The Hollyman English Ancestry Quest 2019, Part 11

by Glenn N. Holliman

Our 9th Stop

The Holyman Farm

Cuddington, Buckinghamshire

Here stands the English thatch cottage that for centuries housed the English cousins of the American Hollymans.  Constructed in 1699, it is today the home of a most welcoming couple, James and Carolyn Stonham.  This generous couple graciously opened their home (and not for the first time) to visitors from America.  The interior retains elements of early centuries with all the 21st Century amenities.

The back garden with lovely flower beds in bloom beckoned to us.  There we posed for pictures and reflected on great grandparents who half a millennium called this property their home.

Below, Rob and  Mary Holliman Fenske in the Hollyman garden in Cuddington, May 2019. 

Below front row, three children of the late Walter O. Holliman, premier Hollyman genealogists - Paul Holliman, Ann Holliman Krueger and Brian Holliman.  Behind them, their children,  Matthew Holliman,  Elisabeth Krueger Ahrens, Kimberly Holliman and Alison Holliman Marlowe.

Below, grandson Marshall Cocke and his grandmother, Marcia Holliman, both now of Texas.

Above the group on a Sunday afternoon, May 2019, some five hundred years after Hollymans worked the farm, never dreaming half a millennium later their descendants would search them out and pay them honor!

And these are the ancestors!

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