The Hollow Log 1 THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 27, September 2005 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445 -8772 I NSIDE T HIS I SSUE From Healesville back to Trowan James Hollow migrated from St Ives to Australia finally settling in Tasmania. One son, also James, settled at Healesville in Victoria. While researching his family history Alan Garner found the family’s original village of Trowan near St Ives has been recently been rejuvenated. Pages 1 &5 Hollow Spotting A Hollow was spotted in an unusual project from Launceston, Tasmania. Ann Belmont supplies spottings from old editions of the West Briton from the 1850s. Wally Hollow spotted a Golden Wedding anniversary in Adelaide. Page 2 More Hollows in Uniform New information on a UK National Archive website has added to our list of Hollows who have served in the armed services. Page 3 Update on the Welsh Hollows Jean Dorrington updates the story of a branch of Hollows that moved from Hayle & St Erth to Swansea. She has also been struck by the visual similarities between he family and their ancestors and other Hollows. Page 9 New Hollow Researchers The full list of Hollow researchers is available on the Hollow website. Page 10 Continued Page 5 From Healesville back to Trowan Trowan The hamlet of Trowan lies at the centre of a ring of rich green fields and enjoys sweeping views across the sea and countryside. In its heyday, the tiny granite hamlet was home to almost 100 people. That was in the 19th century, when the collection of Cornish cottages, perched on the cliffs close to St Ives had its own manor (now Trowan Vean), a blacksmith's shop, numerous cottages, a vicar, a nearby tin mine (Consol’s) and was home to a community of miners, farmers and their families. The hamlet has had great publicity recently. A company called Mango Homes has set about restoring the granite cottages and they are for sale for ₤265,000 to ₤285, 000. Interestingly one is called Hollow’s Cottage (below). It has already sold, at ₤275,000. This may be the ancestral home of the family who eventually settled in Healesville Victoria. The hamlet of Trowan, St Ives. Photographs courtesy of Mango Homes www.mangohomes.co.uk Hollow’s Cottage before restoration
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The Hollow Log 1
THE HOLLOW LOG Issue 27, September 2005 The Hollow Family Researchers’ Newsletter ISSN 1445-8772
INSIDE THIS ISS UE
From Healesville back to Trowan James Hollow migrated from St Ives to Australia finally settling in Tasmania. One son, also James, settled at Healesville in Victoria. While researching his family history Alan Garner found the family’s original village of Trowan near St Ives has been recently been rejuvenated.
Pages 1 &5
Hollow Spotting A Hollow was spotted in an unusual project from Launceston, Tasmania. Ann Belmont supplies spottings from old editions of the West Briton from the 1850s. Wally Hollow spotted a Golden Wedding anniversary in Adelaide.
Page 2
More Hollows in Uniform New information on a UK National Archive website has added to our list of Hollows who have served in the armed services.
Page 3
Update on the Welsh Hollows Jean Dorrington updates the story of a branch of Hollows that moved from Hayle & St Erth to Swansea. She has also been struck by the visual similarities between he family and their ancestors and other Hollows.
Page 9
New Hollow Researchers The full list of Hollow researchers is available on the Hollow website.
Page 10
Continued Page 5
From Healesville back to Trowan
Trowan
The hamlet of Trowan lies at the centre of a ring of rich green fields and enjoys sweeping
views across the sea and countryside. In its heyday, the tiny granite hamlet was home to
almost 100 people. That was in the 19th century, when the collection of Cornish cottages,
perched on the cliffs close to St Ives had its own manor (now Trowan Vean), a
blacksmith's shop, numerous cottages, a vicar, a nearby tin mine (Consol’s) and was home
to a community of miners, farmers and their families.
The hamlet has had great publicity recently. A company called Mango Homes has set
about restoring the granite cottages and they are for sale for ₤265,000 to ₤285, 000.
Interestingly one is called Hollow’s Cottage (below). It has already sold, at ₤275,000. This
may be the ancestral home of the family who eventually settled in Healesville Victoria.
The hamlet of Trowan, St Ives.
Photographs courtesy of Mango Homes www.mangohomes.co.uk
Private, 28379, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, WWI, son
of Richard Henry Hollow and Annie Grenfell.
Andrew, Hollow
Corporal, 202122, Royal Berkshire Regiment, WWI, son of
Richard Whitford Hollow and Emily Berriman.
Elias Frederick, Hollow
Private, M2/181127, Army Service Corps, WWI, also Royal
Navy, son of Frederick Buddle Hollow and Emma
Susannah Dawe.
Frank, Hollow
Private, 60285, Royal Army Medical Corps, WWI, son of
George Hollow and Harriet Ellen Evans.
G W, Hollow
Sapper, 2554528, Royal Corps of Signals, WWI
George, Hollow
Private, 77993, Liverpool Regiment, WWI,
George W, Hollow
Sapper, 568324, Royal Engineers , WWI (probably George
William born Bermondsey see above in RN.
J A, Hollow
Private, 577, Northamptonshire Yeomanry, WWI
Jack, Hollow
Private, 2559, City of London Yeomanry, WWI
James, Hollow
Sapper, 715, Royal Engineers, WWI
John S, Hollow
Acting Company Quarter Master Serjeant, DM2 170277,
Army Service Corps, WWI
Joseph H, Hollow
TR/8/37053, Training Reserve, WWI, possibly son of
William Hollow and Bessie Whitford
S Alys, Gordon-Smith nee Hollow
Staff Nurse, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing
Service Reserve, WWI
William D, Hollow
Sapper, 504370, Royal Engineers, WWI son of Alexander
Dingle Hollow and Elizabeth Prior.
William E, Hollow
Transport Warrant Officer Class 1, 17451, Army Ordnance
Corps, WWI (could be William Edwin in Navy list)
William E, Hollow
Serjeant, 3/5528, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, WWI
(could be William Edwin in Navy list)
William Edward, Hollow
Gunner, 118530, Royal Garrison Artillery, WWI
From 1901 census
Henry James Hollow living in Kent aged 19 a private in the
Royal Marines Light Infantry. Son of William Henry Matthew
Hollow. ♠
NOTES George Hollow The family belief is that George returned to live in the St Ives area when he was a young boy and worked for a while on the St Ives fishing boats. He enlisted in the Royal Navy on 7 Oct 1876 for ten years and served on many ships up until 6 Aug 1880 when he appears to have deserted. The family story has it that he spent time working on a sheep station in Australia, returning to England when Queen Victoria declared an amnesty to all deserters from the Royal Navy. He married in 1882 so only spent a short period in Australia. When he married Harriett Evans he was working as a Railway Carman at East Croydon Station - unfortunately he had a terrible accident at the Railway and lost both his legs and was told he would never walk again. However, he refused to accept this and had two tin legs fitted and led a fully active life once again. He and Harriet went to have at least 6 children. Two of his children, George William and Frank also appear on this list of Hollow in uniform. George William Hollow also served in the RN, enlisting on 9 May 1905 for 12 years. He had given his DOB as 23 Jan 1886 Bermondsey, London and his occupation as 'Clerk'. His service records suggest he was a 'Sick Bay Attendant' and much of his service was on shore bases and the Hasler Hospital, Portsmouth and Chatham Hospital.
From Alison Hollow & Keith Hollow Malachi aka Daniel Hollow Whilst trawling through the Royal Naval records I discovered an interesting bit about Malachi Hollow. He initially joined the RN at Devonport in 1876 and was given the service number 97314 and at that time gave his date and place of birth as 1 June 1858, Devonport, Devon. He seems to have served on HMS Jackal until 1878 when he 'Ran' from the ship at Rothesay (which is on the Isle of Bute in Scotland) having spent 7 days in the cells. In June 1879 he again enlisted in the Royal Navy under the name Daniel Hollow, service number 108680, this time giving his date and place of birth as 23 August 1860 at Devonport. He served on HMS Agincourt until 1881 when it seems he was 'sussed' and spent 70 days in Gibraltar Gaol and then discharged from the service. His service record has the following statement written on it; "Has confessed that he ran from 'Jackal' in 1878 and that he was then known as Malachi Hollow". Further to Daniel (Malachi) Hollow, he is almost certainly the guy who appears in the GRO Deaths for June Qtr 1883 at Dover aged 24 under the name of Malachi West N D Hollow. With a penchant for using alternative names perhaps the 'West N' are further inventions of his. A short life for sure, surviving just two years after his dismissal from the RN; his death certificate might make interesting reading. Have found a few interesting records, several Hollows after signing-on for a naval career later served in the army in WW1.
From Keith Hollow
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From Healesville back to
Trowan cont.
This is the story of a family history journey rather than a
complete family history although I have included a
descendant chart in the side box. I live in Croydon, an eastern
suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and Healesville is
about ½ an hours drive for me up the Yarra valley into the
foothills of the Great Dividing Range. The Great Divide is a
long range of hills and mountains that stretches from western
Victoria, along the east coast of Australia through New South
Wales and Queensland.
I knew there were Hollows from Healesville, I had collected
some births, marriages and deaths and linked them together
but hadn’t done a lot of work on them. A James Hollow born
1898 in Sale Victoria who married an Eileen Norton in
Healesville in 1924. His father was James also born in St Ives,
Cornwall in 1867 and married in Prahran in 1889 then moved
to Sale then disappeared from the Victorian records. There
the story stopped until Alan Garner, the grandson of James b
1898, contacted me. He was able to tell me his great
grandfather, James b 1867, had moved his family from Sale to
Tasmania where he worked at the Mt Lyell Copper Mine at
Gormanston in southwest Tasmania.
He told me of his grandad who moved back to Victoria
around 1924 and married Eileen Norton at Healesville and
settled there working for Melbourne and Metropolitan Board
of Works (MMBW). It is likely that James, known as Jim,
would have commenced work in the mines in Tasmania, as
he was about 26 when he moved back to Victoria. The
MMBW were building a large reservoir, the Maroondah Dam,
a key water storage dam for the city of Melbourne. Jim may
have used his mining experience in Tasmania to get this job,
as he was part of the construction team on the dam. After it
was completed Jim remained with the MMBW and eventually
became Head Ranger for the MMBW at Healesville. As well
as building dams the MMBW looked after the mountain
forests that formed the
catchment area for the dam.
Between Alan’s family
information, census
records, BDM records and
some discoveries on the
internet the family story is
beginning to come
together.
A day in the life of a ranger
In Friday January 13 1939
“Black Friday” Victoria
suffered horrendous
bushfires that burnt out
almost two million hectares
of the state. At the height
of the fires Jim Hollow and
his workmate Ron
Furmston were despatched from Healesville to protect the
Continued from page 1
James Hollow (middle of picture) and fellow workers on the Maroondah Dam, circa 1924
James Hollow (left) and Ron Furmston heroes of
the 1939 fires
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Fernshaw Bridge over the Watts River “at all cost”. Equipped
with a hand pump, forty feet of hose, two buckets, shovels
and crow bar the men first dug holes in the bed of the Watts
River under the bridge. The Watts river is a small stream. In
January the flow would have been quite small so the holes
would enable the men to lie in the river covered with water
should they need protection from the fire. The surrounding
bush was a Mountain Ash forest, a tall Eucalypt that grows to
100 metres in height with thick undergrowth beneath. The
bridge was vital, the road was the only route in the area
across the Great Dividing Range to the towns of Narbethong
and Marysville beyond.
The fire was approaching with a terrific roar fanned by strong
winds. The air was full of sparks and burning debris that was
falling all about and causing spot fires on and around the
bridge. The men used the pump and hose to extinguish the
spot fires until the heat of the fire melted the hose. Then they
continued to douse the spot fires with water carried in the
buckets. The bushfire came through in the upper canopy
first, known as a crown fire. Eucalypts have a high oil content
and the treetops crackled and exploded repeatedly like a
continuous fusillade of gunshots. After the crown fire the
ground fire came through. Jim and Ron worked until the
bushfire was almost on them and then jumped into their
holes in the river. They stayed underwater holding their
breath as long as they could coming up for short breaths of
the searing hot air that burnt their throats and lungs as they
inhaled. While they did this dead and live animals and other
debris flowed past them in the river. One big possum latched
on to Jim and clung on to his clothes all the time he was in
the river. They were in the river some twenty minutes waiting
for the fire front to pass before they were able get out and
inspect the damage. The area was completely blackened, thick
smoke hung in the air, more spot fires were put out on the
bridge but it still stood, the link across the great divide had
been maintained. Jim and Ron began to walk the 18 miles
back to Healesville and were met by a gang of men sent to
find them and who were expecting the worst.
Jim and Eileen Hollow had four children and lived all of their
married life in Healesville. In 1963 Jim retired having worked
for over 38 years with the MMBW.
The Cornish roots
Jim’s father James Hollow was born at Trowan on 13 June
1867. The Hollow family had been associated with Trowan
for a very long period. Trowan’s cluster of houses, housed
the families of the farmers of the surrounding land and
miners working at the local Consols mine. James’ Great
grandfather was recorded as a resident there at the baptism of
one of his children in 1805. This was William Hollow who
married Ann Curnow at St Ives in 1793.
Descendants of William HOLLA
The Healesville Hollows line is shown in bold type.
second last being our James born in 1867. In the 1881 census
James is recorded as aged 16 (he was only 14) but simply as a
miner’s son, no occupation was given. His brother George is
recorded as a farm labourer so the family maintained a
connection with agricultural pursuits.
The family story is that James had a brother John who died
and money from his estate financed James’ passage to
Australia in 1886. James, aged 19, arrived aboard the Oriana,
which berthed at Fremantle in Western Australia on July 16
1886. Interestingly his occupation was recorded as “farm
labourer”.
The brother John is still a mystery; he was born at St Ives on
28 April 1859 and is in the 1861 and 1871 censuses but then
disappears
from
British
records.
He may
have
migrated
to
Australia
or
America
as many
Hollows
and
indeed
Cornish
people
did.
The family
believes
that James
was
headed for
the copper
mines of
South Australia possibly Wallaroo. It must have been a short
stay as he was to marry Hannah Checkley in Prahran, Victoria
in 1889. Hannah was born in the Victorian gold mining town
of Gaffney;s Creek and was from a mining family too. Her
father may had retired as the family moved to another mining
area close to Melbourne, Hurstbridge, and then to the
Oakleigh area of Melbourne which was not a mining area.
Hannah was 20 when she married James he was 22. They
lived at Prahran, an inner suburb of Melbourne, until around
1894. Three children were born in Prahran before the next
one was born in Sale, 200 miles from Melbourne in1896. At
Sale James had returned to the family profession of mining.
In 1907 another child was born, this time in Tasmania at the
mining town of Gormanston in the southwest. James worked
at the Mt Lyell copper mine and remained there until his
death in 1938 aged 70. He had worked for the Mt Lyell
Copper Mining Company for almost 40 years.
James’ son Jim had moved back to Melbourne around 1924.
The eldest son, William, was married in Victoria in 1927.
William was in Melbourne when he joined the Australian
Army in 1915. When discharged he was a sergeant in the 2nd
Australian Tunnelling Company. Men in the Tunnelling
Companies were usually from a mining background so we
can assume that William was also working in the mine at
Gormanston before joining the army. In civilian life after the
war William was a policeman in Melbourne.
Another of James’ children, Grace, married in Tasmania but
moved to Victoria. Her wedding photo includes all of the
family except William and James, maybe they had already left
Tasmania. The other four children remained in Tasmania.
The two boys, George and Samuel married sisters, Elsie and
Nita Schulze.
This family with its roots in Trowan, Cornwall was part of
the Cornish diaspora that used their mining skills to find new
lives in far-flung regions of the earth. ♠
Colin Hollow, Alan Garner. Photos via Alan Garner, Fire details from the book "Fernshaw, the Forgotten Village" by Alma Mitchell, and a newspaper article by Mary Ryllis Clark called "In the Firing Line of '39".
Grace Hollow’s Wedding photo. l to r, Alice Hollow, Hannah Hollow, Helen Hollow?, George Hollow,
Grace Hollow bride,Groom Robert Graham, dressmaker, Bridesmaid (best friend?), James Hollow with
Samuel Hollow, circa 1910?. Only Grace’s brothers, William and James are missing.
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Update on Welsh Hollows Hollow Logs 12 & 15 contained the stories of some Hollows
who moved from Cornwall to Wales. Frederick Hollow born
1857 moved to
Cardiff in the
1880s. Around
1872 two
brothers James
Henry Hollow (b
1831) and
Francis Hollow
(b 1847) moved
to Swansea. They
were both
mariners and
married women
who were from
mariner families.
Francis married
Elizabeth Beer in
1872 and they
had fourteen
children together.
The second of
these children
was Minnie. In
Hollow Log 15
Minnie was still
somewhat of a mystery. She and her older sister Polly
remained in Swansea when all of their brothers and sisters
moved to Ammandford around 1874. Their father Francis
eventually moved to Ammandford too but that side of the
family seemed to have lost contact with Minnie and Polly.
Recently Minnie’s great granddaughter Jean Dorrington has
been in touch with details of Minnie’s family.
Jean takes up the story.
My name is Jean Barbara
Dorrington nee Frohwein and
I am the great great
granddaughter of Francis
Hollow of St Erth and
Swansea. His daughter
Minnie was my great
grandmother. She married
George Hancock originally
from Devon on 2nd June
1900 in St Peter’s Swansea.
At the time George was living
at Robert Street Swansea and
Minnie at Cwmdu. Francis is
listed as an Engine Driver, I presume in the colliery, as there was a
colliery in Cwmdu at that time. Witnesses were Francis Hollow and
Annette Hollow (her sister). George was a widower and had been
married to one Ann Jane Crocker in 1895.His father was Thomas
Hancock and his mother
Sally nee Richards also of
Devon.
George and Minnie had a
son George and a daughter
Gladys Minnie who was my
grandmother. At the time of
her birth they were living at
Brynhyfryd. She was born
23rd October 1905.She
married Daniel James
Frohwein on 30th May
1925. They had 2 sons and
1 daughter who sadly died
in infancy and whom I am
named after. The eldest son
was George Wesley who
died 3 years ago and my
father Francis James who
died 1987.
With regards to the Beer
family, of whom Francis
Hollow married into.
Elizabeth’s parents were
James Beer of Devon and Eliza Hoskin (nee Trathen) of Hayle
Cornwall. They were both widower and widow respectively. James` first
wife was Mary from Somerset. They had 5 children.
Eliza Hoskin’s first husband was a mariner from Hayle, name
unknown as yet. They had 5 children. In 1851 both families were living
in Swansea. They married on 11th March 1868 when Elizabeth was
13 years old. James` father was George Beer and Eliza’s father was