Valentine Hollingsworth b. Aug 1632 Ballyvickcrannel, Seagoe, County Armagh, Ireland d. 13 Oct 1710 Newark, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America: Tangled Roots

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Name	Valentine Hollingsworth
Born	Aug 1632	Ballyvickcrannel, Seagoe, County Armagh, Ireland [1]
Born	[6mo 1632]
Gender	Male
Buried	Oct 1710	Newark, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America
Died	13 Oct 1710	Newark, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America [2, 3]
Person ID	I10637	TangledRoots
Last Modified	12 Apr 2021

Family 1 Ann Rea, b. 1628, Tanderagee, County Armagh, Ireland , d. 1 Apr 1671, Ballyvickcrannel, County Armagh, Ireland (Age 43 years)

Married 7 Jun 1655 Ballyvickcrannel, Seagoe, County Armagh, Ireland [4]

[7da 4mo 1655]

Children

	1. Living
	2. Henry Hollingsworth, b. 7 Sep 1658, Armagh, County Armagh, Ireland , d. 12 Mar 1721, Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland, British Colonial America (Age 62 years)
	3. Thomas Hollingsworth, b. 1 Jul 1661, County Armagh, Ireland , d. 2 Apr 1727, Winchester City, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 65 years)
	4. Living

Last Modified 16 Jan 2022

Family ID F4112 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2 Ann Calvert, b. Nov 1650, County Down, Ireland , d. 17 Oct 1697, Shellpot Creek, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America (Age 46 years)

Married 12 Jun 1672 Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland

Children

	1. Samuel Hollingsworth, b. 27 Mar 1673, Ballyvickcrannel, County Armagh, Ireland , d. Nov 1748, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America (Age 75 years)
	2. Enoch Hollingsworth, b. 7 Aug 1675, Ballyvickcrannel, County Armagh, Ireland , d. 24 Oct 1687, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America (Age 12 years)
	3. Valentine Hollingsworth, b. 12 Jan 1677, Ballyvickcrannel, County Armagh, Ireland , d. 25 Mar 1757, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America (Age 80 years)
	4. Ann Hollingsworth, b. 28 Dec 1680, Ballyvickcrannel, County Armagh, Ireland , d. Yes, date unknown
	5. John Hollingsworth, b. 19 Apr 1684, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America , d. 1722 (Age 37 years)
	6. Joseph Hollingsworth, b. 19 Jul 1686, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America , d. Yes, date unknown
	7. Enoch Hollingsworth, b. New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America , d. Yes, date unknown

Last Modified 16 Jan 2022

Family ID F3287 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Valentine and family, along with son-in-law Thomas Connway, left Ireland because of religious persecution. Their refusal to adhere to the State Church had brought penalties & fines upon them. They sailed in 1682 aboard the "Sea Lion:, settling in New Castle County, Delaware. Valentine had a plantation of 1000 acres on Shelpot Creek.

The family is originally English. Though persons of this name lived in Cheshire, there is no proof that this immigrant traces his roots to that shire. Nor is there any proof that he was son-in-law to Henry Cornish, the High Sheriff of London who was executed in 1685. Valentine came from Lurgan MM in County Armagh. Newark Meeting House (Delaware) was built on land that he donated. He served as Justice of the Peace, and an Assembly-man for many years.

Valentine's name seems to appear frequently in early histories. his descendants, however, fan out & straggle away. [Source: Immigrant Ancestors of Miami 'Valley, Ohio, Quaker Families: Summer 1984, pg. 7]

...The meetings in New Castle County "on Delaware" received an important migration of Irish Friends, and although now within the State of Delaware, in those early days were in that part of Penn's possessions known as "The Territories" or "Lower Counties" of Pennsylvania.
...About 1682, several Friends with their families arrived and settled near each other on the east side of Brandywine Creek, in New Castle County. Among these were; Valentine Hollingsworth, from Parish of Segoe, County Armagh, justice of the peace and for many years a representative to the Provincial Assembly.
...They held meetings for worship at the houses of Valentine Hollingsworth and Cornelius Empson. Valentine Hollingsworth lived on a large plantation of nearly a thousand acres on Shelpot Creek, in Brandywine Hundred, about five miles north-east of the present City of Wilmington, Delaware, and in 1687, he gave "unto ffriends for A burying place half an Acre of [his] land for ye purpose there being Some already buried in ye Spot. ffriends have referred fencing of it." A meeting-house was afterward built on this plot and the meeting known as Newark, from the name of the plantation which in the original survey of 1684 was called 'New Worke,' doubtless a corruption of Newark. A meeting was continued here until 1754, when the Friends "being suited with a better conveniency, it was laid down." [Immigration of Irish Quakers in Pennsylvania 1682-1750, with their history in Ireland, Albert Cook Myers (1901), pg 119-120, PDF, Archive.org.]