Esther Holland                         1791 –

  b.        14.10.1791

  bap.     15.11.1791                     Llangollen

  Marriage

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  1811         Baptism of Rachel Holland   -   b. 28.05.1811   bap.   23.06.1811     at   Chirk       base daughter of Esther Holland

  1814         Baptism of Thomas Holland  on  13.02.1814   at Chirk  - base son of Esther Holland of Castle Mill  and  William Williams, carpenter, of  Chirk

  1815         Burial of Thomas Holland (infant) on   31.05.1815 at Chirk

    Have been unable to find any further records for Esther and it is possible that she moved away from the Chirk area to make a fresh start. Her parents were originally from Warrington where all her siblings were born and she may have had connections there. A marriage took place at St Elphin, Warrington in 1819 involving an Esther Holland (see below) but she did not sign her own name – if this is our Esther Holland, she would be the first of her siblings unable to sign at their marriage. 

   1819       Possible

       Marriage licence bond issued 5.04.1819   for marriage on 6.04.1819 at   St Elphin, Warrington   between  William Wright (widower) and Esther Holland (spinster), both of this parish. (both made mark) 

     It is not known where Rachel Holland spent her childhood but she is living in the Chirk / Llangollen area at the time of the 1841 census where she is recorded as a ‘Female Servant’ in Trevor Ucha  (Froncysyllte).  She then marries John Wynne Minshall (marriage record not found) and the 1851 and 1861 censuses show them living in Trevor Issa with their four daughters.