Biographical information

Origin

Armagh, Ireland. Tradition has it that his ancestors probably came from Cheshire, England and removed to Ireland.

"The name of Hollingsworth is derived from the residence of its first bearers at a place called Hollingsworth, meaning the farm among the holly bushes, in Cheshire, England. It is found in ancient English and early American records in the various forms of Hollingworth, Hollynworth, Holynworth, Hollyworth, Holymworth, Hollinworth, Holinworth, Hollynsworth, Hollinsworth, Holingsworth, Hollingsworth, and numerous others, of which the last mentioned spelling is that most generally used in America today. It is believed that the ancestors of this family were of Saxon origin and were settled in Cheshire about the year 1022 A.D., long before the time of the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror." ^S2 Note: it has not been proven that Valentine Hollingsworth's ancestors derived from this Cheshire family.

Migration

Arrived in Delaware from Belfast in 1682, accompanied by his family, son-in-law Thomas Connaway and John Musgrave, an indentured servant. He settled on almost 1000 acres on Shellpot (Shilpot) Creek near Brandywine River, an area which is about five miles northeast of Wilmington. ^S3

The Welcome Claimants Proved, Disproved and Doubtful with an Account of Some of their Descendants (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970) by George McCracken, a book researching the claims of those that were said to have arrived on William Penn's ship The Welcome, discusses Valentine Hollingsworth and concludes that he did not arrive on The Welcome or The Antelope. This conclusion though is refuted by Harry Hollingsworth of The Hollingsworth Register, who believes that a case can be made for Valentine's arrival on the latter. The Antelope, mastered by Edward Cooke, is the only one of Penn's ships that had any Irish connections as far as the records show. It is also the only ship that is not treated in British port books because it sailed out of Belfast, Ireland. It arrived in Delaware on 10 Dec 1682. Valentine Hollingsworth obtained his certificate of leave from Lurgan Meeting on 25 July 1682. ^S4 [See A Case for The Antelope]

Offices

• Founder of the Newark Monthly Meeting and elder from 1686 to 1710 ^S7
• Member of the first Pennsylvania Assembly in 1683 and signed William Penn's Great Charter
• Assembly member again 1687-1689, 1695 and 1700
• Justice of the Peace in New Castle County from 1684 to 1688

Estate

In 1684 a survey of 986 acres was made on Shelpot (Shellpot, Shilpot) Creek, in New Castle County, Delaware and called "New Worke" in the surveyor's return. Hollingsworth gave half an acre for a burying place, in 1687, "there being some already buryed in ye spot." A Quaker meeting house was also built on the property, but by 1754 the meeting ceased to be held there. ^S5

Birth

Born "about the sixth month of the yeare 1632," in Ballyvickcrannell (now called Ballymacrandal) in Seagoe Parish, County of Armagh, Northern Ireland. ^S1 The spelling of Ballyvickcrannell has been corrupted through the years and is sometimes seen as Bellenickcrannell, Belleniskcrannell and others.

Death

Marriage

• (1) married Ann Ree, daughter of Nicholas Ree of Tanderagee, Ballymore, Armagh, Northern Ireland. "There is no marriage certificate recorded for Valentine Hollingsworth's marriage to Ann Ree. Lurgan, Ireland, Monthly Meeting, Births and Deaths, says that he married Ann Ree on the 'seventh day of the fouerth month, Anno Domini, 1655'" (i.e., June 7, 1655). ^S6

• (2) Ann died in 1671, and Valentine then married Ann Calvert, daughter of Thomas and Jane Calvert, on June 12, 1672 in Shankill parish in County Armagh. ^S1

Children

With wife Ann Ree

• Mary
• Henry
• Thomas
• Catherine

With wife Ann Calvert

• Samuel
• Enoch - died young
• Valentine, Jr.
• Ann
• John
• Joseph
• Enoch

Comments

Sites of interest

• Tom Hollingsworth's website
• The Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. Society
• The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania
• History of The Religious Society of Friends in Lurgan

Bibliographic notes

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Valentine Hollingsworth.

Family information from:

Pioneers of Old Frederick Country, Virginia By Cecil O'dell, pg. 255.

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Valentine Hollingsworth Compact Disc #130 Pin #1456497 Pedigr

Sex:  M  

Event(s)

Birth:   7 Jun 1632 

 Ballyvickcrannel, Seagoe Parish, Armagh Co., N. Ireland  
Death:   abt 1711 

 New Castle, De  

Parents

Father:  Henry Hollingsworth     Disc #130     Pin #1457087   
Mother:  Catherine Cornish     Disc #130     Pin #1457774  

Marriage(s)

Spouse:  Ann Ree     Disc #130     Pin #1462339  
Marriage:  7 Apr 1655  
 Lurgan, Ireland  

Spouse:  Ann Calvert     Disc #130     Pin #1456498  
Marriage:  12 Apr 1672  
 Armage Co, Ire

1.   Myers, Albert Cook, Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1750
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   Cites Lurgan Monthly Meeting records, "about the sixth month in the yeare 1632." (Quaker date reckoning means 6th month is August)

2.   The Name and family of Hollingsworth (Washington, D.C.: The Bureau?, 1900), pg 1.
3.   Stewart, J. Adger. Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr (Louisville, Ky.: J.P. Morton, 1925.), pg 1.
4.   The Hollingsworth Register, Vol. 24, No. 2, June 1988, pg 24.
5.   Futhey, J. Smith, and Gilbert Cope. History of Chester County, Pennsylvania: With Genealogical and Biographical Sketches (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881. [Ancestry.com]), p 233.
6.   The Hollingsworth Register, "The Quaker Hollingsworth: Part Two, Posterity of Valentine," John V. Hollingsworth, Vol. 1, No. 2, pg 55.
7.   Farmer, Walter I. In American Since 1607 (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1987).
8. ↑ Valentine Hollingsworth, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.