was no will left in Kentucky. Intestacies have not been sought, at any 
rate, not by me. Incidentally, the will of the abovesaid John Orme has 
been examined. No mention of Jeptha is made.

    "Isabel Atkinson died on ye 5th day of ye 5 m 1705 and was/
     buryed in ye burying place att Lurgan -"

    Source:  Lurgan Quaker Monthly Meeting book of births, deaths and 
marriages, p. 314, item 2, microfilm made for your editor by Public 
Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast, in 1970. (Not to my knowledge
is this on film in Salt Lake. But a complete digest from the Friends'
Library, 6 Eustace St., Dublin, is on Mormon film, covering more times
than that in my book, except that the names of witnesses to marriages
are not included, making my copy vastly better in that department. From
the latter source, the above entry is now in the International 
Genealogical Index (IGI).)

    In HR Sept 1974, pp. 83-85, we gave our current data on the Atkinsons
and our argument for placing Lydia, wife of Henry2 Hollingsworth 
as a child of Stephen and Isabel Atkinson of Ballinacor, Parish of Seagoe,
Co Armagh, among the strong arguments being the fact that Henry and Lydia 
named their oldest son Stephen Hollingsworth.  Also, in our Sept 1969 
issue, p. 91, you will locate mote data on Henry and his bride. Lydia's 
placement is via the 'preponderance of evidence' method. But there is no 
question at all about Stephen Atkinson's spouse being named Isabel. The 
above burial entry, we believe, must be Isabel, mother of Lydia 
Hollingsworth. Isabel was by that time a widow. HR March 1975, p. 32 
shows also that we found the will of her husband, Stephen Atkinson, 
Ballinacor, Co Armagh, proved in 1699 in the Dromore Diocesan Court, 
Ireland. (No copy of this will seems to have survived DeValera's bloody 
terrorism of 1922.) He was a linendraper. There is a recital of a lease 
of 29 Aug 1676 in Vol 13, p 425, No. 6225, which confirms this fact. Now 
we have the year of the death of Stephen Atkinson, and the exact date of 
death of his wife.

    Recently, and for the first time ever, a correspondent asked me 
the above question. The person was only beginning on this lineage.
Those of us "steeped" in Valentine Hollingsworth lore (some of it is
mythology, you understand) may have had our input glazed over about
a possible last will, or administration intestate, for the Quaker 
progenitor-immigrant.  A re-thinking of historical events in my own 
Hollinsworth ancestry in Ireland was what put me onto this train of 
thought.  A short background:

    When Rory O'Connor's splinter force of I.R.A. terrorists took 
out the Four Courts building, including the Public Record Office of
Ireland on 30 June, 1922 (66 years ago last week), the explosions and 
subsequent fire destroyed the original (loose paper, autographed)
testamentary records of the Diocese of Ferns. That covered nearly all
of Co Wexford. Not content with that horror, the will books of said 
diocese, in which nearly all of the texts had been transcribed, were 
also all destroyed. The period covered was from the early 1600s up to 
1858 when Civil jurisdiction took over probates in the United Kingdom.
I am speaking "myopically," here, for this destruction also included
all other dioceses on the island, and really, all original diocesan