THE HOLLOWAY FAMILY ALBUM



HALBERT HAROLD HOLLOWAY II




Irena Alice and Wirt Holloway, Bakersfield



Ben Holloway, Texas or California



Mom, Halbert Harold II and Ben Holloway, Bakersfield



Mom's father, Mr Tilley, and Hal, Bakersfield



Mrs Munsey, their teacher, taught three generations of Holloways, Hal is second from left in the front row.



Aunt Leece, Mom (Elizabeth Tilley Holloway), Ed's wife, Ben, Ed, Hal, Luella, Aunt Martha, Aunt Luella, Bakersfield



Halbert Harold Holloway II at 18, graduating from High School, just before his father's death



Halbert Harold Holloway at 28, photograph for California teaching credential



JULIA BOLTON




Her father's family: Frederick Rothwell Bolton, Florence Bolton, Dorothy Joyce Bolton, John Robert Glorney Bolton, Eileen Mary Bolton. Granny was widowed when my father, her oldest child, was seven, supporting her family with church embroidery. Derek went to Cambridge and became a Dean in the Church of Ireland, publishing a book on the Caroline Church in Ireland, Joyce became a professor of child growth and development and a fine painter with many exhibitions in America, my father went to Ardingly and Oxford, working in the Bodleian Library at 15, and became friends with Gandhi and Pope John XXIII, publishing seven books, Eileen was a self-taught, brilliant scholar, publishing Lichens for Vegetable Dyeing.

Mother's family: Maternal great grandparents, Sir James and Lady Roberts, Fairlight Hall

Maternal grandmother, Alice Maude Mary Roberts

Uncle Leo, Sybil, Auntie 'Q'. Granny has sewn all their dresses and the table cloth from being taught in Swiss finishing school.



Sybil Margaret and John Robert Glorney Bolton, 1937. The frontispiece to their book, Two Lives Converge, which they dedicated 'To Julia'

[For more of my mother's ancestors' photographs see Sir James Roberts]



Julia's passport photograph for going to France, 1951, at 14



Julia, 1952, her hair cut, with school friends at Holmhurst St Mary where she went to school and where at 55 she entered its convent, after having Hal's consent to do so, since he had married another, in Synagogue. Marriage vows in Canon Law have precedence over monastic vows.



Julia, just arrived in America, 1953, at 16.



The Americans immediately made her 'American' with perm and lipstick the day after the photograph of when she arrived and she felt very uncomfortable about being changed.  She never liked being forced to wear lipstick.




In Saltillo, Mexico, 1954



In Saltillo, 1954



Auntie Joyce's cherry orchard, 1954, whose cherries she and I used to pick and sell to pay for painting vacations in Carmel.

  

In my aunt's cherry orchard with Hal, 1956.



Teaching in Unitarian nursery school to have money to pay for Hal's medicines during our engagement, the deposit for a rented house and the down payment for a car when we married.



Graduation at 20, 1957



With Edith May Alcock, Halbert's first fiancéè. We both graduated with great distinction, departmental honors and are wearing our Phi Kappi Phi ribbons.

           

Going to my Anglican wedding, San Jose, 10 August 1957
 

MR AND MRS HALBERT HAROLD  HOLLOWAY II

10 AUGUST 1957



Halbert Harold and Julia Holloway



Hal's National Guard friend, Halbert Harold Holloway, Julia Holloway, Lazaro Garza, Myra Carico



Auntie Joyce Bolton, Julia Holloway, Myra Carico, 10 August 1957. I made all our dresses here, indeed all those I wear in these photographs after 1953. The silk of the wedding dress I later used to line pants I made for Richard, Colin and Jonathan out of yellow corduroy when I took them to Europe to visit their relatives there. We received no child support. My graduation gown is my aunt's, that I remade into my doctor's robes, and which we had also loaned to Hal for his graduation. I gave my academic regalia to our grandchildren so that all these generations could use them, placing them in the chests I made for them when I entered the convent at 55.


SISTER JULIA BOLTON HOLLOWAY


        

At Powdermill where I had partly grown up, near Holmhurst St Mary where I went to school, now in nun's habit and veil.

As Hermit of the Holy Family, photographed in Sweden, 1999.

As I am now, photographed in Boulder, March 2005


Dedicated to our children and grandchildren, 10 August 2006

See also Family and Convent Albums:

     

Poems Pennyeach; Mosaic; Gandhi; BBC http://catskill.gcal.ac.uk/repository/repos-fs/gcu/a0/a1/gcu-a0a1k7-b.mov now lost recording of many voices 'Talking of Gandhiji', my father's voice being one of these; Death Valley Incident; Halbert Harold Holloway, The Woman, the Sun, the Flowers and the Courage; Sir James Roberts; My England (in progress); Morris Dances of England; Nigel Foxell, Amberley Village; The Joy of the Bicycle; Richard Ben Holloway, Together Let Us Sweetly Live; Jonathan Luke Holloway, Home Birth Can Be An Option; Holmhurst St Mary; Mother Agnes Mason, C.H.F.; Rose Lloyds, Rose's Story; Deaf/Death; David and Solomon; How to Make Cradles and Libraries; Hazel Oddy, Martha's Supplication; Tangled Tale; Oliveleaf Chronicle

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