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The Hollow Log, Issue 37 Page 1
INSIDE THIS ISS UE
New Hollow Images When I get images I try to use them in the Hollow Log I thought these images made a good front page, they came from either side of the Atlantic. I had no idea they were related but look what turned up!
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Hollow Spotting An extended Hollow Spotting this issue. Partly because I missed getting this issue out mid year and partly because there seems to be a larger than usual number of Hollow deaths over 2010, including sadly one of my regular contributors to this column, Ann Belmont.
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Jane Hollow Mystery Solved? Jane Hollow married George Smith in Napier, New Zealand in 1867, which makes her the earliest Hollow migrant to New Zealand that I have found. Back in 2004 one descendant of Jane Hollow contacted me. It was not until another researcher working for another descendant contacted me this year that we could put the bits of information together and finally solve the puzzle of who she was. At last the story of her life is able to be told.
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Hollow Burials in the Melbourne General Cemetery A bit of a theme developed in this Log; investigate a few Hollows and you may find they are related. I now live next to the Melbourne Cemetery and decided to look for the Hollow burials there. I began looking at Hollows from many burial sites and from different religions and found they were related.
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THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 37, December 2010 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772
New Hollow Images These images have been sent to me recently,
one from the U.S. and one from the U.K.
from seemingly unrelated people.
The first is Leonard Hollow private,
2659755, 26th Coy.3rd Infantry
replacement Battalion, American.
Expeditionary Force WWI. Born
23 March 1895 at Penzance,
CON son of George Hollow
and Elizabeth Major. He and
his parents and siblings
migrated to the U.S and lived in
Akron, Ohio. (Details in
Hollow Log 17). Leonard was a
member of the American
Expeditionary Forces from
July 22, 1918 to April 2, 1919.
He served in France at Saint-
Mihiel and Argonne and was
wounded in action North East
of Verdun, France. Details and
photograph supplied by his
daughter, Barbara Hollow Clarke
The second image is of Richard
Henry Hollow, his wife Annie
Grenfell and their youngest daughter
Florence May Hollow and sent to me by
Florence’s son Kenneth Johns. Richard Henry
is the grandfather of Alfred George Hollow
who passed away last June six weeks before
his 101st birthday. (See page 3.) As I was
preparing the images for the Log I
realized That Richard Henry is a brother
of Leonard’s father George Hollow. So
the front page has an uncle and nephew
featured and my contributors are second
cousins from opposite sides of the
Atlantic. I had started page one with
what I thought were two unrelated
images and worrying how I would link the
two photos. These gents are also uncle and
grand uncle to Clarence G Hollow listed in
Hollow Spotting,... connections everywhere.♠
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Hollow Spotting A Hollow Marriage in Redruth
On 8th August 2009 at St Euny’s
parish church Redruth, the
marriage of Ryan Paul Hollow
and Lisa Bray. Ryan is from a line
of Hollows who first came to
Redruth around 1765. Since that
time many Hollows have
celebrated marriages, christenings
and burials at St Euny. It is great
to see the tradition continues.
Hollow Deaths since
Hollow Log 36
Alfred George HOLLOW
HOLLOW - On
Thursday June 10th
2010 passed away at
Benoni Nursing Home,
St. Just, Penzance.
Alfred George aged 100
years of Cardinnis
Road, Alverton,
Penzance. Husband of
Lavorna, loving father
of Geoff and Keith
(deceased), Susan and
Andra and devoted grandfather and great-grandfather.
George’s 100th birthday was reported in the last Hollow Log. He
achieved something that few people can; he featured in a photograph
of four generations, twice. First as the youngest of four generations
with his great grandfather who lived to 104 and secondly as a great
grandfather to his own family. Both photos featured in Hollow Log
28/29. I met George in 2002 when he was a sprightly 93 year old. He
painted a watercolour of the Zennor Parish Church for me. George
was a self taught painter; having taken up it up in his retirement.
Ann Louise BELMONT
Ann Louise Belmont O.A.M. _ Died on June 21, 2010. Aged 65
years , mother of Hugh, wife of Victor. She was the eldest daughter
of Jim and Jean Moore (both deceased). The O.A.M. beside her
name signifies she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia,
presented for 'Service worthy of particular recognition' to the
community. The medal is awarded by the government of Australia.
Hers was presented on 26th Jan 2007, Australia Day, for service to
education through the Gifted and Talented Children's Association of
South Australia, and to the community. Ann was also an active
supporter of The Pioneers Association of S. A. and at the time of
death was the Honorary Secretary of the Friends of the Adelaide
Symphony Orchestra.
Ann was a descendant of the Redruth Hollows and a longtime
contributor to the Hollow Log. The family’s story features in Hollow
Log 25. Ann also monitored the Cornwall Lists online for Hollow
references for “Hollow Spotting”.
Valerie May HOLLOW
Passed away on December 13,
2009. Aged 86 years, wife of the
late William Robert Hollow.
Mother of Maxine, grandmother
to Tracy and Jimmy; and Lyndall.
Great-grandmother to Sydney,
Brady, Jameson and Keegan.
Mother of Ian, mother-in-law to
Cecilia. Grandmother to Emma
and Lachlan, Laura and David.
Great-grandmother to Evangeline.
The Adelaide Advertiser|15 December 2009
Harold Hughes HOLLOW
11.2.1932-13.4.2010 Harold was part of
Hollow & Sons Builders, a
Melbourne firm that was featured
in Hollow Logs 20 to 23.
Harold began his working life
in the family firm when his
father headed the company
and eventually became the
head of it himself. Harold
gave me access to the
company’s minute books and
we talked extensively over the
period when I was writing the
story. He was very generous with
his time, a characteristic he showed to
all who knew him. He was very much a Brighton man having been
born and lived there; his schooling was at Brighton Grammar. He
married in 1956 to Gwen and had they had three children, Lisa Belle
(dec), Suella married to Peter O’Donahoo and Andrew married to
Melanie Cook. Harold and Gwen have four grandchildren, Olivia
(Liv) and Jack' O’Donahoo and, Jethro and Fergus Hollow.
Cyrus R HOLLOW
Lake Linden, Houghton County, Michigan - Cyrus R. Hollow, 87, a
resident of Lake Linden, passed away Friday morning, January 22,
2010 at Aspirus Keweenaw Memorial Medical Center in Laurium
where he had been a patient for the past week. He was born on
January 31, 1922 in Hubbell, the son of the late Daniel and Margaret
(Blewett) Hollow. Cyrus attended the Tamarack and Dollar Bay
Schools. Mr. Hollow was a veteran, having served with the United
States Army during World War II where he served with General
Patton and was part of the second invasion of Normandy.
Following the service, Cyrus resided in Miami where he met and
married the former Carlyn Dunford. The couple then moved to
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Detroit where Mr. Hollow started a career that lasted 37 years
working for the Burroughs Company.
After he and Carlyn parted, he was then united in marriage to
Charlotte Peters. She preceded him in death in 2004. Since 1985, he
had made his home in Lake Linden. Mr. Hollow was a member of
Trinity Episcopal Church in Houghton, William Geroux Post 90
American Legion in Lake Linden and the Cornish Connection.
He enjoyed spending time around home working on projects,
gardening, riding his bike and working with his coin collection.
Affectionately known as "The Greatest", Cyrus' devotion to his wife
and family and his wonderful dry sense of humor will never be
forgotten.
Preceding him in death were his wife; his parents; and his sister,
Phyllis Pizzi. Surviving are his children, Carlyn Susanne (Ben)
Hoffman of Miami, Fla., Daryl Ann Linzalone of Butlet, Tenn. and
Daniel (Donna Lopresti) Hollow of Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
From Mining Gazette.com
James P HOLLOW
James P. Hollow, 76, a longtime
resident of Moosic, Lackawanna
County, and Pennsylvania died
Friday afternoon (5 Mar 2010) in
the Inpatient Hospice Unit at
Mercy Hospital. His wife of 15
years is the former Eileen Ulrich
Walsh. His first wife, the former
Rosalyn M. Olhowski, died April
28, 1994. Born and raised in
Scranton, son of the late Edwin J.
and Jane Hartman Hollow, he
attended Scranton Technical High
School and graduated from Clarks
Summit Abington Joint High School. He was a veteran of the Korean
War, serving with the Army. Before retirement, he was owner and
proprietor of Blarney Stone Bar, Scranton.
Also surviving are two daughters, Michele M. Walsh, Dickson City;
and Karen Yatzun and husband, Michael, Taylor; three sisters,
Barbara Sompel, Moosic; Shirley Hollow, Scranton; and Janice Minet,
Moosic; three brothers, Edward Hollow, Spokane, Wash.; Charles
Hollow, Connecticut; and John Hollow, Moosic. He also was
preceded in death by a sister, Elizabeth Sompel.
Published in Scranton Times on March 7, 2010
Clarence G HOLLOW
Clarence G. Hollow, 94, of Ravenna, passed
away on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at Robinson
Memorial Hospital. He was born on August
25, 1915 in Akron, a son of the late George
and Margaret (Wren) Hollow. (A nephew of
Leonard Hollow on page 1) Clarence, having
lived in Ravenna since 1976, was a member of the First Church of
God and a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He retired from Colonial
Machine in Kent, where he worked as a toolman. Clarence is survived
by his wife of 9 years, Betty (Cartwright) Hollow of Ravenna;
daughter, Joyce (Bill) Whitlock of Ravenna; son, Gary Hollow of
Stow; step-son, Kenneth (Annette) Stahl of AlabamaIn addition to
his parents, Clarence was preceded in death by his sister, Mildred
Mehlber. ♠
From Shorts-Spicer-Crislip Funeral Homes
♠ H E L L O T H E R E
This is the only Hollow Log for 2010. We spent four months out
of our place during renovations and getting two issue together
proved impossible. We are back in now but don’t be surprised if
the Hollow Log continues to be an annual. My retirement time is
gradually being built up with lots of other things. It is all great.
Lots of children and grandchildren interaction which I love, and
reading. I have always read, mostly non-fiction but now I am
turning to fiction as well. My ultimate would be a novel written
by a Hollow.
T H E H O L L O W W E B S I T E
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chollow/
The database was last updated almost on a monthly basis now. It
may be worth checking your families as sometimes changes are
made because of new information. The database is very much a
work in progress.
O D D S P O T
One of the most visited (especially around August 16) and
impressive memorials in the Melbourne General Cemetery is for a
man who is not buried there, and in fact, who never made it to
Victoria or even Australia. Elvis Aron Presley. See it at
http://www.whitehat.com.au/Cemetery/Graves/Elvis.asp
C O N T A C T
Colin Hollow edits the Hollow Log, comments and contributions
are always welcome.
Write to 2 Keeley Lane, Princes Hill, 3054 Victoria, Australia. Or
e-mail: [email protected]
Hollow and variants Holla, Hollah, Hallo and Hallow are
registered with The Guild of One-Name Studies. The Guild
member is Colin Hollow (Mem. No. 3056).
©No material in this newsletter should be produced without
permission.
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Jane Hollow Mystery Solved? The New Zealand births, deaths and
marriage indexes throw up a couple of
early Hollows That I have found hard to
tie to any Hollow family. In 1867 Jane
Hollow married George Smith, a brewer,
and in 1874 Helen Hollow a widow,
married Edward Simpson. Helen is still a
mystery but I am pretty sure Jane’s story is
as follows.
I have found Jane Hollow’s passage to
New Zealand; she arrived on the ship
Montmorency at the Port of Napier on 24
March 1867. Jane was described as a
servant aged 19. In fact the Montmorency
had brought 44 single women and 22
single men along with 30 families to New
Zealand as part of project set up by two
women to supply servants to the colonies
of Australia and New Zealand. Those
aboard the Montmorency were
commissioned by the Hawke’s Bay
Government. The cost of the voyage was £17 and each person
was to pay back £14 of that in their first three years in the
colony. Whether Jane paid hers back is a question as on the 7th
August just over four months later she married a local brewer,
George Smith.
The immigration scheme that Jane came on was big news in
New Zealand and in London. There are many articles in
newspapers of that time describing and praising the scheme.
The immigrants were somehow screened
for the selection as the two women
behind the scheme, Miss Rye and Miss
Lewin gave these assurances. “These are all
persons of good character, selected from that large
category of our society which trembles on the
brink of distress. All the female passengers, we
are assured, have been virtuous and industrious;
for the most part they are respectable girls,
reduced to distress by the death of one parent or
of both.”
In Napier an advertisement ran in the
local paper inviting people to order
servants from those on board the
Montmorency. Our Jane is listed as a
general servant, aged 19. The Montmorency arrived at Napier
on Sunday 24th March 1867; on following Wednesday night
the ship caught fire and was totally destroyed. Luckily all
passengers were ashore already, the crew on board escape
injury but much of the cargo was
destroyed as it had not been
unloaded from the ship. So
Jane’s life in New Zealand
started in high drama.
I am sure this Jane Hollow was a
Jane Hollow, birth registered
1848 in Redruth, Cornwall to
Jane Warren Hollow daughter of
Matthew Hollow and Eleanor
Warren Trevena. Her birth
certificate shows she was born in
the Illogan Workhouse, which
suggests her mother was not
married. Illogan is a village about
three miles from Redruth.
Jane was recorded with the
second name Teague in the 1851
census and the 1861 census. This
second name hints at the father
being a Mr. Teague. There is no
Jane Teague’s birth registered
around that time in Redruth so it is
probable that Jane was born out of wedlock and the father was
a Teague. It was a common practice to include the father’s
name as a Christian name of a child born out of wedlock. Jane
was living with her mother at her grandparents’ house in
Redruth at the time of the 1851 census and in the 1861 census
Jane is still living with her grandparents but not her mother.
Her mother had married in 1852 and was living with her
husband and a growing family at Gwennap, another village
about 31/2 miles the
other side of Redruth.
None of Matthew
Hollow’s other
daughters married a
Teague. Jane Teague
Hollow is not in the
1871 census. I think
young Jane went off to
New Zealand. There
are only a few Jane
Hollow’s of
appropriate age i.e.
born circa 1848 in
Cornwall and all can be
accounted for in other marriages. But when you look at the
children of Jane Hollow and her eventual husband George
Smith the names Eleanor, Warren, Trevena and Matthew are
The Immigrant ship Montmorency
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used within their family. The names are all from Jane’s
grandparents, Matthew Hollow and Eleanor Warren Trevena
who according to the census information Jane spent most of
her young life with. Jane Smith’s death certificate adds further
evidence, her birthplace is Redruth and her father’s name
given as Matthew Hollow (actually her grandfather if I am
correct) and her mother’s surname, Hollow. It is possible that
Jane grew up thinking her grandparents were her parents.
The other half of the story is George Smith, brewer. From
later records we know that George was born in Wiltshire to
Samuel Smith, also a brewer, and Lucy Hillier in 1832. The
first record I have
found of him in
New Zealand is
from September
1862 in the Daily
Southern Cross,
an Auckland daily
newspaper. On
the 26th the Albert
Brewery in
Auckland
advertised that they had appointed a George Smith as collector
of orders for their long established brewery. The Napier
Brewery is advertised for sale in July 1863. In June 1864
another brewery,
The Great Northern
announced in the
Daily Southern Cross
that it had appointed
George Smith of
Wakefield street
Auckland as their
town traveller. George would
have been about thirty at this time.
The Great Northern Brewery
went on to become one of the
most successful breweries in New
Zealand. It was also known as
Seccombe’s brewery. The photo
of it shown here is an early photo.
In 1890 it was extensively
expanded.
On 2 March 1867 an
advertisement in the Hawke’s Bay
Herald announces that Messrs.
Hartley and Smith have opened the Napier Brewery in Napier.
We know this is our George Smith from later events.
Unfortunately the partnership dissolves in June 1868. But back
to March 1867, George commences in a new business and
later in the
month the
Montmorency
arrives with Jane
Hollow amongst
the immigrants.
George has
showed
enterprise and
courage in
improving
himself work
wise in the
brewing industry
and also
romantically. On
the 7 August
1867 he and Jane
marry at the
residence of the
Marriage
Registrar in
Milton road
Napier. Their
first child, Allen
is born in 1868.
Around that
time George
seems to be
having
problems. The
partnership
with John
Hartley was dissolved on the 10 June 1868; Hartley
continues to operate the
business. George goes on
working as the brewer, but
also has other problems. He is
taken to court and fined 5
shillings and costs on the 21
September 1868 for failing to
report for a parade of the
local militia unit.
The Napier Brewing
Company seems to have
changed its name to the
Hawke’s Bay Brewing
Company. In December 1869 a fire destroys the brewery. At
the enquiry George, the company brewer, is a key witness. He
declares that the fire must have been deliberately lit. The kiln
that dried the malt was fired up but there was no sign that any
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fire escaped the kiln. He also reports that this was the second
time an attempt had been to set the brewery alight, the first
time it was discovered and put out before any damage
occurred. He goes on to say that a John MacFarlane had made
threats against the company and that he and MacFarlane were
not on good terms. Other evidence was given about
MacFarlane’s threats but in the end the jury returned a verdict
that the fire originated from sources unknown. The brewery
was completely destroyed and subsequently George Smith and
John Hartley the owner were declared bankrupt. Part of his
assets that were sold were ten 10 shares in the Hawke’s Bay
Brewing Company. George is eventually discharged from his
bankruptcy sometime late in 1870 or the beginning of 1871. In
the meantime the family has relocated and is living in Thames,
a mining town some 365 kilometres North West of Napier.
Thames is a gold mining town on the Coromandel Peninsular
of the North Island. The era from 1868 to 1871 were the bonanza
years for Thames, gold production topping £1,000,000 at its peak.
The first major discovery in the Thames area was made on
August 10, 1867 by a prospector, William Hunt, in a waterfall
in the bed of the Kuranui Stream. So Jane Hollow and George
Smith must have been quite early residents.
George and Jane’s second child Lucy is born there in 1871.
George is the manager of the local Coromandel Brewing
Company. A third child Clara Jane is born in 1873. Her birth
was registered at Coromandel a town 50 kilometres to the
north of Thames but still on the Coromandel Peninsula.
By late 1873 the
family has moved
again, this time to
New Plymouth.
New Plymouth is
some 340
kilometres South
West of Thames
on the other side
of the North
Island. We know
they are in New
Plymouth by
looking at the
children’s birth
registrations and a
newspaper report
that has Jane and
George in court,
Jane being the victim of an assault by a drunken assailant. The
case is reported in the local Taranaki Herald on the 19th
November 1873. In 1874 a fourth child is born and then two
more in 1876 and 1878 respectively.
It has been a question, why did George move his family across
the Island to New Plymouth. The answer may be that it may
have been because George was coming back to an early
employer or his family. In Auckland the breweries George
worked for were owned by R Seccombe and sons. The
Seccombes also owned the Taranaki Brewery in New
Plymouth before they set up a business in Auckland. Even
when they moved to Auckland the Taranaki Brewery remained
in the Seccombe family. So perhaps when George wanted to
move from Thames he was able to get employment with his
old employers. It may be that his move to Napier from
Auckland was with the same employer but I have not found a
link between the Seccombes and Napier. Certainly he
eventually established a business himself with John Hartley in
Napier.
George makes news again in the Taranaki Herald in October
1880. This time it is more serious for George he is charged
with the theft of a case of brandy from the Bridge Hotel in
Waitara. Waitara is a town 16 Kilometres along the coast to
the
north of New Plymouth. Unfortunately there is no
subsequent report of what happened to George as a result
of his arrest.
Whether it was because this or some other reason the
Smith family moved on again, this time to Auckland. The
Seccombes still owned the Great Northern Brewery in
Auckland so George may have returned to work with that
brewery again. In Auckland another child is born in 1883
and then another two in 1884 and 1886 respectively. No
further reports of the family have been found in the
newspapers; by 1890 the oldest of the children began to
marry. George Smith died in on 19 September 1898 at
Ponsonby, a suburb of Auckland. His death was reported
in the Hawke’s Bay Herald, he was working as a gardener at
the time of his death. The cemetery records however give his
occupation as brewer. Jane lived until 1925; they are both
buried in the Otahuhu Cemetery in Auckland.
Taranaki Herald 22 Nov. 1873
Taranaki Herald 1 Oct. 1880
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The Smith’s had nine children who survived, there may have
been more who died in infancy. What I find remarkable about
this family is their movement around the North Island. They
almost covered the whole island in following work
opportunities. George began in brewing in Auckland then
moved 380+
kilometres to Napier
to work as the
brewer and start a
brewery. Napier had
been planned as a township in 1854 as
a port and commercial centre to
service the development of the
surrounding region. George might
have recognized the potential for his
line of business. When the business
faltered the family moved to another
developing area, the mining district of
Thames where he moved from being
the brewer to the manager of a
brewery. The family soon moved
again, this time to another port town
on the western side of the island, New
Plymouth. After seven to ten years the
final move was back to George’s
starting point, Auckland. They must
have been quite an adventurous
family. The map of the North Island
of New Zealand shows the towns the
family lived in and how they are
spread across the north island.
The family details of the Smith family
and their nine children are listed on
the chart on the this page. ♠
By Colin Hollow
Thanks to Bernice Craig Hyde and Pamela
Rose Couch for their assistance with this
article.
Images from newspapers came from the
Papers Past website at
http://www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
/cgi-bin/paperspast
Descendants of Jane Hollow and George Smith Jane HOLLOW, b. 1848 at Illogan, d. 1925 at Auckland, N.Z. +George SMITH, b. 1832 at Wiltshire, ENG, m. 1867 at Napier, N.Z, d. 1898 at Ponsonby, N.Z. ├── Allen (Allan) SMITH, b. 1868 at Napier, N.Z, d. 1912 at Rosedale, AUS │ +Mary TOOGOOD, m. 1904 ├── Lucy Eleanor SMITH, b. 1871 at Thames, N.Z, d. 1910 at Auckland, N.Z. │ +William Robinson WALKER, b. 1856 at Rotherhithe, ENG, m. 1890 at Auckland, N.Z. │ ├── Eleanor May WALKER, b. 1892 at N.Z, d. 1938 at N.Z. │ │ +Thomas Walter Gaston KANE, b. 1892, m. 1913 at N.Z, d. 1977 at N.Z. │ ├── Florence Trevena WALKER, b. 1894 at N.Z │ │ +Peter NUIE, m. 1917 at N.Z │ ├── Elizabeth Jane WALKER, b. 1896 at N.Z, d. 1973 at N.Z. │ │ +Victor James ROSE, b. 1898, m. 1922 at N.Z, d. 1991 at N.Z. │ │ └── Phillip Victor ROSE │ ├── William George WALKER, b. 1899 at N.Z │ ├── Albert Edward WALKER, b. 1901 at N.Z, d. 1979 at N.Z. │ ├── Benjamin Allen WALKER, b. 1904, d. 1978 at N.Z. │ └── David Westall WALKER, b. 1907 at N.Z, d. 1984 at N.Z. ├── Clara Jane SMITH, b. 1872 at Coromandel, N.Z, d. 1962 │ +Charles Mabin HERRING, b. circa 1869, m. 1890 at N.Z, d. 1940 at N.Z. │ ├── Charles Allan HERRING, b. 1890 at N.Z, d. 1949 at N.Z. │ │ +Isabella Peterkin SWANSTON, b. circa 1891, m. 1922 at N.Z, d. 1968 at N.Z. │ ├── George James HERRING, b. 1892 at N.Z, d. 1966 at N.Z. │ │ +Ruby May Ella WILLIAMSON, b. circa 1898, m. 1918 at N.Z, d. 1970 at N.Z. │ ├── Clara HERRING, b. 1894 at N.Z, d. 1973 at N.Z. │ │ +Thomas ROBERTS, m. 1921 at N.Z │ ├── Beryl Rita HERRING, b. 1896 at N.Z, d. 1969 │ │ +Raymond John PHIPPS, m. 1919 at N.Z │ └── Hellier Mabin Bertha HERRING, b. 1905 at N.Z, d. 1925 │ +Robert Charles George YOUNG, b. circa 1899, m. 1925 at N.Z, d. 1964 at N.Z. ├── Emma Hillier SMITH, b. 1874 at New Plymouth, N.Z, d. 1958 at N.Z. │ +James George Alex HOTHAM, m. 1900 at N.Z │ └── Arthur Taylor HOTHAM, b. 1901 at N.Z, d. 1987 ├── Albina Warren SMITH, b. 1876 at N.Z, d. 1920 at N.Z. │ +Robert Frederick Alexander GARCIA, b. circa 1864, m. 1898 at N.Z, d. 1918 │ └── Winifred Elise Hellier GARCIA, b. 1900 at N.Z, d. 1951 │ +Francis James BALLANTYNE, m. 1922 at N.Z ├── Ethel Stevens SMITH, b. 1878 at New Plymouth, N.Z, d. 1966 at N.Z. │ +George WALKER, b. circa 1860, m. 1897 at N.Z, d. 1937 │ ├── Clara Christina WALKER, b. 1897 at N.Z, d. 1981 │ │ +Leonard RYAN, b. circa 1895, m. 1922 at N.Z, d. 1970 │ ├── Thomas George WALKER, b. 1899 at N.Z, d. 1968 │ ├── Frederick William WALKER, b. 1904 at N.Z, d. 1956 │ └── Philip Matthew WALKER, b. 1908 at N.Z, d. 1973 ├── Sydney William SMITH, b. 1883 at Auckland, N.Z, d. 1961 at N.Z. │ +Leonore Jane (Lena) PEREZ, b. circa 1890, m. 1913 at N.Z, d. 1958 at N.Z. │ ├── Sydney SMITH, b. at N.Z │ ├── Connie SMITH, b. at N.Z │ └── Victor SMITH, b. at N.Z ├── David Francis SMITH, b. 1884 at Auckland, N.Z, d. 1917 └── Alfred Victor SMITH, b. 1886 at Auckland, N.Z, d. 1968 +Charlotte Marcella MCDONALD, b. circa 1895, m. 1915, d. 1969 at N.Z. ├── Gladys Clara SMITH, b. 1816 at N.Z, d. 2004 at N.Z. │ +Charles John BAX, m. 1938 ├── Alpha Jane SMITH, b. 1918 at N.Z │ +Robert CUTHBERTSON ├── Jason Alan SMITH, b. 1920 at N.Z, d. 1964 │ +Nora PHILLIPS, m. 1942 ├── Beryl SMITH, b. 1922 at N.Z, d. 2002 at N.Z. │ +Charles HIGGIN-MITCHELL, b. 1922, d. 1992 at N.Z. ├── Conrad SMITH, b. 1928 at N.Z, d. 1928 at N.Z. └── George Sydney SMITH, b. 1930 at N.Z +Leonora SALAWAY
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Hollow Burials in
the Melbourne
General Cemetery My change of address has brought me to
within 100 metres of the Melbourne General
Cemetery; we often walk through it to go to
Carlton which is on the other end. The
cemetery covers some 43 hectares and is on
Princes Hill, our suburb, so in strolling
through there are great views of the
surrounding suburbs and to the Dandenong
Ranges in the East. The added advantage is
no traffic whipping past; the cemetery is a
quiet place.
There have been about 300,000 burials in the
cemetery. The land was chosen in 1849 after
the original cemetery right in Melbourne
central became inadequate. The new cemetery is still only three
kilometres from the city. The first burial in the cemetery
occurred in May, 1853. The cemetery was created as a public
park with wide curved pathways, grassed areas, rest pavilions
and extensive plantings of trees and shrubs. Picnickers were
encouraged. Over the years with the pressure for burial
plots the open spaces have been largely filled and some
paths have been taken over for burial plots. There are
few plots available now and when you can get them they
are expensive, many thousands of dollars. So there are
still some burials. Huge walls with spaces for the ashes
are also available.
I was keen to find how many Hollows were there. So in
looking through published lists I have found 26 Hollows
and 5 Hallos in 14 separate plots. Of these there are
monumental inscriptions on about half of them.
A Scattered Family
The first Hollow burial was in 1873, twenty years after
the cemetery opened for business. This first burial was
Joseph Hollow, aged 42 the son of Mark Hollow and
Elizabeth Davies. They lived in Brighton, a bayside
suburb of Melbourne. Joseph was living in a hotel in
Flemington, a suburb close by. There is evidence that
Joseph had been a licensee of a local hotel he may have
been the licensee of the Rose Crown Hotel at his death. The
accompanying
notice was in
the local
paper, The
Argus on 2nd
May 1873. The
A.O.F. Court referred to was a friendly society the Ancient
Order of Foresters, something akin to modern day lodges.
They provided sickness and funeral benefits for labourers,
miners, carpenters, bricklayers, stonemasons, blacksmiths,
shop workers, railwaymen and others.
Joseph was a widower at the time of his death. His wife had
died in 1864. Joseph was a bit of an odd job man it appears; in
1852, the same year he was married, he successfully applied for
a Hackney cab driver’s licence. He had five children the first
four born in Brighton but in 1861 the last child was born at
Campbell’s Creek, a gold mining town in country Victoria. He
was also the publican of the Rose Hotel in Young street
A view from Melbourne Cemetery, Dandenong Ranges in the background.
Newer graves squeezed in along road, city of Melbourne skyline
in the background.
The Hollow Log, Issue 37 Page 9
Fitzroy (a neighbouring suburb) transferring his licence to
another in June 1870. At the time of his wife’s death in 1864
Joseph had three surving children aged 6, 10 and 11 to look
after. In another grave in this same section two of Joseph’s
grandchildren are buried. They are Joseph Henry Hollow (died
age 6 months in 1882) and Emily Maude Hollow (died aged 6
years in 1886), the children of Joseph’s
eldest son George Hugh Hollow.
This family’s connection does not end
with Joseph and his grandchildren, one of
his brothers Edwin Davies Hollow and
some of his family is also buried here.
Joseph and grandchildren were buried in
a Church of England section But Edwin
Davies (or Davis), his wife Mary Collins,
two of their ten children and a grandson
are all buried in a Methodist section. I
also discovered another daughter
Florence Evaline Hollow is buried in a
Baptist section. Her death was in March
1875, she was eight months old. She
shares the grave with three cousins on her
mother’s side and two of her mother’s
sisters. One cousin died in February 1875
aged 2, Florence’s aunties died in 1877
and 1879; one of the aunties was the
mother of Florence’s cousin. The two
other cousins died in 1884 and 1886.
They were from their father’s second
marriage.
Florence was Edwin and Elizabeth’s first
born child. Another of their children died
in 1878 soon after birth but is not listed
as being buried in the Melbourne General
Cemetery. The Edwin
Davies Hollow family
plot was first used in
1884 when a third
child died; William
Watson Hollow aged
six months. In 1907 a
grandson of Edwin
and Elizabeth died
and was buried, he
was two years old and
the son of Robert
James Watson
Hollow and Gertude
Annie Needham. Robert James Watson Hollow was the
brother of Percy Hollow whose story was told in Hollow Logs
8, 9 and 10.
Put together there was a lot of infant mortality in this family in
the 1870s and 1880s; it would be interesting to see whether
there was a common thread amongst the causes of the deaths.
The other remarkable thing is the mix of denominations that
hold the burial plots. Just to add to this mix of religions, the
parents of Joseph and Edwin, Mark Hollow and Elizabeth
Davies are buried in the Presbyterian
section of the Brighton Cemetery.
William Hollow
A Hollow grave that has some mystery
about it is that for William Hollow. His
gravestone is an impressive white marble
stone standing almost two metres high
surrounded by a decorative wrought iron
fence. The stone and its inscription are
intriguing. Not only is the stone large, as
you can see the inscription is detailed;
surrounding the “Thy will be done” is a
wreath of fern and flowers carved into
the marble. As far as I can tell the
inscription although it contains phrases
that are commonly used on graves it is
not in total something that is commonly
used and thus was probably composed
by Jane herself. I have reproduced the
inscription here using the lettering styles
that are on the gravestone. So what is
the story of William who died at forty
six?
William was the son of William Hollow a
miner in St Just and Jane Warren.
William junior was a miner too and
travelled to Australia on the ship
Constance arriving in Melbourne on
October 1st 1855. Presumably he went to the gold diggings as
in 1863 he is the father of a child, Jane, born at Clunes a gold
mining town near Ballarat in country Victoria. The mother’s
name is Jane Lawson. In 1865 his marriage to Anne Jane
Lawson is registered in the Victorian records. The next
reference to him in records is his death in Clifton Hill, an inner
Melbourne suburb. The grave indicates that by that time the
Hollows were quite well off. In the Melbourne Directory of
1882 and 1883 William Hollow is listed as a draper of the
Victoria Arcade in the city. In 1884 and 1885 the business is in
the name of Jane Hollow but then the entry ceases. There are
no other William and Jane Hollows that fit this occurrence so I
am sure this is William from Ninevah. The story goes cold
then, to date I have found no other references to either
William’s wife or daughter in our Victorian records. Perhaps
they returned to England. I have found that one of William’s
sisters who married a Noah James, also a miner from St Just,
Headstone on the family grave of
Edwin Davis Hollow (1843 – 1925)
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord THY
WILL BE
DONE
ERECTED
By
JANE
In affectionate remembrance of
HER BELOVED HUSBAND
WILLIAM HOLLOW
NATIVE OF NINEVAH ST JUST CORNWALL
ENGLAND
WHO DIED 23RD
MARCH 1883
AGED 46 YEARS
WEEP NOT FOR ME SHED NOT A TEAR
TEARS DO NOT IDLY FLOW
AND WAKEN IN THE BREAST A FEAR
TRUE SORROW NEER SHOULD KNOW
PLANT ON MY GRAVE PRETTY FLOWERS
A LOVING PLEDGE BE
AND WATCH THEM BLOOM IN SUMMER
HOURS
BUT DO NOT WEEP FOR ME
The inscription on William Hollow’s grave.
The Hollow Log, Issue 37 Page 10
and came out to Australia and in lived in Ballarat from 1870.
That is the only family connection William had here. Jane’s
background is unknown. She probably was not Cornish as
Lawson is not a common name there. To get any further I
would have to look for clues on the marriage certificate.
So the story stops there but the monument to William surely
hides a bigger story. The stone you will see has room on it for
a further inscription. So Jane at that time possibly intended to
stay in Melbourne, but a check of the cemetery records shows
that William lies there alone. As often happens with family
history we are left with many questions. In this one there is a
hint that there lies a story of love and devotion that was cut
short.
The Cemetery Design
The Melbourne General Cemetery was originally divided into
sections of the main denominations, Church of England,
Roman Catholic Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Jewish and
finally a section for other denominations. Over the years the
original cemetery was enlarged and open areas filled in. The
main entrance was moved from the western side opposite the
West Gate to its present position on College Crescent. The
outer edges of the cemetery when it opened were all lawn. The
picnic shelters that were dotted all around the”park cemetery”
are still there but they are now surrounded by gravestones.
Not many peoples’ idea of a great picnic spot now but in its
day it was one of Melbourne’s attractions. The boundaries of
the denominational areas are now very complicated the map I
have included is simplified but shows the sinuous path
structure. Many of the paths are lined with graves and finding
graves often requires the help of the cemetery staff.
In this article we have covered ten of the Hollow burials in the
Melbourne General cemetery, the rest I will save for another
time. ♠
By Colin Hollow
Some cemetery information and the map are from “The Melbourne
General Cemetery” by Don Charmers, Hyland House 2003.
Layout of the Melbourne General cemetery, note the path
structure and the denominational areas.
The grave of William Hollow (1835 – 1883)