1867 - 1938

................................... +Hannah (Annie) CHECKLEY 1868 - 1942

.......................................... 5 William James HOLLOW 1890 - 1949

............................................... +Ruby Ruth MURPHY 1886 - 1971

...........................................5 George Douglas HOLLOW 1891 - 1982

............................................... +Elsie Dora Anna SCHULZE 1895 - 1971

...........................................5 Grace Victoria HOLLOW 1893 - 1970

............................................... +Robert Snow GRAHAM

...........................................5 Helen Rosina (Nell) HOLLOW 1896 - 1939

............................................... +Claude Leslie PICKETT 1895 - 1967

...........................................5 James HOLLOW 1898 - 1968

............................................... +Eileen NORTON 1898 - 1978

...........................................5 Alice May HOLLOW 1905 - 1977

............................................... +Wattie FISHER

...........................................5 Samuel HOLLOW 1907 - 1982

............................................+Juanita Katie (Nita) SCHULZE 1907 - 1996

...............................4 Samuel Noall HOLLOW 1870 - 1870

....................3 Nanny Noall HOLLOW 1833 -

........................ +John EDDY 1831 -

...............................4 John EDDY 1853 -

...............................4 William EDDY 1855 -

...............................4 Nanny EDDY 1859 -

...............................4 Mary EDDY 1863 -

...............................4 Thomas EDDY 1868 -

......... *2nd Wife of William HOLLOW:

............. +Elizabeth (Betsy) HOLLOW 1796 -

.........2 John HOLLA 1800 -

.........2 Ann HOLLA 1802 -

.........2 Edward HOLLOW 1804 - 1853

............. +Honor STEVENS 1809 - 1888

....................3 Honor HOLLA 1829 -

....................3 Jane HOLLA 1831 -

...................3 Edward HOLLOW 1833 -

........................ +Mary Ann EDWARDS

.............................. 4 Mary A HOLLOW 1858 -

....................3 William HOLLOW 1838 -

........................ +Mary WILLIAMS 1840 - 1901

....................3 Elizabeth S HOLLA 1840 -

....................3 John Stevens HOLLOW 1843 - 1925

........................ +Charlotte Sandon QUICK 1842 - 1873

................... *2nd Wife of John Stevens HOLLOW:

........................ +Mary WALLIS 1851 - 1908

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From 1805 onwards there is documented evidence of

Hollows living at or around Trowan. It is quite likely that

they have lived in the area much longer than that.

The occupations of the Hollows varied over time. James’

grandfather, also William, was at times listed in the records as

a farmer (1825, 1851, 1861, 1871), a miner (1827, 1833, 1846)

and a blacksmith (1830, 1841, 1852). In the 1841 census he

was living nearby at Halsetown, occupation a blacksmith. A

Mark Hollow and family were farmers at Trowan. The

relationship between Mark and William Hollow has not been

established but it is hard to imagine they were not related. By

the 1851 census Mark, now a widower aged 54, was a miner

living in Fore Street St Ives and William was recorded at

Trowan as a farmer of 20 acres. However in 1852 at the

marriages of three of his children in February, July and

December he was recorded as a blacksmith each time. In the

later censuses until his death he was recorded as a farmer at

Trowan. Farmer Miner Blacksmith

The changing occupations may reflect the changing work

conditions of those

times. Being a

farmer meant being

a tenant farmer and

at times he could

be forced to take

other employment.

William seems to

have had a trade as

a blacksmith to fall

back on. Mining

was the other

occupation the

people of this

community

depended on.

William had four

children three girls

and a boy. The

three girls all

married miners and

William’s son, also

William, was a tin

miner. He married

Ann Stevens on 15

February 1852 and

lived at Trowan.

The Stevens family

lived at nearby

Trevalgan. William

and Ann had ten

children; the

...............................4 Thomas E HOLLOW 1880 - 1933

................................... +Grace Pemberthy (Gracie) LUKE - 1962

...........................................5 Minnie Wallis HOLLOW 1903 - 1983

............................................... +Edward Bottrell QUICK

...............................4 Minnie Wallis HOLLOW 1881 - 1896

...............................4 John Stephens HOLLOW 1883 - 1959

................................... +[1] Catherine (Kate) HOCKING 1886 - 1923

............................... *2nd Wife of John Stephens HOLLOW:

................................... +Edith PELLOW 1884 - 1951

...............................4 Nicholas Wallis HOLLOW 1886 - 1916

................................... +[1] Catherine (Kate) HOCKING 1886 - 1923

...........................................5 William Wallis HOLLOW 1908 - 1969

............................................... +Isobel Florence WILDING

...........................................5 John Dennis HOLLOW 1913 - 1955

...............................4 Richard Wallis HOLLOW 1887 -

...............................4 James Wallis HOLLOW 1890 - 1960

................................... +Isabelle Katherine O'BRIEN 1892 - 1975

...........................................5 Jayne (Mary Kevin) HOLLOW

...........................................5 Virginia HOLLOW

...........................................5 Mary Ellen HOLLOW 1915 -

...........................................5 John Wallis HOLLOW 1917 - 1991

............................................... +Margaret Rebecca COLLISON

.................... 3 Mary Hannah HOLLA 1845 -

.................... 3 Jonathan HOLLA 1848 -

.........2 Thomas HOLLA 1805 -

Area map with Trowan top centre

Reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of Ordnance Survey ©Crown copyright.

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second last being our James born in 1867. In the 1881 census

James is recorded as aged 16 (he was only 14) but simply as a

miner’s son, no occupation was given. His brother George is

recorded as a farm labourer so the family maintained a

connection with agricultural pursuits.

The family story is that James had a brother John who died

and money from his estate financed James’ passage to

Australia in 1886. James, aged 19, arrived aboard the Oriana,

which berthed at Fremantle in Western Australia on July 16

1886. Interestingly his occupation was recorded as “farm

labourer”.

The brother John is still a mystery; he was born at St Ives on

28 April 1859 and is in the 1861 and 1871 censuses but then

disappears

from

British

records.

He may

have

migrated

to

Australia

or

America

as many

Hollows

and

indeed

Cornish

people

did.

The family

believes

that James

was

headed for

the copper

mines of

South Australia possibly Wallaroo. It must have been a short

stay as he was to marry Hannah Checkley in Prahran, Victoria

in 1889. Hannah was born in the Victorian gold mining town

of Gaffney;s Creek and was from a mining family too. Her

father may had retired as the family moved to another mining

area close to Melbourne, Hurstbridge, and then to the

Oakleigh area of Melbourne which was not a mining area.

Hannah was 20 when she married James he was 22. They

lived at Prahran, an inner suburb of Melbourne, until around

1894. Three children were born in Prahran before the next

one was born in Sale, 200 miles from Melbourne in1896. At

Sale James had returned to the family profession of mining.

In 1907 another child was born, this time in Tasmania at the

mining town of Gormanston in the southwest. James worked

at the Mt Lyell copper mine and remained there until his

death in 1938 aged 70. He had worked for the Mt Lyell

Copper Mining Company for almost 40 years.

James’ son Jim had moved back to Melbourne around 1924.

The eldest son, William, was married in Victoria in 1927.

William was in Melbourne when he joined the Australian

Army in 1915. When discharged he was a sergeant in the 2nd

Australian Tunnelling Company. Men in the Tunnelling

Companies were usually from a mining background so we

can assume that William was also working in the mine at

Gormanston before joining the army. In civilian life after the

war William was a policeman in Melbourne.

Another of James’ children, Grace, married in Tasmania but

moved to Victoria. Her wedding photo includes all of the

family except William and James, maybe they had already left

Tasmania. The other four children remained in Tasmania.

The two boys, George and Samuel married sisters, Elsie and

Nita Schulze.

This family with its roots in Trowan, Cornwall was part of

the Cornish diaspora that used their mining skills to find new

lives in far-flung regions of the earth. ♠

Colin Hollow, Alan Garner. Photos via Alan Garner, Fire details from the book "Fernshaw, the Forgotten Village" by Alma Mitchell, and a newspaper article by Mary Ryllis Clark called "In the Firing Line of '39".

Grace Hollow’s Wedding photo. l to r, Alice Hollow, Hannah Hollow, Helen Hollow?, George Hollow,

Grace Hollow bride,Groom Robert Graham, dressmaker, Bridesmaid (best friend?), James Hollow with

Samuel Hollow, circa 1910?. Only Grace’s brothers, William and James are missing.

The Hollow Log 9

Update on Welsh Hollows Hollow Logs 12 & 15 contained the stories of some Hollows

who moved from Cornwall to Wales. Frederick Hollow born

1857 moved to

Cardiff in the

1880s. Around

1872 two

brothers James

Henry Hollow (b

1831) and

Francis Hollow

(b 1847) moved

to Swansea. They

were both

mariners and

married women

who were from

mariner families.

Francis married

Elizabeth Beer in

1872 and they

had fourteen

children together.

The second of

these children

was Minnie. In

Hollow Log 15

Minnie was still

somewhat of a mystery. She and her older sister Polly

remained in Swansea when all of their brothers and sisters

moved to Ammandford around 1874. Their father Francis

eventually moved to Ammandford too but that side of the

family seemed to have lost contact with Minnie and Polly.

Recently Minnie’s great granddaughter Jean Dorrington has

been in touch with details of Minnie’s family.

Jean takes up the story.

My name is Jean Barbara

Dorrington nee Frohwein and

I am the great great

granddaughter of Francis

Hollow of St Erth and

Swansea. His daughter

Minnie was my great

grandmother. She married

George Hancock originally

from Devon on 2nd June

1900 in St Peter’s Swansea.

At the time George was living

at Robert Street Swansea and

Minnie at Cwmdu. Francis is

listed as an Engine Driver, I presume in the colliery, as there was a

colliery in Cwmdu at that time. Witnesses were Francis Hollow and

Annette Hollow (her sister). George was a widower and had been

married to one Ann Jane Crocker in 1895.His father was Thomas

Hancock and his mother

Sally nee Richards also of

Devon.

George and Minnie had a

son George and a daughter

Gladys Minnie who was my

grandmother. At the time of

her birth they were living at

Brynhyfryd. She was born

23rd October 1905.She

married Daniel James

Frohwein on 30th May

1925. They had 2 sons and

1 daughter who sadly died

in infancy and whom I am

named after. The eldest son

was George Wesley who

died 3 years ago and my

father Francis James who

died 1987.

With regards to the Beer

family, of whom Francis

Hollow married into.

Elizabeth’s parents were

James Beer of Devon and Eliza Hoskin (nee Trathen) of Hayle

Cornwall. They were both widower and widow respectively. James` first

wife was Mary from Somerset. They had 5 children.

Eliza Hoskin’s first husband was a mariner from Hayle, name

unknown as yet. They had 5 children. In 1851 both families were living

in Swansea. They married on 11th March 1868 when Elizabeth was

13 years old. James` father was George Beer and Eliza’s father was

George Trethon. Francis Hollow

married Elizabeth Beer in 1872.

I have been looking through the

Logs and was astounded to find

in issue16 page 9 a photograph of

Walter Hollow who bears an

uncanny resemblance to my

youngest brother John.

John and Wallace appear at

the moment on two

different Hollow lines

however there may be a

relationship back a few

generations.

John Frohwein

Wallace Hollow

Hourglass tree of Gladys Minnie Hancock

The Hollow Log 10

Also the family likeness

can be seen in the

photograph of Francis.

However we do not share

the colouring or the

height as we follow the

German side of the

family on that. I have

however inherited the cleft

chin.

Regards Jean

The family likeness

between these Welsh

Hollows can be seen

in the photos from

both families.

On the left are some

of the Ammandford

Hollows. Francis

(top), son Ern, his

children, Alwyn,

Rita, James and

Ruby.

On the right are the

Frohweins, Gladys

Minnie nee Hancock

granddaughter of

Francis, her sons

George and Francis

and his children

Daniel, Jean and

Peter.

Gladys Minnie

Hancock is a cousin

to the children of

Ern, Alwyn, Rita,

James and Ruby. in

the Ammanford

photos.♠

Jean Dorrington,

Colin Hollow,

Photos Jean

Dorrington and

Carol Murphy.

New Hollow

Researchers Tania Shipston-Hollow

[email protected]

Tania is married to Peter a

descendant of the William

Hollow and Jane Olds from St

Just who settled in Oamaru,

N.Z. in 1874.

Jean Dorrington

[email protected]

Jean is a descendant of the

Francis Hollow who was from

St Erth. He married Elizabeth

Beer in Swansea, Wales in the

1872 and raised a large family

there.

Mike Hollow

[email protected]

Mike is a descendant of the

Falmouth Hollows (see Hollow

Log 26). Mike’s branch moved

to London from the Truro area

in the 1850s.

Jane King

[email protected]

Jane’s Hollow family goes back

to John Hollow and Chesen

Thomas in Zennor. Her branch

moved to St Ives then her

grandfather Cecil Rhodes

Hollow to London in the

1920s.

Alison.Hollow

[email protected]

Alison is a descendant of John

Hollow and Sarah Pickersgill

who married at St Ives in 1826.

Alison’s branch moved to

Croydon, Surrey in the

1850s.♠