Rev. C. W. Hollands
Charles William Hollands was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, on March 8, 1857. His date of ordainment is unknown. His wife, Emily Hannah Hollands (née Burles), was born in Gravesend, Kent, on October 4, 1858; their date of marriage could not be found. They had ten children, and the family belonged to the Church of England. It is not clear when the Hollands came to Newfoundland, but according to baptism and marriage records, Charles was a priest at the Bonne Bay Anglican parish from 1881 to 1904. This parish encompassed a wide area, which Hollands travelled by foot, boat, and dogsled until it was split into Bonne Bay South and Bonne Bay North. Burial records show that Hollands was an active priest at St. James’ Anglican Church in Carbonear from at least 1912 to 1916. The records on Hollands’s immediate family are somewhat easier to locate. Two sons, Henry and John, served in World War I; Henry survived the war, but John was killed in action by a shell on April 23, 1915. John could not be properly buried, but his name is on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium. Information regarding Charles’s place of death could not be found, but his date of death was May 18, 1918. His name, “C. W. Hollands,” is written on three texts in the Queen Elizabeth II Library.
Donation List:
Pearson, John and Edward Walford. An Exposition of the Creed: With Analysis. London: George Bell and Sons, 1878.
Sumner, John Bird. A Practical Exposition of the Gospel of St. Luke, in the Form of Lectures, Intended to Assist the Practice of Domestic Instruction and Devotion. London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1833.
Trench, Richard Chenevix. Synonyms of the New Testament. London: Macmillan and Co., 1880.
