"Cousins
by the Dozens"
The Hollis Family
Cost $50.00 plus postage
from the author Barbara Hollis
[email protected]
This book contains
358 pages of history
Gloss Soft Cover / Gloss pages /
hundreds of photographs
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INTRODUCTION TO THIS BOOK
This is
a timeline, beginning with John Hollis Snr, the first
located, direct line Hollis ancestor born in England in
about 1640. John Hollis Snr. established himself as a
Yeoman farmer in Upper Assendon (now known as Stonor)
in the
Chilten Hills,
in the
Parish of
Pyrton
County of Oxfordshire. His descendants, the next four
(Direct linage) Hollis generations where; John Hollis
Jnr., Richard Hollis Snr, Richard Hollis Jnr., and
William Hollis,
were all Yeoman farmers in Oxfordshire,
all of whom are mentioned with their offspring in the
pages of this book.
William Hollis
"Yeoman"
&
Gentleman the fifth direct line ancestor, took up
farming in the Cane End
area of Caversham
in
Oxfordshire and this was where he and his wife Elizabeth
nee Pottinger brought up their family. William and
Elizabeth Hollis’s second eldest child John Frederick
Hollis
(sixth
direct line ancestor) stood as a highly respected
farmer. He was
elected as a Guardian for the Shiplake parish of
Oxfordshire, and nominated as
a Parish Officer for Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire.
But, by 1848 John faced financial crisis, and was
declared ‘Insolvent /
Bankrupt’. With their lives in turmoil and looking for a
new start in life John Frederick Hollis
, his
wife Frances Elizabeth ‘Fanny’ nee Close/Cloase and
their family broadened their horizons and looked at the
possibility of immigration.
John,
Fanny and children
became the first of this Hollis family
line to immigrate to Melbourne, Australia in 1852,
aboard the ship ‘Chalmers’.
John
Frederick Hollis had scarcely begun his new life in the
land down under when he died of melancholy
circumstances, leaving his wife Fanny a widow and his
six children fatherless.
This
book goes on to follow Fanny Hollis’s widowhood and
tragic demise, and the lives each of the orphaned Hollis
children: Hubert John,
Arthur, Fanny (Frances), Edward Payne,
Edith Rachel and Lucy and their descendants.
The timeline of this book includes
hundreds of individuals represented with potted
histories and photographs where ever possible. An
extensive Family Tree is located at the back of the book
along with an Index.
I sincerely hope that those who read this
book will enjoy learning were their forbears slotted
into the history of England, and how the first Hollis
family fared during their life times in Australia. The
‘Cousins by the Dozens’ will give readers a challenge to
see who belongs to whom.
