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The Hollow Log, Issue 40 Page 1
INS I DE TH I S IS S U E
Hollow Spotting We have a marriage and a birth but outnumbered by deaths. Amongst the deaths is another Hollow family that may not originate from Cornwall.
Page 2
Announcing the Hollow DNA Project DNA tests to support family
history studies are now available
and can complement the
conventional paper record searches
that are the basis of our traditional
family history research. I think we
can further Hollow research by
using this technology.
Page 3
Marty’s Story A combination of family folklore and “Who do you think you are?” has resulted in the unraveling of
this story of two families caught up in the constraints of Victorian
sensibilities and mores.
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THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 40, June 2012 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772
Bendigo Mine Managers These are mine managers from Bendigo who were visiting Thompson’s Engineering in
Castlemaine in 1896. One of them is a Hollow and had just become a father for the ninth
time. Can you spot him?
Announcing the Hollow DNA Project A DNA study seems to be the next step in
investigating the Hollow surname. There is a wealth
of information available through parish registers,
censuses and birth, death and marriage records etc.
Discovering new information from these sources is
looking less likely yet there are still families that come
from the same areas but remain unconnected. A
DNA study may tell us whether connections actually
exist.
The Hollow DNA study will include the surnames Hallo, Hallow, Holla and Hollah as well
as Hollow. There are connections between these surnames in the records that we have. The
surnames Hallo and Hallow are included because families with these surnames seem to
have originated from Hollow or Holla origins. The names Holla and Hollah were often
found in the records of the 1600s and 1700s but eventually became Hollow. There are still
Hollahs, however one of the earliest contacts I made was Ansgar Hollah in Germany..
Photo from Bendigo Advertiser 5 June 1996
Late news - Early Arrival Further to Hollow spotting births,
Ellen & Tony Hollow are
grandparents again with Lilly May
Hollow arriving three weeks early on
May 21 2012 at Bairnsdale, Vic.
daughter of Sarah and Aaron Hollow.
See Marty’s Story Page 4.
Continued on Page 3.
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Hollow Spotting Hollows with a special date
From Justin Hollow
Did you get the latest
addition to the Hollow clan,
my wife from Tennessee,
USA? Her name is Amy
Michelle Norrid, born June
1980. We were married at
Froggy Beach, Coolangatta,
Qld. Australia on 11/11/11.
Birth
From Ellen Hollow
Australia Day
came early!
Logan Hollow
arrived last night
2.8 kg , four
weeks early.
Logan is the son
of Ellen & Tony’s
son Nathan and
wife Nicole he was born 28/12/2011.
Deaths
From
Kimberley
Goodman
French
My
Grandmother,
Valda Floyd-
Hoskins,
passed away on
Tues 31 Jan
2012 in Akron, Ohio USA. Born 10 March 1925 in Akron,
Ohio, she was the daughter of James and Minnie Hollow
Floyd. Minnie was the daughter of Capt Richard William
Hollow and Mary Louisa Rillston.
Marjorie Joyce HOLLOW. - 1926 - 2012 Died 4.3.12, wife
of Cal (dec.). Mother of Jennifer (dec.), David (dec.), Cathy,
Barry, Janet and Geoffrey. Grandmother to Mitchell, Brooke,
Simone, Joshua, Anastasia and Nikita. Mother-in-law to Tony,
Craig (dec.), Sofie and Phai.
Published in Melbourne Herald Sun, Wed., 7 March 2012
John Charles HOLLOW - On Wednesday 7th September
2011, at his home, John Charles, aged 79 years of Penzance
formerly of St. Just. Partner of Gloria. Funeral service to be
held at St. Just Methodist Church on Friday 16th September at
2.30 p.m.
Published in the Cornwall and Devon Media on 15th September 2011
Wilfred John HOLLOW - Died on Saturday 3rd September
2011 at Edward Hain Hospital, St. Ives, Wilfred John aged 88
years of Towednack. Husband of the late Joyce and father of
Bryan, Rosie and Christine (deceased). Brother of Augustus
and Robert, Father-in-law to Dave and Gloria, Grandfather to
Nicky and Great Grandfather to Zac. Funeral Service held on
Monday 12th September at Towednack Parish Church at
3.00pm
Published in the Cornwall and Devon Media on 8th September 2011
Alex J. HOLLOW
Racine - Surrounded by his
family, Alex J. Hollow, 94, passed
away Thursday, November 10,
2011, at Wheaton Franciscan - All
Saints Medical Center. Alex was
born in Terre Haute, Indiana. on
December 1, 1916, son of the late
Alex and Clara Hollo. Alex moved to Racine in 1933. On
October 1, 1938, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, he was
united in marriage to Joyce A. Verbeten, who preceded him in
death on September 22, 1989. Alex was employed by Massey
Ferguson for 48 years and retired in 1982 as Chief Inspector.
He was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church,
Transportation Club, and Knights of Columbus. He was an
avid golfer. He enjoyed playing cards, bowling, fishing, and his
trips to Florida or Arizona every year. He just loved getting
into the car and driving throughout the United States. Alex
lived peacefully in the comfort of his home. His companion
and best friend, Toni, was always by his side. Above all, he
enjoyed being with his family and he will be dearly missed.
Surviving are a son, John 'Jack' (Sue) Hollow; grandchildren,
Jeff (Sallie) Hollow, John Hollow, Jim (Lisa) Hollow, Mark
(Anna) Hollow, Michael (Teresa) Hollow, Michele (John)
Morin, Kristen Schatzman, Sarah (Geoff) Gorsuch, Katie
(Justin Nick) Hollow; 30 great- grandchildren; five great- great-
grandchildren; special friend and companion, Toni Rosienski;
brothers-in-law, William Vanderhoef and Ronald Gall; sisters-
in-law, Clarice Gall and Karen Verbeten; nieces, nephews,
other relatives, and friends. In addition to his parents and wife,
he was preceded in death by his son, Alex 'Butch' Hollow Jr.;
daughter-in-law, Judy Saavedra; sisters, Mary Pollock, Theresa
Hollo, Katie Hollo, Rose Miller, and Anne Giese
Published in Racine Journal Times on November 12, 2011
Alex is from another Hollow family whose connection, or not, to the
Hollows of Cornwall is not known. ♣
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Announcing the Hollow DNA Project cont. What is involved in a DNA study?
Participants take a sample of their DNA by a simple painless swab of their inner cheek
cells and send it off to a DNA testing lab. The lab conducts tests that identify markers
on part of the Y chromosome. Only males have Y chromosomes so a this sort of study
is only possible with males. The Y chromosome is passed from fathers to sons. There
is a DNA test females can take but it tests only the female line so is little value in a
surname study.
The tests used in DNA studies of this sort are called Y-DNA tests, they are different to
the DNA tests used by doctors and lawyers to prove parentage or that the police use in
criminal investigations. The Y-DNA testing relies on the fact that the Y chromosome,
found only in males, is passed from father to son, usually unchanged. Amongst the
DNA of this chromosome are found several places (called markers) where the DNA
sequence repeats between about 8-22 times and this number is characteristic of your
all-male descent. By testing this section of 'Junk DNA' as it is called, you can determine
if two men are related. The result is a string of 37 numbers, and contains no personal
information. The number merely shows the number of DNA repeats at each of the 37
markers.
In this study the aim is to test for these 37 markers. There are tests available for more
or less markers but most DNA studies now focus on 37 markers. The string of 37
numbers of one individual can be compared with that of others. If the individuals are
related the sequence should be identical or almost so.
The number of repeats does mutate, or change, slowly over long periods of time, so
that over the entire period of human history, different families have different marker
patterns, but these patterns are mainly stable over the relative short period of time
when we have used surnames. So within a family the changes will be quite small in
number.
A Y-DNA test does not uniquely identify you, since your father, brothers and uncles
will in all probability have identical results (so it's not worth testing very close relations,
except in very specific situations), but it will show what other families share the same
ancestry.
For that reason, we need to establish the DNA 'marker patterns' of the main Hollow
lines and I am therefore seeking male Hollow/Hallo/Hallow/Holla/Hollah who are
willing to take the test. If you are female Hollow/Hallo/Hallow/Holla/Hollah, can you
find a male relative who holds the name who could volunteer?
What do we hope to find out in the Hollow DNA study?
I am hoping to sort out the following questions:
Are the two biggest family trees, the family commencing with the John Holla
and Chesen Thomas marriage in Zennor in 1695 and the family commencing with the
William Holla and Uslea Cock marriage also in Zennor in 1685, related?
Do the various other Hollow trees that at the moment have no connection to
these trees connect or are there more origins to be found?
Do the Hallo and Hallow families connect to these Holla or Hollow origins?
Do the U.S. Hollows all have a connection to the Holla/Hollows in
Cornwall?
Hello There
Two long articles this issue. The DNA project could be useful to tie the disparate Hollow families together or not. In the last few issues Hollow families that are not at this point connected to the Cornish Hollows have
featured. .
Odd Spot William Howard Hollow (1887 – 1946) is the first person I have come across that has two graves. His funeral notice announced that his burial would be on 24 Jul 1946 at the Kew cemetery now called the Boroondara Cemetery here in Melbourne. The position of his grave can be found on the Boroondara Cemetery website. However in the Melbourne General Cemetery, about nine kilometers away, there is an imposing grave for William Howard Hollow erected by his wife Charlotte. Hopefully I will have an explanation for this conundrum in the next issue of the Hollow Log.
The Hollow Family Website
The website is updated on a monthly basis now. In the Hollow Log, details of families are often quite brief. You can use the Hollow Database section on the website to get further details of individuals and families. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.an
cestry.com/~chollow/
Contact
Colin Hollow edits the Hollow Log,
comments and contributions are always
welcome.
Write to 2 Keeley Lane, Princes Hill,
3054, Victoria, Australia. e-mail:
Hollow and variants Holla, Hollah,
Hallo and Hallow are registered with
The Guild of One-Name Studies. The
Guild member is Colin Hollow
(Member No. 3056).
©No material in this newsletter should
be produced without permission.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chollow/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chollow/mailto:[email protected]
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Do the Hollow families who seem to have origins in
countries other than Cornwall actually go back to
Cornwall.
What family Groups of Hollow are there?
Background
In putting together families and family trees a number of
groups of hollows have become apparent. The earliest Hollow
records in church registers are from Madron. Madron is a
parish very near the town of Penzance. Penzance was
originally within the Parish of Madron boundaries. The first
known and readable registers for Madron are Christenings
1592, Marriages 1577 and burials 1577. There may have been
Hollows or Hollas elsewhere at this time but there are no
registers surviving that show this.
The first Hollow record
found is the burial of
William Holla on 18th Nov
1577. The first Holla
marriage found was Jane
Holla and Peeter Polteere
in 1578, Jane was a widow
and was possibly the
widow of the afore
mentioned William. The
first Holla baptism found
was in 1592, William Holla,
son of John Holla.
Although there are quite a
few records it has proved
impossible to connect many of these records to make a
credible family tree across many generations. The original
Madron registers are now available for viewing on the
Familysearch website. The earliest records, which are on
velum, are quite damaged, often faint and hard to decipher.
When they are clear they are written in an old English script
which in itself is hard to read. Further to that mostly there is
little detail given. Usually just the name or names of the people
involved, in the baptisms the father’s name only is given in the
earliest records. It seems likely that the Hollas now Hollows
originated from Madron.
To start to build family trees the church registers of all the
churches have to be looked at. In the case of the Hollows we
are lucky because they very much confined themselves to the
pointy of Cornwall which is called Penwith. Some years ago
my friend, the late Keith Hollow, and I began constructing
Hollow family trees beginning with our own families. Keith
found he belonged to the earliest family tree that goes across
many generations to the present. It begins in with the marriage
in Zennor in 1685 of William Holla and Uslea Cock. I found I
belonged to another tree that begins with another marriage in
Zennor, this one between John Holla and Chesen Thomas ten
years later in 1695. Try as we might we could not find a link
between the two. We also built other trees that we could not
link. Hopefully the DNA project can tell us whether those
trees are connected.
The main trees that have been found that still have
descendants alive today.
William Hollow – Uslea Cock line
William Hollow and Uslea Cock married Zennor 16th April
1685. On the Hollow database there are 857 descendants that
have been found of this marriage. Although the marriage took
place at the Zennor church William Holla was recorded as
being from Madron and subsequently the couple appeared to
live there. In Hollow Logs this tree is sometimes referred to as
the Penzance Hollows.
John Holla – Chesen Thomas line
John Holla married Chesen Thomas Zennor 26th March1695,
the Hollow database has 2780 descendants for this marriage,
by far the largest of any of the trees. It includes a group often
referred to as the Redruth Hollows but other branches are to
be found in Zennor, Towednack, St Ives and surrounding
parishes.
John Holla – Jane Holla Line
John Holla married Jane Holla 23rd February1716, Madron,
This line has 569 descendants and is probably the next
generation to the first two Lines. The marriage took place at
the Madron church but Jane Holla is recorded as being from
Gulval, a neighbouring parish.
John Holla m Elizabeth Bennetts Line.
John Holla married Elizabeth Bennetts 14 Oct 1732 Madron –
This line has 218 Descendants. One branch migrated to Utah,
USA last known male of the line is John Frank Hollow died
Los Angeles, CA 1946. Another branch took on the name
Hallo, some came to South Australia then to Western
William Holla's burial record (bottom entry). Madron 1577
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Australia. Others migrated to Victoria. There are still Hallo
families in these places but none are on the Hollow mailing
list.
Ishmael Holla - Sarah Stephens line
Ishmael Holla married Sarah Stephens Madron 7th October
1755.This line has 296 Descendants.
This is the next generation again. Ishmael Holla was baptized
in 1723, in his baptism record in the Zennor church records he
is the base child of Jane Holla. That is Jane Holla was
unmarried. If the father was not a Holla then any descendants
that are tested should not have the same DNA profile as the
other Holla families.
William Holla b c1770 line St Ives
William Holla married Ann Curnow in St Ives in 1793, this
line has 175 descendants in the Hollow database. There are
descendants of this line in Australia and descendants still in
England.
William Hollow b c1781 line St Ives
William Hollow b ~1790 possibly in St Ives, 250 descendants.
This William had a son John Hollow born 1806 in St Ives.
John had two marriages his first to Catherine Sandow in 1828,
Descendants of this marriage came to South Australia. His
second marriage was to
Ann Sanders in 1845,
descendants of this
marriage went to
Michigan USA and then
to California.
William Hollow
Christian Mitchell
Trewren Ludgvan line
William Hollow married
Christian Mitchel
Trewren in Ludgvan in
1807, the line has 219
descendants in the
Hollow database.
Thomas Hollah
Elizabeth Leacher
Ludgvan line
Thomas Hollah married
Elizabeth Leacher at
Nan Cladre in 1828,
the line has 162 descendants. The second line from Ludgvan
but no linkages between the two at this stage. Another
instance where the DNA study may help.
There are several smaller lines with children born in the 1900s
that I still have not been to link to older trees. Hopefully with
a combination of written records and the DNA project it will
be possible to solve these puzzles.
How can you be involved?
The main way to be involved is to be part of the testing
program. For a male this is taking a Y-DNA test, for a female
encouraging a male relative with the name to take the test. As
explained, there is usually no good reason for close relatives to
all take the test. As the test has a cost, at the moment $149
U.S., relatives could contribute to the one test by a person in
the close family, brother, father, uncle, grandfather. Studies
usually try to involve the oldest living relative.
The Hollow DNA Study has been registered with the DNA
testing company Family Tree DNA. This a DNA testing firm
based in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. This firm hosts the most
DNA projects of this type of any of the DNA testing
companies and provide plenty of support and advice for
participants. Being part of a registered project means the test
cost is discounted, usually from $169 to $149 for members of
a project. At times there are specials and the rate can be even
cheaper.
The Hollow DNA Study has a webpage and a profile as part
of the Family Tree DNA
web site. To initiate a test
you will need to do it via
their web site. On the
Hollow Project webpage as
well as being the place to
obtain the testing kit there
is a facility for making a
donation to the Hollow
DNA Study. Any donations
would be used helping to
pay for individuals having
difficulty funding their tests.
This is not something I am
actively promoting but it
available for those who
wish to support the study.
Getting Involved
The first thing would be to
contact me, Colin Hollow. I
will be able to tell you
whether a close relative
has already been tested. As this is the launch of the study there
will not be much competition so it will be a quick move to the
second step. This will involve organising a payment by credit
card. I hope many of you join the project. ♣
The Penwith region of Cornwall showing parish boundaries.
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Marty’s Story We have all probably watched and enjoyed the TV
program Who do you think you are? This program, originated in
England but now has versions in many countries including
Australia, was the stimulus for Marty Slade and his wife
Megan to begin to research Marty’s family. The mystery was
Marty’s grandfather, Eric Hollow Russell. Eric was born in
Castlemaine, Victoria in 1896, his mother was Edith Ellen
Russell but little was known about his father. Eric married
Lillian Mary Bird in 1920 and they had four children, all girls,
the eldest being Edith, Marty’s mother. She didn’t know much
about her father’s father at all, she said his name was
Zachariah, she thought from a Jewish family, but had given no
other details. The family thought
she didn’t know much else. All
the possible sources of
information amongst the family
had passed away. Edith, Marty’s
Mum, had passed away in 2001,
her father, Eric, died in 1962 and
her mother, Lillian, died in 1974.
Marty and Megan had
started their quest like good
family historians, with family
information and then started
collecting certificates. They
obtained Eric’s birth certificate.
It confirmed mother Edith Ellen
Russell, the column for the
father has dotted diagonal lines
across it only. They followed up
with his marriage certificate.
Married Castlemaine 1920 etc.
etc. but when it came to the
names of his parents, mother
Edith Ellen Russell, the space for
father has just a dash in it. Marty
and Megan were quite
disheartened at this stage but
decided to finish the job anyway
and get his death certificate. This
time surprisingly when Eric was
dead there was some joy. There
on the certificate was a name for
his father, Zachariah Hallow Russell. The other surprise was
that the informant was Marty’s father, George Slade. The “a”
was a mistaken spelling of Hollow. Eric’s name is also written
as Eric Hallow Russell.
Imagine what was going through Marty’s head, his
mother seemed to know very little about her father’s father
but his father had been responsible for naming him on the
death certificate. And who was Zachariah Hollow Russell?
The search had taken a new turn. Did a Russell marry
a Russell and what had become of him? The first question was
quickly dismissed and Marty and Megan began looking for a
Zachariah Hollow.
Marty and Megan soon found that a Zacharias
Hollow had lived in Bendigo. Bendigo is about 24 miles north
of Castlemaine; both are old gold mining towns. Marty and
Megan decided to visit Bendigo and go to the Bendigo Family
and Local History Expo which was running on the 2nd March
2008. They struck genealogical gold at the Cornish Association
stall where one of the women on the stall who was researching
mine managers in Bendigo was able to tell them that Zacharias
Hollow was well known in
Bendigo as a Mine Manager.
They were also given the name
of a contact, Ellen Hollow, a
member of Zacharias’
descendant family. Unfortunately
the address proved to be out of
date but from the information
Ellen had supplied to the
Bendigo Cornish Association
they have been able to piece
together some of Zacharias’
story.
Zacharias Hollow
married Alice Ann Richards in
Ludgvan, a village in the Penwith
area of Cornwall, (the pointy
end) on 24th April 1869. He is
thought to have left his wife now
pregnant to come out to
Australia late in that year or in
early 1870. His shipping details
have not been found yet. The
date of arrival in Australia has
been estimated from his death
certificate where his stay in the
colony was recorded as thirty
years. His parents were Thomas
Hollow or Hollah and Elizabeth
Leacher. Zacharias was their
eleventh child. Thomas was born
around 1805 but it is unclear who his parents were. In the
Ludgvan area there are five baptism registrations for babies
called Thomas Hollow, one in St Just in Penwith (father
Thomas, mother Loveday), 1904, two in Zennor (both father
Thomas, mother not listed), 1805, one in Gulval, 1805 (father
Ishmael mother Elizabeth) and One in St Ives 1806 (father
William mother Ann). This is a case where the Hollow DNA
Edith Ellen Russell (1863 - 1945)
Photo: Marty Russell and Megan Buntine
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project announced in this Log may help establish which line
Zacharias belongs to.
When Zacharias arrived in Sandhurst (later to be
renamed Bendigo) he obtained employment with one of
town’s most well known mine owners George Lansell. Lansell
was known to recruit Cornish miners for his mining ventures.
Zacharias probably worked as a miner or mine blacksmith at
first but eventually he was made a mine manager. He was also
granted permission to build a house on Lansell’s property that
contained his large home, Fortuna, and two of his mines. The
house block was in Booth Street and Zacharias built a
weatherboard house there
and was to remain living
there until his death in
1901. His will shows that
he did not own the house.
Whether he built the
house himself is not clear
but it is likely.
He certainly was
a skilled carpenter as well
as a blacksmith and
tinsmith according to
Isabel Spark Gill in her
book The Hub in the Wheel.
Isobel is married to one of
Zacharias’ grandsons.
There is evidence that
Zacharias was a devoted
father. Still within the
family is a doll’s chest of
drawers that he built for
his daughters. When the
family had it repaired in
the 1990s it was found to
be largely built from
munitions boxes no doubt
from the mine he
managed. He also used his
blacksmithing skills to
fashion the wrought iron
surrounds of the Hollow
grave in the Bendigo cemetery and he is also credited with
working on the elaborate wrought iron gates at Fortuna. His
other claim was that of inventor. In 1894 he took out a patent
on an appliance that prevented the running away of cables on
loose drums at the top of the mine pit. The invention won
wide praise and was recommended that all mine managers to
use it to improve safety at their pit heads.
Zacharias’ Family
Alice arrived in 1872 with daughter Alice, a two year
old. In January 1874 Alice had twins, Zachariah and Thomas
Henry. Thomas Henry died after six days, Zachariah lived until
1940. Their next child, James Henry was born in 1876 but he
was to drown in one of the mansion Fortuna’s many
ornamental lakes. Then follow three more daughters, Louisa
Jane (1878), Elizabeth Mary (1880) and Sarah (1882). In
December 1883 a son William was born but his mother, Alice,
was gravely ill. She died four days after his birth and the baby
William also died seven days later.
A note about the use of the names Zacharias and
Zachariah; Zacharias is the name consistently used in records
for the Eric’s father. Zacharias had a son, born 1874, he called
Zachariah. This is
the way they are
distinguished in
records, of course
there are times
when the two very
similar names are
confused.
Marty and
Megan knew there
was another son,
their ancestor, Eric
Hollow Russell.
Initially they
thought that Eric
was the result of an
affair while
Zacharias was
married. Then they
found his wife had
died in 1883. This
changed the
scenario. But then a
second marriage
turned up for
Zacharias in 1887.
Further research
showed that this
wife did not pass
away until 1920. So
once again the idea
of an affair was in mind. Eric was not born until 1896 so the
marriage had run for some time.
In that era when a mother or a father died leaving
young children it was common for a new marriage to occur,
sometimes quite quickly. There was no government support
for these families. If a parent remained single it often meant
the family really struggled to survive. Zacharias was left with
five children aged from one to twelve when his first wife died.
His next marriage was almost four years to the day from his
first wife’s death. His new wife, Margaret Ann Cattran, had
Plan diagram of George Lansell's Fortuna showing the position of the
Hollow house in Booth St. and the series of ornamental lakes.
Diagram from Lansell’s Fortuna
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been widowed in the January of 1887 and she had two children
aged thirteen and seventeen. Zacharias’ children would then
have ranged from five to sixteen.
Marty and Megan’s research was tragically interrupted
by the 2009 bushfires in Victoria. In February large portions of
Victoria burned. These fires caused Australia's highest ever
loss of life from a bushfire; 173 people died and 414 were
injured as a result of the fires. Marty and Megan run a B&B on
their property in Buxton, Victoria which was badly damaged
by the fires. The business has been rebuilt and re-established.
In early 2011 Marty and Megan were ready to continue the
search for information.
In Australia the public libraries have combined in a
project to digitize old newspapers and publish them online.
The project, under the name of Trove, has digitized many
newspapers from the 1800s and early to mid 1900s and is
accessible online.
Marty and Megan found references to Zacharias
Hollow that warmed their view of him. In 1891 Zacharias and
wife Margaret each applied for a divorce each charging the
other with desertion. So now Marty and Megan realise the
marriage has broken down by 1891, five years before Eric’s
birth. In another part of the same paper the Judge’s verdict is
given.
In the divorce suit in which Zachariah Hollow, mining
manager, and his wife Elizabeth (sic , her name was Margaret) each
petitioned for divorce on the grounds of desertion, his Honour dismissed
the husband's petition with costs, and refused the wife's application on the
ground that the law was not intended to separate couples who had only
had slight matrimonial differences.
Zacharias and Margaret’s desire to divorce has been
thwarted by the courts and society’s, view of marriage at that
time. These reports do not make it clear if the couple was
living together or did Zacharias live with Edith Russell?
Eric Hollow Russell’s birth was registered in 1896 in
Castlemaine, Edith’s home town. Which begs the question,
how did this relationship start? Develop? Bendigo was quite a
way from Castlemaine, thirty nine kilometres (twenty four
miles) in fact. It is hard to imagine that Zacharias travelled to
Castlemaine for companionship. It is also hard to imagine that
Zacharias met Edith at the local Castlemaine Town Hall
dance. Did Edith work in Bendigo? Did she work for
Zacharias?
If the marriage had broken up he may have needed a
housekeeper. In 1891 his youngest child Sarah was 8 years old.
His oldest daughter Alice now aged twenty one was married in
that year but the rest of his family were unmarried and
presumably living at home. Zachariah, the eldest child at
home, was seventeen; there were two other girls between
Zachariah and Sarah. Zacharias died in 1901, when Eric was
only five.
In the meantime Marty and Megan had come across
The Hollow Log issue 15 where there is the story “Ludgvan to
Bendigo” the story of the Bendigo Hollows. Via the Hollow
log they have also been able to make contact with Ellen
Hollow who is married to a great grandson of Zacharias. He
and Marty are second cousins. As a result they now have much
more information about Zacharias Hollow.
Marty and Megan have also found, through the
Victorian Public Record Office, the will and probate papers of
Zacharias Hollow. There they found another surprise.
Zacharias made his last will the day before he died and in that
will he specified that there was to be £150 set aside for the
support and benefit of his son Eric Hollow Russell at the rate
of 10 shillings per week. Further it was stipulated that if Eric
was to die any remaining money was to go to his mother
Edith. In the part of the probate papers that has the inventory
of the estate it shows that that Zacharias’ entire estate totaled
just under £600.
This was a heartening development for Marty and
Megan. The will was written on Zacharias’ death bed and he
had put aside 25% of his wealth to his son Eric. I have found
The house that Zacharias built at 90 Booth St. in the 1890s showing him and some family at left and now at
right.
Photos: Ellen Hollow and Google
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references that say women who worked as housemaids at the
turn of the century (1901) were paid around 14 shillings
($1.40) a week, with domestic cooks fairing slightly better at 25
shillings ($2.50) per week.
The next development was the discovery of fuller
reports of Zacharias’ divorce case in The Bendigo Advertiser.
The reports Marty and Megan found on Trove were just
summaries published in the Melbourne paper The Argus. The
Bendigo Advertiser report of the case on 20 Aug 1891 shows
that early as four days after his marriage his new wife and
oldest daughter quarreled. The eldest daughter, Alice, was then
sixteen. The arguments were frequent. Zacharias also argued
with his wife over their living arrangements. Margaret owned a
house in Long Gully and it had been agreed that they would
live there. Zacharias was to add two rooms to the house. The
problem arose when Margaret claimed that the house did not
belong to her but to her son, who was then sixteen years old.
Zachariah refused to do the additions under these conditions
and this lead to the arguments. The result was that after three
months Margaret moved out of the house and lived separately
from that day. After Zacharias had applied for the divorce
Margaret had brought a counter claim.
Ominously at the end of the presentation of evidence
the Judge’s comments were reported as “Persons should know
that once having entered the marriage state that they could not lightly
break off those ties”. His decision was to be given the next
morning.
In his decision the next day the judge really paid out
on Zacharias. He reminded him of his own admission that he
had entered the marriage wanting someone to look after the
younger children, leaving less for his oldest daughter to do. He
suggested, “he did not
marry for the reason a
man was supposed to,
because he loved the women
he had chosen to be his
partner for life. In fact the
petitioner wanted someone
to work for him who
would not require payment
for it, he wanted a slave.”
The judge placed the
blame for his wife
leaving on Zacharias.
His wife had sought
the help of her
minister and they had
offered two possible
solutions. One was
that as Zacharias’ oldest
daughter was soon to be
married that she leave the
house in order for Margaret to move back. Alternatively, after
the daughter was married Margaret would move back in.
These offers were made just before the court case. Zacharias
refused both propositions declaring under no condition was he
prepared to live with his wife again.
The Judge refused both petitions and each had to pay
their own costs. He concluded with more terse advice for
people entering marriage.
All involved would have been bruised by this
outcome. It happened at a time when Zacharias’ mine was
very successful and reaching peak production. We presume
Zacharias and family had been living together with the girls
taking responsibility for the upkeep of the house. He wanted a
wife to ease the burden on his oldest daughter, Alice, now
about twenty and about to be married. Isobel Gill tells in her
book that Sarah the youngest daughter, who married a Gill,
was well educated. She went to a private school in Bendigo.
We would expect that her sisters would have been well
educated too. Which suggests Zacharias may have needed a
housekeeper once his oldest daughter got married.
Edith Russell was born in Castlemaine in 1863. In
1896 when Eric Hollow Russell was born she was living at
Farnsworth Street in Castlemaine. The family says that she
stayed in Castlemaine and lived with her mother (her father
having died some years earlier) and an unmarried sister,
between them they brought up Eric.
In 1903 her address was given as Camp Hill
Castlemaine on the Electoral Roll living with her mother and
sister Alice. Edith’s occupation was stated as tailoress. Edith
remained here until 1924 at least. In 1919 Eric is on the
electoral roll at Camp Hill, his occupation is electrician. After
his marriage 1920 to
Lillian Mary Bird,
from Lauriston, a
village about thirty
two kilometres
south of
Castlemaine Eric
moved to the city
and lived at Glen
Iris. Edith
eventually lived with
her son and his
wife. She was living
there when she died
in 1945.
Eric was a
resourceful person
like his father. His
occupation in his early
20s was electrician,
later that was up graded
Eric Hollow Russell with wife Lillian in side car holding their first
daughter Edith, Marty's Mum.
Photo: Marty Russell and Megan Buntine
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to electrical engineer in electoral rolls. He was also known to
be a carpenter; eventually he became a trade teacher at
Swinburne Institute of Technology which is now one of
Melbourne’s Universities. From the Hollow side of the family
it is known that he was teaching alongside one of his cousins, a
son of one of Zachariah’s sisters. For the story to exist, at least
one of them knew they were related. We do not know whether
they ever spoke of their family link.
Marty was only nine when his grandfather Eric died
but he would go to his home with his parents and playing, he
remembers Eric as being a friendly grandfather. Marty’s
mother had a story that whenever Eric was driving through
Caulfield he used to say that he might have relatives there.
There were Hollow families living in
Caulfield then but not close relatives.
They were from the family that
owned Hollow and Sons, a building
company. Eric was a Freemason as
were some of the Hollows so he may
have known them through Masonry
or he may have known them through
his trade links with builders.
Although Marty’s mother did not
seem to know much about her
father’s father she knew his first name and perhaps knowing
this story she knew his surname as well. Certainly when her
father died her husband George was aware as he was the
informant that is the person responsible for providing Eric’s
details to the registrar of deaths. Marty feels that it was
probably Eric’s wife Lillian who provided the information.
Marty and Megan now have a lot of the story, but
there are still questions. The most puzzling, how and when did
Zacharias and Edith meet? The answers will be elusive.
Women were not included on electoral rolls until 1903 and
Australia has not kept its census records. Newspapers, other
family recollections, long lost letters; may hide the answers.
The answers, if they are to be found, will be one of those
family history moments that keep us all going.
I had my own family history moment when
researching this story. I have not met
Marty and Megan personally yet. We
have emailed and spoken over the phone
to put this story together. My moment
came when I received from them two
images, one included Zachariah, the
image of the Mine managers on the front
page, and the other included Marty. I
have cropped the images to produce
these two images of the great grandfather
and his great grandson. It is all in the
genes.
Descendant Chart of Thomas Hollow (Hollah) from Ludgvan The chart below is a cut down chart with only the marriages of Zacharias’ siblings. The chart does show the extent to which Thomas Hollow’s children left Ludgvan. Most went to the USA and to mining areas. Thomas Hollah (Hollow), b. circa 1805 at Ludgvan, CON, d. 3 Jan 1881 at Ludgvan, CON +Elizabeth Leacher, b. 1810 at Nan Cladrae, CON, m. 5 Jul 1828 at Nan Cladrae, CON, d. 1847 at Penzance, CON
├── Thomas Hollow, b. Nov 1828, d. 1913 at Conestoga, PA, U.S.A.
│ +Mary Ann Elliot, m. 1851 at Penzance, CON
│ +Matilda ??Hollow, b. 1851 at Sweden, m. before 1910, d. 1916 at Conestoga, PA, U.S.A.
├── John Leacher Hollow, b. 1830, d. 1906 at MI, U.S.A.
│ +Elizabeth Jane Uren, b. 1833, m. 24 Jul 1854 at Ludgvan, CON, d. 1900 at MI, U.S.A.
├── William Hollow, b. 1831
├── Samuel Hollow, b. 1832 at Ludgvan, CON
│ +Christiann ??Hollow, b. 1842 at PA, U.S.A
├── James Leacher Hollow, b. 1834 at Gulval, CON, d. before 1861
│ +Grace Holman, b. 1835, m. 25 Jul 1854 at Ludgvan, CON
├── Grace Leacher Hollow, b. 2 May 1835 at Ludgvan, CON
│ +John Allen, b. 11 Oct 1833 at St Hilary, CON, m. 22 Jun 1856 at Ludgvan, CON, d. 23 Jun 1894
├── William Henry Hollow, b. 1836 at Ludgvan, CON, d. 1870 at Ludgvan, CON
│ +Dorcas Curnow, b. 1837 at Ludgvan, CON, m. 25 Nov 1858 at Ludgvan, CON
├── Richard Hollow, b. 15 May 1837 at Ludgvan, CON, d. at U.S.A.
│ +Mary Wills Chellew, b. 22 Mar 1840 at Ludgvan, CON, m. 22 Oct 1861 at Ludgvan, CON
├── Elizabeth Hollah (Hollow), b. 1840 at Ludgvan, CON
│ +William James, b. 1837 at Uny Lelant, CON, m. 8 Sep 1859 at Ludgvan, CON
├── Mary Hollow, b. 1842 at Ludgvan, CON
│ +William Trembath White, b. 1844, m. 25 Apr 1868 at Ludgvan, CON
├── Zacharias Hollow, b. 1843 at Ludgvan, CON, d. 7 Mar 1901 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ +Alice Ann Richards, b. 1845 at Nan Cladrae, CON, m. 24 Apr 1869 at Nan Cledrea, CON, d. 30 Dec 1883 at Sandhurst, VIC, AUS
│ ├── Alice Richards Hollow, b. 4 Apr 1870 at Towednack, CON, d. 1944 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ +William Nicholas Wills, b. 1871 at Clunes, VIC, AUS, m. 1891 at VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── Muriel Alice Wills, b. circa 1892, d. 1962 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── Henry Zachariah Wills, b. circa 1894, d. 1966 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── William Leslie Wills, b. circa 1895, d. 1965 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── Doris Louisa Mabel Wills, b. 1897 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 1976 at Frankston, VIC, AUS
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│ │ ├── Gladys Sophia Wills, b. 1901 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 1977 at Fitzroy, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── (--?--) Wills, b. 1902 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 1902 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ └── Bertha Jean Wills, b. 1909 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ ├── Thomas Henry Hollow, b. 2 Jan 1874 at Sandhurst, VIC, AUS, d. 8 Jan 1874 at Sandhurst, VIC, AUS
│ ├── Zachariah Hollow, b. 2 Jan 1874 at Sandhurst, VIC, AUS, d. 26 Jun 1940 at Prahran, VIC, AUS
│ │ +Amelia Morgan, b. 4 May 1873 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, m. 13 Sep 1899 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 13 Apr 1941 at Prahran, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── Zacharias Hollow, b. 1900 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 1901 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── George Ernest Hollow, b. 1902 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 1902 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── James Henry Hollow, b. 1902 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 1902 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── Amy Margaret Hollow, b. 1903 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 1903 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── Leonard Zacharias Hollow, b. 1903 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 1903 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── Horace Hollow, b. 1905 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 1906 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── Violet Hollow, b. 1905 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 1946 at Armadale, VIC, AUS
│ │ └── Norman Harold Hollow, b. 9 Mar 1907 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 7 Nov 1974 at Camberwell, VIC, AUS
│ ├── James Henry Hollow, b. 28 Sep 1876 at Sandhurst, VIC, AUS, d. 6 Dec 1879 at Sandhurst, VIC, AUS
│ ├── Louisa Jane Hollow, b. 18 May 1878 at Sandhurst, VIC, AUS, d. 29 Nov 1928
│ │ +Charles Roeder, b. 24 Apr 1872 at Sandhurst, VIC, AUS, m. 2 Jul 1900 at Arncliffe, N.S.W., AUS
│ │ ├── Louisa May Roeder, b. 1901
│ │ ├── Eva Elizabeth Roeder, b. 1902
│ │ ├── Charles Roeder, b. 1904
│ │ ├── Alice Minnie Roeder, b. 1906
│ │ ├── Elsie Gladwyn Roeder, b. 1908, d. 1911
│ │ ├── Lillian Mary Roeder, b. 1910
│ │ ├── Grace Roeder, b. 1912
│ │ ├── Florence Ethel Roeder, b. 1914
│ │ ├── Clarice Roeder, b. 1917
│ │ └── Nancy Margery Roeder, b. 1920
│ ├── Elizabeth Mary Hollow, b. 8 Mar 1880 at Sandhurst, VIC, AUS, d. 18 Jan 1959 at Ballarat, VIC, AUS
│ │ +David James Cardwell McQuillan, m. 1901 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── David Joseph Zacharias McQuillan, b. 1902 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ └── Mary Mavis McQuillan, b. 1904 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ ├── Sarah Jane Hollow, b. 10 Mar 1882 at Sandhurst, VIC, AUS, d. 1962 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ +James Mitchell Gill, b. 1882 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, m. 24 Apr 1905 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 1964
│ │ ├── Lawson Gill
│ │ ├── Clifford James Gill, b. 1906 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── John Gill, b. 1908 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS, d. 1908 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── Edward Zacharias Gill, b. 1909 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── Jean Mary Gill, b. 1911 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ ├── Raymond Oswald Gill, b. 9 Dec 1913 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ └── Keith Balfour Gill, b. 1917 at Bendigo, VIC, AUS
│ │ +Isabel "Spark" ??Gill, m. 1942
│ └── William Hollow, b. 27 Dec 1883 at Sandhurst, VIC, AUS, d. 7 Jan 1884 at Sandhurst, VIC,
AUS
│ +Margaret Ann Cattran, b. 1838 at St. Just, CON, m. 29 Dec 1887 at Sandhurst, VIC, AUS, d. 1920
at Long Gully, VIC, AUS
│ +Edith Ellen Russell, b. 24 Apr 1863 at Castlemaine, VIC, AUS, d. 22 Nov 1945 at Glen Iris, VIC, AUS
│ └── Eric Hollow Russell, b. 26 Apr 1896 at Castlemaine, VIC, AUS, d. 17 Feb 1962 at East
Melbourne, VIC, AUS
│ +Lillian Mary Bird, b. circa 1899 at Lauriston, VIC, AUS, m. 28 Jan 1920 at Castlemaine, VIC,
AUS, d. Jul 1974
│ ├── Edith Margaret Russell, b. 2 Dec 1920 at VIC, AUS, d. 15 Nov 2001 at Merimbula,
N.S.W., AUS
│ │ +George William Slade, b. 20 Sep 1917 at Melbourne, VIC, AUS, m. 18 Aug 1942 at
Camberwell, VIC, AUS, d. 17 Jun 1989 at Melbourne, VIC, AUS
│ ├── Norma Mary Russell, b. 1923
│ ├── Betty Russell, b. 1924
│ └── Dorothy Russell, b. 1924
└── Jane Hollow, b. 1845 at Ludgvan, CON
+William Richards, b. 1843 at Towednack, CON, m. 27 Mar 1869 at Ludgvan, CON
└── Sarah J Richards, b. 1870 at Ludgvan, CON
+Eliza Martin, m. 29 Apr 1848 at Ludgvan, CON
Sources
Marty Slade and Megan Buntine
Ellen Hollow
The Hub in the Wheel: The Gills of West Bendigo, Isobel Spark Gill, c2007
Lansell’s Fortuna, compiled and produced for the committee of management,
Fortuna Historical Tours, 1988
Bendigo Advertiser 20th August 1891, 21 August 1891 and 5 June 1996. ♣ Colin Hollow
Eric Hollow and Lillian Mary Russell
Photo: Marty Russell and Megan Buntine