The Hollow Log, Issue 38 Page 1

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Hollow Spotting As I reported in the last issue, in 2010 there were a high number of deaths among the Hollows. Not matched by the births I’m afraid.

Page 2

Postscript on the Hollow – Smith family In this time of great disasters this

one from the nineteenth century

would be significant, even today.

Page 3

The Oamaru Hollow Family The Hollow family that left St Just in 1874 made their home in Oamaru, New Zealand, and grew into a mega family most of whom did not stray far from home.

Page 4

James Tremayne Hollow This Surrey house started a search into the life of James Tremayne Hollow and uncovered a globe trotting existence of former Lelant boy and son of a mine agent.

Page 8

Hollow Researchers I have not added to this list for sometime. The full list of researchers is on the Hollow website.

Pages 9 & 12

THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 38, June 2011 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772

New Hollow Images This is the newest in our family, it is grandchild number five, Ryland Jon Hollow son of our son Christopher and wife Michelle and brother to Rose and Sian. Ryland was born on 15th January 2011.

A Hollow Aviation Enthusiast From Tasmania This is George Douglas Hollow, I found him on the Tasmanian Philatelic Society website. It was there because it is actually a postcard and was placed on the site by George’s grandson, Ross Ewington. Ross says “Early Tasmanian postcards featuring aviation-related views are uncommon to say the least. The card is a real photo type (photographer unknown) and dates from around 1912. The subject is my maternal grandfather George Hollow pictured with his working model of a Wright Brothers' "Flyer" which he flew successfully until it crashed into the sea off Ocean Beach near Strahan. I believe the photo to have been taken at Zeehan.” George’s family was featured in the Hollow Log 27 article “From Healesville back to Trowan.” It was George’s brother James who moved to the Australian mainland to Healesville.

Photo: Ross Ewington

The Hollow Log, Issue 38 Page 2

Hollow Spotting The Passing of an old friend of the Hollow Log

William Percy WELLINGTON, QSM, 108873 Flying Officer

RAF, Far East Command WWII Japanese POW.

Passed away peacefully at Elmslie House, Wanaka, New

Zealand in his 100th year. Dearly loved husband for 64 years

of the late Eunice. Loved

father and father-in-law of

Averil and Owen Wright

(Wanaka), Mark and Joce

Wellington (Dunedin).

Much loved Pa of

Rebecca and John

(Wellington), Virginia and

Rob (Christchurch),

Emma and Sam (Sydney),

Steve and Kate, Mike and

Rick (all of Dunedin).

Loved great grandfather

of Petra, Bram and Tom;

Wyatt; Angus and

Georgia.

From Tributes Online

Limited

Percy’s late wife Eunice was an Oamaru Hollow, the subject of the main

article in this edition. She was great granddaughter of William Hollow

the patriarch of the family. Percy had taken a keen interest in The

Hollow Log for many years and provided information and photographs

one of which is on page 5. Eunice’s father was Charles Hollow the young

boy in the fore front of the photograph.

A Oamaru Hollow from 2009 In researching for this issue I found this on Tributes online in New

Zealand. Gordon was the son of Stanley Baden Powell Hollow.

Gordon Hollow 11/02/1929 - 12/10/2009 Hollow, Gordon Alexander aged 80 years, at Maupuia Rest Home on Monday 12th October 2009.

Husband of the late Thelma, father of Bary,

brother and brother in law of Phyllis and Colin

Topp (Papakura), loved uncle of Julie and

Hayley Topp (Phoenix, USA).

Three Hollows from Washington State, USA

Norma Hollow

Norma Lou Hollow Was born on Oct.

1, 1932 and passed away Nov. 19, 2010.

She is survived by her husband of 57

years, Donald Hollow, daughters

Corinne Hollow, Deanne Eidal, and Doreen Semann, sons

David Hollow and Dale Hollow, 7 grandchildren, a sister,

Sandra Caton, and brother Brooke Caton. A memorial service

was held in the Mountain View Aspen Chapel 1p.m. Friday

Dec. 10, 2010 in Lakewood.

Published in News Tribune (Tacoma) on December 5, 2010

Dale T Hollow

Dale was born on August 7, 1939 and passed away on

Tuesday, October 19, 2010. Dale was last known to be living

in Mukilteo, Snohomish, Washington.

From the U.S. Social Security Death Index

OLSON, Betty Jean (HOLLOW) 84

At the age of 84, Betty Olson passed away peacefully on

November 29, 2010 in her home while surrounded by family.

She was born in Auburn, WA on November 18, 1926 to her

late parents, John and Helen Hollow.

She is survived by her loving husband

of 52 years, Maurice A. Olson;

daughters, Wendy O'Toole (William)

and Jody Norton (Bryant); brother,

Neil Hollow; sisters, Diana Whitney

and Linda McLain (Tim); six

grandchildren, Shayna, Kegan (Jenn)

and Kelsey O'Toole, Ricky Villa, Trent and Tracy Norton and

three great-grandchildren. Betty was preceded in death by her

brother Dale Hollow.

Seattle Times; 4 Dec 2010

These three people are possibly all related; certainly Dale T Hollow and

Betty Jean are brother and sister. They come from a line of Hollows back

through John Thomas Hollow, Charles Hollow who was a miner in

Arizona. He was the son of Thomas Hollow and Caroline Jenkin of St

Just.

Dorothy Catherine Hollow

Dorothy was born on May 21, 1921 and passed away on

Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Dorothy was last known to

be living in Antelope, Sacramento, California.

From the U.S. Social Security Death Index

Maysel Miriam (Dawe) Hollow

01.02.1929 - 10.12.2010 Passed away in Melbourne, Victoria,

Australia, Age 81 peacefully but unexpectedly.

…Howard (son), Kerrie, Craig and Chloe, Shane and Danielle,

Brent, Bec and Elisha, Ryan and Kira and Liam.

…Mother-in-law to Lynette, grandma to Craig, Shane and

Danielle, Brent and Bec, great grandma to Chloe and Elisha.

…Mum to Coralynn grandmother to Emma.

Published in: Herald Sun 14, 16 Dec 2010

Maysel was the wife of Neil Frederick Hollow whose passing was reported

in Hollow Log 26. ♣

The Hollow Log, Issue 38 Page 3

Postscript on the Hollow – Smith family Family researcher Chris Hollow from England, who has made tracking down the

families of female hollows an art form, alerted me to this. After the last Log he sent

this message. “…if my research is correct then Jane Warren Hollow (1825 - 1875?) who married

William Trevena (1816 - 1874) perished with the 400+ other souls in the Cospatrick Disaster.”

Jane Warren Hollow was the mother of Jane Hollow the subject of the last Log’s article

‘Jane Hollow Mystery Solved”. She moved to New Zealand as a single girl and married

George Smith in 1867. Her mother had given birth to Jane in the Illogan poorhouse

then married William Trevena and had nine children to him. The family were in the

1861 and 1871 censuses and then disappeared from records in England. This is where

my searches had left me, until Chris’ email brought a tragic answer to the riddle.

The Cospatrick departed from England on September 11th 1874 with 422 immigrants

on board and a crew of 44 bound for Auckland. Amongst those on board were Jane

Warren Trevena and her nine children. Also sailing was William Trevena, aged 32

according to the passenger list. I think Jane’s husband William, who would have been

about 60, died before the ship left and this William was William snr’s son from an

earlier marriage. This William always lived with Jane and William and was listed as deaf

and dumb in each census. To prove which William was on board we would need to see

the death certificate of William Trevena whose death was registered in the June quarter

of 1874 at Redruth, Cornwall. We can imagine that William and Jane had been

encouraged to migrate to the new world by Jane’s daughter Jane Smith.

By November 17 the Cospatrick was south-west of the Cape of Good Hope and

several hundred miles from land. Around midnight a fire started on board. Within two

hours the ship was well alight and attempts were made to launch the lifeboats, one

capsized, one caught alight and in the end only two were launched, one with 39

survivors and the other with 42. Those on the lifeboats could only watch in horror as

the ship burnt and sank. Most of the people in the lifeboats were in night attire and

neither boat carried food, water, masts or sails. In the days after the fire the lifeboats

lost contact with one another and people progressively perished. One boat was

eventually sighted by a passing ship but by this time, November 27th, only five people

remained alive. Of them two died after being rescued leaving only three to survive. In

one tragic event, the whole family of Jane Warren Hollow had been taken. The tragedy

that struck the Trevena family would have been repeated many times as there were

many families on the ship setting out to establish a new life in New Zealand. ♣

Hello There

This content of this issue illustrates how much I am helped by contributions from other people. A photograph, a reference, an email may spark off an investigation that takes us into new, unknown and often interesting territory. The internet has proved very invaluable. The Reigate story happened because of Google and the Hollow Family website. All I can say is keep those cards and letters (and emails) coming in folks.

Odd Spot The Cornish pasty given EU protected status, only pasties cooked in Cornwall according to the traditional recipe can be called Cornish pasties. The EU ruling states that a genuine Cornish pasty has to have a distinctive "D" shape and be crimped on one side. The texture of the filling is chunky, made up of uncooked minced or roughly cut chunks of beef (not less than 12.5%), swede, potato, and onion with a light seasoning.

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.ancestry.com/~chollow/

Contact

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comments and contributions are always

welcome.

Write to 2 Keeley Lane, Princes Hill,

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The Guild of One-Name Studies. The

Guild member is Colin Hollow (Mem.

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The Cospatrick

The Hollow Log, Issue 38 Page 4

Oamaru Hollows This pioneering family’s story plays out as the stuff of a mini

series with passage to the new world, death, multiple marriages

and intermarriages with other families, trouble with the law,

name changes, alcohol, jail, etc. etc.

The family was well established in St Just, the patriarch was

William Hollow born c 1822, and he was baptized 29th

December that year at Sancreed the third child of John and

Rebecca Holla. On 23 March 1850 he married Jane Olds in the

church at Madron and at the time of the 1951 census was a tin

miner living at Carnyorth St Just with their first daughter Mary

Elizabeth. Jane was the daughter of James and Mary Olds, her

sister Sally had married James Hollow’s brother Richard.

Another sister Eliza

had married James

Dale, she also finished

up in Oamaru and

some of her offspring

were to marry into the

Hollow family

In St Just William

Hollow alternated

between being a miner

and agricultural

labourer like many in

that area. By 1871 the

family had grown to

six, two more children

had died in infancy.

The boys were listed as

tin dressers but family

legend has it that the eldest son William became a miner

working at the Levant mine in St Just. The Levant is one of

Cornwall’s most famous mines. It was largely a submarine

mine, the bulk of its production being from copper lodes far

out under the sea. To get to and from their place of work the

miners had to climb many hundreds of feet by ladders. In 1857

a Man Engine was installed on the mine. This consisted of a

huge rod of joined timbers, which moved alternatively up and

down. A beam engine drove it; steps were attached to the rod.

To ascend or descend the miner rode on the steps, stepping

on or off at each level until he had reached the top or bottom.

William junior was probably spared climbing to the 266

fathom (~1800 feet) level but his father would have

experienced the long descents and assents by ladder.

In mid 1874 the entire family boarded the Immigrant ship

Jessie Readman to sail to Oamaru, New Zealand.

The Jessie Readman made 23 trips to New Zealand from

Great Britain bringing emigrants and goods before she ran

aground on the Chatham Islands when returning home. She

was an iron ship of 962 tons, built by Scott, of Greenock, for

Patrick Henderson, and later sailed under the Shaw, Savill flag.

She was a speedy and comfortable ship, and brought many

thousands of immigrants to New Zealand. She must have been

a flexible ship as sometimes she brought cargo only and

sometimes cargo and passengers. For her sixth voyage she left

London on July 28th 1874 with 329 passengers and 1000 tons

of cargo. Amongst the passengers were William Hollow (47)

and his wife Jane Olds (43) and their six children, William (20),

Mary Elizabeth (17), John (15), James (13), Sarah (10) and

Jabez (7). The ship arrived at Port Chalmers (Dunedin) on

October 26th 1874.

William was listed as a farm labourer, the older boys, William,

and John as miners and

Mary Elizabeth a

servant. Also amongst

the single women was a

tailoress, Elizabeth Jane

Dale aged 22 who in

five months was to

marry the oldest of the

boys, William. They

were all from St Just in

Penwith and the young

couple were cousins

Elizabeth being a

daughter of Jane’s

sister Eliza.

There were sixty-three

families on this voyage

of the Jessie Readman

and fifty of them were taken to Oamaru on the first available

boat. So this single boat arrival would have boosted the

population of Oamaru quite considerably.

Once in New Zealand the family began to marry and expand.

William married first in March 1875 to his cousin Eliza Jane

Dale. They were to have six children. On the 17th July 1875 the

next eldest Mary Elizabeth married William Henry Bridger

Luxon, they were to have ten children. Next to marry was

Sarah Jane, she married Jeremiah Black and had eight children

before dying in childbirth in 1895. James Olds Hollow married

on January 7th the next year to Margaret Lindsay and had two

children, Margaret died in 1888 and James married again. This

time to Isabella Walker in 1894, they had five children

together. The final one to marry was Jabez, he married

Caroline Rodda in 1816. However they had their first child in

1895. Caroline was formerly Caroline Dale, sister of Eliza Jane,

so also a cousin to the Hollows. Her first marriage had been to

Joseph Rodda but more of that later. She and Jabez had three

children; in total Caroline had twelve children.

The Jessie Readman

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The records in New Zealand that we rely on are Electoral

rolls, directories and local papers. Between those sources and

the official births death and marriages something of the life of

this extended family can be put together.

Early Life

The story of the family in New Zealand must be seen against

the backdrop of the times. Oamaru was still a struggling town

when the family arrived in 1874. The town had only been

surveyed in 1859, much of the infrastructure was being built or

yet to be built. So these rather large families were living in hard

times. The Hollows were manual workers. They had a mining

and farming background, in Oamaru the main industries were

farming and public works like the local council, the port

breakwater development, the railways.

William Hollow senior worked as a labourer and lived on the

Great North Road in Oamaru at least in the years 1887 to

1904 according to the records. In his last year 1906 he was

listed at the North Otago Home, he was 84 and still listed as a

labourer in the electoral roll. His wife Jane had died in 1901

Local newspapers have quite a few references to William

Hollow; sometimes it

is not clear whether it

is William Hollow Snr

or his eldest son

William. William jnr.

was also a labourer

living in Exe St.

Oamaru up until 1898.

William junior’s family

consisted of Eliza Jane

b 1876, William John b

1877, James Henry b

1880, Sarah Annie b

1881, Charles b 1883

and Mary Elizabeth b

1885. That was the

year his first wife,

Eliza Jane died, eight

days after the birth of

Mary Elizabeth. Eliza

had kept very poor

health and a maid had

been employed to help

in the house. The maid

was 20 year old Mary

Rowe who William

then married on the

21st November 1885.

William and Mary had

two children, Nellie b

1886 and Harold b

1890. Harold was to die as a baby in 1890. The family photo

on this page was given to me by Percy Wellington who

married Eunice Hollow the granddaughter of William. Percy

was unsure of the names of those in the photo other than

William but I have labeled the photo as I think they are. The

clothes of the two older females suggest the early 1890s, the

leg of mutton sleeves were not seen until then according to my

Aussie book on dating family photos. Given that, the wife

must be Mary Rowe it seems the two oldest children, Eliza

Jane and William John, are absent from the photo. The two

youngest daughters are very close in age but it seems the

likeness between Mary Rowe and the child to the right of her

that it must be Nellie.

Part William’s story is given in the Cyclopedia of New

Zealand. This publication records information on NZ districts

and towns and includes many biographies, amongst them that

of William Hollow jnr. The Canterbury section of the

Cyclopedia, which includes Oamaru, was published in 1905. It

records that William worked for the Oamaru Corporation

Gasworks for seventeen years then in 1898 he leased Clifton

farm at Alma, 31/2 miles SE of Oamaru. The farm was 64 acres

and market reports show

William selling cows and pigs

quite often. Reports of the

Oamaru Poultry Society annual

show in from 1895 to 1898

show William Hollow as a

member of the committee and

a exhibitor winning prizes for

his Light Brahma poultry. He

exhibited his poultry at many

local shows including Timaru,

Dunedin and Sydenham

(Christchurch). William’s

brother-in-law Jeremiah Black

also showed poultry but his

breed was the Malay. William

was also active in local

organizations; he was a

member of the Order of

Oddfellows, joining in 1892,

and on the local school

committee at Totara (down the

road from Alma). The

accompanying photo shows

Light Brahma poultry

Photo: Percy Wellington

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him working in later years. William is remembered as having

smoked a pipe all his life (of Dark Havelock tobacco) and

lived until he was 96. His daughter Nellie also lived until she

was 96.

In 1885 William

Hollow, unsure

whether it is William

Senior or William

junior, was fined for

carrying ducks in

such a manner as to

cause them pain. It

was a new law and

William one of the

first to fall foul of it.

William was fined 5s

with 7s 6d costs. The

magistrate

commented that the

defendant “had taken

an objectionable way

of expressing himself

when spoken to about the offence”. When stopped by the

policeman William had said it was none of his business and

that he might find himself carried in the same way some day.

He also refused to give his name.

The only other reference to William I found was in 1913 when

he was charged and injured by a young bull on his farm at

Alma. The bull had broken loose from its tether in the orchard

and William in trying to secure it had been charged, become

entangled in the rope and was dragged around the orchard

until a neighbor heard his cries for help. He sustained several

fractured ribs and much bruising.

William’s son William John eventually farmed around Alma.

Over the years he also worked as a labourer, a lime burner, a

ploughman. He was known as Jack and in directories is often

listed as John. This is not the only name swapper in this

family. His brother James Henry changed his name to William

James on his marriage in 1919; he lived with that name until

about 1930 then went back to James Henry.

Mary Elizabeth Hollow

William’s oldest sister, Mary Elizabeth also married in 1875 to

Henry Bridger Luxon, she would have been 18, and ten

children were born to the marriage before she passed away in

1914 at 58 years of age. Her life was not to be easy; her

husband was in the papers frequently for drunkenness and

assault. Sometimes the assaults were on his wife and family.

He worked for the contractors extending the breakwater at the

port and in 1879 pulled a dead body from the water at work.

During the 1880s and early 90s he was regularly in the papers

for drunkenness and assault, sometimes this resulted in jail

terms. In February 1892 he crewed a boat involved in a rescue

and then in September he pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife

and was confined to the Seacliff Asylum near Dunedin. There

are no reports of him in the paper after this; he was to die in

1924. Seven of the Luxon’s children lived to adulthood.

John Thomas Hollow

John was a labourer but only lived until age 22. His death

certificate lists rheumatism and endocarditis as the cause of

death; he had suffered for twelve months with this complaint.

Endocarditis is the inflammation of the inner lining of the

heart. The bacteria causing this may be introduced after

rheumatic fever. This is perhaps what happened to John.

James Olds Hollow

James led a colourful life, he was 14 when he arrived in NZ

and already working. The first report of him in the local paper

is in 1882 when aged 21 he is jailed for two months for

stealing a bottle of sarsaparilla and a tumbler. It seems a very

heavy penalty but James shows some refinement in also

stealing a tumbler to drink his illicit drink from. In April 1883

he is working as a crewman on a ship that is wrecked off the

coast. He survives this to be up before the court and fined for

drunkenness in September of that year. In January 1884 he is

married to Margaret Lindsay and later in that year their first

child Helen is born. Helen’s life is still a mystery as I can find

no further references to her. James and Margaret had a son in

1887 but he died in the following year. Margaret too died in

that year, 1888, she was only 27. During all of this James still

has skirmishes with the law, fined for not, paying for groceries,

drunkenness, this continues after his wife’s death. In 1889 he

is charged with being in charge of a cab something that was to

happen quite often. In 1894 he married Isabella Walker. She

already had a son whose birth was registered in 1889, John

Wilson Walker. He became John Hollow, in his WWI army

records he gave his parents as James and Isabella. The second

name of Wilson suggests he may have had another father,

although Wilson may have been a Walker family name. James

and Isabella had four more children, twins Annie Isabella and

James Walker born in 1894, William Owles in 1895, Lily

Margaret in 1905. The name Owles often crops up instead of

Olds, maybe it was just the thick Cornish accent confusing the

recorder.

Through all this time James’ problem with drink continued. In

1895 he was in Timaru and obtained a cab license there but

was almost immediately came to the attention of the local

constabulary who noted he had recently arrived and that they

had a lot of trouble with him. In the electoral rolls of 1896/97

and 1900 he appears to be working in Christchurch as a

coachman but in 1902 he is back in Oamaru where he is

muleted for procuring liquor from an unlicensed person.

Muleted is not a term we use now, apparently it means fined.

William Hollow Jnr

Photo: Linda Beach

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James and Isabella a re living at Yare street Oamaru. In 1904

he is fined for not sending his children to school regularly, his

occupation is labourer. The family did spend a period living in

Nen Street (1910-1913). Isabella died on October 31st 1914.

Their youngest child Lily would have been 9. The family lived

for a time at South Oamaru but by 1917 they were back in

Yare Street Oamaru. April 1905 was James’ final problem with

the law but it was his harshest, he served 30 days in prison for

drunkenness, vile language and threatening behavior towards

family members. This must have been a low point but also a

turning point, there are no more reports of him in the papers.

James remained at Yare Street until his death in 1935.

Sarah Jane Hollow

Sarah married Jeremiah Black at

Oamaru on October 22nd 1883.

Jeremiah Irish and also had skirmishes

with the law involving drunkenness,

assault and stealing but not after his

marriage to Sarah. They had three

children in Oamaru, Mary Jane,

Jeremiah and William before they

moved around 1888 to Ngapara, 17 miles out of Oamaru,

where they had five more, John, Evelyn, Agnes, Nathaniel and

Robert. Jeremiah worked with the NZ railways as a platelayer

and surfaceman from 1877 to 1910 then he worked as a farm

labourer. He also made it to the papers again, this time for a

potato haulm, grown at Ngarpara, that was 8 foot in length.

The haulm is the part of the potato plant growing above the

ground. This was in 1893, at the same time he was showing his

Malay poultry at the Oamaru Poultry Show.

Tragedy was to hit the family on Christmas Day 1895 when

Sarah Jane was to die giving birth to her son Robert. Sarah

Jane was only 32 when she died leaving Jeremiah with seven

surviving children, the oldest being eleven, the youngest newly

born. Jeremiah married again quickly, on March 8th 1896, to

Elizabeth McFadden. They were to have another seven

children together.

Jabez Hollow

Jabez was the youngest of the family and became a butcher.

Butchering was a trade that was in his mother’s side of the

family, the Olds, back in Cornwall. Jabez lived in North Road,

possibly with his father, but must have had visiting rights to

the home of Caroline Rodda. Caroline lived in Trent Street

and had three children to Jabez in 1895, 1899 and 1900. She

was married to Joseph Rodda and already had nine children

with him. Caroline, remember, was the sister of Jabez’s

brother William’s wife Elizabeth Jane Dale. She married

Joseph Rodda in St Just in 1876 and they must have migrated

soon after, they were to have their first child in NZ in 1879.

Joseph Rodda was a labourer in Oamaru. He features in a

couple of newspaper reports. In the 1892 report two men were

charged with his assault at a farm at Peukeri outside of

Oamaru. In that report we learn that he was an epileptic. In 1896 he is found wandering the streets and charged with having no means of support. He had been turned out of the Old Men’s Home where he had been sent because of his fits. He was sent

to jail for two months on this occasion. It appears he lived in institutions because the next report of Joseph is in 1906 when he was attacked with an axe when a resident of the Seacliff Lunatic Asylum near Dunedin and died as a result of his injuries.

The relationship between Jabez and Caroline was happening

when Joseph had been committed to an institution. Caroline

and Jabez have separate addresses in the directories and

electoral rolls until 1911. They then lived together at Humber

Street Oamaru but did not get married until 1916. Sadly Caroline was only

Caroline Hollow for a

short period, she was to

die in 1919 and is buried

at the Oamaru cemetery

with one of her children

to Jabez, George, who died aged six months.

Her other children to

Jabez were Bertie James b

1896 and Stanley Baden

Powell b 1900. Their

births appear in the

registers twice with the

surnames Rodda and

Hollow.

Jabez married again in 1921 to Emily Matilda Percy, she died

in 1930 and Jabez died in 1949 aged 83.

War Service This Hollow family was very well represented in the New Zealand Army during WWI. These men were all cousins, some were in the army reserve, the ones with a number beside their name were in the overseas Expeditionary Forces, and some were in both. The Luxon’s were the sons of Mary Elizabeth Hollow and Henry Bridger Luxon.

Luxon, Alfred James - 5/1032a

Luxon, Jabez - 87726

Luxon, Charles Thomas claimed to

be but not found in the registers

Luxon, William Henry Bridger 2nd

Res.

The Black’s were the sons of Sarah

Jane Hollow and Jeremiah Black.

Black, Jeremiah (9/11)

Black, John (9/245)

Malay Poultry

Jeremiah James Black

Photo: Vicki Black

Caroline's gravestone at Oamaru

Photo: Vicki Black

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Black, Robert (8/3488),

Black, Nathaniel (75363).

Black, Thomas (82337)

Bertie James Hollow son of Jabez

2nd Res & 67528

James Walker Hollow son of James

82012

John Hollow son of James 6885 &

1st Res

William Owls Hollow son of James

83627

Charles Hollow son of William 2nd

Res

William John Hollow son of William 2nd Res

James Henry son of William 1st Res

Remarkably eleven of the sixteen cousins served overseas, only

one was a casualty, James Walker Hollow. He was killed in

action in Belgium in 1917.

I made mention of the multiple marriages within this family at

the beginning of the article. However I need to put this into

context. It was not unusual for men and women to marry

again quite quickly after losing a partner. In those times there

would have been no child welfare and the man was usually the

bread winner so if he was left with young children he would be

keen to marry again to have a wife to look after the young

children. Young widows would be sort after for this reason

and so they often did not remain widows for long. Multiple

marriages were therefore the norm at this time and not a

special characteristic of this family. In saying this I also have to

mention that Charles Thomas Luxon was found guilty of

bigamy, jailed for six months, and then married a third time.

I am grateful to Percy Wellington, Vicki Black and Linda

Beach for information and assistance with this story. ♣

Colin Hollow

Descendant Chart of William Hollow and Jane Olds William HOLLOW (4615), b. circa 1822 at Madron, d. 1906 at Oamaru, N.Z. +Jane OLDS (4616), b. 1825 at Sancreed, m. 23 Mar 1850 at Madron, d. 1901 at Oamaru, N.Z. ├── Mary Elizabeth HOLLOW (4632), b. 1851, d. 1854 at St Just in Penwith ├── William HOLLOW (4617), b. 1852 at St Just in Penwith, d. 1948 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ +Elizabeth Jane DALE (4623), b. 1853 at St Just in Penwith, m. 29 Mar 1875 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 9 Jun 1885 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ ├── Eliza Jane HOLLOW (7213), b. 1876 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1957 at N.Z. │ │ +John PETERS (8252), m. 1902 at N.Z │ ├── William John (Jack) HOLLOW (7210), b. 1877 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 15 Dec 1954 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ │ +Christina MCKENZIE (8096), b. 1877, m. 23 Dec 1903 at Andersons Bay, N.Z, d. 20 Dec 1948 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ ├── James Henry HOLLOW (8095), b. 1880 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 17 Aug 1938 at Dunedin, N.Z. │ │ +Mary Ann Tait FINNIE (10398), b. 1880, m. 17 Apr 1919 at South Dunedin, N.Z, d. 1950 at N.Z. │ ├── Sarah Annie HOLLOW (7212), b. 1881 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1944 at N.Z. │ │ +Samuel ECCLES (8260), m. 1921 at N.Z │ ├── Charles HOLLOW (4627), b. 1 Sep 1883 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 22 Jul 1949 at Dunedin, N.Z. │ │ +Ann Jane ECCLES (4628), b. 1885 at Oamaru, N.Z, m. 29 Mar 1910 at N.Z, d. 21 Nov 1949 at Dunedin, N.Z. │ └── Mary Elizabeth HOLLOW (7413), b. 1 Jun 1885 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 26 Feb 1961 at Ashburton, N.Z. │ +William MacGregor DONALD (8694), b. 12 Jul 1867 at Glascow, SCO, m. 8 Jun 1916 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1 Sep 1939 at Ashburton, N.Z. │ +Mary ROWE (4624), b. circa 1865 at St Just in Penwith, m. 21 Nov 1885 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1912 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ ├── Nellie HOLLOW (4631), b. 1 Jul 1886 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1983 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ └── Harold HOLLOW (7414), b. 1890 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1890 at Oamaru, N.Z. ├── John HOLLOW (4690), b. 1854, d. circa 1855 ├── Mary Elizabeth HOLLOW (4618), b. 1856 at St Just in Penwith, d. 14 Mar 1914 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ +Henry Bridger LUXON (7053), b. circa 1850, d. 1924 at N.Z. │ ├── NR LUXON (10462), b. 1876 at N.Z, d. 1876 at N.Z. │ ├── William Henry Bridger LUXON (10463), b. 1877 at N.Z, d. 1935 at N.Z. │ │ +Margaret MACKAY (10473), b. circa 1880, m. 1905 at N.Z, d. 1961 at N.Z. │ ├── Mary Elizabeth LUXON (10464), b. 1879 at N.Z, d. 1918 at N.Z. │ │ +Albert KEARNS (10960), b. 1879, m. 1906, d. 1925 │ ├── Sarah Theresa LUXON (10465), b. 1880 at N.Z, d. 1881 at N.Z. │ ├── Alfred James LUXON (10466), b. 1881 at N.Z, d. 1962 at N.Z. │ ├── Jabez LUXON (10467), b. 1884 at N.Z, d. 1944 at N.Z. │ ├── Theresa LUXON (10468), b. 1885 at N.Z, d. 1962 at N.Z. │ │ +John MCCULLOUGH (10962), m. 1916 │ ├── Charles Thomas LUXON (10469), b. 1887 at N.Z, d. 1943 at N.Z. │ │ +Lillian THOMPSON (10964), m. 1916 │ │ +Amy Lydia May BARKER (10965), m. 1917 │ │ +Charlotte BROWN (10966), m. 1925 │ ├── Eliza Jane LUXON (10470), b. 1889 at N.Z, d. 1970 at N.Z. │ │ +Albert WHITTINGTON (10961), b. circa 1886, m. 1916, d. 1947 │ └── Sarah LUXON (10471), b. 1892 at N.Z, d. 1893 at N.Z. ├── John Thomas HOLLOW (4619), b. circa 1859 at St Just in Penwith, d. 23 Apr 1879 at Dunedin, N.Z. ├── James Olds HOLLOW (4622), b. Dec 1860 at St Just in Penwith, d. 1935 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ +Margaret LINDSAY (7412), b. 1861, m. 7 Jan 1884 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 8 Jul 1888 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ ├── Helen HOLLOW (8039), b. 1884 at Oamaru, N.Z │ └── John Lindsay HOLLOW (7211), b. 1887 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1888 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ +Isabella WALKER (7478), b. 1867 at SCO, m. 6 Jan 1894 at N.Z, d. 31 Oct 1914 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ ├── John Wilson HOLLOW (8721), b. 7 Dec 1889 at Dunedin, N.Z, d. 12 Aug 1964 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ ├── James Walker HOLLOW (4375), b. 14 Oct 1894 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 12 Oct 1917 at Belgium │ ├── Annie Isabella HOLLOW (8032), b. 14 Oct 1894 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1970 at N.Z. │ │ +William Thomas BROWN (8258), m. 1918 at N.Z

James Walker Hollow

Mary Elizabeth Hollow (1885 - 1961)

Photo: Linda Beach

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│ ├── William Owles HOLLOW (8069), b. 22 Jun 1895 at Christchurch, N.Z, d. 18 Nov 1940 at Dunedin, N.Z. │ │ +Alice Winifred LUNDBERG (10408), b. circa 1900, m. 23 Sep 1920 at N.Z, d. 26 Oct 1921 at Wellington, N.Z. │ │ +Vera Nellie SWINDELL (10394), b. 12 Oct 1903, m. 16 Jul 1923, d. 1981 │ └── Lily Margaret HOLLOW (8106), b. 1904 at Oamaru, N.Z │ +Edward MCGRATH (8262), m. 1923 at N.Z ├── Sarah Jane HOLLOW (4620), b. circa 1863 at St Just in Penwith, d. 25 Dec 1895 at Ngapara, N.Z. │ +Jeremiah James BLACK (5822), b. circa 1856 at Antrim, IRE, m. 22 Oct 1883 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 20 Aug 1947 at Oamaru, N.Z. │ ├── Mary Jane BLACK (5825), b. 23 Jul 1884 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1927 │ │ +James John WRIGHT (8819), b. 1881, m. 3 Aug 1906 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1950 │ ├── Jeremiah BLACK (5826), b. 12 Oct 1885 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1963 │ │ +Ida May SEARLE (5827), b. 1908, m. 15 Aug 1928 at Mornington, N.Z, d. 1963 │ ├── William BLACK (5828), b. 9 Dec 1887 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1932 │ ├── John BLACK (5829), b. 6 May 1889 at Ngapara, N.Z, d. 27 Sep 1986 at Christchurch, N.Z. │ │ +Johanne ROSS (8820), b. 1889, m. 1963 │ ├── Evaline BLACK (5830), b. 24 Aug 1891 at Oamaru, N.Z │ ├── Agnes BLACK (5831), b. 10 Jan 1893 at Oamaru, N.Z │ │ +George Arthur GREEN (8821), b. 1888 at Waianakarua, N.Z, m. 19 Mar 1913 at Ngapara, N.Z. │ ├── Nathaniel BLACK (5832), b. 29 Oct 1894 at Ngapara, N.Z, d. 14 Nov 1894 at Ngapara, N.Z. │ └── Robert BLACK (5833), b. 25 Dec 1895 at N.Z │ +Gertrude BRAITHWAITE (8822) │ +Ina Hooper (8823) └── Jabez HOLLOW (4621), b. 1866 at St Just in Penwith, d. 1949 at Oamaru, N.Z. +Caroline DALE (7799), b. 1856 at St Just in Penwith, m. 28 Jun 1916 at N.Z, d. 14 May 1919 at Oamaru, N.Z. ├── Bertie James HOLLOW (8055), b. 27 Oct 1895 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 14 Aug 1974 at Auckland, N.Z. │ +Nance ??HOLLOW (10396), b. circa 1885, m. circa 1920, d. 1942 at Dunedin, N.Z. │ +Dorothy REAN (8202), b. 18 Oct 1900, m. 1943 at N.Z, d. 23 Aug 1973 at Auckland, N.Z. ├── George Douglas HOLLOW (10431), b. 1899 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1900 at Oamaru, N.Z. └── Stanley Baden Powell HOLLOW (8052), b. 7 Sep 1900 at Oamaru, N.Z, d. 1968 at Papakura, N.Z. +Margaret GILESPIE (8053), b. 1902, m. 1921 at N.Z, d. 11 Jul 1940 at N.Z. +Mary Lilly JENNINGS (8270), b. 1904, m. 1946 at N.Z, d. 22 Nov 1974 at Dunedin, N.Z. +Emily Matilda PIERCY (8097), b. circa 1866, m. 26 Jul 1921 at N.Z, d. 6 Aug 1930 at Oamaru, N.Z.

Hollow Researchers David C Hollow

dhollow@charter.net

David is a descendant of the Redruth Hollows his branch

migrating to America. James Edward Hollow 1839–1920

settled in Cuba Missouri. The story is in Hollow Log 34.

Adele Borg

adele@insearchofthequicks.com

Adele is a descendant of Charles Matthews and Kitty

(Catherine) Hollow who married in Zennor in 1810.

Heather Forrester

forrie52@bigpond.com

Heather is married to a descendant of John Hollow and Mary

Kissel Jenkin whose family were featured in Hollow Logs 35

and 36.

Lisa Homer

Lisa.Homer@georgeide.co.uk

Lisa Potter

a_clever_blond@hotmail.com

The two Lisas are descendants of Joanna Hollow who married Thomas Richard Stark at Stoke Damerel, DEV in 1871. Joanna’s brother Malachi is mentioned in Hollow Log 27 for his joining, deserting and rejoining the navy.

Jeremy Boase

Jeremy.Boase@tauranga.govt.nz

Jeremy is descended from Sarah Holla and Edward Polgrean who married at Sancreed in 1762 He shares this line with another Hollow researcher Gary Collins (late of Buderim, Qld) but we have lost track of him. Jeremy is keen to make contact so if anyone knows of Gary please let me know.

Steve Murphy

murphy.steve@hotmail.com

Steve is descended from the same line as Gary and Jeremy (see above) his ancestor is Sarah’s brother John Holla. Steve is from a longer line of Hollows though, his grandfather, John Thomas Hollow, migrated to the U.S. in 1929 and worked in the Empire Mine, Grass Valley, California.

Linda Beach

lcbeach@slingshot.co.nz

Linda’s family is the Oamaru Hollows featured in this Hollow Log. Back in Cornwall this line is the same as Researchers, Jeremy Boase, Gary Collins and Steve Murphy mentioned above.

John Black

john.edwin.black@bigpond.com

John’s family is also of the Oamaru Hollows. I did not realize I had so many people on the same lines until I was putting this newsletter together.

Pamela Rose

pamelarose46@yahoo.co.nz

Pamela’s family was featured in Hollow Log 37; her gg grandmother was Jane Hollow who married George Smith in Napier, NZ in 1867 and possibly the first Hollow to migrate to N.Z. Jane was from the Redruth Hollow line.

Continued on page 11

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The Coppice today Photo: David Schenk

A Hollow in Reigate This article was sparked by an email from David Schenk who

was researching an architect, Blunden Shadbolt, designed and

built very environmentally houses in the early 20th century.

David found one of Shadbolt’s houses, The Coppice, at

Reigate in Surrey was owned by one James Tremayne Hollow.

David had come across the Hollow website while researching

James and made contact with me. He described the houses

that Blunden Shadbolt designed in this way…

“Only ancient bricks, stone, tiles and oak beams were used in the

construction of these homes and every

effort was made to avoid a

‘mechanical’ appearance. His

builders were not permitted to use

plumb lines, so that the vertical

accuracy of the construction depended

entirely on the judgement of the eyes.

Similarly, rows of bricks were

deliberately set slightly out of line and

the ridges of roofs distorted to give the

appearance of having sagged with age.

Any moss growing on the old tiles was

carefully preserved, so that on the day

of completion, his timber-framed

houses appeared in a style aptly

described by one historian as ‘wibbly-

wobbly’. These homes not only

appeared ancient, but were genuinely

ancient on the very day of their

completion.”

Shadbolt was so good at making his houses appear old that

many of them were believed to be centuries old and were

made listed buildings.

When David made contact it was believed James Tremayne

Hollow commissioned the building of The Coppice in 1906.

Subsequently it has been found that James acquired the house

around 1909 from the original owner.

Who was James Tremayne Hollow?

James Tremayne Hollow was born in Lelant in 1861 the fourth

child of William Hollow and Jane Eustice of Lelant. Two older

brothers died, one in infancy, one aged 6 and two sisters

survived to adulthood, Mary Tremayne Hollow b 1858 and

Jane Tremayne Hollow b 1862. The name Tremayne came

from their grandmother on their mother’s side, Mary

Tremayne. James was born into a family of mine agents. His

grandfather, also William Hollow, was a mine agent. His father

and three uncles were mine agents.

Mine agents were the link between the mine owner and what

was actually happening at the mine. The mines were run by

these under managers, the agents, usually given the title

captain. In the early days they were from the ranks of the

miners, chosen for their shrewdness, practical knowledge of

mining and ability. Agents also seem to run in families as in

the case of these Lelant Hollows, James Tremayne Hollow’s

father and three uncles were listed as mine managers in the

census when they were in their early twenties although all had

worked as miners or mine blacksmiths before. Some agents

were in charge of matters at grass, that is, on ground level. I

suppose that is how mine blacksmiths eventually became

agents. A big mine may have three or four agents to control

both ground level and below ground operations.

Some historians write that a mine agent’s job would probably

equate to a present-day consulting mining engineer. That is the

title given to James Tremayne Hollow in records from the

1880s onward. I am not sure where James got his mine

experience from. He was young when he left Cornwall but

could have returned there in the early 1880s. His mother, Jane

Eustice came from a family of mining engineers. Unlike the

Hollows, the Eustice’s were named engineers, three

generations of them, are listed as such in the censuses.

Engineers some times called mechanical engineers were

responsible for the mines engines housed pump houses that

were above each mine mainly pumping water out of the mines

but also providing power for the man engines to get miners

down to the work face.

By age twenty James’ parents had moved to Essex. In 1881 his

father is a corn chandler, far away from the life of a mine

agent. He is listed as corn chandler’s son and living with his

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parents. On April 14th 1887 James marries Eliza Marwood

Vasey in Essex and he is listed as a mining engineer aged 26.

James and his wife do not appear on the British census of

1891 or 1901 but his wife and two daughters, Daisy and Elsie

are on the 1911 census living at the Coppice in Riegate. The

birthplace of his daughters, Daisy and Elsie, is given as

Hungary. The census also states there was a third child but

now deceased. The girls were born in 1891 and 1894. So we

can be reasonably sure he left England to work in Hungary for

an extended period. Their births are recorded in the GRO

Overseas birth Indexes as registered in Budapest, Hungary as

is the missing daughter named, Minnie Tremayne Hollow.

There were Copper and tin mines in Hungary and many

Cornish miners were to go there and work the mines.

In the same year of James’ marriage in 1887 his sister Mary

was married in South Australia to Samuel Paul Saphir a soft

goods company manager that worked in South Australia and

Western Australia. This may influenced James into coming to

Australia as he is working as a mine engineer/mine manager in

Western Australia in the late 1890s. James is appointed to

manage the Brown Hill mine in Kalgoorlie in 1900. The

Kalgoorlie paper reporting his appointment says he came to

the job after managing mines in the Murchison district for

some years. Murchison is over 1000 kilometres from

Kalgoorlie. James was made a J.P. in the Murchison area in

1899.

James must have returned to England to bring out his family.

On 31st March 1899 they, James, Eliza and the two girls depart

London on board the ship Orizaba which is bound for Sydney.

They are booked to disembark at Albany, Western Australia,

the nearest port to Kalgoorlie. James was on the Australian

electoral roll as living in Kalgoorlie in 1901, 1903 and 1906. As

a mine engineer he was one of the social elite of Kalgoorlie, he

and his wife and daughters are reported in the social columns

of the Kalgoorlie paper during this period. In at least one case

Mrs S P Saphir, James’ sister, is there too.

The papers show that James worked for a firm of mining

engineers and mine managers, Bewick, Moreing and Company.

Based in London, the firm provided engineers and mine

managers for many mining companies. In 1904, when

superintendent of the Oroya-Brown Hill mine he takes a three

months long service leave from his job due to ill health and

returns to London for what is called an extended stay and is

attached to the London office.

The long service leave suggest that James has been with the

firm for many years and perhaps it was with them that took

him to be living in Hungary in the early 1890s. The stay in the

London office was short-lived and according to the 1906

electoral roll he was back in Kalgoorlie. In 1907 he is

appointed in charge of the Great Fingall mine in Kalgoorlie

and it is rumored that he is to be the next General Manager of

the mining department of Bewick, Moreing and company. In

October 1908 he retires from the management of the Great

Fingall and returns to the London office.

When he establishes residence in Reigate, is not precisely

known. Certainly by February 1911 he cites his residence as

The Coppice and in the 1911 census on April 2nd his wife and

daughters are living at the Coppice. James is on a trip to

America at the time of the census. He made several trips to

America, Canada and South Africa in the period 1909 to 1917,

as a mining engineer. Even the Kalgoorlie paper on November

22nd 1910 reports that that James is checking the Porkupine

field in Ontario, Canada for his firm Bewick, Moreing and

Company. More trips involved going to Alaska, Seattle,

Washington, Toronto, Montreal and Durban in Africa.

James and Eliza seem to have retired back to Cornwall around

1917, James did not spend long in retirement, his death is

registered at Penzance in 1920. Eliza I think lived until 1952

when the death of Eliza M Hollow aged 87 is registered at

Penzance. Their daughter Elsie married Douglas L M

Thompson in Reigate in 1914. A marriage of their other

daughter, Daisy, has not been found. ♣ Colin Hollow

Thanks to David Schenk for the information on “The Coppice”.

Hollow Researchers Continued from page 9 Christopher Wallis

friedrich-v.pressentin@t-online.de

Christopher is a descendant of Alexander Wallis whose brother William John Wallis married Mabel Hollow, her family settled in Akron, Ohio from Penzance early last century. The story of their migration featured in Hollow Log 17.

Carrie Dodaro

carriedodaro@yahoo.com

Carrie is a descendant of a line of hollows who came from Ludgvan and moved to Camborne (William Glasson Hollow) then to Michigan (Joseph Hollow) and Illinois (Leslie E Hallow). The surname changed from Hollow to Hallow.

Adrian Hollow

asamacorp@gmail.com

Michelle Hollow

Michrhollow@aol.com

Adrian and Michelle, father and daughter, come from a family of Hollows that lived around Hayle and Phillack over generations. This connection began with William Hollow and Bessie Whitford’s marriage in 1862 in Phillack.

Trevor Bock

trevor@bockconsulting.com.au

Trevor’s Hollow ancestors were Redruth Hollows and he is from the

family of the Hollow and sons, Builders, featured in Hollow Logs 20

to 23 (It is a long story).

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