1762. (Will is damaged; several parts missing, signified here 
     by three asterisks, thus: *** where gap appears.) Weak in body
     but of sound mind & memory. Daugher *** HOLLINGSWORTH £7. with
     interest paid to her May 1, 1741. Son JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH, half
     of real estate and dwelling, and he to pay above legacy. Other
     three children ELIZABETH, WILLIAM & MARY HOLLINGSWORTH; other half
     of his real and personal estate. Executors: *** Signed JOHN
     HOLLINGSWORTH. Wits: THOMAS HOLLINGSWORTH, EDWARD COZIER.

Thus we conclude Report No. One on "Barbodos Hollingsworths." The
records next to be searched naturally are deeds after 1720, and the 
series of St. Lucy's Parish Registers.  Don't tell anybody, but did you
notice that not one of the Christian names above is 'out of place' in
the County Wexford, Ireland family? William, Thomas, John, Sarah, 
Mary, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Martha, Ann - and James (the most rare among
the Wexfords) are all there and 'in place.'  The old "Spottiswoode
Fortune" story which says that the first Irish Hollingsworth came
there 'from America' always pops into our brain when we find a crop of 
names like these.  Though most of this family seem to have stayed in
the island, one of them may have gone to Ireland.  They all seem to
start with the John whose will is presented first.  The whole family
seems to have remained together at least to 1741 at the time of the
decease of James Hollingsworth, the original testator's (John) son.
But enough of such speculations.

Arms. Azure, on a bend argent three holly leaves slipped vert.

             HOLLINGWORTH = filia Duncalf.
                __________|
               |
            HOLLINGWORTH = filia Leuerseege. 
        _________________|    
        |
   Radulphus Hollinworth de Buslingthorp==Isabella filia ...
   in Com' L'ncolne whose father came    | Shaw de Com'
   fro' Mottra' in Chesheire.            | Lincoln.
                                   ______|
                                  |
Francisca filia Tho. Saunder==Radulphus Hollingworth=Susanna filia
                                                    |__
son de Weston in Com' Leic.   de Wheston in Com' Leic. | Joh' is Whitby
relicta Will'mi Ashby 3. uxor duxit Emmot filia Willmi | de Comitat
                              Carre de Com' Lincoln    | Ebor' uxor prima
 ______________________________________________________|___________
 |                                                                 |
Radulphus Hollingworth filius  Patience uxor Tris-  2. Ellina 20.  |
et haeres aetat. 24. modo Aca- tam Holland Ciuis                   |
demicus Oxoniae.               Londini.                    ___4. Elix.17.
                                  =
       ___________________________| 
       |
   George Holland filius et haeres aetat unius anni 1620.
(From The Visitation of the County of Leicester 1619, Harleian Society
Publications, Volume 2 (1870))
    Note that the arms are the same as those of the Mottram-in-Long-
dendale family arms, but no crest is depicted. Ormerod's History of
Chester (1882) Vol 3 p. 370 says that the junior branch of Hollingworth
(at the Nether or Old Hall) bore the crest, while the original or sen-
ior branch bore none.

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