Sunday, November 11, 2007

THE FOREFATHERS




Thomas Holliday(1685-?)
Charity Ridley(1685-1766)
James Holliday(1718-1784)
Jane Noldrid(1720-1740)
Jane Mears(1720-?)
William Holliday(1750-?)
Patience Kent(1750-?)
John Holliday 1787-1839)
Mary Heritage1
Maria Johnson2(17895-185?)
George Holliday(1822-1893)
Lydia Standbridge(1826-1915)

James Frederick Holliday (1853-1939)
Elizabeth Daly (1856-1926)

The Holliday Family came from here:
Kew Foot Road, Old Deer Park Cottages



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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Welcome to the Holliday's Blog

I'm been doing some research about our family and I have lots of information that I would like to share with you. Please feel free to write me with any questions or answers that you have about our family.

George A. Holliday
Washington, November, 10 2007

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Erin and Elizabeth Daly-Holliday




Elizabeth (1897-1957)

During her studies in England, that included piano lessons, she had the opportunity to make a special presentation to the Prince of Wales,later King Edward VIII.She won first prize in the talent competition and was presented with a beautiful concert piano.
She married Mr.Schmidt, a German who had recently arrived from Germany.They had two sons, James Albert, Boy in 1925 and Giggy in 1923.
Elizabeth died of cancer in 1957. Mr.Schmidt died in 1977.




Erin (1900-1978)

Last daughter, Erin was born in the turn of the century. Maybe she was the one everybody in the family can remember best. Unlike her sister, she only married in a mature age, what granted her more time to study and to work. Yet in England, she worked as a private secretary to Sir Winston Churchill, taking his notes to write his biography.
Erin married Mr. Francis Ryan Janion, and in 1935 was born Sheila,her only child.
Erin was very communicative and intelligent, she liked to have long conversations about interesting matters. She was very kind to her grandnephews, George's grandsons, with whom she lived for sometime. Her private joke was biting the children's, Kiko-and Johnny's ears, while pretending to kiss their cheeks.
She left Brazil to the U.S. and joined her daughter Sheila and family in 1970. She she lived there until her death in 1978.

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Jimmy Holliday 1893-1931


Jimmy or Jim, as the family used to call him; was born in 1893, and like his brother and sisters, was sent to England to study in a Catholic School, and later, to the Stoneyhurst College. In 1910, Jimmy was in England and during the holidays he took a trip to Chicago in the United States. About this trip, Jimmy wrote a letter to his mother. He was a photographer and had a professional studio in Petropolis, at the Rua do Imperador, called Photo Mister, named like this, due to the way people used to call him, in Brazil. He married Nereia Sampaio (Nina) in 1931, after a nine year engagement This long engagement seems to be a consequence of his love for another girl, a friend of Nina's, who never corresponded his affection. Jimmy died at home in Petropolis, were they lived, at Bingen, nine months after his marriage, of a heart attack during the night He was only 39 years old . They didn't have any children. She survived him for more than 30 years. Nina never got married again, and died in 1963, after a long period of mental illness.