John HOLLIDAY & Jean BLAIR

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John HOLLIDAY
Jean BLAIR

WARNING: secondary sources are all over the map with the early generations of this HOLLIDAY family. I have not sorted them out properly, so caveat emptor.

Husband: John HOLLIDAY
Birth: ca. 1690 — sources disagree on place (e.g., SCT, NIRL, or PA)
Death: 27 Mar 1770, Cumberland [now Mifflin] Co., PA
Father: Edmond HOLLIDAY
Mother: Mary JONES

Marriage:

Wife: Jean / Jane BLAIR

Children — born in co. Tyrone, NIRL:

. Nancy HOLLIDAY, b. ca. 1725; m. Andrew BRATTON I
. Adam HOLLIDAY, b. 1728
. Samuel HOLLIDAY, b. ca. 1738
. John HOLLIDAY; m. Dorcas McCLELLAN
. William HOLLIDAY
. Elizabeth HOLLIDAY

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; Scotland, Northern Ireland; USA, US, United States, Pennsylvania

Sources (n.b., Cumberland Co. was formed in 1750 from Lancaster Co.; Mifflin Co. was formed in 1789 from Cumberland and Northumberland Cos.):

1. F. [Franklin] Ellis & A.N. Hungerford, eds. 1886. History of That Part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys Embraced in the Counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Everts, Peck & Richards, Philadelphia (excerpts online at the Mifflin County PAGenWeb site):

CHAPTER X.
THE BOROUGH OF McVEYTOWN.

p. 600 The settlement of this place was begun by Samuel Holliday in 1755...
Samuel, Adam, John and William Holliday, and two sisters, Elizabeth and Nancy... emigrated to this country about 1745...
At the time of their settlement all the surrounding region of territory was in Cumberland County...

2. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).

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