Individual Notes

Note for: Thomas Holland, - AFT 12 Jan 1564 Index

Will:
     Date:   12 Jan 1564
     Place:   Eglwysbach, Denbighshire

Individual Note:
     There is a will dated 1565 (SA/1565/R1/68r) for Thomas Holland of Eglwys Bach who had a wife Elin and a brother (John). There is no reference to this Thomas on any of the published family trees or HHE notes. It seems likely that he was another son of Morgan Holland. The brother's name is abbreviated in the will but nothing but John seems to fit, in which case it implies that John ap Morgan was still alive in 1565. The will was witnessed by William Holland and what looks like Robert Holland and others. The William would have been William ap Hugh, his nephew. There is no compatible Robert on the Pennant family tree that fits the timescale. A possibility is that Hugh ap Morgan also had a son Robert, but this is not recorded anywhere. There appear to be no Robert Hollands on any of the family trees during thisperiod, however we know a Roberto Holland, yeoman, existed in 1576 as there is reference to him in the Conwy parish register. The only logical assumption is that Thomas was a son of Morgan.

Notes from Brian Holland

Individual Notes

Note for: Unknown Holland, BEF 9 Jan 1657 - ABT Dec 1657 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   9 Jan 1657
     Place:   Eglwysbach, Denbighshire

Burial:
     Date:   Dec 1657
     Place:   Eglwysbach, Denbighshire

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Note for: William Holland, BEF 16 Dec 1678 - Index

Baptism:
     Date:   11 Dec 1678
     Place:   Eglwysbach, Denbighshire

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Note for: William Holland, - BEF 13 Jan 1623 Index

Residence:
     Date:   BEF 1623
     Place:   Pennant

Probate:
     Date:   31 Jan 1623
     Place:   Pennant Estate Papers

Burial:
     Date:   13 Jan 1623
     Place:   Eglwysbach, Denbighshire

Individual Note:
We don’t have birth date for William but as Robert and Mary were married in 1588 we can assume it would not be long after that. His death is recorded in the PR and HHE as 13th January 1623. As mentioned above, it seems unlikely that he ever took over the Pennant estate as he predeceased his father.

William married Jane Wynne who was the daughter of Cadwalader Wynne of Voelas (Gfs, HHE XDS/101/23/37) who in turn was married to Anne Holland daughter of Owen Holland and Elizabeth Bulkely of Plas Berw. A prenuptial agreement referred to in the Pennant Papers in the NLW is dated 1621. According to HHE after the early death of William, Jane married a second time to William Wynne and they moved to live in Bryn Y Fran, another example of the close ties between the two families.

Amongst the Pennant papers there is a document dated 1608 (Gelliwig 109) that refers to a mortgage between Owen Holland of Pen Y Bryn and Evan Lloyd Jeffrey in relation to property called Ty Thyn Y Bellin ap Jenkin in a place called Nant Y Rhaglaw in the township of Escobrill. In his will dated 1632 Owen bequeaths a rent of five shillings per annum to his daughter Grace from Nant Y Rhaglaw which he states as being in the possession of Jane Holland, widow. It seems likely that this is Jane widow of William, and implies that she did not remarry until after 1632 and that she lived there until she and her second husband moved to Bryn Y Fran. William and Jane had a son and heir Robert (b1622PR, d after 1679LDS) who married Elin vch Edward Wynne, Gent, of Llanaradd (HHE XDS/23/101/40).

There are two entries in the parish records referring to children of William Holland. First there is a baptism of Anne vch William, 3rd June 1624. The only other William Holland identified as living at this time was William ap Jeffrey, but there is no record of him ever being married. Similarly, Jane Holland who died in 1630, for whom we have no appropriate baptism, could have been a daughter of either of these Williams. However for the same reason I think we have to attribute this Jane to William ap Robert

Notes from Brian Holland