The Hollyman English Ancestry Quest 2019, Part 15

by Glenn N. Holliman

So Goodbye to our Ancestral Sites, England 

and our English Cousins!

May 17 - 19, 2019

We boarded our bus at the Hartwell House, thanked Anne Holmes for her kind and excellent genealogical and arrangements work and our driver drove us across Buckinghamshire, through Oxfordshire to the edge of Gloustershire.  

Soon we were back to the Royal White Hart Hotel in Moreton-in-Marsh, making our goodbyes with newly discovered cousins.   

 Above, Brian Holliman, Kathy and Glenn Joiner and Madeleine Holliman, Lindsay Holliman's wife in Moreton.

Below, left to right, Kathleen and Jimmy Holliman talking with Rob Fenske.  In blue, Kimberly Holliman and her father, Paul Holliman chatting with Elisabeth Krueger Ahrens, Walter O. Holliman's grand daughter.

Below, Ann Holliman Krueger and Jim Holliman in the foreground; looking on are Allen Holleman and Brian Holliman with our coach in the background.

During that spring weekend, we traveled back in time to the Tudor and Stuart eras of British history.  This was an era of kings and queens who ruled, not just reigned. A period when the Isles were torn apart on how best to worship God and whether Parliament or monarchs should have the final say.  Hollymans and matriarchal families, our ancestors, are part of that tapestry of the past, a past that shaped our present. 

Please share these articles with family, present and future so that other Hollymans in future generations can find their way back to their history. - GNH

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