Descendants of Henry Holdway
Generation No. 1
1. HENRY2 HOLDWAY (JOSEPH1) was born January 1820 in Basingstoke, and
died 17 July 1891 in Jundla, India. He married ANN MATILDA ROBERTSON 8 October 1850 in Meerut, India, daughter of CHARLES ROBERTSON and MARY NORMAN.
Notes for HENRY HOLDWAY:
9 May 1840 - Embarked for
Bengal on the Ship 'Malcolm'.
1860 - Discharged from the
Army.
Discharge Papers state:
" BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL.
This is to certify that the
Bearer hereof Henry Holdway Late a Sergeant of the Stud Depot 41 years, 5 feet 11 3/4 inches high, Brown Hair, fresh Complexion,
grey eyes, by trade a Labourer a Native of Basingstoke in the County of Hampshire and Kingdom of England Enlisted at Westminster
on the Nineteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty for unlimited service. Is hereby discharged from Her Majesty's
Indian Military Forces being admitted to pension GO 20th January 1860 and having recieved a full, just and true account of
all his Pay, Arrears of pay, Clothing and all other Demands from the time of his first enlisting into the Service to this
present date, as appears by the reciept on the other side.
Character. Very Good
Given under my hand at Fort
William in Bengal, this nineteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
To all Officers, Civil and
Military, whom this may concern. By Order of His Excellency the Governor General
of India in Council, Entered in the Adjutant General's Office. No.74 Dy Secy. to the Govt. of India, Mily. Dept Major
SEP. BECHER, Major,
Offg. Depy. Adjt. Genl. of
the Army."
Date..................... Designation......... District...............................
Salary..... Remarks
30 June 1881....... Ticket Collector... Traf. Dept. Jamalpore........
150 0 0
30 June 1882....... Ticket Collector..
Traf. Dept. Jamalpore........ 150 0
0
31 Dec 1882........ Ticket Collector..
Traf. Dept. Jamalpore........ 150 0
0
30 June 1884....... Ticket Collector... Traf. Dept. Jamalpore........
150 0 0..On furlough from1/1/1884
30 June 1885....... Ticket Collector..Traf. Dept. Jamalpore....... 150 0 0..On furlough from 1/1/1884
Buried at either Christ Church or the Station by W. B. Hesketh Biggs.
More About HENRY HOLDWAY:
Burial: 18 July 1891, Tundla,
India
Cause of Death: Failure of
the hearts action.
Military service: 19 March
1840, Enlisted at Westminster, London, England
Occupation 1: 1850, Drill
Sergeant Bengal Horse Artillery
Occupation 2: 1854, Rough
Riding Sergeant Horse Artillery
Occupation 3: 1855, Sergeant
Holdway, 14th Light Field Battery
Occupation 4: 1859, Overseer
of the Stud
Occupation 5: 1862, Guard
of the East India Railway
Occupation 6: 1869, Guard
E.I.R.
Occupation 7: 1891, Late Guard
East India Railway
More About ANN MATILDA ROBERTSON:
Baptism: 30 September 1827,
Cawnpore, India
Burial: 19 July 1891, The
General Episcopal Cemetery ,Lower Circular Road, Calcutta, India
Cause of Death: Chronic diarrhoea
Grave Number: 27 May 2002,
Plot No. 47-3E-9N
Children of HENRY HOLDWAY and ANN ROBERTSON are:
2.
i. GRACE ELIZABETH3 HOLDWAY, b. 10 January
1852, Lahore, India; d. 27 July 1926, Bangalore, India.
ii. JOHN JOSEPH DUNCAN HOLDWAY, b. 26 September 1854, Umballa, India; d. 4 November 1855, Meerut,
India.
More About JOHN JOSEPH DUNCAN HOLDWAY:
Burial: 4 November
1855, Meerut, India
Christening: 15
October 1854
iii. JENNIE MARIA HOLDWAY, b. Abt. 1856; m. THOMAS JOHN SAVAGE, 19 August 1872,
Jamalpore, India.
More About THOMAS JOHN SAVAGE:
Occupation: 1872,
Fitter, EIR
iv. JAMES EDWARD WILLIAM HOLDWAY, b. 17 April 1859, Karun Thadee, India; d. 15 April 1872, Jamalpur,
India.
More About JAMES EDWARD WILLIAM HOLDWAY:
Burial: 15 April
1872, Jamalpur, India
Cause of Death:
Perforation of intestine from abnormal wound
Christening: 20
June 1859
3.
v. JESSIE ADELAIDE HOLDWAY, b. 23 December 1861, Howrah, India; d. 15 July 1938, Lahore, India.
vi. GEORGE EDWARD HOLDWAY, b. 1865, India; m. ALICE JANE NAVIN, 10 January 1887,
Allahabad, India.
Notes for GEORGE EDWARD HOLDWAY:
Date....................... Designation............
District.................................... Salary
per mensem
30 June 1881......... Apprentice..............
Loco. Dept. Jamalpore.......... 30 0 0
30 June 1882......... Apprentice..............
Loco. Dept. Jamalpore........... 40 0 0
31 Dec 1882.......... Apprentice..............
Loco. Dept. Jamalpore........... 40 0 0
30 June 1884......... Apprentice..............
Loco. Dept. Jamalpore........... 50 0 0
31 Dec 1884.......... Apprentice..............
Loco. Dept. Jamalpore........... ?
30 June 1885......... Fitter....................... Loco. Dept. Allahabad...........
80 0 0
31 Dec 1885.......... Fitter....................... Loco. Dept. Allahabad...........
100 0 0
30 June 1886......... Fitter....................... Loco. Dept. Allahabad.......
110 0 0
30 June 1887......... Fitter....................... Loco. Dept. Allahabad..........
110 0 0
4.
vii. CLARA ADELAIDE HOLDWAY, b. 15 June 1869, Monghyr, India; d. Bef. 1890.
Generation No. 2
2. GRACE ELIZABETH3 HOLDWAY (HENRY2, JOSEPH1) was born 10 January 1852 in Lahore, India, and died 27 July 1926 in Bangalore, India. She married JOHN JAMES
GRAHAM DUNCAN
10 January 1871 in Jamalpore, India, son of JOHN JAMES DUNCAN.
More About GRACE ELIZABETH HOLDWAY:
Burial: 28 July 1926, St Johns,
Bangalore. India
Cause of Death: Senile debility
Christening: 28 January 1852,
Mean Meer, Lahore, India
Notes for JOHN JAMES GRAHAM DUNCAN:
Marriage Register states his
Rank of Profession as Guard, E.I.R. Residence at time of marriage Allahabad.
Date..............
Designation......... District.................... Salary.....Remarks
30 June 1881....... Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini...... 250 0 0
30 June 1882....... Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini..... 250
0 0
31 Dec 1882........ Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini..... 250
0 0
30 June 1884....... Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini..... 250
0 0
31 Dec 1884........ Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini..... 250
0 0
30 June 1885....... Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini...... 250 0 0
31 Dec1885......... Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini..... 250
0 0
30 June 1886....... Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini..... 250
0 0....Offg. Station Master, Jubbulpore
30 June 1887....... Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini..... 250
0 0
31 Dec 1887........ Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini..... 250
0 0
30 June 1888....... Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini..... 250
0 0
31 Dec 1888........ Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini...... 250 0 0
30 June 1889....... Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Naini..... 250
0 0
31 Dec 1889........ Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Sutna.... 250
0 0
30 June 1890....... Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Sutna..... 250 0 0
31 Dec 1890........ Station Master..... Traf. Dept. Sutna..... 250 0 0
Burial performed by George
J. Chree, Asstt Chaplain.
More About JOHN JAMES GRAHAM DUNCAN:
Burial: 13 August 1899, Allahabad,
India
Cause of Death: Locomotive
ataxy
Medical Information: LOCOMOTOR
ATAXIA (Gr. it, priv., and rit~ts, order; synonyms, Tabes dorsalis, posterior spinal sclerosis).
Occupation 1: 1871, Guard
E.I.R. Allahabad
Occupation 2: 1872, Station
Master East India Railway
Occupation 3: 1877, Asst Station
Master, East India Railway
Occupation 4: 1879, Station
Master East India Railway
Occupation 5: 1881, Station
Master E.I.R., Naini
Occupation 6: 1883, Station
Master East India Railway
Occupation 7: 1888, Station
Master East India Railway, Naini
Occupation 8: 1892, Station
Master East India Railway, Sutna
Occupation 9: 1894, Station
Master East India Railway, Sutna
Occupation 10: 1895, Station
Master East India Railway, Sutna
Occupation 11: 1899, Late
Station Master East India Railway
Residence 1: 1883, Naini,
India
Residence 2: 1877, Mokameh,
India
Children of GRACE HOLDWAY and JOHN DUNCAN are:
i. JANET AGNES4 DUNCAN, b. 19 October
1881.
More About JANET AGNES DUNCAN:
Christening: 25
December 1881, St Mary's, Jamalpore
ii. FREDERICK HENRY DUNCAN, b. 15 January 1872, India.
More About FREDERICK HENRY DUNCAN:
Christening: 4
March, 1872
iii. MATILDA RACHEL DUNCAN, b. 9 November 1873, Jamalpore, West Bengal, India; m. FREDERICK WILLIAM DUNN, 1895.
More About MATILDA RACHEL DUNCAN:
Baptism: 24 February
1874, Jamalpore, West Bengal, India
Christening: 2
February 1874, India Office Ecclesiastical Returns-Bengal Presidency, Misc, India
iv. FRANCIS BURRYAN DUNCAN, b. 24 September 1875, Jamalpore, West Bengal, India; d. 1876.
More About FRANCIS BURRYAN DUNCAN:
Baptism: 29 October
1875, Jamalpore, West Bengal, India
v. ETHEL MAUD DUNCAN, b. 13 September 1877; m. CHARLES FREDERIC WILLIAM ATTWOOD, 4 October 1897, Allahabad, West Bengal, India.
More About ETHEL MAUD DUNCAN:
Christening: 9
November 1877, Dinapore, India
vi. EVA GRACE
DUNCAN, b. 27 August 1879, Nynee, Allahabad, West Bengal, India; d. 22 December 1967, 9 Freeland Street,
Ealing, London; m. ARNOLD BENJAMIN COLLETT, 19 March 1901, Christ Church (Church
of England), Jabalpur, M.P. India.
More About EVA GRACE
DUNCAN:
Cause of Death:
A) Congestive Cardiac failure B) Senile Myocarditis C) Arteric Sclerosis
Christening: 4
October 1879, All Saints (Temporary) Church, Allahabad, India
Emigration: 15
January 1949, Arrived at Tilbury from Bombay aboard P&O "Maloja"
More About ARNOLD BENJAMIN COLLETT:
Burial: 24 May
1921, Jubalpur
Cause of Death:
Cerebral laceration & concussion. The result of a fall.
Occupation 1:
1902, Driver EIR
Occupation 2:
1903, Driver EIR
Occupation 3:
1906, Driver BNR
Occupation 4:
1907, Driver BNR
Occupation 5:
3 November 1916, Loco Inspector BNR
Occupation 6:
1918, Loco Inspector
Occupation 7:
1921, Locomotive Department East India Railway
vii. ADELAIDE JESSIE DUNCAN, b. 26 August 1883, India; d. 3 July 1909, Ireland; m. FREDERICK PERRY.
Notes for ADELAIDE JESSIE DUNCAN:
Monument inscription
reads:
Aday - nee
Duncan-
born Naini,
E. India 1883
died at Fomerla
3rd July
1909 wife
of Fred Perry
S & T
Corps Indian Army
An excellent
wife
& devoted
mother
and loved
by all
who knew her
More About ADELAIDE JESSIE DUNCAN:
Burial: Ireland
Christening: 14 November 1883, All Saints Temp Church, Allahabad, India
3. JESSIE ADELAIDE3 HOLDWAY (HENRY2, JOSEPH1) was born 23 December 1861 in Howrah, India, and died 15 July 1938 in Lahore, India. She married (1) ROBERT BENJAMIN COLLETT 27 December
1877 in St Luke, Dinapore, India, son of GEORGE COLLETT and ANN HACKNEY. She married (2) ALEXANDER FREDERICK HUTCHINS 31 August 1885 in All Saints (Temporary Church), Allahabad, India, son of JOHN RICHARD HUTCHINS. She married (3) J. HEWSON
Aft. 1887 in India.
Notes for JESSIE ADELAIDE HOLDWAY:
Burial records state cause
of death as "Heart failure attendant on pneumonia" and occupation as "Widow of J. Hewson S+T."
Burial performed by L.F. Geddes, Chaplain.
More About JESSIE ADELAIDE HOLDWAY:
Burial: 16 July 1938, Lahore,
India
Cause of Death: Heart failure
attendant on pneumonia
Christening: 26 January 1862,
St Stephens Church, Kidderpore, India
Residence: 1885, Allahabad
Notes for ROBERT BENJAMIN COLLETT:
Baptised by D. Fynes Clinton.
Burial records state cause
of death as "Accidental drowning" and occupation as "Engine Driver East Indian Railway."
Burial performed by C.B. Westerhout, Railway Chaplain. There are two family
stories as to how Robert drowned. One story says that he fell in whilst fishing
and the other story has it that he fell in the river during a family picnic.
More About ROBERT BENJAMIN COLLETT:
Burial: 21 September 1880,
Ghazuabad, India
Cause of Death: Accidental
drowning
Christening: 4 May 1862, St
Pauls Church, Agra, India
Occupation 1: 1875, Shunter,
loco dept., Toondla
Occupation 2: 1877, Night
foreman E.I.R
Occupation 3: 1879, Driver
EIR
Occupation 4: 1880, Engine
Driver East India Railway
Residence: 1877, Assensole,
India
More About ALEXANDER FREDERICK HUTCHINS:
Occupation: 1885, Railway
Guard
Residence: 1885, Tundla
Children of JESSIE HOLDWAY and ROBERT COLLETT are:
i. ARNOLD BENJAMIN4 COLLETT, b. Abt. 1878;
d. 23 May 1921, Jabalpur, India; m. EVA GRACE DUNCAN, 19 March 1901,
Christ Church (Church of England), Jabalpur, M.P. India.
More About ARNOLD BENJAMIN COLLETT:
Burial: 24 May
1921, Jubalpur
Cause of Death:
Cerebral laceration & concussion. The result of a fall.
Occupation 1:
1902, Driver EIR
Occupation 2:
1903, Driver EIR
Occupation 3:
1906, Driver BNR
Occupation 4:
1907, Driver BNR
Occupation 5:
3 November 1916, Loco Inspector BNR
Occupation 6:
1918, Loco Inspector
Occupation 7:
1921, Locomotive Department East India Railway
More About EVA GRACE
DUNCAN:
Cause of Death:
A) Congestive Cardiac failure B) Senile Myocarditis C) Arteric Sclerosis
Christening: 4
October 1879, All Saints (Temporary) Church, Allahabad, India
Emigration: 15
January 1949, Arrived at Tilbury from Bombay aboard P&O "Maloja"
ii. KATHLEEN ADELAIDE COLLETT, b. 22 November 1878; m. WALTER JAMES MADDEN, 9 February 1898, St James, Delhi, India.
More About KATHLEEN ADELAIDE COLLETT:
Christening: 15 January 1879, All Saints, Allahabad
4. CLARA ADELAIDE3 HOLDWAY (HENRY2, JOSEPH1) was born 15 June 1869 in Monghyr, India, and died Bef. 1890.
She married JOSEPH FERRIS LEADBEATER 15 August 1883 in St Mary's, Jamalpore,
son of WILLIAM EDWARD BLAIR LEADBEATER.
More About CLARA ADELAIDE HOLDWAY:
Christening: 13 August 1869,
Jamalpur, India
Residence: 1883, Jamalpore
More About JOSEPH FERRIS LEADBEATER:
Occupation: 1883, Inspector
of Bengal Police
Residence: 1883, Jamovee,
Mongyr
Child of CLARA HOLDWAY and JOSEPH LEADBEATER is:
i. EMMA ELIZABETH4 LEADBEATER, b. 2 October
1886.
More
About EMMA ELIZABETH LEADBEATER:
Christening: 29 November 1886, Gya, West Bengal
