Family:William Holliday and Ann Ayers (1)

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Genealogy Report for William Holliday and Ann Ayers:

Descendants of William Holliday, Sr.

Generation No. 1

1. WILLIAM1 HOLLIDAY, SR. was born 1723 in Antrim, Ireland, and died 07 Jul 1786 in Wilkes County, Georgia. He married ANN AYERS Abt. 1743. She was born Abt. 1724, and died 1786 in Wilkes County, Georgia.

Notes for WILLIAM HOLLIDAY, SR.:

From Genforum.com posts:

Holliday/Willingham/Johnston/Ayers Posted by: Curtis Holliday Date: January 14, 2001 at 13:35:23

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I would like to share info on the Holliday, Willingham, Johnston, and Ayers families who lived on Little River in the late 1700s and 1800s. William Holliday Sr. married Ann Ayers and named a son Ayers Holliday b.ca.1760. Ayers married ca.1791 to Olivia Johnston, daughter of Samuel Johnston and Olivia McCarty of Columbia Co. After Samuel Johnston died his widow married Thomas Willingham. Ayers Holliday left Lincoln Co. ca.1808 and settled in Marion Co., MS.

Re: HOLLIDAYS IN MISS. Posted by: Betty Slaton Date: July 25, 1999 at 20:40:50 In Reply to: HOLLIDAYS IN MISS. by Deborah Walters of 1678

Margery Holliday Hall was my gggg grandmother. She was in Copiah Co, along with her brothers John Holliday m. Sarah Ford and Ayers Holliday m. Olivia Johnson. They are the children of William Holliday and Ann Ayers. From "Early Records of Georgia" page 48

William Holliday, Pvt. (GA) Rev. War, Wilkes Co., GA, formerly Lincoln Co. Born 1723 Ireland married Ann Ayres who died 1786 Wilkes Co GA. William died July 7, 1786, Wilkes Co. GA Their Children:

William Jr., b. 1750 m. Jane Cooper Margery Ann Elizabeth Thomas m. Rebecca Regan ( Their children were Martha Frath, Cynthia Sanders, Nathaniel Holliday, and Dickerson Holliday.) Robert Abraham Ayres m. Oliva Johnson Jane Mary John b.ca 1778, Wilkes Co Ga d. 1847 Copiah Co. MS m. 1803 Sarah Ford, Copiah Co MS, she died 1853

Children of WILLIAM HOLLIDAY and ANN AYERS are:

• i. ABRAHAM2 HOLLIDAY, b. WFT Est. 1752-1777.
• ii. ANN HOLLIDAY, b. WFT Est. 1752-1777.
• iii. ELIZABETH HOLLIDAY, b. WFT Est. 1752-1777.
• iv. JANE HOLLIDAY, b. WFT Est. 1752-1777.
• v. MARY HOLLIDAY, b. WFT Est. 1752-1777.
• vi. ROBERT HOLLIDAY, b. WFT Est. 1752-1777.
• vii. THOMAS HOLLIDAY, b. WFT Est. 1752-1777; m. REBECCA REGAN.
• viii. AYERS HOLLIDAY, b. Abt. 1760; m. OLIVIA JOHNSTON, Abt. 1791; b. Bef. 1773.

Notes for AYERS HOLLIDAY: From Genforum.com post:

Holliday/Willingham/Johnston/Ayers Posted by: Curtis Holliday Date: January 14, 2001 at 13:35:23

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I would like to share info on the Holliday, Willingham, Johnston, and Ayers families who lived on Little River in the late 1700s and 1800s. William Holliday Sr. married Ann Ayers and named a son Ayers Holliday b.ca.1760. Ayers married ca.1791 to Olivia Johnston, daughter of Samuel Johnston and Olivia McCarty of Columbia Co. After Samuel Johnston died his widow married Thomas Willingham. Ayers Holliday left Lincoln Co. ca.1808 and settled in Marion Co., MS.

• ix. WILLIAM HOLLIDAY, JR., b. Abt. 1770; d. 1826, Wilkes County, Georgia; m. JANE COOPER; b. 1775, Scotland; d. Wilkes County, Georgia.

Notes for WILLIAM HOLLIDAY, JR.: http://home.comcast.net/~jamesleeweaver/weaverjl/pafg3360.htm#81827

William HOLLIDAY Sr. [Parents] was born about 1770 in Antrim, Ireland. He died in 1826 in Wilkes, Ga. He married Jane COOPER.

DAR records indicate that William Holliday, Jr. served as private inColonel Elijah Clarke's regiment of Georgia troops.

Jane COOPER was born about 1775 in Scotland. She died in Wilkes, Ga. She married William HOLLIDAY Sr..

They had the following children:

  M i William HOLLIDAY Jr. was born in 1798 in Laurens, Sc. He died in Ms.  
  M ii Robert Alexander HOLLIDAY 
  M iii Matthew H. HOLLIDAY 
  F iv Nancy HOLLIDAY 
  F v Margaret HOLLIDAY was born in 1806 in Laurens, Sc.  

• x. JOHN HOLLIDAY, b. Abt. 1778, Wilkes County, Georgia; d. 1847, Copiah County, Mississippi; m. SARAH FORD.
• xi. MARGERY HOLLIDAY, b. Bef. 1783; m. HENRY HALL, 1801, prob. North Carolina; b. 1757, St. Marks District, Orange County, North Carolina; d. 04 Jun 1831, St. Helenas Parish, Louisiana.

Notes for HENRY HALL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~toomuchtime/Hgr.html

3. HENRY3 HALL (ROBERT2, JAMES1) was born 1757 in St. Marks District, Orange County, North Carolina, and died June 04, 1831 in St. Helenas Parish, Louisiana.

He married (1) MARY JANE ROSS. He married (2) MARGERY HOLLIDAY 1801, daughter of WILLIAM HOLLIDAY and ANN AYRES.

More About MARGERY HOLLIDAY: Property: December 09, 1824, Margery Hall and her brother Ayres (Ares) sold some property on Darling Creek in St Helena`s Parish, Louisiana to James M. Harvey for the sum of $300.00.

Margery (Holliday)Hall notes.

Children of HENRY HALL and MARY ROSS are:

       4. i. MATILDA4 HALL, b. August 12, 1783, Orange County, North Carolina;
        d. January 26, 1865, Copiah Co. Mississippi.
       5. ii. PRICILLA HALL, b. February 14, 1786, North Carolina; d. July 12, 1860, St.
        Helenas Parish,Louisiana.
       6. iii. WYATT HALL, b. 1787, North Carolina or Virginia; d. 1852, Covington County,
        Mississippi.
       7. iv. James Hall, b. 1789, Georgia d. Abt. 1855, Mississippi
        8. v. Britton Hall b. 1792 Georgia d. June 4, 1849, Newton County, Texas

Children of HENRY HALL and MARGERY HOLLIDAY are:

       9. vi. HENRY4 HALL, b. Aft. 1801.
        vii. ROBERT HALL, b. Aft. 1801.