Anne Marion Row

Anne Marion Row (née Hollier) first contacted me about her Hollier ancestors in 2003. She got in touch again as she had lost material on her computer I sent her. Since then, I have established that her line descends from the Sharnford Holliers. She descends from Edward Hollier born 1861 in Loughborough, son of Edward and Hannah Hollier. But by 1871, Edward (snr) had remarried and there is no trace of Edward (jnr). Curiously, he had another son Edward in 1872 by his second wife Ann. In 1881, Edward (jnr) is shown as a nephew of Thomas & Hannah Handley in Hallow, WOR. In 1887 he married Joanna Buyers in Quetta, India where he was serving with the Worcestershire Regiment, but the marriage is also recorded in the Scottish marriage records, as Joanna was born in Scotland. They had three children in India before returning to Pershore, WOR where their 4th child was born. In 1901 the family is at Pershore where Edward is shown as an Army Colour Sergeant. It was only when another descendant of this family bought Edward's birth certificate was it possible to prove who Edward's parents were.