Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Hole was born in August 1728, in Caunton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Jacob Hole Jr, was 39 and his mother, Barbara Uln, was 39. He married Mary McGinnis in 1757, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He died in December 1803, in Loudoun, Virginia, United States, at the age of 75.
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Family Time Line
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- 1810 United States Federal Census
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots
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1758 · Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1780 · Richmond Becomes the Capital
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
Name Meaning
English (southwestern): topographic name for someone who lived in or by a hole or hollow, from Middle English hol(e) (Old English hol, holh, dative hole), or a habitational name from some minor place so named.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, so named from the dative singular or indefinite plural form of Old Norse hóll ‘round hill, mound’.
In some cases possibly also an American shortened form of Flemish Van Hole: habitational name from the common placename Hol(e), meaning ‘hollow, valley’; or a topographic name from the same term or from Middle Dutch hole, heule ‘(low) arched bridge, weir’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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