Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Holyer family now linked up?

Over the years, I have been able to link almost all the Holyers from Kent into one big pedigree, starting with John Holyer and Elizabeth Gregory. However, a William Holyer married Annie Sarah Middleton in 1920 and he claimed to be a 27 year old son of John Holyer, a labourer. While I know a lot about their descendants, I have never been able to identify William born c1893, or Annie Sarah Middleton (dau of Walter Middleton), or their respective deaths, or William's father John.

But now, thanks to Shelagh Mason, another Guild member, I have the baptism records from 1920/1 of their first two children. These show the mother as being called Sarah Elizabeth, not Annie Sarah. Sarah Elizabeth Holyer died in Canterbury in 1978. Another death in Canterbury in 1977 was of Moses Holyer (born 1891), but the death was registered twice, the second time as Moses William Holyer, suggesting that he used the name William. Moses was the son of Walter John Holyer and Mary Gammon, but his father died the year after he was born, so maybe describing him as John was either a mistake or just reflecting that Walter used his second name. All this confusion is caused by folks using names other than those with which they were registered at birth!

However, this seems to have solved this long-standing problem.

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