Paternal Family Tree: Holles
On 9th March 1607 Gervase Holles was born to Frescheville Holles of Grimsby. He was baptised on 13th March 1607 at Grimsby.
On 10th May 1630 [his father] Frescheville Holles of Grimsby died.
In 1636 Gervase Holles [aged 28] was elected Mayor of Grimsby.
In 1638 Gervase Holles [aged 30] was elected Mayor of Grimsby.
In April 1640 Gervase Holles [aged 33] was elected MP Grimsby in the Short Parliament.
In November 1640 Gervase Holles [aged 33] was elected MP Grimsby in the Long Parliament.
Before 8th June 1642 Gervase Holles [aged 35] and Elizabeth Molesworth were married.
On 8th June 1642 [his son] Freschville Holles was born to Gervase Holles [aged 35] and [his wife] Elizabeth Molesworth.
In 1661 Gervase Holles [aged 53] was elected MP Grimsby which seat he held until his death in 1675.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 28th September 1667. After dinner comes [his son] Sir Fr. Hollis [aged 25] to me about business; and I with him by coach to the Temple [Map], and there I 'light; all the way he telling me romantic lies of himself and his family, how they have been Parliamentmen for Grimsby, he and his forefathers, this 140 years; and his father [aged 60] is now: and himself, at this day, stands for to be, with his father, by the death of his fellow-burgess; and that he believes it will cost him as much as it did his predecessor, which was £300 in ale, and £52 in buttered ale; which I believe is one of his devilish lies.
On 28th May 1672 [his son] Freschville Holles [aged 29] died at the Battle of Solebay at which he was in command of the Cambridge. He was buried at the Chapel of St Edmund, Westminster Abbey [Map] in an unmarked grave.
On 10th February 1675 Gervase Holles [aged 67] died.
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Holles
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Holles
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Holles
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Scopham
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Scopham
Grandfather: Gervase Holles
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Denzell
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Denzell
father: Frescheville Holles of Grimsby