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Job
Hollywood★ was the father of Martha Holliwood, and was born in
Ireland, according to Martha’s death certificate, and he may have married
Nannie McClane WI1. He was likely the individual named Job Hollywood who was the
father of Eliza Ratcliff Hollywood; Eliza’s October 1, 1822 baptismal record
indicated that Job was a laborer from Dunmurry, County Antrim, Ireland and that
the baptism occurred at Donegall Square Methodist Church in Belfast, County
Antrim, Ireland PU5.
He may have been
the Job Hollywood mentioned in a notice of a sale of land located in Conlig, County
Down, dated October 4, 1823 and published in The Irishman on October 10,
1823 TH43:
Pursuant to the Decree of his Majesty’s
Court of Exchequer in Ireland… I will, on TUESDAY, the 14th day of November, next, at my Chambers,
on the Inn’s-Quay, Dublin, at ONE o’Clock in the afternoon, set up, and SELL by
PUBLIC CANT, to the highest and best bidder, All that and those, the several
FARMS, TENAMENTS, and PARCELS of GROUND following, viz :
… And also, that FARM of LAND, now, or lately in
possession of Job Hollywood, or his under Tenants, containing 11 Acres, 2
Roods, or thereabouts, of the like measure, be the said several admeasurements,
or any of them, more or less, with the Appurtenances thereunto belonging-all
situate in the Townland of CONLIG, Barony of Ards, and County of Down…
Dunmurry, County Antrim, Ireland is about
eighteen miles southwest of Conlig, on the opposite side of Belfast. It is possible
but less probable that he was the individual named Job Hollywood who was listed
in the Tithe Applotment Book for 1833 in Shankill Parish in the diocese of
Dromore in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland NO17. Lurgan is about eighteen miles southwest of Dunmurry but about
forty miles southwest of Conlig. It is unclear if he was related to or actually was the individual named Job Hollywood who was
called a pensioner of Newtonards in a will dated 1838 from the “Down Diocesean”
(Diocesan) of Northern Ireland; no copy of this will exists PU6. Newtonards is in County Down and is
ten miles east of Belfast; it is also just three miles south of Conlig in
County Down, which was the location of Job’s eleven-acre farm mentioned in the
1823 public land sale.
Job
Hollywood was listed amongst the members of Fulton Engine 3 of the Buffalo
Volunteer Fire Department EN10.
Fulton Engine 3 was organized in November 1831 and its original building was
located “on the Terrace near the Terrace Market”; a second building was later
constructed on John’s Alley south of Seneca Street EN10. The Terrace and the Terrace Market does not exist, but it
formerly was a wide street which was south of Seneca Street, east of Erie
Street, and west of Main Street 18C. Job
Hollywood was called a grocer on Prime Street near the canal in Buffalo, New
York in 1836 AD5 and 1839 TH38, and in 1844 “Joab Hollywood” was listed as a grocer whose shop
was located at 41 Prime Street in Buffalo WA28.
This Job was likely related to Robert Hollywood, who worked as a clerk in Job’s
grocery store in 1836 AD5. He
may have been related to the Job “Holywood” who was enumerated in the 1840 US
Census in Buffalo Ward 1, Erie County, New York; this Job was between twenty
and twenty-nine and lived with two young women who were between fifteen and
nineteen and one woman who was between twenty and twenty-nine UN9.
That particular Job Holywood of the 1840 census was perhaps the
same Job “Hollywood” of Buffalo, New York who purchased land from Moses and
Sarah Ann Cherry on December 21, 1840 for the sum of $1500 ER2:
All that certain piece or parcel of Land
known as Part of Block number five In the South Village of Black Rock now City
of Buffalo Boundeth as follows, Beginning in the westerly line of Rock Street
at a point where the south Easterly line of land owned by David S. Brown &
the estate of William Clark, deceased & others intersects the same, and
running from thence Southwesterly parallel with Hospital Street, and along said
Southeasterly line one hundred and Eighty feet to Allegance Street, thence southeasterly
along the easterly line of said street, fifty feet. Thence north Easterly
parallel with Hospital Street, one hundred and Eighty feet, to the westerly
line of Rock Street. Thence Northwesterly along said line of Rock Street, fifty
feet, to the place of Beginning, Containing more or
less: [the area of land was not written]
This same Job Hollywood mentioned in the
deed was also mentioned in a sherrif’s notice to sell property, dated March 21,
1859 BU13. This notice reiterated the property
bounds (with one exception, in which Allegance Street was called Allegany
Street) owned by Job Hollywood, and stated that Job Hollywood died intestate,
and his sister, Anne, was his heir-at-law BU13.
Martha
Holliwood was born about 1819 to Job Holleywood of Ireland, according to her
Kalamazoo County, Michigan death certificate. Eliza Ratcliff Hollywood,
the daughter of Job and Ann Hollywood of Dunmurry, was born on September 9,
1822 and was baptized on October 1, 1822 by Charles Mayne at Donegall Square
Methodist Church in Belfast, Antrim County, Ireland PU5. Elizabeth Hollywood and Gideon G. Martin were married on
December 20, 1842 at Williamsville, New York by L. A. Hopkins, Justice of the
Peace CA94, BO28. Gideon
and Eliza Martin were enumerated in the 1850 US Census in Buffalo Ward 1, Erie
County, New York with Mary Martin, age six, and Adaline Martin, age eighteen;
Gideon (a sailor who was age thirty-seven) and Eliza (age twenty-six) stated
they were born in Ireland UN10. They were the parents of Robert, born on December 21,
1850, William, born on January 5, 1853, Gideon, born on October 8, 1855, and
Harriett, born on June 18, 1859 CA94. Gideon and Eliza Martin were enumerated in the 1860 US Census in
Buffalo Ward 9, Erie County, New York with Robert, age nine; Gideon was a
mariner who was fifty and Eliza was thirty-five; both stated they were born in
Ireland UN11.
Eliza
Martin, a resident of Buffalo, New York, aged forty-two, filed a declaration
for a Widow’s Army Pension on August 8, 1866, which stated that she was the
widow of Gideon Martin CA94.
Eliza further stated that Gideon had been a private in Company A, which was
commanded by Captain Nash in the 100th
Regiment of the New York State Volunteers in the War of 1861, but had been
“taken prisoner at Drurys Bluff, Va. [probably Drewry’s Bluff in Virginia] and
imprisoned at Andersonville” on or about May 16, 1864 CA94. A document dated March 19, 1867 within the pension record for
Elizabeth Martin, the widow of Gideon Martin, stated that James McMellen gave a
deposition in which he stated that he had known Elizabeth Martin for
twenty-four years and that “she is familiarly called Eliza, but that
“Eliza” and “Elizabeth” are one and the same person; That Elizabeth is the name
by which she was baptized, and also by which she was married; That her maiden
name was Hollewood” CA94.
Elizabeth Martin filed a “Claim for Widow’s Pension, with Minor Children” which
had a date bearing April 9, 1867 in which
she stated she was the widow of Gideon Martin, a private of Company A in the
100th Regiment of the New York Infantry CA94. This claim stated that she then resided on the corner of Perry
and Indiana Street in Buffalo, Erie County, New York CA94. Indiana Street no longer exists, but it was located west of
Illinois Street. This claim restated the names and ages of her three sons which
had been included in the declaration for a Widow’s Army Pension, but also
stated that Harriett had been adopted CA94. In
1880, Eliza was the head of the household; she was enumerated on College Street
in Buffalo in the 163rd
Enumeration District (10th
Ward) with her sons, William H. Martin, who worked in a lumber yard, and Gideon
J. Martin, whose occupation may have been “Carriage trimmer” UN13. Eliza stated that her father was born in Ireland, while her
mother was born in Scotland, but the birth location of her deceased husband
(the father of her sons) was said to have been Maine UN13.