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Thanks Carol.  Yes this Holland/Hulland business is a family thing.  My ancestors, back to the 1700's, were Hullands.  Great granddfather John was a Hulland by birth and through much of his early life. Some of his children took the Hulland name, others like my grandfather were Holland.  Grandpa said at one time that everyone spelled it Holland so he for one just went with it.  But a search of parish records for the Garstang, Forton area show Hollands but no Hullands in the 1500's.  My great uncle Peter (killed in Belgium in WW1) was a Hulland and his son Peter remained firmly so as does his son Iain.  Another mystery.

Thanks Sandra.  I believe the immigration date is actually 1904 (but it looks like a 7).  Frederick married Inez Beatrice in 1907.  This, the birthdates and the occupation fit with my great-uncle.  Thanks so much for all of this fabulous information.

Thanks for the information.  John Edward Pedder's grandmother was Grace Richardson.  She was my great grandfather John Hulland's second wife but it seems she went by the last name of Richardson.

I visited Garstang and Clitheroe in October and visited the grave of my great grandmother, Isabella Barnes Hulland.  Her daughter Janet Ridge (died 1970) and Janet's daughter Winnifred are also buried there.  My cousins recently put up the gravestone.  We found a jar with a note in it saying that this was in fact the grave of the grandmother of John Edward Pedder.  I could find no information in the Lancashire Archives in Preston and requests for information to St. James Shireshead (who now have the St. Paul's records) have produced no results.  Can any help with this family mystery?