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Huntingdonshire / Re: donley[donnaley] family
« on: Thursday 15 March 18 23:27 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks for your help Margaret.
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Bedfordshire / Re: holdings
« on: Sunday 04 March 18 16:53 GMT (UK) »
I have examined the land tax records for keysoe from 1797. The first mention of Holden/Holding is 1821 to 25th March 1822 Robert Holden, the next year to 25 March 1823 shows Samuel Holding and then Holdings thereafter until Fanny and Frances Holding show. All for the same property, owner the Rev Dr Hunt. This would tie up with the fact that Robert was transported in February 1823. I think Samuel married to Frances is his brother and that he took over the tenancy. What happened to Robert's wife 
? but the 1841 census shows Frances and Louisa, Robert's youngest child, possibly living with her uncle and aunt - another question where is Samuel in 1841?
? but the 1841 census shows Frances and Louisa, Robert's youngest child, possibly living with her uncle and aunt - another question where is Samuel in 1841?
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Huntingdonshire / Re: donley[donnaley] family
« on: Sunday 04 March 18 15:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi there Magslote I have just seen a post of yours from November 11 when you gave details for a marriage in Brampton for Amos Holding to Lisa Donally on 16 January 1838 stating he was the son of Robert. Amos is my 2 x gt grandfather and I have been searching high and low for the marriage cert details. I only have been able to get the marriage index for them both. Do you have a copy of the record you could let me have please? There is a lot of debate about the father of Amos and to see Robert named by you has been wonderful and will prove my theories. Many thanks for your time.
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Canada / Re: arthur william fennell
« on: Saturday 03 March 18 13:29 GMT (UK) »
Arthur William Fennell is my 1st cousin once removed. Have a few photographs but unable to post - too large.
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Bedfordshire / Re: holdings
« on: Saturday 03 March 18 12:46 GMT (UK) »
I had thought of that possibility because the 1841 census shows Louisa Holding living with Frances Holding in Keysoe. And the dates all fit for Louisa. When you look at the land tax registers Frances is listed as the main person after the possible transportation date but there is an early one showing the same proprietor but the head being Samuel Holding. As I said on my tree there are more questions than answers about this. It could be Samuel and Robert are Brothers or he is Samuel Robert or Robbert Samuel Holding. I don’t think there’s a way of finding out. It’s funny there’s nothing in the Parish records but it could be they were not married and therefore the children not baptised, who knows?
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Bedfordshire / Re: holdings
« on: Saturday 03 March 18 00:18 GMT (UK) »
I am johnwhitehead60 and Amos Holding is my 2 x Gt Grandfather. I’ve Managed to obtain quite a full history of Amos’s children, there are many newspaper cuttings about Amos and his family and they are on my ancestry tree. Amos’s son Robert was shipwrecked and his Gt Granddaughter wrote a book about his time being shipwrecked which included snippets about his life taken from his own manuscript and her travels to the Auckland Islands. The book was written in 1997. One such item is that he tried to runaway from home and was caught by his Father, Amos and his uncle Wolston. I can find no record of a Wolston Holding in Bedfordshire or Huntingdonshire. All records for Amos state he was born in Keysoe. When Robert ran away they were living in Brampton, he says before being caught he passed by his Grandmother’s house on his way to Bedford and passed by un noticed. within 3 miles of Bedford he noticed his father Amos following him with his Uncle Wolston. It was but a short time before I was back on my way to Kimbolton. Newspaper cuttings confirm all these areas. Robert also states at the start of the book that he is Robert Holding son of Amos Holding of Keysoe and Fanny Eliza Donnelly of Brampton. He believes he was born at Brampton on 17 March 1840.There are records for Keysoe of an Eliza Holding and a Louisa Holding. Eliza Holding married Alfred Cunnington and Louisa married George WOOLSTON. This would, I believe, make him the Uncle Wolston - his Father’s sister’s husband. Both their marriage certificates state their Father as Robert Holding. There is Robert Holding born in Keysoe abt 1797 who was transported in 1823 for 14 years. All 3 children would have been born/conceived before he left. I have been unable to go back further. There is a death of a Robert Holding in 1865 in Bedford Union Workhouse which is a possible if he returned, not proven.
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