What is the relationship between Margaret Hollingsworth-1348 and Abraham Hollingsworth-94?

Question

Margaret Hollingsworth, wife of Hugh Walker, is likely erroneously linked as the daughter of Thomas Hollingsworth and Margaret Calvert. It is claimed Thomas and Margaret had a sole child Abraham. There is some assertion that the marriage of Thomas and Margaret was hastily arranged for legal reasons. 

Jack Day recently did some extensive work on several of the Walker profiles and with that came multiple land transfers involving Hugh Walker and wife Margaret Hollingsworth and Abraham Hollingsworth. Is there a familial relationship? I can't work out what it would be.  Ideas?  I see three children besides Abraham linked to Margaret Calvert as mother.

This link to the Calvert family was recently questioned in the ongoing thread about fake lineages to the Surety Barons. In the case of Margaret and Abraham there must be some type of relationship to account for the land records.  Looking for any plausible explanation.

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Answer 1

I'll do some more research, although I haven't verified all the children, dates, etc. yet. Hopefully more researchers will join in the collaboration of these profiles. Lori

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That is what I don't like about these records. They are just transcriptions of the meeting records. I'm trying to locate any records on ancestry, and when I get back on FMP I'll try to look there as well. There are so many photocopies of the meeting records, but this requires reading through them all and sometimes the handwriting is very difficult to read. We will get this solved, I am confident of that!

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Thomas was a member of the Newark MM when Margaret is supposed to have been born (Dec 1684), but surviving records for Newark do not start till 1686. However, Margaret is supposed to have married Hugh Walker about 1701. By then, I believe Thomas was a member of Centre Meeting. I would think that if Margaret was his daughter, she would have come before the Centre Meeting to ask permission sometime in the 1700 / 1701 timeframe. Unfortunately, so far I have not found any of the Centre MM records online.

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That is unfortunate. I will persist and hopefully I will stumble across something. I just re-joined FMP. I’ll see what meeting records I can find. I haven’t come across many Centre Meeting records either. Yet. They have to be floating around somewhere. My local library has an awesome Genealogy section. Almost the whole floor is dedicated to it. I’ll take a trip down there again soon.

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Lori and Randy, some of these records are in the Tri-College Library but microfilm only. However, some are indexed and searchable for very basic info. Anyone looked there yet? Asking before I duplicate effort as searching that site can be tedious.

Is there anything that points to the marriage date of Thomas and Margaret?

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I checked on-line sites for info on what Centre Meeting Minutes might be available at the Tri-College Libraries and the earliest listed records were from 1808. I am not sure that this was even correct as the direct listings from Swarthmore only had Centre MM records listed from 1995 on. Thus, it appears that finding Centre MM records from 1700 may not be possible.

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I'm going to visit my sister in PA at the end of September. I don't know if I'll be able to make it to Chester Co., but maybe the library in Allentown might have something if I can find time to get down there. It's only 25 minutes from my sister's place.

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Randy and Lori, thought I would come back to this puzzle after six months. I'm wondering if we can find enough documentation of Margaret's father to place her in the proper family group. I'm still thinking the most likely father is Joseph, brother of Thomas, as he is the one where there is currently no information and it seems unlikely she can be a daughter of any other sibling of Thomas. That would make her first cousin of the Abraham who appears in some manner in all of the land records involving Margaret and her husband.

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Sorry it took way too long to reply. I have looked periodically for her record. I believe she is a niece of Thomas as well, I just haven't found her father yet. I am starting to think her birth may have been outside the Quaker faith, or was not reported, i.e. born out of wedlock. I cannot find any reference to her parents in meeting records. I have a feeling the information is out there somewhere, at least I hope it is.

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Lori, not near my notes but replying lest I forget. I think she must be the daughter of Joseph since I believe children of the others brothers/sisters are known. Somewhere I found info that Joseph had at least three children, in Virginia, but records of them haven't been located, are destroyed, or something. I'll have to relocated whatever it was that said there were at least 3 children of Joseph. I seem to recall almost nothing is known of him.

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Let me know if you find anything. Even though I am not linked to her, I can't resist a puzzle.