Robert HOLLIDAY

1861 - 1949  (88 years)

• Name	Robert HOLLIDAY
  Born	31 Jan 1861	York, England   [1, 2]
  	Oral history provides Nottingham, his mother’s home
  Gender	Male
  NATU	17 Sep 1890	Court of Common Pleas, Providence, RI
  OCCU	Machinist -New London Northern RR, Standard Machine, Mystic, CT  [3]
  Buried	1949	Saters Baptist Historical Church Cemetery-Timonium, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA   [4]
  Died	Feb 1949
  Person ID	I63	The Turses
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	Living
  Mother	Living
  Family ID	F4135	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary Janette (Nettie) DYER,   b. 16 Feb 1869, Westerly, Washington, RI ,   d. 4 Apr 1938  (Age 69 years)
  Married	12 Feb 1887  [5, 6]
  Children	1. Bertha May HOLLIDAY,   b. 16 Oct 1887,   d. 20 Apr 1909  (Age 21 years)   2. William Francis HOLLIDAY,   b. 9 Nov 1889, Richmond, RI ,   d. 10 Nov 1974, Mystic, CT  (Age 85 years)
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2013
  Family ID	F44	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Laura ENGEL,   b. 1894,   d. 1991, Maryland  (Age 97 years)
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2021
  Family ID	F348	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Family oral history has it that the family originally went to Canada from England, and moved down to Connecticut. Robert’s Certificate of Naturalization gives Boston as the port of arrival, with a date of 1 August 1879. William Clark and William Jordan, both of Stonington, CT were his witnesses. After first working for Browns Cotton Gin in New London , Robert worked as a machinist first for New London Northern Railroad , and then for Standard Machine in Mystic. When his son’s doctor advised him to see to it that the boy lived his life in the outdoors, he became a fisherman. Son William, spent most of his life fishing out of Mystic/Stonington, CT. Connecticut Military Census, 1917, he gave his profession as Fisherman Robert became a US citizen 17 September 1890 in Hopkinton, Washington, R.I. [5, 7]

  
  

• Sources

  [S85] Robertha Holliday Recollections, Robertha recalls her grandfather talking about Nottingham as his birth place. [S502] Robert Holliday Birth Certificate. [S4] Robertha Agnes Holliday. [S512] . [S85] Robertha Holliday Recollections. [S422] Holliday Family Bible Records. [S716] Certificate of Naturalization.