Re: Holloway ??? Lost - look for family and/or information Holloway NH 2010
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Re: Holloway ??? Lost - look for family and/or information Holloway NH 2010
Robert Holloway 5/26/12
Because there are so many Holloways and so many with the same given names,
if you clarify your posting with whatever information you might know, it may help others recognize your family.
For example, if you know where your oldest ancestors listed were born and about when and where they were living when they died, and about when, that helps distinguish them from other Holloway families using the same given names for their children.The more specific that you can be, the more likely someone else may recognize the people that you are hunting information about.
People do searches on this site all the time, and even years later someone may do a search and recognize something about the family you are trying to trace, and respond to your posting.This is how it can work . . . .
I found you because I was doing a search for "Orpha" - which seems a very unusual name, not commonly used.BUT Orpha was the name of the second wife of one of the Holloways that I am researching, which is why my search pulled up your posting.That William Holloway was born in 1757 and died in 1850 in GA.
Your posting came up among the results, even though your person with the name Orpha here is someone that married into your Holloway line. Even so, as cousins married cousins since the early days in America, speculatively this could wrap back to the earlier Holloways as ancestors on her side as well.Or not at all, of course.
However, the more identifying data that you put into your postings, the higher the likelihood someone may see something that they do recognize as a match, and respond to you.
The Larry Holloway that I used to correspond with had an Uncle who owned a car dealership in Houston, and I was wondering if they were the same.That Larry Holloway does have ancestors all the way back to a brother of the William Holloway with the 2nd wife named Orpha.They named a daughter Orpha Lee Holloway, and when she married, the name Orpha began to be handed down among her descendants as well.That is how this is still not ruled out as a possible (very distant) connection even through the wife of your Joseph Holloway.
As families migrated across early America to settle land newly opened for homesteaders, they often went in wagon trains that include family, friends, kinfolks, and families related by marriage.
When you find something about one surname, you may suddenly find more about many other surnames connected to yours.That is why genealogy is so fascinating to try to play detective and step back through earlier generations.This is why people get hooked and genealogy becomes a lifelong hobby-Sherlock Holmes stuff & treasure hunt, all in one.Best wishes with your search!