When Emma Holley was christened on 16 May 1859, in Garway, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edwin Holley, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Prosser, was 27. She died on 22 May 1859, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
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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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