ESTHER² COLLINS (William¹) was born at Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, on 16 January 1853 a daughter of William Wright Collins and his wife Selina Hibbert . She died on 2 December 1921. She married at Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island, on 26 September 1872 JAMES HOLLINGSWORTH. He was born at Valley Falls, Cumberland, Providence County, on 23 January 1850, a son of Elijah Hollingworth and his wife Hannah Duncalf. He died at Pawtucket on 23 December 1908.^[1]

James Hollingsworth was born one year after his family had arrived in America. Three years later Esther was born, six years before her family came to America. Their families both came from Ashton-under-Lyne. Their fathers came to America together in 1848, but Esther's father returned to England, while James' father remained in New England and was joined in a few months by the rest of his family. Both families settled in Rhode Island and found employment related to the textile industry.

In 1870 Esther, age 17, was living with her parents in Pawtucket;^[2] I have not found James in that census; his family was also living at Pawtucket. James and Esther were married in 1872 by Constantine Blodget, retired Congregational minister, Pawtucket.^[3] This was four years after James' sister Elizabeth had married Esther's brother Henry. The 1880 Census found the family in Pawtucket, consisting of James, 29, machinist, Esther, 27, keeping house, and Arthur, 6, at school.^[4]

The 1900 Census reported the family at 3 Abram Street, Pawtucket, as follows:^[5]

The record also indicated that Esther had been in America 40 years, she had two children, both living, and she and James had been married twenty-seven years. Son Arthur had graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and was completing an internship at Rhode Island Hospital.

James Hollingworth died in 1908, at the age of fifty-eight, from chronic endocarditis, chronic nephritis, and arteriosclerosis.^[6] The 1910 Census reported Esther Hollingworth living in her own apartment in the same dwelling as her nephew William W. Collins^[7] (son of her brother Henry and sister-in-law Elizabeth). Her son Arthur, married and with four children, lived at 593 Broad Street, Providence, Providence County, as follows:^[8]

At this point I loose track of daughter Grace, until she appears in her brother's obituary as Mrs. Harry B. Potter, living at London, Middlesex County, England.

Esther died in 1921. Arthur had a notable career as a physician, as illuminated by his obituary:^[9]

Concerning the children of Arthur Hollingworth:

• Ruth Hollingworth remained unmarried. In 1940 she lived with her brother Harold and worked as a secretary for an insurance company.^[10]
• Duncalf Hollingworth became a chemist. In 1930 he lived at Newark, Newcastle County, Delaware with his wife and worked as a research chemist for a fibre company. The 1940 Census found him at Ewing, Mercer County, New Jersey, with his wife and two children; he was employed as a chemist for an electric insulation business.^[11]
• Robert Hollingworth lived at Providence in 1940 with his wife and two sons; he worked as a teller in a savings bank.^[12]
• Harold Hollingworth, single in 1930, lived at New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, and worked as a hand in a rayon plant. In 1940 he lived at Providence with his wife, daughter and sister, and was a dyer, employed by a dying company.^[13]

Esther Collins and her husband James Hollingworth had the following children:

1. ARTHUR³ HOLLINGWORTH b. at Pawtucket on 21 November 1873; d. at Scituate, Providence County, on 26 June 1960; m. about 1901-2 RUTH M. MANN, b. at Rhode Island on 7 July 1873, d. on 10 February 1962.^[14] Children of Arthur and Ruth:
   1. Ruth M. Hollingworth b. at Rhode Island on 28 May 1902, d. on 21 May 1968.^[15]
   2. Duncalf Wright Hollingworth^[16] b. at Rhode Island on 20 April 1904, d. on 6 February 1989; m. about 1927-8 Margaret Peck b. at Rhode Isoand on 3 August 1905, d. on October 1980. Children of Duncalf and Margaret:
      1. Richard Peck Hollingworth b. at Delaware on 28 January 1930, d. on 27 June 2009; m. (engaged 5 July 1970) Elizabeth Marr Gray b. at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 20 August 1944, d. on 13 January 2006.
      2. Barbara R. Hollingworth b. at Delaware on 17 January 1932, d. on 7 June 2013; m. Ian Read Gibbons b. on 30 October 1931, d. on 30 January 2018.
   3. Robert C. Hollingworth^[17] b. at Rhode Island on 23 May 1906, d. on September 1977; m. Ruth E. ________ b. at Connecticut about 1907-8. Children of Robert and Ruth:
      1. Wayne Hollingworth b. at Rhode Island about 1934-5.
      2. Keith Hollingworth b. at Rhode Island about 1936-7.
   4. Harold Hibbert Hollingworth^[18] b. at Providence, Providence County, on 28 June 1908, d. on 1980; m. Mabel Louise Waterman b. at Rhode Island about 1907-8, d. at Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, on 1993. Child of Harold and Mabel:
      1. Louise H. Hollingworth b. at Providence on 5 April 1911, d. at Washington County, Rhode Island, on 5 April 2011; m. Harrington M. Gordon.
2. GRACE COLLINS³ HOLLINGWORTH b. at Pawtucket on 5 November 1880; m. HARRY B. POTTER.^[19]

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