A Family History


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Robert Boyd (ca. 1705-1751) was of Scottish descent. He immigrated from Ulster Province, Ireland and settled in Cumberland (later Franklin County), Pennsylvania about 1737. Descendants and relatives eventually scattered throughout the United States.



















The Road to Erath


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John Hollis was born ca. 1736 near London, England. He emigrated to America, ca. 1750-1751. He married Mary (Trantham?), ca. 1767. They were the parents of 11 children. John died, 27 Aug 1832, in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The great-grandson of John and Mary, Harvey Berry Hollis emigrated to Texas from Tennessee sometime in 1855. Harvey married Mary Ann Polly McCarty. Their grand-daughter Bettie Lee Hollis married Henry Marion Thompson in Erath County, Texas.




Chambers History


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Some ancestry and many descendants of various Chambers emigrants from Scotland or England to the United States (and one immigrant to Canada). Descendants lived throughout the United States, and in Canada.