When Elizabeth Holloway was born about 1695, in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Malachi Holloway, was 49 and her mother, Elizabeth Shove, was 30. She married Joshua Howland on 12 May 1709, in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 17 February 1725, in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 31, and was buried in Assonet Old Quaker Cemetery, Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) sunken road’, from Middle English hol(g)h ‘hollow’ + weie ‘way, road’ (Old English holh + weg), or else a habitational name from any of numerous places so named, such as Holloway (Middlesex) or Holway (Somerset). In Ireland (Leinster), the name has sometimes been Gaelicized as Ó hAilmhic (see Hulvey ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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