When Edward Holley was christened on 21 November 1869, in Garway, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edwin Holley, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Prosser, was 37. He died in 1871, in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 2.
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English:
nickname from Middle English hol ‘hollow’ + eie, egh(e) ‘eye’ (Old English hol + ēage), perhaps a nickname for someone with a missing eye.
topographic name for someone who lived by a ‘clearing in a hollow’, from Middle English hol ‘hollow’ + lei(e) ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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