Hey Kathy, Check for friends, neighbors, and preachers. Some of my relatives got named that way. Dee >if anyone has info on a mystery name in my Holladay lines. On November 19, >1847 my ancestors John James Holladay and Julia Elizabeth Stukes had a son. >They named the son Shields Priestley Holladay. I have been unable to find >the name Shields or Priestley on any previous Holladay or Stukes lines. So, >where might this name have come from? Every Holladay generation in my line >(male and female) and many off lines carry this name down to today's >generation