Tim Hollier’s Family Album

William Hollyer c1751-1838

Tim's family descends from the Hollyer/Hollier family from Fordingbridge in Hampshire. Although Holliers are present in Fordingbridge from the beginning of the surviving parish registers in 1643, the earliest provable ancester is William Hollyer who married Ann Tague in 1776.

George Hollyer 1783-1876

George was born in Fordingbridge in 1783, the 5th of 8 children of William & Ann. He became a Labourer and later a Sailmaker. He married in 1825 to Sarah Hawkins. They had 7 children and he lived to the ripe old age of 93.

John Hollier 1827-1908

Most of George's children moved to Somerset, but John went to Dudley and there in 1852 married Elizabeth Boyce. John was a Plumber and House Painter and had a large family of 9 mostly at Tipton in Staffordshire.

William Henry Hollier 1861-1928

William was the 4th child of John and Elizabeth and was born on the same day as the 1861 census. Not having been named at the time, he was recorded as 'James'. He became an Iron Moulder - Tipton being very much an Iron producing district in those days. In 1881 he was living in Tipton with the Smith family, whose daughter Jennie he married the next year. Later on, he moved to Aberystwyth in Wales and he became the first person to register a car in Wales in 1901. They had 5 children.

They kept a general store at Aberystwyth, here seen c1900.

Hollier's Commerce House on the corner of Bridge St and Queen St in 1910.

William and Jennie retired to a cottage in Cwm-y-glo, near Llyn Padarn on the slopes of Snowdon, where they both died in 1928.

John Frederick Hollier 1886-1937

John Frederick was the 3rd child of William Henry and Jennie. In 1912 he married Florence Lydia Poste in Aberystwyth, Wales. They had 4 children, though two were born in Wolverhampton.

He served in the Great War in the Army Service Corps and fought behind enemy lines in Serbia, for which he was awarded the Gold Medal for Zealous Service. You can see the medal here.

John Frederick became a motor mechanic, perhaps inspired by his father's interest in cars. During the 1910s, he would make cars by hand.

John's wife Florence

Gordon Frederick Hollier 1922-2003

Gordon was the third of John Frederick's children. He was educated at Brighton Grammar School. He was keen on football and once scored 10 goals in one match.

He served in the RAOC as a lieutentant and was made an Acting Captain.

He married Jesse Boardman in 1942 and had a son Tim in 1947.

In the 1950s he worked for the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Seascale as Housing Manager.

Gordon retired

Timothy Gordon Hollier b. 1947

Tim is the only son of Gordon and Jesse and was very much part of the music scene in the 1960s/70s. After graduating in 1968 he released 4 self-penned albums. He is now a major force in the music publishing and copyright businesses.

Rupert Kit Gordon Hollier b. 1977

Rupert and Tim