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holloway Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the numerous minor places so called, from Old English hol ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’ + weg ‘way’, ‘path’. In Ireland, it has sometimes been Gaelicized as Ó hAilmhic (see Hulvey).

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Distribution of holloway Families in the US in 1920
Number of holloway families
 151-300
 51-150		 1-50
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Holloway Picture Lollybg 15
Holloway born Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England. th015e1496 5
SC/GA Holloways Steve Holloway 9
holloway's of east tennessee judybothell 0
Holloway, Childers/Childress? fourthmo 1
HOLLOWAY family that emigrated to Australia from Hertfordshire, England. teresapearcy1 0
Holloways in Eastern Tennessee before 1850 Jessie Cheek 15
William Holloway b. g. holloway 22
Mahulda HOLLOWAY who is she? kim 22
First Holloways Tom Holloway 16
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