Acknowledgement:

Harry Hollingsworth

Henry Albert ‘Harry’ Hollingsworth

(1931-1995) 

The Hollingsworth Register was a quarterly publication of the late ‘Harry’ Hollingsworth, a registered genealogist, who resided in Inglewood, California.  From 1965 to 1992, in 112 issues, Harry Hollingsworth documented much of the history of the Hollingsworth family.  The issues also included stories of current interest submitted by subscribers.  

Harry’s genealogy research on the Hollingsworth clan was all done ‘pre-internet’.  Through actual visits to the Mormon Family History Center, libraries and good old snail mail to points around the world, he amassed an enormous amount of detailed and accurate information on the Hollingsworth family. 

Harry also wrote numerous articles in the Hollingsworth Register on the Canadian branch of the Hollingsworth family.  As I belong to this lineage I have extracted articles from the Hollingsworth Register that directly reference Canadian Hollingsworth lineage and placed them here. 

This website is dedicated to Harry Hollingsworth’s commitment to genealogy and acknowledges the Hollingsworth Register as being an invaluable source of information for researchers of the Hollingsworth family.  All original 112 issues of the Hollingsworth Register, scanned in PDF format, can now be researched in one place on the internet.  Unfortunately some of the original mimeographed issues as published were of poor quality and this fact is regrettably reflected in a few of these scanned documents. 

Complete collections of original registers are rare and the time has come to share this wealth of information with those who seek the history of the Hollingsworth family.  I would be remiss not to acknowledge the following people who provided missing copies of the Hollingsworth Register, thus making this website possible: 

  – Thomas James Hollingsworth:

Family historian and webmaster of Holly Gardens 

  – John R. Hollingsworth:

Family historian and co-administrator of the Hollingsworth DNA Project

I hope you enjoy the Hollingsworth family history written in a way that only Harry could write it.

THANKS HARRY!

    Donald Page Hollingsworth

5 thoughts on “Acknowledgement:”

  1. Hi Colm, if you want I can get an email address for Tom. I’m in contact with him several times a year. Is your Hotmail address good to contact you outside of the WordPress platform?

  2. Hi Donald

    . Colm again sorry I forgot to mention that my great grandmother’s name was Mary/ Marie Ann Henderson nee Hollingsworth. She lived in Summer hill Dublin Ireland.

    Thanks

  3. What a lovely legacy. I’ve just stumbled upon this looking for info on Kiltalown House, Jobstown, near Tallaght in Dublin. I’m researching from Australia. What a lot of work Harry achieved pre-internet, I can only imagine the time, money and effort. Thanks for making these PDFs available online!

    Tom

  4. Thank you so much for your kind words. In 2022 my son and I spent several days traveling around Wexford. We most enjoyed a Sunday service at St. Mogue’s Church in Ballycanew. Although my father, Clarence Miller Hollingsorth, was very interested in the Hollingsworth Family Tree, it was Harry Hollingsworth that did 99.9% of the research. And as I pointed out, his work was accomplished pre-internet from the U.S.A. Thanks again for the personal contact.
    Donald Page Hollingsworth
    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  5. Thank you so much Donald for making this available, I’m based in County Wexford in Ireland and was able to trace my Great Great Grandfather, Edward Earl circa 1818-1894 with the help of your father’s research and I’m also using these registers to try to confirm the previous family links but with the 12 year agony your dad faced with the Earl line, I don’t think it will be an easy ask!

    kind regards,

    Niall O’Connor

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