Richard Ellis HOLLIDAY was born in 1886 in Chorlton-on-Medlock,
Lancashire. His parents were John and Margaret (nee HARESCEUGH).
In 1914 Richard married Kate Norah OVERTON
in Chorlton. They had a daughter, Edna, but Kate Norah died in
1926. Richard married Maud Stanley in 1927 in Timperley, Cheshire.
Edna died aged 23 when she was run over by a train when crossing
the railway at a level crossing.
John HOLLIDAY married Margaret HARESCEUGH
in 1882 in Manchester and they had 10 children. There was a photograph
of John and Margaret and their 8 surviving children, probably
outside their front door. John was born in Kirklinton, Cumberland
in 1855 to John and Hannah (nee CARRUTHERS).
I have not found him in the 1881 census, but he must have moved
to Manchester round about this time, probably to join his brother,
William.
John (John's father) married Hannah CARRUTHERS
in 1845 in the parish of Arthuret, Cumberland. He was born in
1815, the illegitimate son of Eleanor MURRAY
and John HOLLIDAY. There is a recognisance in the Quarter Sessions
records for this birth and mentions the father as John HOLLIDAY,
husbandman of Stainton and the bondsman as George HOLLIDAY of
HighburyBeck, farmer. To find out who George was I created another
HOLLIDAY tree and found only one person it could be, though there
was no baptism of a son John for George. John may be the John
HOLLIDAY, baker in the 1841-1861 census married to a Margaret
JOHNSTON.
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I have a second HOLLIDAY family tree. This includes the main
family of HOLLIDAYs around Kirklinton and Scaleby, Cumberland
and was produced to 'mop' up the people so that I could see my
own HOLLIDAY tree. It descends from John (1726?-1793) and Mary
(1730-1782), both of whom were buried in Kirklinton. John left
a will mentioning his sons, including George, and daughters, including
Dorcas. Dorcas died in 1807 as a spinster at the age of 30 and
in her will mentions her nieces and nephews, including the illegitimate
child John HOLLIDAY, son of my said brother George. Although the
registers in Kirklinton and Arthuret mention the fathers of illegitimate
children, there is no mention of George. However there is in Arthuret
in 1797 a baptism of a John, the son of William BELL and Margaret
JOHNSTONE and a Margaret JOHNSTONE married George HOLLIDAY in
1799. As a two year old he would probably be considered as George's
son (what is the wife's belongs to the husband!).
