The Hollyman English Ancestry Quest 2019, Part 9

by Glenn N. Holliman

Our 7th Stop
Cuddington, Buckinghamshire

May 19, 2019

Our coach arrived in Cuddington, Buckinghamshire at lunch time, and we soon overwhelmed the local pub, The Crown.  Standing outside, left is Jim Holliman from Alabama, USA, Rod and Andrew Holliman of England (brothers) and far right, Lindsay Holliman, now of Scotland.  The lassie is Kathleen Holliman, Jim's wife.

Below, The Crown, thatched roof and whitewashed, dates from the 17th Century, approximately the time Christopher Hollyman left Bedford for Virginia.  Christopher's grandfather, the first Christopher, probably left Cuddington for Sherington in the early 1580s if not before.

The pub management is not without humor.  The picture below reminds visitors that dogs on leash are welcome in English pubs, an arrangement that especially seems cozy on cold, long winter nights in the British Isles.

Below, we have a map of Cuddington, a village of perhaps 900 souls, similar in size for a millennium.  Bottom center, #17 is the pub.  We walked a block or so to St. Nicholas Parish Church, #1, where Holymans were baptized, married and buried for centuries. 

At the top of the map, the Holyman's farm is labeled, the home of the family for hundreds of years.  We walked there after the church visit and later back to the pub area as the streets were too narrow for our coach.

                                                   QUICK REMINDER FAMILY TREE BOX

John Holyman, d 1521 of Cuddington begat

John Holyman, d 1533 of Cuddington who begat

Thomas Holyman, d 1558 of Cuddington who

with Dorothy Clark begat

Christopher Holyman, d 1589 of Sherington who

with Margaret Lee begat

Thomas Hollyman, d ca. 1650 of Bedford who

with Helena Poynard begat

Christopher Hollyman, 1618-1691 of Bedford

and Virginia who begat four sons and two daughters

Next, a visit to St. Nichol's were Holymans were interred not only in the grave yard but on occasion in the church itself, an honor reserved for a few.