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From: ShirleyRobinette <>
Subject: Hollinger
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 19:36:08 -0800
Marie,
Found the following while searching thru my files-maybe others might be
interested.
"The family has been well documented in two volumes and manuscripts taking
the family back some 20 generations to the 1400's in Switzerland. Hans
Jacob Hollinger of Boniswyl, Switzerland and the family had resided there
from at least the 15th century.
There were a number of branches of the family who lived over the border in
Germany and who fought in the various wars for Holland, England and in
Ireland. However, they all trace back originally to the Swiss Family in the
1400's. True, some remained in Holland, others in England and Ireland, but
they are a Swiss family, pure and simple!!"
re:Quote from letter, dated September 21, 1979, to Mr. George Shoemaker,
Swathmore, PA, from Graham Thomas Smallwood, Jr-Certified American Lineage
Specialist, Salt Lake City, Utah.
"From all information reviewed it appears that the early Hollinger families
lived in a small canton (province) of Aargaw, located in north central
Switzerland.
The towns of Boniswil, Egliswil, Seegan, and Kubm, all in this canton of
Aargaw, were the known areas of the first generations of Hollingers." re:
Fred Newbraugh, West Virginia, CG
I have pictures sent to me by Bruce Collins of Wisconsin, who visited the
Holligers in Switzerland. There is one picture of Bruce & Max Holliger, one
of the Holliger construction trucks & one of Bruce & Max who is holding the
Holliger coat of arms & one of Max Holliger's home.
Bruce had ph'd me before going to Switzerland, asking for some info to take
with him. I sent him some info along with a copy of the coat of arms from
HKH book. Bruce said he could not speak Swiss nor could Max speak English
so he held up the copy of the coat of arms-Max ran into his house-came back
out with an identical coat of arms done in stained glass. Interesting!
Shirley
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