Welcome

Welcome to my family history web site which is updated on a regular basis as the information gained from new research and input from fellow family historians is added.

What's Here

There are many web sites devoted to research into individual families but so far I have found few people who have an interest in the Holland family who lived in North Wales during the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries.

The site is not limited to the Holland family in North Wales alone. My paternal Grandfather Richard Holland was born in the City of Chester, Cheshire. My maternal Grandfather John Parker was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire. I have researched both my Grandparents families with surnames of PADDY, PARKER, ONIONS, CARRINGTON, BAGNALL, DODD, LACEY & THOMAS together with my Wife's family names of GRIFFITH, McMAHON, HOLLOWAY, DETTON & WALKER. These families resided in many UK counties including, but not exclusively, Cheshire, Lancashire, Shropshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Middlesex, Durham and Lancashire.

As with all families the descendants of these families have now spread far and wide but the records left behind of the family from these times gives a fascinating insight to how these people lived. There are currently 581 Holland names in my Family Tree of whom the vast majority were born in or had ancestors from the Counties of Flintshire and Denbighshire in North Wales. In fact if you can trace a Holland relative who was born from about 1690 to 1900 in Flintshire there is an 80% chance that they link to my Family Tree. In total there are 2042 names linked to the family which can be viewed via either the Dynamic or HTML Family Trees.

As this site develops I hope to further extend the Family Tree online and provide as much by way of photographs, biographical data and local history as I can to put some context around the lives of people who, in the most part, seemed to have had fairly hard lives.

Acknowledgements

I have to give considerable thanks to my 1st Cousin (one removed) Yvonne Humphreys (formerly Holland) for much of the detailed research into the Holland family that she undertook prior to my interest in family history. Yvonne has spent many hours at Hawarden Record Office and the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth unearthing and acquiring the documentary evidence which underpins the family tree here.

Since the site was launched some two years ago many other people researching the same family names have contacted me to add and exchange mutual research data. I would like to thank all those who have contributed the photographs and the other family information which which in some way has gone towards building my knowledge of the wider family and expand the content of this web site.

How Best to View

For full access to all the information contained here you will need Adobe Flash Player and Java from Sun Microsystems. For those alarmed by statements like that please don't be. It's estimated that 98% of new PC's (i.e. bought in the last two years or so) have these features already. In any case they are free to download via the links given above.

Photographs

Most of the photographs here have been scanned at a reasonably high resolution to show them off to their best. You will therefore get optimum results when connecting using a high speed Broadband service in the UK (T1/E1 type services in the US and Europe).

Get in Touch

As will be obvious I am only just starting to get going with the business of learning to build a web site so would ask that anybody stumbling across this page who has an interest in any of the families included here get in touch by email with me Paul Holland at hollandfamilytree@btinternet.com

Last updated Thursday 4th February 2010

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