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.