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HOLLEY, Robert Arthur "Bob"

Male 1877 - 1943  (65 years)


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  • Name HOLLEY, Robert Arthur "Bob" 
    Birth 23 Jun 1877  Vandeleur, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 21 Mar 1943  Quesnell, British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • BC Death Index # 1943-09-620728. Had a stroke while working at the woodlot on their farm, and died a week later.
    Person ID I1846  Ward
    Last Modified 26 Jan 2011 

    Father HOLLEY, John,   b. 24 Nov 1834, Albion Twp., Peel, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Aug 1917, Vandeleur, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Mother HARVEY, Hannah Margaret,   b. 17 Jul 1837, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Mar 1917, Vandeleur, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 27 Sep 1859  Grey Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F425  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family NEELY, Catherine "Kate",   b. 1879, Rocklyn, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 May 1958, Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 1907 
    Children 
    +1. HOLLEY, Ella,   b. 1908
     2. HOLLEY, Harvey,   b. 27 Nov 1909   d. Feb 1983, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    +3. HOLLEY, Frederic Arthur 'Art',   b. 17 May 1911, Markham, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 04 Aug 1970, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
    +4. HOLLEY, Wilmott "Bill",   b. 1914   d. Est 2000 (Age 86 years)
    +5. HOLLEY, Edith Catherine,   b. 11 Jun 1917, Meaford, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Sep 1968, G.R. Baker Memorial Hosp., Quesnell, British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)
    +6. HOLLEY, F.E.
    +7. HOLLEY, Dr. Donald Alexander "Alex",   b. 18 Mar 1924, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 05 Oct 2000, Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    Family ID F503  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Living with brothers and sisters, in the household next to their parents, in 1901 census. He is listed as the head of the household at the time, even though in the middle of them in age.

      He lived near Lucky Lake Saskatchewan for awhile before moving to BC (verified by the book ?Don?t Shoot From the Saddle? by Dr. Donald Alexander Holley).

      The Flesherton Advance for Jan. 12, 1911 has a notice to the public from Robert about his having just bought out a Mr. F.J. Weber?s general store business at Kimberley, ON. It also mentions that he had just moved to Kimberley on Jan. 11.

      The Flesherton Advance for Jan. 3, 1923 has Robert and two daughters (Edith and Freda) coming to visit Sam Croft and his wife on New Years, and that they were living at Theo, SK at the time.

      Family officially moved to BC (near Vinsulla, initially) in 1937.

      Death date from Flesherton Advance, March 31, 1943. Dr. Holley?s book says he suffered from a stroke on March 21, but survived, never recovering consciousness, for about a week. Dr. Holley found Robert lying in the snow near the woodlot on their property.

      From his nephew?s (Elmer Howard) family history:

      Robert Arthur was a hard working, good-natured, big, honest, handsome fellow who was also a mason, brick or stone. He farmed as a young man in partners with Chas on the old home in Ontario. He married Kate Neeley, sister to the wife of brother Peter Edward. Rob operated a general store in Kimberly, Ont. for a while; also a livery barn in Meaford Ont. Later he moved to Saskatchewan where he carried on farming. Then he moved to B.C. in the early ?30s. He passed away in the hospital at Quesnell in 1942,I think. Raised a family of seven: Ella, Harvey, Arthur, Edith, Wilmot, Freda, and Alex, all living in B.C. (except Freda). From web site of Curtis Boyle, Jan., 2011.


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