The Rutherglen Hollows - Stephen Hollow's children

Stephen Hollow was a son of Matthew Hollow and Mary Cocking and a brother of Joseph the first Eldorado Hollow. Four of his children were to come to Australia and live in Rutherglen during the gold mining boom there.

John Hollow (~1836-1893)

John HOLLOW was christened in Redruth on 29/06/1836. He is listed in the 1851 census as an errand boy aged 14 living with his parents, Stephen and Alice Hollow at Roache's Row, Redruth.

A John HOLLOW aged 19 arrived in Sydney in 1855 on the "Sultana", this is the only John of about the right age that I have found in the shipping records so far. John married Elizabeth COULLIN at Beechworth on the 22/04/1860.

They had seven children :-

Elizabeth Anne HOLLOW	b 1861	Beechworth
Mary HOLLOW	b 1862	Beechworth
John HOLLOW	b 1865	Chiltern
Emma HOLLOW	b 1868	Chiltern	d 1868
Thomas Henry HOLLOW	b 03/12/1869	Eldorado
un-named male HOLLOW	b 1872	Eldorado	d 1872
Matthew George HOLLOW	b 1875	Eldorado

John lived at times in Beechworth, Chiltern and Eldorado, the 1868 Bailliere's P.O. Directory lists him and his brother Joseph as being miners at Chiltern. He must have moved to Eldorado in 1868 as he joined the MUIOOF Lodge there in July of that year. The Lodge records include him until April 1877. Also in 1877 he is listed with his brother Joseph as being prominent in the congregation of the Rutherglen Wesleyan Church. John and his family then moved to Beaconsfield in Tasmania where he ran a hotel.

Joseph Hollow (~1839-1903)

Joseph HOLLOW was born in Redruth Cornwall about 1839 he was described as a mason's boy in the 1851 census aged 11 possibly he worked with his father who was a master mason. Joseph married in 1877 to Naomi THOMAS who was also born in Cornwall. He died in Melbourne on the 12/4/1903.

There were eight children of the marriage :-

Joseph Thomas HOLLOW	b 1878	Rutherglen
Naomi Florence HOLLOW	b 1879	Rutherglen
Eugene Albert Ra HOLLOW	b 1881	Rutherglen
Alice Ruby HOLLOW	b 1884	Fitzroy
William Howard HOLLOW	b 1887	Clifton Hill
Mabel Ethel Adelaide HOLLOW	b 1890	Clifton Hill
Gracie Gainella HOLLOW	b 1892	Clifton Hill
Gordon Stephen HOLLOW

Joseph arrived in Australia on the "Tornado" in 1864. The ship was of 1720 tons and carried 348 passengers on the voyage. Joseph was aged 24 and a labourer according to the shipping records. The "Tornado", a Clipper ship of the White Star Line, lost its main sail and a greater proportion of its jib during a heavy squall near Trinidad. It is not recorded what sort of delay this caused.

Joseph appears to have made his money from mining in Rutherglen and then moved to Melbourne with his family. Medicine and pharmacy were common professions within his family. At one point Joseph was in business as a builder (1886) , about 1884 Joseph is listed as living at Rowe St. N. Fitzroy.

Mary Richards Hollow (~1838-1896)

Mary Richards Hollow was born in Redruth and married Thomas Henry Harris who was also born in Redruth. They were married prior to the 1861 census in England when her husband was recorded as being in Australia.

Their children were;

John Richards HARRIS b 24/1/1868 Chiltern

A son HARRIS

Thomas Harris died at Rutherglen in March 1900 at the age of 65. Harris had worked in mines at Redruth before coming to Australia in 1856. Mary his wife was still in Redruth in 1861 at the time of the census living with her parents at Roaches row, her occupation was given as dressmaker. Thomas followed the gold at Castlemaine and Chiltern before settling in Rutherglen where he worked the "Pipeclay" and "Garibaldi" reefs before he and Joseph Hollow struck it rich at the Great Eastern.

Harris and Hollow worked the northern part of the Great Eastern Reef around 1882. They won something over 3000 tons of quartz in three years which yielded 9,000 ounces of gold worth about 38,000 pounds sterling.

Harris then had a mine at Bethanga before retiring for a time at Ballarat to enable his children to get a good education. He later returned to Rutherglen in about 1890 to make an unsuccessful attempt to reopen the Great Eastern.

Mary and Thomas had a son John Richards Harris who was born in Chiltern on the 24/1/1868. There were at least two more sons born to Mary and Thomas. Their first son John Richards Harris became a doctor, a viticulturist, and a politician. He was knighted, was a minister in the Victorian parliament and is credited with producing the first flor sherry ever made in Australia. David Sutherland Smith, another wine maker described him as the best maker of sherry in Australia.

Elizabeth Ann Hollow (~1845-1915)

Elizabeth Ann Hollow was born about 1845 at Redruth she died at Rutherglen in 1915 aged 70. She was married to John Herrin a blacksmith of Rutherglen, he died in 1908, aged 61. Herrin was a Cornish miner and had been in Cuba and Canada before coming to Australia. He came to Rutherglen in 1874 and worked as a miner before going into business as a blacksmith and coachbuilder. He was active in the community, being a councillor (1891-99), Mayor 1896, a commissioner of the Rutherglen Waterworks Trust, a vestryman, a J.P., and Chairman of the Rutherglen School Board.

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