From HR issue 1
This is a composite of two versions of the tale! It seems one John Hollingsworth, an adventurous lad (a mariner), when upon one of his travels, came eventually to Calcutta in India. (Another version has ‘America’ in place of ‘India’). There he came into the employ of a very, very wealthy gentleman, Lord Spottiswoode. John became acquainted, and soon fell deeply in love with the old Gent’s only hild - Lady Ellenor Spottiswoode, and they decided to marry. But John was a commoner, and Lady Ellenor was of Gentler birth, and the old man forbade the union.
But the Hollingsworths being what they are… Johnny swept away his love into the nearest boat and fled away and married the lass anyway! (This all happened over two hundred years ago.) So Lord Spottiswoode, not to be outhanded, cut his child out of his legacy - his vast riches. He claused his Will so that only the “seventh generation” after him could collect that pile of gold.
So Johnny Hollingsworth settled down near Arklow, Co. Wicklow, in the south of Ireland, with his bride.
They had two children - (guess what they named them!) - John jnr and Ellenor jnr. Ellenor married a Mr. Prestage and John junior became the father of 10 children - 9 of them boys. John jnr is supposed to be the John who died in 1864 at Big Rock Arklow.
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