The Holt family, ancestors and descendants

Memorandum by Cecil Holt on the Genealogy searches in 1957.
The initial task before the Genealogist was to establish the parentage of Thomas Holt, father of Thomas Godfrey Holt. It was already known that the names of Thomas Holt’s parents were William and Mary, but little further was known about them.Frodingham, Flixborough, Appleby, Crosby, and finally Broughton registers were searched and at Broughton evidence was found that William and Mary were married there, and ....More...

Notes by Jonathan Russell
The history of the Holt lineage has been traced back to the 17th century through professional research, thanks to contributions from a number of Holt family members in the 1957. I was told by mother (Doodles Holt) that the money ran out after the discovery of Richard Holt’s birth c1640-1650 in Stallingborough). More...

Site layout

Use either the tree style dropdown menus at the top or type a name in the search box. If you don't find you own name, try your mother or fathers or grandsparents name. Everyone should be on one of the trees somewhere if you were born before 2000.

Ancestors

These pages show the tree back to 1640 and individual pagea for Johns father and grandfather

SIblings

Individual pages for John Holts brothers Jonathan, Thomas and Louis

John Holt & Descendants

Individual pages for each of John Holts children with subpages for grandchildren and downwards in a menu hierarchy

Company History

This is a collection of books and articles on John Holt and his company John Holt Ltd and how it started. It include the Diary, Gertzels thesis archive links and wiki references

Related families

Thes are the families that were closely related to John namely the Longstaffs of North Lincs and the Juvets of Geneva

Galleries

On some pages there is a Gallery button like the one under the portrait below which take you to a photo album specifically for that person.

Blog and Contact page

The blog page shows posts. The Blog Post page has a form to upload files, anecdotes and pictures for me to to add to the site

"...More.."

Many of the texts , for example the Diary, are too long to show on a page so click on the 'More...' and it will either download the file or display the full article

Gallery

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