A History of the Hole Family in England and America
By Charles Elmer Rice

Contents

I-Norse and English origin of the Hole Family

II-the Holes of Clannaborough

III-Genealogical Table from Egbert to Charles Hole

IV-The Holes of Devonshire

V-The Very Rev. Samuel Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester, and Samuel Hugh Francklin Hole

VI-Generations from William the Conqueror to Jacob Hole

VII-The Fells of Swarthmoor Hall

VIII-The Descendants of Thomas and Margaret Fell

IX-Descendants of the Meads and Thomases

X-Descendants of Jacob and Barbara Hole in the United States, excepting those of their son Charles Hole

XI-Descendants of Charles and Mary Hole, excepting those of their oldest son, Jacob

XII-Descendants of Jacob and Mary (Thomas) Hole, excepting those of their sons, Charles and John

XIII-Descendants of Chas. Hole and Esther (Hanna) Hole

XIV-Descendants of John Hole and Catharine (Hanna) Hole

Memorial Page

App. A. Notes on the Hanna Family

App. B. Lineage of the Douglas Family (Earls of Morton

App. C. The Miller and Morris Families

App. D. Pedigree of Grubb of Horsenden

Excerpt from Chapter I

Jacob Hole and Barbara his wife sailed from Plymouth, England, in 1740 and landed after a tedious voyage of many weeks, in Philadelphia.

Just where these founders of the Hole family in America came from has never been known to their descendants. And it was not until the summer of 1900, when the writer was sent to Europe to procure data, search records and write a family history, that we so much as knew their nationality.

It had been a tradition in the family that Jacob Hole was German and came to America from Germany; yet no proof whatever had ever been produced to substantiate the claim or prove the theory. The various intermarriages into the best English families of Pennsylvania and Virginia seemed to indicate that the Holes were of English origin. A thorough search of English records and genealogies has clearly shown that the name is English, though of Norse origin, a visit to the English branches of the family, to the Estates and Freeholds belonging to them, has enabled the writer to give a tolerably complete and full account of the Holes in England and America. Devonshire, in the south-west of England has been the home of the Hole family for the last one thousand years. The Estate of St. Giles, near Barnstaple, in that county has been owned by Henry Hole until 1835, when the 20th Henry in succession died. By the ordinary computation of the length of a generation this would take us to the year 1175, A.D., when the first Henry Hole owned…

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