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.
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Most recent messages:
| Date | Time | Name | Message |
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| 21st Jun 10 | 10:37:48 | Lionel Fowler | Hi Michael, I have yet to see an Irish one. Don't forget that Sonny's grandfather stated that his ancestor came over from England during the Elizabethan plantation period and was granted O'Toole land at Redcross. Possibly the English one is correct. Why don't you ask your question in the Holt Family specific, 'The General's Chat Room'? The flag above is a depiction of General Holt's insurgency flag. Do you know your family ancestry? |
| 10th Jun 10 | 11:30:11 | Michael Holt | Hey, i'm from Australia. I would like to know is there a an Irish Holt Crest? All I could find is the English one |
| 23rd Apr 10 | 07:47:26 | Lionel Fowler | Hello Martin Hodgson, Your enquiry about the original owner of your presentation copy of Charles Kingsley's 'Hereward the Wake' has been transferred by Mal Ellson to its proper, 'The Ascendancy & Yeomen Researchers' Chat Room' at my request. You will find my son, Matthew Fowler, has provided you with some of the book's family provenance there since you wrote. Incidentally, I tried to explain the need for the chat address correction directly to you but your email address was not accepted by Australia's Bigpond. |
| 15th Apr 10 | 10:45:00 | Mike Holt | Hi everyone. Thanks for providing this forum. I am one of the Australian Holts. I immigrated here with my father, Thomas Patrick Holt in 1954. I am researching General Joseph Holt for the book I am writing about him. The book will be semi-fictional, but based on Joseph's life and times. If anyone has any material about Joseph, his family, or anything else that might help my research would you email me please? (Email address removed in accordance with our Chat Room policy.) MIKE, apparently you have not read our chat rooms rules nor understood the reason for the establishment of our Holt Family Fellowship. We thank you for thanking us for the establishment of our Chat Rooms which are our tools for family research for all families involved in the 1798 Rebellion period both then, pre- and post-. We are puzzled by your claim to be, "one of the Australian Holts." You have not provided us with your descent from either of General Joseph Holt's two sons, Joshua Holt and Joseph Harrison Holt, nor of any wider descent from the other children of John Holt of Ballydonnell. Even your request for Holt family information is in the wrong Chat Room! We exist to help the descendants of John Holt of Ballydonnell find each others' families and to advance the truth of the rebellion period through family research in an effort to undo the political and religious propaganda that has taken place in Ireland, and the world, before and since 1798. We accept that you immigrated to Australia in 1954 and live here but what ancestral proof can you provide for us to authenticate your Holt Fellowship membership? If you have none, it does not preclude you from participation as an interested member of the public, but please adhere to our rules as stated on our 'The General's Notice Board' which is our 'Home Page'. If you wish to use our chat rooms for family research please participate. Maybe your family emigrated to England from Ireland? We wish you well with your endeavours. if you use any of our written material please acknowledge the quotes as from The Holt Family Fellowship and the author. Editor. 22.4.10. |
| 11th Dec 09 | 12:40:55 | Sarah Austen | Dear everyone, This is a family history query but has anyone come across a Reynolds United Irishman, Protestant, who fought alongside Michael Dwyer and possibly Joseph Holt and was hung? He would be an ancestor of Lillie Reynolds who married James Connolly (1916 Rising) and probably from the Rathnew / Wicklow area. Many thanks for any information if you have any. Sarah Austen (nee Reynolds). |
| 13th Nov 09 | 21:27:14 | Lionel Fowler | Thanks for your reply Jenny & Peter. What might progress the Richard Dry Senior research would be if you were to use this chat room to add to our published knowledge of your ancestor. I would then be able to judge the relevancy of what we might find to send you during our researches in Tasmania. |
| 13th Nov 09 | 13:59:05 | Jenny & Peter Mayne | Many thanks for all the help you have offered. Reunion sounds good but may not be suitable for us due family commitments but pleased to be included. I did a lot of research in about 1988 in Hobart and we have been to Launceston/ Hagley since. Interested to know if more info has turned up though. |
| 7th Nov 09 | 11:41:06 | Lionel Fowler | Hi Jenny & Peter, Aileen and I will be continuing our researches during December/January on Joseph Holt, Richard Dry Snr. and James Cox in Launceston, New Norfolk and Hobart, with help from my distant cousin and Joshua Holt descendant, Diana Hardy Wilson. Have you anything specific that you want us to find out about Richard? |
| 21st Jul 09 | 22:04:11 | Lionel Fowler | Sorry, Jenny & Peter, I meant our General Joseph Holt's Notice Board. Keep watching as I try to refind Richard's property's name and acreage. (I have, it was 30,000 acres and named, Elphin Farm). In 1811, Governor Macquarie granted him a further 500 acres on Quamby Plains. Richard understandably named it, Belle Vue. Richard's son, Sir Richard Dry, built his house on it and named it Quamby.) Visit, www."ballaratweb.net/suec/tasdrys'. For further help, contact Margaret Harman, Librarian, Tasmanian Archive & Heritage Office, State Library of Tasmania, 91 Murray Street, Hobart TAS 7000. Their staff are keen to help. Thanks to the zeal and encouragement of William Power, I am thinking of arranging a reunion at Brush Farm, Carlingford, where Joseph Holt and the then Lieutenant Cox lived with their families. Saturday, 10th January 2010 would be the most suitable date as the 11th January 1800 is the date of the Holt, Dry, and Cox families' Minerva arrival in New South Wales. Would you and your wider family be interested? |
| 21st Jul 09 | 20:47:48 | Jenny & Peter Mayne | Thank you Lionel, Yes we have been to St Mary's Hagley and to Quamby. Yes there is a lot on Sir Richard but we are more interested in his father Richard and his life. What is the updated home page you refer to? |
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