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From: Bill Holder <>
Subject: [HOLDER] Re: The Holders
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 07:47:19 -0600
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Blondie wrote:

> My name is Josephine Elizabeth Holder and I live in (and was born in
> England). I am trying to trace the Holder family tree in the UK BUT there are
> very few of us, we seem to be mostly in the USA. Can you tell me how this came
> to be when I know that the name Holder originated in the Gloucestershire
> region and can be traced back to Anglo-Saxon times. Yours faithfullyJo

Cousin Jo,

The Holder surname can be found in America as early as 1638, they came from
England. Most of the Holder lines came to America before the 1776 "troubles"
as called there, or "revolution" as called here. We are not sure How many came
from England, or how many was born here. It seems as though the early family
was fairly wealthy, not many, if any came as indentured servants.

There are not many of us here, just a few thousand, but for the most part we
are a group of skilled and professional people. One interesting trait that
seems to run in the Holder family is a cleft chin, ( a chin that is divided from
top to bottom in the middle), is this found in the English Holders ?.

There were some Holders that came from Germany, but most of them changed the
spelling to Holder from Holter, Halder, Etc.

You can join the rest of us Holder researchers at the FREE Holder family E-Mail
discussion group. Just send an E-Mail to:


Just type the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line, and SUBSCRIBE in the body.
You will then recieve, and be able to ask Holder family research questions and
recieve answers by E-Mail from other Holder researchers. I would guess there
are more than 80 now on line with the Rootsweb program.

Great to hear from you, I am sending a copy of this to our cousins thru the
roots list.

Have a great day,
Cousin Bill



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