Valentine Hollingsworth

Personal data Robert Valentine II Prince of Cheshire Hollingsworth He was born in the year 1520 in Hollingsworth Hall, Mottram, Cheshire, England. He died in the year 1576 in Hollingsworth Hall, Mottram, Cheshire County, England, he was 56 years old.Source 1 Alternative: He died in the year 1576 in Mottram, Cheshire, England, he was 56 years old. A child of Prince Robert i Hollingsworth and Joan Parker The Hollingsworths were an old Saxon family said to have settled in the northeastern part of Cheshire, about 50 kilometers south east of Liverpool, England as early as 1022. It was then that the ancestral estate, Hollingsworth manor, near Mottram, in Cheshire County was established.

   The name, "Hollingsworth" may derive from one of two sources. It may represent the locality from the estate of that name, "holly" and "worth", a farm, meaning a farm of holly trees; or it may be pure Anglo-Saxon. Thus, "worth" means a farm or guarded enclosure; "ing" means the sons of or descend ants of, and the first syllable, "Hol", is the name of the ancestor. Hence, "Hollingsworth" means literally, the guarded enclosure of the sons of Hol. On the map of England may be seen many names with the ending "ton", "ham", "worth", "burgh", etc. Ham means home, ton or tun, meant a home hedged in. When a village grew around it, it became a town. "Ing" in Anglo-Sax on is the "ap" of the Welsh and the "mac" of the Celt. More than one tenth of the names in England have the intermediate suffix "ing" preceding the "ton", "ham", or "worth", such as Burlington, Buckingham, etc., so the Anglo-Saxon Hol or Burl or Buck was the progenitor of the family and his descendants were distinguished in that way, as the "ing", or sons of. As we know, no man had more than one name before the year 1000.

The name "Hollingsworth" has also been spelled with many other variations, such as Hollingworth, Hollinworth, Hollinsworth, Hollynworthe and oth er variations. Bardsley calls it a local name "of Hollingworth" (sans "s ") and says that Hollingworth was (1) a township in the parish of Mottram- in-Longendale, Cheshire, and (2) a capelty in the diocese of Chester. It means literally, "the farm amid the holly-bushes". Mame Ellison Wood, genealogist, calls the name "one of the oldest in England, dating back to the time of the Saxon King Canute", and says it was derived from a township in Macclesfield Hundred, Cheshire, the original form being Hollynworthe .
When the land became insufficient to support the increasing number of the family, they sent out colonies to other places in England. Hollings, sons of Hol, sent out six. They are found in various places in England, not all Hollingsworth, but they came from the original "worth". One of their colonies settled at the head of some water, and they are the Holingsheds.
Annals dating from the Norman conquest, speak of the "hundred of Macclesfield or Maxfield" known in the Doomsday survey as the "hundred of Hamstan ", and one of the Manors mentioned in these ancient books is that of Hollingsworth manor, situated on the edge of the woods of Macclesfield. The visitation of Cheshire by the official herald in the year 1580 includes "John Hollingsworth, Gent." and "Robert Hollingsworth", amoung the gentry residing in the hundred of Macclesfield. A further record speaks of Robert Hollingsworth of Hollingsworth Hall, from which the family is descended.
The church and hall of the Hollingsworth family, both several centuries old, were still standing in the early 20th century, and upon both are the family Coat of Arms. The last representative of the English branch who had possession died in 1865.
Red-berried holly trees abound upon the estate and in its nearness to the edge of the Macclesfield woods. In this setting the arms and crest handed down for generations acquires a picturesque significance. The tinctures of the shield are azure, suggestive of the blue sky; argent, of the silvery streams that flow through the woodlands; vert, of the green leafage of the forest trees. The crest is a stag, suggesting the woodland inhabitants, and the three glistening holly leaves bring to mind Christmas in merry England. Motto -- "Learn To Endure Patiently" or "Bear Patiently What Must Be Borne".
The Hollingsworths of England lived far from the maddening crowd of the city marts, and Hollingsworth of America have since tended toward landed estates and country life. They, and their descendants, seem to possess an inherited love of nature and the wealth of interest, color and beauty scattered so lavishly by her hand.
Source: Publication: Ancestors and Descendants of the James Family, The Hollingsworth Family And Collateral Lines of Atkinson And Ree. Written in 1996 by Ernest C. James, PE, 3009 Leta Lane, Sacramento, CA 95821
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Links to Noteworthy Hollingsworth Family Pages
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH11&CISOP... 6&REC=5
Family History Archives, Digital Collections, Ancestors and Descendan ts of the James Family
The Hollingsworth Family And Collateral Lines of Atkinson and Ree
http://www.hollygardens.com/hollingsw/index.htm#TOC
Descendants of Henry Hollingsworth (born 1598), father of Valentine Sr. a nd the County Wexford - Wicklow families.
Prepared by: Tom Hollingsworth, P.O. Box 1934, Bonners Ferry, Idaho 838 05 Telephone: 208-267-2627
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/a/r/Earl-L-Darrah/GENE.... html
Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr by Earl Lindsay Darrah, 5106 Ro lling Hill Court, Tampa, FL 33617 United States 813-987-2159 edarrah1@ta mpabay.rr.com
http://home.inu.net/sadie/samuelhollingsworth.htm
The family of Samuel Hollingsworth, Jr. & Wife Barbara Shewin of Chest er Co, Pennsylvania by Sadie Greening Sparks
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Hollingsworth/
HOLLING(S)WORTH Surname DNA Research Project
Harlan Family Tours; http://www.harlanfamily.org/tours.htm

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