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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| 23rd Feb 10 | 06:59:01 | Martyn Hodgson | I have a leather-bound edition of Hereward the Wake, with a printed bookplate of Robert Uniacke Penrose Fitzgerald of Cork Begg Island. The book has a written inscription "Penrose Fitzgerald from C Kingsley" I would very much value anybody's comment on this connection. |
| 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? |
| 18th Jul 09 | 21:54:44 | Lionel Fowler | Hi Jenny & Peter, While not actually researching the Dry family per se, I recommend 'Googling' Sir Richard Dry to obtain about 200,000 entries including General Joseph Holt's friend, his father, Richard Dry. You could possibly obtain an useful research lead from there. In 2004, my wife, Aileen, and I visited St Mary's Anglican Church at Hagley, Tasmania, which Sir Richard had built and endowed, to pay our respects to the family. We can thoroughly recommend it on both family research and scenic grounds. The church grounds contain several Dry family graves. Sir Richard is quite sincerely honoured. It could prove an useful basis for your family research. Have you read our updated Home Page? I have added further information in the hope that the geographical information will aid your research. Good luck. |
| 16th Jul 09 | 19:49:50 | Jenny & Peter Mayne | Is anyone else researching the Dry family. Richard and Thomas Dry of the Liberties in Dublin, clothiers were both United Irishmen. |
| 21st May 09 | 10:14:26 | Lionel Fowler | Hello Brian, please read my answer in The General's Chat Room. |
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