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Note for: William Holland, - Index

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Noted simply in Griffith's Pedigree as being "of Conway"

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Note for: William Holland, ABT Nov 1555 - Index

Baptism:
     Date:   1 Dec 1555
     Place:   Conway

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Note for: William Holland, - ABT Mar 1639 Index

Residence:
     Place:   Marle & Conway

Burial:
     Date:   28 Mar 1639
     Place:   Conway

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Note for: William Holland, ABT Apr 1677 - ABT May 1703 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   1 May 1677
     Place:   Conway

Occupation:   Clerk

Burial:
     Date:   5 May 1703
     Place:   Conway

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Note for: William Holland, 16 Jan 1711 - 1761 Index

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HOLLAND, WILLIAM (1711-1761), early Methodist and Moravian; b. atHaverfordwest 16 Jan. 1711, son of Nicholas Holland, of the Hollandsof Walwyn's Castle. Nicholas Holland was great-great-grandson of.According to Moravian tradition, William Holland was at Haverfordwestgrammar school at the same time as bishop John Gambold; he does notseem to have been Welsh-speaking. Before 1732 he was in London, andhad a fairly large house-painting business in Basinghall Street. Hetook to religion, and frequented the society which met at first inJames Hutton's house and afterwards in Alders-gate Street and FetterLane, before the split between John Wesley and the Moravians; it seemspretty certain that Hutton was the man who read out portions of Lutheron Galatians, in Wesley's hearing (14 May 1738) - the event whichWesley regarded as the occasion of his own ‘conversion.’ But Huttonwas drawn into Moravianism. On receiving (1741) the Brethren'sassurance that he could be one of them without forsaking the Church ofEngland, he sold his business and was set apart as a Moravian‘labourer.’ When the official congregation (i.e. church) of the UnitedBrethren was established in Fetter Lane (30 Oct. 1742), Holland's namestood first in the list of its members; he was one of its two‘stewards,’ and an ‘elder.’ In 1743, he was appointed ‘correspondentfor Wales’; in the same year he conducted a mission in Yorkshire; in1745 he went to Germany. On his return, he was sent on a mission toSouth Wales, including Pembrokeshire; his journey took from Nov. 1746till Feb. 1747. But even from 1745 he had been disturbed by what heconsidered an increasing tendency among the Brethren towards separate‘denominationalism,’ being himself a staunch Anglican. In Nov. 1747 hewas deprived of his ‘labourer's’ commission, and resumed hishouse-painting; shortly afterwards, to the intense chagrin of theBrethren, he went over to John Wesley. He d. in London 23 Feb. 1761.His wife (1741) was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Delamotte and thusaunt to the first wife of David Mathias; the Fetter Lane Archives havean autobiography and letters of hers; they have also an interestingaccount by Holland of the state of religion in Wales between 1735 and1747, and an incomplete journal of his travels in South Wales in1746-7 - these documents were printed by Miss Elnith R. Griffiths inCylch. Cymd. Hanes M.C., xvi and xvii. Ref: NLW Biographies

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Note for: William Holland, 15 Aug 1769 - 17 Jun 1802 Index

Occupation: Merchant
Place: Calcutta