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Birth:          31 Aug 1618 England
Death:          10 Nov 1694 MA or PA
Burial:         12 Nov 1694 Philadelphia, Pa.

Notes
Enc Amer Quaker Genealogy (ancestry.com) for place and date of burial
per awt ourheritage there is a Thomas Hollyman, wife Sarah, whose daughter Mary, 
married William Rodney (b 1651). Mary is probably a sister of Sarah. Extensive bunch 
of cousins at www.illian.org/places/FamilySheets/d0131/F94628.html
THIS is what I sent to the folks on the Hollyman listserv:
I'll toss in some tidbits on my Hollyman ancestor, a Thomas Hollyman who married a 
woman named Sarah. They had at least two children, Sarah, from whom I descend, 
and Mary, who married William Rodney in Philadelphia on or about 25 Jan 1688. See 
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/g/Gwendolyn-R-
Hignuttwint/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0251.html. Rodney arrived with William Penn and 
became the first Speaker of the Assembly of Delaware. Interesting fellow, and many 
interesting descendants, who are cousins of one degree or another to me (and 
eventually we'll determine they are cousins to all the other Hollymans).

Sarah, daughter of Thomas Hollyman and his wife Sarah, was born in England in 1660, 
and married John Densey in Philadelphia on 1 Nov 1688. Their daughter Sarah 
Densey is my ancestor. (Among the other descendants of Thomas and Sarah 
Hollyman, through Sarah Densey, is the artist Maxfield Parrish).

According to http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/g/Gwendolyn-R-
Hignuttwint/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0253.html, Mary (Sarah's sister) was born in 1656 in 
Bristol, Somersetshire, England. Bristol was an important port of embarkation for 
settlers leaving England in the 17th century. Is it possible that Mary was born "en 
route" before the family boarded the ship? This is an interesting bit of information that 
I had not previously discovered in my attempt to determine where in England Sarah 
was born. But, either I have a bad estimate for Sarah's birth year or, the family was in 
Bristol for more than four years. Unless Mary is the name of her father's mother, one 
would expect that Sarah would be the older of the two, but I'm speculating about the 
naming patterns. 

Somewhere along the line I picked up a birth date for Thomas of 31 Aug 1618. Where 
did I get that? I've gone back and retraced my steps and checked the sources noted 
in his entry in my ancestral database, and I cannot figure out its source. I know I did 
not invent it!

The Martin Eck Family tree on ancestry provides the same birth date, with a reference 
to a typeset manuscript in the Penna. Historical Society, but it is not clear that the 
manuscript is the source of the date. I have seen that manuscript (as I have done 
research at the Penna. Historical Society), so the birth date might have been handed 
down through the Mitchell branch of this Hollyman group.

Additional tidbits: Thomas Hollyman, b abt 1582, christened 3 June 1582, 
Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, father: Humfrey Hollyman, mother: Margery. 
This is from the England and Wales Christening Records database on ancestry (and 
probably is connected to the item found by Jeanette Holiman Stewart). Another record 
on ancestry, simply an index item to the British Chancery Records, 1386-1558, refers 
to a Thomas Hollyman, of Worcestershire, date: 1551-1553, vol. 9, page 314, bundle 
1287. My guess is that this would be at Kew.

An extracted probate record, again not much more than an index to the actual 
records. "Hollyman, Thomas, Brede, yeoman, 19 Jun 1605, 06 Jul 1605, 79-49, Book: 
Register 3, Collection: Sussex - Wills and Administrations Preserved in the District 
Probate Court of Lewes."

So, without any clues so far in terms of WHERE my Thomas Hollyman was born, it is 
possible he came from Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire and it is possible he came from 
Worcestershire.
Jim Maule
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Kristi Howell tree on ancestry says his parents are Thoams Hollyman b 1598 and 
Elizabeth b 1590 and that Thomas 1618 b Kent, married to Sarah England. The 
Keyser-Strong tree shows him with Sarah England as wife 1, m 4 May 1648 Denmark 
Park, Surrey, and with three children by Sarah England: Ann, 1640, Sarah 1648, Mary 
1652-1692, and Sarah b 1660 by unknown spouse. But it is clear from other trees that 
Thomas Halleman of Surrey died in 1672 in Rotherhithe, Surrey.

Lindsay Holliman of England sent a pdf that shows a Thomas Holyman b "aft 1616" to 
parents Joseph Holyman and Alice Rose, who md 1624 in Haddenham, 
Buckinghamshire. Joseph is son of George Holyman b aft 1537 in Cuddington Bucks, 
George son of Thomas Holyman, b bef 1512 Cuddington Bucks, d 1558 Cuddington 
Bucks, and Dorothy Clark. Thomas, son of John Holyman and Elizabeth. John son of 
John Holyman and Elyn.





Marriage To ----- Sarah (ABT 1625 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- Sarah ABT 1625 - 
HOLLYMAN Sarah (1660 - 20 Jan 1749)

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