Adam Holland

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Adam probably died before 1563.

Relationships

Father: uncertain.

Some possibilities appear in the Evidence section below.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Isabel.

Isabel appears as Adam’s widow in Newton Court records below.

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

George Holland (buried 25 June 1653 in Manchester) married Ann Hall.

Evidence

from the 1524 Lay Subsidy:

Parochia de Machestra infra [hundred’ de Salford]

Peter Hall … in goods  xl li   v s

John Holland ….  in goods  x li   v s

Parochia de Prestwiche:

Nicholas Holland ….. in lands ….iiij li   iiij s

[Tait’s footnote states that Nicholas was of Heaton.]

from Newton Court, 1530:

On the jury:

Nich Holland

from Newton Court, 1539:

… and William Holland do common with their cattle upon Newton heythe where they ought not; therefore each of them is in mercy.

from Newton Court, 1540-1:

Adam Holland

from the 1541 Subsidy Roll:

Manchester: 

Adam Holland for xliiiili in goods —- xxiis 

from the 1543 Lay Subsidy:

Manchester:

Adam Holland …. in goods … xxx li    xx s

Newton (?) Hamell to [Manchester]:

Peres Hall…

from Newton Court, 1546:

Leaseholders:

Rauf Holland, one parcel of ground called Stotland (Scotland) Crosse, estimated..acr’, ijs. iiijd.; The wyff of Nicholas Holland, xxviijs.

from the 1563 Lay Subsidy:

Manchester parishe: Salford:

Goods.

George Holland …. in goods…. iiij li   vj s viij d

Robert Bothe  … in goods … iij li    v s

Manchester

Goods:

Adame Holland …. iiij li  vj s  vii  d

from Newton Court, 1572:

View of Frankpledge of Newton and Kerdmashulme and Deansgate.

On the jury:

Adam Holland

[Cancelled: – We present for bowling, …Adame Holland…]

from Newton Court, c. 1573:

The wife of Adam Holland hath built an house and a barn, and part of them stande on Newton Heath with a large incroachment before them.

from Newton Court, 1583:

Isabell, late wife of Adam Holland deceased, hath built a house and a barn, and part of them do stand upon Newton Heath with a large Incrochment before them, and should have laid out same before xxenmas last, sub pena iijli.. vjs. viijd. ; order to lay forth before St. James, sub pena vj/. xiijs. iiijd.

from Newton Court, 1584:

Isabell, late wife of Adam Holland, deceased, hath built a house and a barn, and part of them stand on Newton Heath, with a large incroachment before them, and shuld have laid out the same before Christmas 1582, and is not yet amended. We find due to the lord vili. xiijs. iiijd., and order it shall be laid out before St. James day next, sub pena vili. xiijs. iiijd.

References

Crofton, H.T. A History of Newton Chapelry in the Ancient Parish of Manchester (Chetham Society, 1904).

Tait, James. Taxation in Salford Hundred 1524-1802 (Chetham Society, 1924).

“Three Lancashire Subsidy Rolls, 1541, 1622, and 1628; and a Recusant Roll, 1628” in Miscellanies, relating to Lancashire and Cheshire v. 1. (Record Society, 1885)