George Bowles mary polly holloway

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Great grand parents looking to find any living relatives  that can share history
in Genealogy Help by R Bowles G2G Crew (310 points)
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I'm not related, but do follow the Holloway tag on G2G for obvious reasons.  Take with a grain of salt because I'm generalizing based on a quick peek at geography and my current knowledge, but they seem to have been in Mercer, Pennsylvania.  There are two prominent Holloway lines that stayed "north of Mason-Dixon" if you will.

One is a line of Quakers out of Burlington, New Jersey and another out of Taunton, Massachusetts who probably overlapped in New Jersey as well, but seem to be fairly distinct from a Y-DNA perspective. I don't know if those lines are related, just that I can keep them distinct in my head when I see them. These lines tend to have migrated into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana.

Most of the other "big" Holloway lines went south from Virginia and North Carolina into Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama and stayed south.

The Holloways in Mercer, PA *seem* to be from the Massachusetts line at a quick glance.  This line purports to have been pilgrims at Plymouth and further tie their line to Holloways that originated in Sommersetshire, England.  We have Y-DNA in the Holloway project from this family, but as my Holloway research tends to focus on the southern families, I don't run into them very often in my personal research.
by Joe Holloway G2G5 (5.5k points)

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