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From: "Jill McCracken" <>
Subject: Re: HOLDER-D Digest V00 #87
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:08:53 -0500


Well, Cousins, guess I'll jump into this fray about the origins of our name.
My Dad always wondered--and thus started my search about 1970. Dad died in
'89 and I STILL DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER, CAUSE I CAN'T FIND WILLIAM HENDERSON
HOLDER'S PARENTS!!!!! Anyway, Dr. Alex VanRavensway, a native of Holland,
who delivered me in Boonville, MO, over 50 years ago, told Dad that HOLDER
was a Dutch name. Probably spelled, as Bill said, as Houlder. At the same
time in our own neighborhood, was an elderly German born man who also came
to the US as an adult, who said the name was German. Those two
"conflicting" reports of friends was part of what sparked Dad's curiosity.
I'm guessing we'll NEVER really know which direction the name went or from
whence it came. The above W.H. had a mother-in-law of the Moravian Holder
line. Rue, who's mother was Sybilla Graeff, lived in the German speaking
Moravian communities in PA. When I inquired,years ago, about records in
London, I received a letter that there was a Dutch settlement in the area of
the Tower of London during the mid-late 1600's and that the Graeff name
seemed to be Dutch. What little evidence we have, places that family in
that area at that time.

It will be interesting to see where we all spring from IF we ever get the
lost and unaccounted for ancestors found.
Jill Holder McCracken
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