Paul - back later, but have you seen Harry Hollister on First Families 2001? D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Woolard" <pwoolard@melbpc.org.au> To: <AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [AVNE] For the Local North easters > Denise, > > Thanks for your posting about Phyllis Humphris. It is information which I > can use to pad out part of my family tree and reminded me of some unfinished > research. > > Did Harry Hollister marry his first cousin?? > > On first glance, YES. > > Harry's parents were Augustus Hollister and Kate nee Stone while Beatrice's > parents were Charles Stone and Emma Dive. Kate and Charles were brother and > sister or were they? > > Harry Hollister's mother was Kate Stone, daughter of Sarah Hopwood who > married Job Stone, and Beatrice Stone was a daughter of Charles Stone, a son > of the same Job Stone. > > Job and Sarah, incidentally both convicts and my ggg-parents, married on 27 > September 1842. (Kate's sister, Mary Ann married Henry Woolard at her > parent's home in Stanley in 1864) Kate Hollister nee Hopwood was born 15 > May 1841 at the Female Factory in Parramatta and registered as the daughter > of William and Sarah but with surname of Hopwood. She took the Stone name > after her mother married Job. Of course, it is possible that Job was her > natural father (his convict ship arrived in Botany Bay on 27 April 1840) but > I fear that will never be known. On the other hand Charles Stone was > supposedly born in 1840, a couple of years before Job and Sarah married and > it would appear highly unlikely although possible that Sarah was his mother. > (I say supposedly because NSW Pioneers Index shows that birth as being > registered in 1845 as the son of Job and Kate although other records > indicate 1840 - this has yet to be resolved) > > > > Paul Woolard > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Denise McMahon" <helendmc@powerup.com.au> > To: <AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:13 PM > Subject: [AVNE] For the Local North easters > > > > Perhaps you may know of the lady mentioned below Phyllis. > > > > Phyllis was the daughter of Harry Hollister who drove coaches for Crawford > and Connolly. > > > > Harry was born in Stanley in 1870 and died in Wodonga at 84 years in 1954. > He is buried in Wodonga. He married Beatrice STONE in 1898 (died in 1944). > > > > The couple had four children one of whom was Phyllis Isabel who married in > 1933 Wal Humphris and lived in Wodonga. She died in 1997 and used to lead > the Anzac Day service at the cenotaph. She was President of the RSL Women's > Auxiliary, catered for the Mayday Hills. Was a musical lady from what I > have been told played the organ and sang. > > > > Perhaps someone remembers this lady on Anzac Day. > > > > Denise > > > > >

Thanks Denise I have just been to First Families and looked up Hollister. It gives a slightly different slant on the Kate Hopwood Stone Hollister saga. Also looked up Kate's "father", Job Stone and found a miriad of family there. Wish I had heard of it when it was being put together. It would be a thrill to have Henry Woolard and his descendants on the site. Must have been asleep the day it was publicised. Paul Woolard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise McMahon" <helendmc@powerup.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [AVNE] For the Local North easters > Paul - back later, but have you seen Harry Hollister on First Families 2001? > > D