Hollow
One-Name Study

Topics

• About the Hollow One-Name Study
• Variants
• Origin of the surname
• Links
• Contact Details

About the Hollow One-Name Study

The aim of the study is to collect references to the name Hollow and variants of it worldwide. I propose to use the data I collect to build up family trees and to link them together as much as possible. I also want to collect the family history of the different groups of Hollow.

In developing the Hollow One Name Study I intend to:

• Keep a central record of Hollow data
• Provide support for Hollow researchers by, providing information from the database and putting people in touch with others who are researching the same line
• Publish the Hollow database on the internet (The material on the internet will not contain information about people who are living or who were born after 1920).
• Analyse the information from different sources to make links between families
• Let people know where the sources of data are
• Circulate a newsletter amongst Hollow researchers or other interested people
• Develop a directory of Hollow researchers
• Study the worldwide distribution of Hollow.
• Research the origin of the Hollow name.
• Collect photographs, especially digital, of Hollows, their relatives and places linked to the Hollow name.

Variants

The variants included in the study are Holla, Hollah, Hallo, Hallow.

Origin of the surname

The name 'Hollow' appears in very few references. Reany (see below) links Hollow and Hollows but in the Cornish references Hollow without the 's' seems to be used almost exclusively.

References

A Dictionary of English Surnames, P.H. Reany and R.M. Wilson, OUP 3rd Edn. 1996

Hollow, Hollows: Peter in le Holwe 1279 Rotuli Hundredorum, 2 vpls 1812-18 Cambridgeshire

Thomas de Hollowe 1327 Subsidy rolls Worcs. Worcs. Hist. Soc. 4 vols 1893-1902, dweller in the hollow Old English, holh

A Handbook of Cornish Surnames, G. Pawley White , Pawley White , 1972

Hollow: from Hallow: moors, place name, many Penhallows found in West Cornwall, from penhallow: end of moors or downs

The Guiness Book of Names, Leslie Dunkling, Guiness Publishing Ltd. 5th Edn. 1991

In 1890 Henry Brougham Guppy published his 'Homes of Family Names in Great Britain',(Harrison 1890).

Guppy made a particular study of the names of farmers, whom he described as 'the most stay-at-home class of the country'. and he discovered that in each county the ir surnames fell into groups:

• General - names found all over the country.
• Common - names found in 20-29 counties
• Regional - names found in 10-19 counties
• District - names found in 4-9 counties
• County - names found in 2-3 counties
• Peculiar - names found mainly in one county only.

The surname Hollow appears in the peculiar to one county list for Cornwall.

Links

The Hollow Family History Pages

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mr Colin J Hollow
2 Keeley Lane,
Carlton North,
Victoria
3054
Australia
E-mail:

This page last updated 22 November 2008.

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