George Holman

Brief Life History of George

When George Holman was born in 1873, in Waldron, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Holman, was 27 and his mother, Ruth Deadman, was 23. He married Ellen Whaley in January 1897, in Wangford, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Hellingly, Sussex, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Eynsford, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died in 1957, in Victoria, Australia, at the age of 84.

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Family Time Line

George Holman
1873–1957
Ellen Whaley
1876–1963
Marriage: January 1897
Cecil George Holman
1898–
Edward Earnest Holman
1900–
James S. Holman
1905–

Sources (3)

  • George Holman in household of Ruth Holman, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
  • George Holman, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
  • George Holman, "England and Wales Census, 1901"

World Events (8)

1877

Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.

1884

Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).

1901

At the beginning of 1901, following a proclamation by Queen Victoria, Victoria ceased to be an independent colony and became a state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

Name Meaning

English (southern): topographic name for a ‘dweller in a hollow’, from hol + man (Old English holh + mann). Compare Holler and Hole .

Dutch: habitational name for someone from any of several locations named Hol, from Dutch hol ‘hollow’, or from Middle Dutch hole, heule ‘(low) arched bridge, weir’.

Dutch: from a pet form, formed with man ‘man’, of the personal name Holle, from an ancient Germanic compound name with the element hold ‘loyalty’, for instance Holdert, Hollebrand, Holger and Holmer. Compare Holleman .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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