Mr. Hollingsworth was a drill instructor at Parris Island, South
Carolina, and later served in the 44th Reserve Officer Class at Quantico,
Virginia. He was a second lieutenant during World War II, where he saw
combat at Guam and Iwo Jima and was awarded a Purple Heart.
Before moving to Kennebunkport in 1970, he lived in Beverly Farms,
Mass., and worked in advertising in Boston as a partner at Chamber,
Wiswell and Moore Inc. At the time of his death, he was a director at
Hollingsworth and Vose Co. in East Walpole, Mass. He served on the
executive committee and board of directors of the U.S. Yacht Racing
Union and was an international yacht racing judge.
He was treasurer of the Kennebunkport Village Fire Co., a member
of the Volunteer Veteran Fire Co. of York Harbor, an incorporator of
Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine, and a member of the Arundel
Masonic Lodge and Arundel Yacht Club.
Surviving are his wife, Margaret Thayer Hollingsworth of
Kennebunkport: a sister, Caroline Hollingsworth Adams of Boston; five
children, Tracy Hollingsworth Jones of Alexandria, Va., Dr. Hellen
Hollingsworth Reed of Westboro, Mass., Valentine Hollingsworth III of
Cambridge, Mass., Laura Hamilton Hollingsworth and Arthur Woods
Hollingsworth, both of Dallas; three stepchildren, Nathaniel Thayer of
Arlington, Mass., Chandler Thayer Tanulanois of Placerville, Colorado,
and Katherine W. Thayer of Cape Porpoise; and eight grandchildren.
A memorial service was held Monday at St David's Church, Route 1,
Kennebunk, followed by a reception at the Hollingsworth home in
Kennebunkport. The Rev. Frederick Reynolds officiated. Memorial
donations may be made to DEMS Inc., PO Box 4608, Kennebunkport, ME 04046
or to Maine Medical Center, 22 Bramhall St., Portland, ME 04101.
Arrangements by Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer Street, Kennebunk.
(From the York County Coast Star, Wed. Sept. 25, 1991, p. 2A, courtesy
of his cousin, Correspondent Schuyler Hollingsworth of Chestnut Hill, MA.
Schuyler adds: "Lost my 1st cousin. Good,man. Lost his leg to Jap machine
gun at Iwo. On his way to a reunion of his officer training class. We
sang the Marine Corps Hymn in a nice service. His Volunteer Firemen
buddies stood in uniform across the back of the church, and the engine
was parked outside.")
At the time of her departure she was a member of the Ebenezer
church, Marion County (Indiana). From the hour of her obedience until
the call of the Master she remained a faithful member of the Church of
Christ. In all her relations to society she was exemplary and in taking
leave of life she is sincerely mourned by all who knew her. She leaves
a husband and five children, bereaved as only the wifeless and the
motherless are bereaved. The writer officiated upon the occasion of her
obsequies, and seldom has he witnessed a more general expression of
sorrow. She rests from her labors and afflictions, while the example
of her beautiful and consistent life will inspire the objects of her
care and love to follow in her steps. DAVID WALK. Indianapolis, IND.
(Christian Standard, Disciples of Christ or Christian Church,
Sat. May 10, 1884, page 151 sent by Disciples of Christ Historical
Society, 1101 19th Ave. South, Nashville, TN 37212. We knew of these
items (see following) when we received their reply on March 10, 1967,
but did not order the copies until 29 Dec 1991.)
She was the youngest daughter of Alexander C. and Mary A. Corbin.
She is survived by her parents who now reside at Sumner, Washington,
one brother Merlin P. Corbin of Junction City, Oregon; two sisters,
Mrs J.R. Cameron of Bennett, Nebraska, and Evelyn Corbin of Aberdeen
Washington and her husband to whom she was married at Dallas, Oregon
on Aug. 28, 1907. To this union three children were born, Ward Corbin
Hollingsworth, ten years of age, Aurolyn Hollingsworth, five years of
age and an infant son Wayne Austin Hollingsworth who was born nine
days previous to his mother's death.
She was a graduate of the Beaver City, Nebr. High School, took
college work at Cotner University, Bethany, Nebraska, where she met the
one who was later to become her husband, and graduated from the
Southern Oregon State Normal School. She taught in the Junction City,
Oregon, school the year previous to her marriage.
Mrs. Hollingsworth was the daughter of one of Nebraska's well
known pastors, who preached continuously for the Beaver City Christian
Church for 23 years. She was blessed with a wonderful home training
and took the serenity and quietude of deep Christian faith into her
own home. She confessed her faith in early girlhood and developed into
a leader in Christian Endeavor work. She later executed the duties of
a minister's wife, with tact and judgment. Her life flowed in the deep
channels, and those who came to share its depths knew the hidden volume
of its spiritual power. Like her Master, she gave her life that another
might live, and as the wise Longfellow once said in poetic measure:
There fell upon the house a sudden gloom.
A shadow on those features fair and thin;
And, softly from that hushed and darkened room,
Two angels issued, when but one went in.
Funeral services were conducted at the home church, Kansas City,
Kan. and at Lincoln, Nebr., where the body was laid to rest in Wyuca
Cemetery Feb. 6. The sympathy of the whole Brotherhood goes out
to Brother Hollingsworth and his family. ---E.M. Johnson.
(From
The Christian-Evangelist, Thrus. 27 Feb. 1919, p. 231, col. 1)
Survivors include his wife, three sons and one daughter; also one
nephew, William W. McDermet III who is minister of Blue Ridge
Blvd. Christian Church, Independence, Missouri. (The Christian, Sun.
6 March 1966, page 317, col. 2.)
Tallahassee, Florida. Lois Elizabeth Hollingsworth, daughter of Mrs.
Shirley B.W. Hicks of Tallahassee, Fla., and the late Lt. Col. Thomas
M.B. Hicks III, and Christopher Michael Fecteau, son of Mr. & Mrs.
Andre P. Fecteau, of Bangor, Maine, were married April 28 by Mr. Jerry
P. Wood in a garden ceremony at Mina Jo Powell Alumni Green on the
campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla. Their attendants
were Anne Marie Fecteau of Bangor, sister of the bridegroom, and Al
Nelson of Tallahassee, Fla. The bride is a 1987 graduate of Interlochen, Arts
Academy, Interlochen, Michigan, and is a student at FSU. The bridegroom
graduated from Bangor High School in 1985 and Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, in 1989. He is pursuing a master's degree in orchestral conducting
at FSU, and is employed by Co-Cathedral of St. Thomas Moore and the
University Lutheran Center in Tallahassee. The couple reside there.
(Bangor Daily News. July 21, 1991,
(1) Registry of Deeds, Dublin, Vol. 7, p. 398, # 2750, is a transaction
headed "Thomas Toulmin, of the City of Dublin, Merchant, to Francis Lee
of the same, Gent., dated 17 May 1710..." We took this down in 1968.
Nothing else int eh record was relevant, except that it appears that this
is the same Thomas Tolemin (or Toulmin) of Dublin, brewer, whose will was
dated Sept. 3, 1708, proved 3 August 1723, in which he named wife Alice,
brother Cornelius Tolemin, brother Isaac Tolemin, and children, William
Tolemin, Jane Tolemin, and Elizabeth,...HOLLINGSWORTH, granddaughter
Elizabeth Hollingsworth. (From Sir Wm. Betham's Genealogical Office Manuscript
250, page 102, as we published it in HR for June, 1966, pages 71-72.)
Apparantly, Toulmin was not a young man, having penned his will in 1708,
though he seemingly died in 1723, unless some sort of delay prevented probate
of the will for some years. Who, exactly these two Elizabeth Hollingsworths
were has never been solved, and they may be close kin to your editor.
(2) The New York Times issue of Sunday, March 26, 1916, part III,
page 10, col. 3, under AMERICAN GIRLS' AID, stated that "The following
appeal was issued yesterday by Miss Gladys Hollingsworth, Chairman of
the American Girls' Aid, whose work is devoted to the relief of suffering
in France ...American Girls' Aid, 330 5th Avenue, New York City."
Gladys Hollingsworth was one of the children of William T.P. Hollingsworth,
the Neon Lights Magnate, when he and his family were living in Normandy
during the Great War (1914-1918) and he received the Chevalier of the
French Legion of Honour for this great war relief work he carried on between
France and New York. Your editor had some correspondence with Gladys in
the late 1960s.
(3) According to the Southern Genealogists Exchange quarterly, Vol.
6, No. 34, Spring, 1965, p. 49, the name of JEPTHA HOLLINGSWORTH appears
in Deed Book B, Greenville County, South Carolina, which covers the years
1787-1791. This is an index only. We have evidently not examined the
actual deeds. When your editor feels better, maybe he will order the films
of this book. This is undoubtedly Jephtha (or Jeptha) whose wife was
Asenath Yarnall, as recently discovered by your editor. Although Stewart
covers his family somewhat, no hard documentation of his many migratory routes
has been put together.
(5) A New Jersey paper of about 1972 indicated that Robert J.
Hollingsworth (photo included) was appointed an associate of the law firm
of Cors, Hair & Hartsock. He is a graduate of the University of Cinncinnati
College of Law. He served for 2 years as law clerk to the Honorable Timothy
S. Hogan, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio. (Sent by
former subscriber Ed. Hollingsworth, of Cranford, New Jersey, languishing
in our files for twenty years!)
(6) Your editor's notebook #17 for February, 1967, has a note on
Thomas Hollinworth, who ws store-keeper at Plymouth-Yard Dock Yard
in 1827 (Devonshire). This from the Royal Kalendar & Court & City Register,
England, Scotland, Ireland and the Colonies (1827), p. 167.
(7) Our steady search of the more than 20,000 pages in the Tenison
A. Groves manuscripts located in Box 2, p. 2956 (LDS film #258476) a short
recital of another document now long since destroyed on 30 June 1922 in the
great explosion and fire at the Public Record Office, Four Courts, Dublin:
"Yeomanry Corps on permanent duty, Pay Books, 4-Q-192, 43 (April-July 1798)
and 44 (August-December 1798) ROD (Groves's code for 'Record Office, Dublin')
"wherein he cited the names he was searching - unfortunately not our
Hollingsworth! In the set indicated, which covers the whole of the Irish
Rebellion begun 23 May 1798, mainly in Co. Wexford, whould have been proof
or denial of our Aunt Anna Belden's family story that her great-grandfather
Hollingsworth (her spelling) served in that "war." At least, we now know
the records did exist at one time. Why these valuable early military
records were divided, the earlier portions remaining at Dublin while
those from 1823 onward are safe (we hope) in the Record office in England,
is hard to fathom. Had the reverse been the situation, we could show if
our Samuel Hollinsworth (1765-1815) supposed father of Frederick our
immigrant ancestor, did verily serve in Lord Mountnorris's Camolin
Cavalry Yeomanry Corps. (He of the 'blue uniform, with blue cloak lined
in red, and shining sword!').
(8) Correspondent Eileen Gray sends cut from The Register-Guard,
Eugene, Oregon, for Wed. Nov 20, 1991. It is headed Three arrested on
drug charges. The event occurred on the previous Friday at about 2 PM
when three Coos Bay women were arrested with cocaine and guns. These
included Karen Sue Hollingsworth, 21, residing at 2645 Woodland Drive.
Coos County Sheriff made the arrests.
(9) Again from Eileen, ditto paper, Thurs Nov 7, 1991, has title
Car, pickup collide; pair seriously hurt. The day before, Glen Whiting
Smith, 83 and Laura Smith, 77, were in serious condition after a collision
at 12:55 PM at the Northwest Expressway and Belt Line Road intersection,
with a Chevy pickup driven by Don Hollingsworth, Jr. of Eugene. Smith was
driving the 1984 Pontiac which was involved.
(10) Eileen also sent another squib from the Register-Guard for
Tues. Nov 19, 1991, headed Literacy advocate Raymond Curry dies. He
was 51 and died Saturday before, born Sept 13, 1940 in Orange, CA. In
the list of survivors is a sister, Lisa Hollingsworth.
(12)Correspondent Richard K. Hollingsworth of Wichita, Kansas, sent
a cutting from the Wichita Eagle, undated but early 1991, received March 17,
1991. It is the Sports section, headed in large letters: Hollingsworth
wraps up record year. It spotlights Ann Hollingsworth, (photo) a Manhattan,
Kans. senior and a basketball player. She led the team to the Class 6A state
tournament final. She is 5-feet 11 inches, one of those tall Hollingsworth
ladies. She attended Seven Dolors Parochial School in her younger days,
and affirms that she probably started shooting baskets about the time she
was born! Her father was a great influence, and got her started. One of five
players selected to The Wichita EAgle's 1990-91 All-State team, she gives
a rundown on her memorable event in life: Her dad is a big sports fan and
her coach Betsy Sloan equals him as greatest influences on her career. She
planned to major in sports psycology or accounting or business. Her future
goals include graduation from college and marriage. "Maybe I'll be somewhere
a little bigger than (the town of) Manhattan. As long as I'm happy."
(Pages 6G and 7G, and pictures of the group as well, in color.)
(13)William Edmundson, the stalwart puritanical founder of the
Society of Friends in Ireland, in his published Journal, pp. 20-21, states
that he visited a widow, Margery Atkinson, in County Armagh, more than
once in the year 1655, and held meetings in her house, and settled a
regular meeting there as well. This was the foundation of Lurgan Friends
Monthly Meeting, which finally attracted Valentine Hollingsworth some
fifteen years later, maybe about 1670, give or take a year or two either
way. Whether Edmundson met Hollingsworth is not known. Our friend and
co-editor of a genealogy bulletin, William Edmundson of South Pasadena, CA,
is a direct descendant.
(14)A letter dated Mar 12, 1971 to us from Judith A. Fischer, Secretary
of St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Hamilton, New York, in answer to ours of
Jan 31, 1971, states that "The oldest parish record we have is dated about
1863. In looking through the record we find that Thomas and Sarah Maria
Hollingsworth are listed in the family record..." The couple in question
were our Wexford cousins, Thomas and Sarah Maria (nee Hollingsworth)
Hollingsworth (more first cousin marriages!) of Madison County, New York.
It was when we were hot on the trail of the family, but it has gone cold these
many years. No Church registers of the town of Eaton could be located,
although Samuel Hollingsworth, Sarah Maria's father, had been a co-founder
of the first Episcopal Church there about 1812! (No kinship to Valentine
whatever.)
(15) Appeal of Prisoners at Ilchester, England, Quakers to ye King
4 Sept 1663 under sentence of Premunire, being then in Ilchester Goal in
Somersetshire...Nath: Parke*, Thomas Budd. (Extracts from State Papers,
1658-1664, Journal Supplement #9 p. 173.) *This is evidently the stepfather
of Grace Cook who later married, as his 2nd wife, Thomas Hollingsworth,
son of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. (Our own notes from 20-year-old work
books, U.C.L.A. research library.)
The (printed) Archives of Maryland, (1885) Baltimore Historical
Society, III, p. 360, sets forth the "Proceedings of the Council of
Maryland 1657-60. At a Councell held at St Marys 23* February 1658.
Present: The Governor, the Sec. etc...The Petitin of Richard Moore,
William Hollinsworth & Richard Hollinsworth, touching the Customs of
ten shillin(g)s per hogshead layd vpon all Tob: exported to the Manhatans
or other Dutch Plantacon."(pp. 34-38 Liber HH). III:383. "Sr. Mr Hollinsworth
hath desired of me leaue to trade with the Jndians wch I haue graunted him
and doe by these authorize and impower yow to draw him a Commission for
that purpose as also to fix to it the great Seale of the Province and to sett
to it my name, which shalbe as authentick as if I myselfe had done it.
Biuen vnder my hand this 16th day of Ianuary 1659 Josias Fendell to
Philip Calvert Esq. Sec of State. Granted 28 Jan 1659 (1659/69-Ed.)"
These men were from Salem, Mass., being two sons of the Richard Hollingworth
(sic) who came in 1635. The presence of Richard Moore makes it even more
certain.
(1) Letter 22 Oct 1978 from Ross J. Cameron, 5453 Sheffield Ct., Apt.,
51, Alexandria, VA 22311, asking about HR, briefly lists his ancestry:
"My grandmother's maiden name was Hollingsworth. Her father was Thomas
Hollingsworth, b. 11 Jan 1839, Tennessee, m. Mary Ann "Polly" Moore,
22 Jul 1860, Lawrence Co., Mo., and died 16 Jun 1925, Boone Tp. Greene Co.,
Missouri. According to his death certificate, his parents were Henry
Hollingsworth and Salley Haley. In 1860 Thomas was apparently living in his
soon-to-be inlaws' household, William and Jane Moore, Lawrence Co., Mo. though
his surname is misspelled as HOLLEY (please! not another one of those!Ed.).
But the marriage and other records indicate this was him. His parents were
not in the county at that time and to my knowledge never were...I cannot find
him in the 1850 census or earlier..."
COMMENT: HR replied 7 Apr 1979 but could not shed any light for him.
Edward Gerald (letter. chart gives "Gerard") Hollingsworth, b.
15 Mar 1869, Ohio; married 4 Mar 1886; died 17 Dec 1943. Wife Marretta
Tolle, b Sept 1868, Ottawa, Kansas; d 6 June 1938, Quenemo, Osage Co.,
Kansas. Issue (among other?) Roy Hollingsworth, b 18 Apr 1890, Pomona, Kan.,
died 17 Sep 1891* (sic! chart says so) Melvern, Kansas; wife Mary Alpha
McMullen, b 15 Oct 1896, Melvern, Kansas, died 7 June 1948, Dodge City,
Kansas; had child Max Hollingsworth (Ruth's father) b. 12 Feb 1922, Quenemo,
Kansas, married 16 Feb 1946. Obituary of Edward Gerald Hollingsworth shows
six children born to his family, two boys, four girls: Willie, died 18 months,
Mrs Daisy Price, Roy Hollingsworth, Mrs Hazel Wiley, Mrs. Doris Fisher and Mrs.
Lela Comstock plus eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
*1981 is date.
Years ago HR mentioned this man briefly. He was styled the father
of the Liverpool and Manchester (England, of course) theatres. An impressive
appellation indeed. Recently we made a further inquiry at the British Library
about this rather obscure fellow. New data has been put into print about him.
The main source of this article is "A Biographical Dictionary of Actors,
Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London
1660-1800" (Carbondale, IL (1982) Southern Illinois University Press,
pages 379-80)
It is too lengthy to print in full, but here are highlights. The
main desire, to learn the genealogy, was not fulfilled - naturally!
Perhaps he was the son of the Covent Garden house servants, "Mr.
and Mrs. Hollingsworth, living 1760-61, a charwoman at Covent Garden,
listed on the paylists, salary one shilling a day! (By today's poverty
rate, it was reasonable.) She may have been the spouse of a Hollingsworth
(Thomas?), a men's dresser there at that same time, and may have been
mother of Thomas the actor. (Too many maybes for us!)
Thomas was first entered in the Covent Garden account books as
Master Hollingsworth, paid L2.2s on 10 Mar 1767 for his role as a fairie
with 10 others in eight performances of The Fairy Favour, which was a
masque first produced in January of that year. He was 19, but is said to
have been physically very short - like Mickey Rooney? - which would account
for the choice of the casting. His father died in Sept. 1767 (it is not
explained how the authors knew this fact-Ed) and he was taken under
protection of Joseph Younger the actor who taught him to play trifling parts
there. By 1771 he was being paid a salary of 7 shillings, sixpence, lowest
on the lists, andhis first notice on any playbill is as Daniel in The
Conscious Lovers on 22 May 1773. He then appeared rather regularly in plays
we are sure are long gone, such as first played a Gravedigger in Shakespeare's
Hamlet in 1774-5, a role he was noted for the rest of his life. (This
character must be the First Clown in Act V., Scene I., who has a lengthy
part, and is the one who hands the skull of Yorick to Hamlet, who then
emotes: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio...."etc.)
By Sept 1775 Hollingsworth was up at Birmingham, Warwickshire, and
in the next month began his long association at Manchester, where he did
the Hamlet role again in 1778-79. At Liverpool, he was peeking out of a
hole in the curtain which divided the play from the farce (two entertainments
going on stage at once?) when an apple with a pen-knife stuck in it hit
him near the eye, laying him up for a long time. It was feared he would
lose the eye. In 1781-2 he worked in Edinburgh, Scotland, doing roles in
Romeo and Juliet, As you Like It and (one of the witches) in Macbeth, to
name lays we are familiar with. Cymbeline one of the Bard's last plays, was
also a vehicle for him, as Cloten, a long and important character role.
He returned to London, at Drury Lany in 1787 as Hodge in Love in a
Village. Later he did Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice and Sir Hugh Evans
in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He stayed there until 1804. In 1789-90 he
earned L2 10s, and in 1804 L4. per week. His work was severely criticised,
even condemned by critics! Physically, he is described as "remarkably
short in person but rather lusty." He continued
He had some energy left, for he got married at age 65, looking as the
Theatrical Inquisitor reported, "quite spruce and gay." (Gay in the
original sense of the word!)
Early in 1814 he played Harlequin in The Hall of Mischief, at the
Surrey Theatre, after which he went back to Liverpool where he died on
17 October that year and was buried at nearby Warton. (We have not researched
either the marriage or the burial.) A manuscript in the BL states he was 66
at the time of his death, and in an unpublished manuscript of Theatrical
Nicknames, Harper assignes to him the title of "The Father of the Manchester
and Liverpool Theatres."
There were Hollingsworths in London, Kent, Surrey, and other counties
in the South of England, but not nearly as numerous as those in the north
around Manchester and Liverpool. It will be interesting to learh (? if it
can be done) his right lineage.
NOTE: By Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc., (1984), p. 22. Benjamin
Hollingsath was Dr. Benjamin Hollingsworth who died on 26 Feb 1860 in
Bates Co., Mo., a graduate of the Medical College in Louisville, Ky.
He is the ancestor of subscriber Craig E. Ahrendt of Littleton, Colo.
Second Cousin, Subscriber and Chief Correspondent, Rachel (Hollingsworth)
Higginbotham of Yucaipa, California, copied out these entries at the
County Recorder's office at San Diego in 1961 when your editor was with
her. We later visited Cousin Fred Hollingsworth at Elsinore. The items
up to 1904 will be about as complete as possible. Those afterward would
have much more detail in the certificate or return, giving ages or
birthdates, birthplaces and names of parents.
This was William Samuel Hollingsworth (1841-1920) son of William and Elizabeth (Jones) Hollingsworth of Ballycanew, two of whose daughters were living in the 1960s and with whom your editor met. The elder William was apparently our Frederick's elder brother. Samuel was an apprentice to the blacksmithing trade at this time, later was a tinsmith. His son Sam and grandsons had hardware businesses at Picton.
Another instalment from Brian J. Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead series.
He notes that many have simple iron crosses, erected by blacksmiths. The
Hempenstalls, close kin to these Hollingsworths, were by tradition
blacksmiths for hundreds of years. The last note we had was that now
their forges are silent memorials themselves, they having all emigrated
and the older ones died. Only two headstones side by side:
Don't you admire the Irish for putting whole families, sometimes
several generations, on one slab of stone? These must be pretty big stones
to hold all of that. The symbol "/" indicates end of one line and beginning
of the next. Hence, there are 13 lines in A and 12 in B. Until reading this
we knew nothing about any daughter in Australia, nor anything about
Elizabeth Cosgrove!