Thomas HOLLOWAY (1660 - ?)

GENETIC PARENTS

Father: ? HOLLOWAY
Mother:

SPOUSE

• Gartery - Born: about 1664

GENETIC CHILDREN

• James HOLLOWAY - born at Froom Aug. 3, 1680.

• John HOLLOWAY - born at Froom Aug. 3, 1686.

• Gartery HOLLOWAY - born at Froom May 17, 1696.

• Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Gartery died 1695.
  

OTHER RELATIONS

BASIC DATA

Names: Thomas HOLLOWAY
Born: Born: about 1660 in England
Married:
Died:

NOTES

 

Extracts From Genealogy of the Holloway Family in America
Olin E. Holloway, MD.
Knightstown, Ind.

Chapter 1 - Pages 7-8-9

The Early Holloways in America

In the course of our research and study of the early history of the Holloway Family, we have found that there are persons bearing the name scattered over much, if not all, of these United States.

They were among the very early immigrants, tradition having been handed down that there were Holloways in the second landing at Jamestown, Va. The records show that Hugh Cox brought Peter Holloway to Charles City County, Va. in the year 1635, and that a Land patent was granted to John Holloway in 1639 for 1850 Acres lying on Hungars Crook in Accomac County, Virginia.

We believe the branch which settled in New Jersey arrived during the first or second decade of the Eighteenth Century and they settled in and near Gloucester and Burlington Counties.

On Sept. 29, 1714, Tobias Holloway presented a certificate to Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends in 1 Pennsylvania from Bristol Friends Meeting in England dated Feb. 5, 1714, and stating that "he is of sober and orderly conversation and also free and clear from all persons on account of marriage here which therefore we certify on his behalf and conclude -your friends and Brethern," and signed by twelve men of the meeting. But the first mention we find of the residence of Tobias in America is at Newton, Gloucester County, New Jersey.

As Tobias came from Bristol, the Friends Records of the Northern Division of Bristol and Somersetshire were examined and while no mention is made of Tobias, other than the issuance of the above mentioned certificate to him,the following records of the Holloway Family were found, viz.-

James Holloway, son of Thomas and Gartery Holloway was born at Froom Aug. 3, 1680.
John Holloway, son of Thomas and Gartery Holloway was born at Froom Aug. 3, 1686.
Richard Holloway, son of John Holloway, was born at Froom Jan. 1, 1689.
Gartery Holloway, daughter of Thomas and Gartery Holloway was born at Froom May 17, 1696.
Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Gartery died 1695.
Hannah Holloway, wife of Benjamin died Aug. 19, 1729.

John Holloway, of whose descendants this work deals principally, resided at Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, and he may or may not have been the above mentioned John. He was a member of the Society of Friends, a contemporary of Tobias and may have been a brother and it is our belief had a close connection with the Friends of Bristol.

The Robins Family of Crosswicks, N.J. came from New Haven, Conn. as is indicated by the will of the first settler, Daniel Robins, 1714, in which he made disposition of land that "falls to me in New Haven in Connecticut Colony." His son, Aaron mentions a granddaughter Margaret Holloway. The Buck Family, of whom we shall know more later, also came from New England.

So it is possible that John may have come from New England stock, but there were members of the "Society of Friends settled in Nansemond County, Virginia, in the late sixteen hundreds as is evidenced by the record that Nansemond Meeting, House was built in February 1702, and was twenty by twenty feet. Also the record shows that in 1680 Henry Holloway, son of Thomas of Elizabeth River and Elizabeth Cotching, daughter of Thomas of Chuckatuck were married. William Holloway, a Friends Minister, died May 27, 1677.

John might have come up from Virginia, but we think not, for the Holloway records which we have from Bristol together with the fact that the wife, Mary Pharo, was of the Pharo Family, which came from Somersetshire, of which Bristol is really a part, justifies us in our belief that he was of Bristol stock.

The usual tradition that "three brothers came to America" prevails in the Holloway as in nearly all such cases. If this be true they surely settled far apart, Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, It is very likely that the New Jersey immigration was composed of "three brothers" and we are told that two stopped in New Jersey and one went over the river into Pennsylvania. If this be true, these two in New Jersey may have been Tobias and John.

Of the families of Tobias, Malachi, Levi and John of Morris Town we have very little, but think without doubt they were closely connected.

Chapter 3 - Pages 14-15-16-17-18.

The Family of John and Mary (Pharo) Holloway

(22) John Holloway, son of Thomas and Gartery. He was probably born at Froom, Somersetshire, Aug. 3, 1686, and m. about 1706-7 Mary Pharo b. Sept. 11, 1681, daughter of James and Anne (Murfin) Pharo of Great Drayton, Nottinghamshire. She died Dec. 12, 1749.

Issue: -
(23) Avis Holloway, b. about 1708 m. Samuel Scholey.
(24) George Holloway, b. about 1709, m. Ruth Wood.
(25) John Holloway, b. --, m. Mary Smith.
(26) James Holloway b. March 2, 1715, m. Rebecca Kirby.

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