Elizabeth Holloway

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

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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Family Time Line

Joshua Howland
1683–1744
Elizabeth Holloway
1695–1725
Marriage: 12 May 1709
John Howland Sr
1710–1790
Joshua Howland Sr.
1713–
Gershom Howland
1717–1718
Malachi Howland
1711–1802
Job Howland
1713–
Elisabeth Howland
1721–1805

Sources (6)

  • Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth Hollaway - birth: about 1694;
  • Elizabeth Holloway Howland, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Eilzabeth Holloway, Joshua Howland, and Their Children

Name Meaning

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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