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THE HOLT FAMILY FELLOWSHIP
Est.11th January 2000
"Who wishes to serve his fellow creature will meet with the merit of his own action in time to come."
Joseph Holt 1756 - 1826, A Rum Story, Peter O'Shaughnessy editor, 1988, p.53.
The General's Chat Room
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With the retirement in Australia of Pamela Goesch and Lionel Fowler after approximately sixty years spent researching the true descendants of General Joseph Holt, Bernadette (Ber) Holt has offered her research services to our chat rooms. We would all be aware of and appreciate Ber's amazing family research abilities. The Holt Family Fellowship researchers are extremely lucky to receive such a wonderful offer. Most of us understand the tremendous work that this involves. The Holt Family Fellowship has accepted Ber's offer with our deepest gratitude. It is fitting that our family research in our chat rooms will now be based in Ireland.
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Most recent messages:
| Date | Time | Name | Message |
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| 19th Jan 12 | 20:42:26 | Lionel Fowler | Thanks for picking this duplication up David. I am uncertain if i can change your current entry at the moment. However, if you continue to sign off as D.S. Holt, this would help eliminate the possible complication for our family researchers until I am able to edit your original application. This should eliminate any problems. |
| 19th Jan 12 | 20:35:13 | Lionel Fowler | Great news Richard, Let's hope that our other family researchers can build on your recently found information. |
| 18th Jan 12 | 11:20:48 | Richard Paul Holt | Thanks Lionel, I'll see what I can find. We visited Londonderry in April 2011 from Australia and I took photos of Augustine's Church, Londonderry as we thought it was such a lovely little church. After we returned from our trip we were given the death information for William to find it was the church I had taken photos, so close. If I'd know we would have gone in and spoken with them to get a little more information. Although we we very impressed the visit to St Colombs Church of Ireland in Londonderry. We had discussion the archivist information we received from him regarding William's son, James Albert was born 17 September 1828 and baptised in St Colombs Church of Ireland in Londonderry. So I suppose we were lucky to find this information and also saw a burial site within the church grounds of family. |
| 17th Jan 12 | 23:43:23 | David Holt | Hello Chatters, I have discovered that there is another David Holt, who has visited the chat room more frequently than me. For the future I will sign off as DSHolt, so there is no confusion. The previous post from David Holt is from DSHolt. |
| 17th Jan 12 | 23:12:19 | David Holt | Happy New Year to you all. I hope 2012 goes well for you all. I am not a frequent visitor to the Chat Room, so I am not up to date with the chat. I have a question. In The General's Memoirs it says: "The Holts were descended from one of those protestant settlers who were introduced into Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth and James 1 on the forfeiture of the families of O'Toole and O'Byrne". Has anyone undertaken research to identify who were the protestant settlers from which The Holts descended and to trace the lineage of the protestant settlers? |
| 17th Jan 12 | 06:28:57 | Lionel Fowler | Sorry Chatters, I have been caught up in the 2001 Mt Hall Bushfire Class Action currently before the Supreme Court which is now in recess. I am too late to wish you all a Merry Christmas but at least I can wish you all a Happy New Year of researching in 2012. I look forward this year to our chatters proving the link between the families of General Joseph Holt of Co. Wicklow with Samuel Holt's family of Co. Kildare. It was Ber who initially told me of this possibility. Thanks for your input Cher regarding Samuel Holt of Louth. I wonder if there is a link? As he intimated, I believe that our former webmaster, Mal Ellson, is now unable to provide his web overwatch. Our search engine provider has also added to our problems by untimely updating their service necessitating me to learn new editing skills. I will be unable to devote my time to learning such until the Supreme Court's judgment on our 2001 Bushfire Class Action is handed down in March - Ten and a Quarter years after the event! I am therefore unable to help Allison by moving her recent chats to their correct specialised chat room. Richard, thanks for your information. I hope our chatters will be able to further your family research cause. You have struck the difficulty which many of our 20'th and 21'st Century chatters have experienced before you with the Irish family church records. Ber made us aware of the intermingling of families' church marriages, births and burial services between the Churches of Rome and Ireland. it was predicated on the distances between the villages and their denominational churches. As most were on foot, they often went to the nearest one. Try the nearest R. C. Church. I wish you good luck. I send my best wishes to all chatters for your successful family researching in 2012. Please try to enter your researches into the correct chat rooms so that other family researchers can read the entries in their specific family research areas and build on them. |
| 14th Jan 12 | 15:15:42 | Richard Paul Holt | Hi Bernadette, happy New Year to all. William HOLT (father of James HOLT born LONDONDERRY) was born around 1807 and died 11 Jun 1850. His details of his buriel place is in Plot 132, St Augustine's Church, Londonderry. However the Rev Pat Storey at St Augustines LONDONDERRY has no record of my family. Can you add this to the information for James HOLT (Londonderry) |
| 4th Jan 12 | 09:06:21 | Carole Parkes | Welcome Cher. Samuel Holt of County Louth who married Elizabeth Galbraith appears in the Ancestors list accessed at the bottom of this page. Scroll down past the pages list and you'll find the Ancestors List. It is in alphabetical order so Samuel appears near the end of the Ancestor list. Let me know here if you have trouble finding him. Ber, another of our regular chatters wrote the information about him. It would be useful to us if you can let us know if you have anything else on them we don't have. Good luck. Carole |
| 2nd Jan 12 | 03:09:28 | Cher Gibson | Holt, Samuel who married Elizabeth Galbraith in Ireland. If anyone is familiar with this family or names, I would be so grateful to hear anything dates/stories of this family. thank you, Cher Gibson |
| 19th Dec 11 | 01:04:51 | Matthew Fowler | Allison, I'm a little surprised to see all these non General Joseph Holt posts here in his Chat Room and wonder if it would in fact be more appropriate to move your future genealogical research questions posts into "Ascendancy & Yeomen Researchers' Chat"? Maybe even copying & pasting the ones you have on here there too for future researchers? |
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