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Hollingsworth Marriages in Garrard County, Kentucky
This is a followup on the opening story. These marriages are on film #
183,256 at Salt Lake and our L.A. Branch library. The book is from the
County Clerk, but it is a modern transcription of original bonds and
consents which seem not to have been filmed. The clerk's work is less
than perfect. The late Annie Walker Burns also published them in her
mimeograph publications, in 1932. Her versions are put here in paren-
theses, even though they seem much worse because she may have worked
with those original papers.
(1) #262 p.82 Lewis Bingaman & Asana (Arana) Ho11ingsworth, license
Dec 9, 1802, bond: John Hollingsworth, consent of father Jeptha
(Joseph) Hollingsworth. (Below, he seems to be called "Tyrtha" by
error.)
(2) #410 p. 86. John Hollingsworth & Sally Thomson, lic. May 29, 1806,
bond: Henry P. Buford, consent of her father David Tomson (sic).
(3) #445 p. 87. Samuel Tulkinton & Ruth Hollingsworth, lic. Jan 22,(Oct)
1807, bond: Lewis Bingaman, consent of mother Tyrtha Hollingsworth.
NOTE: It is our conviction that "Asana" Hollingsworth is Asenath the
daughter of Jeptha Hollingsworth, namesake of his first wife Asenath
Yarnall. Stewart (p. 110) assigns her as the child of wife No. 2 Nancy
(or Ann) Gordon, and says she married W. Duncan. That may be true.
She may have married twice. But we found a Mary Hollingsworth who
married a William Duncan, in Todd County, Ky., 27 May 1831 (IGI).
Lewis Bingerman (00110-20100) p. 193, and Lewis Bingberman
(11010-23010) p. 172. both appear in Logan County, Ky., 181O Census.
John Hollingsworth appears also as "Hillingsworth" (p. 175)
(10101-32010) and we know that the male 45 and up cannot be John, so
must be Jeptha himself, then aged 65 years, since he is not listed in
the census but is taxed in 1810. His daughter Ruth married Samuel
Talkington, not Tulkinton. At 66 Jeptha may have become exempt from
taxes thus disappearing from records.
Hollingsworth Miscellany
(1) Luther Hollingsworth is in a critical condition with consumption,
according to the New Castle Courier, Henry Co., Indiana, Fri.
Feb 28, 1890, county items. (Sherry Harris, LDS branch, donor.)
(2) Clare Hollingsworth in Edmonton sends cutting his brother in
Toronto (Ralph) sent to him. Toronto Star, Thu. Nov. 9, 1989 p. A-14
cols l-3 with 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 photo, article on Murdoch ("Bun") Hollings-
worth, 79, of Truro, Nova Scotia, poultry farmer, holding fowls in his
grip. He was judge at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Canadian National
Exhibition grounds, Toronto. "Old breeds were on display." (That reminds
us of Granddad's barred rocks, Rhode Island reds, and white leghorns
(Pronounced "leggerns") and the glass eggs in the nests we used to in-
spect 55 years ago - more in a later issue.) Murdoch Hollingsworth is
likely from the Rathfriland, Co Down family, whose scion, Henry, settled
at Musquodoboit, Halifax County, N.S. in 1785 on a land grant. The
Massachusetts marriage above on p. 3, No. 2, is another one. See photo
of Murdoch in our gallery.
(3) The Co. Armagh Yeomanry (volunteer part time militia) from the
Army List, 1805, extracted by Arthur Tenyson Groves, the great Irish
genealogist, lists familiar surnames: Seagoe Infantry officers: Capt.
William Blacker, commissioned 31 Oct 1796, Lieut. Robert Harrison, 20
Oct 1803; Lieut John Calvert, 31 May 1804, also William Leighl Alexander
Hickland and William Fisher, same date. (The Army List lists only
commissioned officers - no rank and file. Sorry.)
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