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John Holland


NationalityBritish 
RolesDesigner, Ship Builder, Dockyard Staff 
Place of BirthUnknownCSORN
First Known Service11.1.1725/26CSORN
Last Known Service1752CSORN
Date of Death5.1752 - UnknownCSORN
Cause of DeathUnknownCSORN

Event History


Date fromDate toEventSource
11.1.1725/2626.10.1726Appointed Purveyor at Plymouth Dockyard ADM 6/13/95ADM 6/13
27.10.172624.8.1727Appointed Assistant Master Shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard ADM 6/13/122ADM 6/13
25.8.172722.11.1732Appointed Assistant Master Shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard ADM 6/13/157

Renewed warrant

ADM 6/13
23.11.173212.4.1738Appointed Second Assistant Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard ADM 6/14/128ADM 6/14
13.4.17386.9.1741Appointed Assistant Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard ADM 6/15/105ADM 6/15
7.9.174122.7.1742Appointed Master Shipwright at Sheerness Dockyard ADM 6/15/450BWAS-1714
23.7.17429.6.1746Appointed Master Shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard ADM 6/16/78BWAS-1714
7.10.1743 Launched
Northumberland (64) 1743-1744
British 64 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
, Ship of the Line at Woolwich Dockyard - Woolwich
BWAS-1714
26.2.1744/45 Launched
Windsor (60) 1745-1777
British 60 Gun
4th Rate Ship of the Line
, Ship of the Line at Woolwich Dockyard - Woolwich
BWAS-1714
19.7.1745 Launched
Devonshire (80) 1745-1747
British 80 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
, Ship of the Line at Woolwich Dockyard - Woolwich
BWAS-1714
11.6.17461752Appointed Master Shipwright at Deptford Dockyard ADM 6/17/115BWAS-1714
9.7.1746 Launched
Bristol (50) 1746-1768
British 50 Gun
4th Rate Ship of the Line
, Ship of the Line at Woolwich Dockyard - Woolwich
 
9.9.1747 Launched
Culloden (74) 1747-1770
British 74 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
, Ship of the Line at Deptford Dockyard - Deptford
BWAS-1714
26.7.1749 Launched
Peggy (8) 1749-1770
British 8 Gun
Unrated Sloop
, Sloop at Deptford Dockyard - Deptford
BWAS-1714
3.8.1749 Launched
Rochester (50) 1749-1770
British 50 Gun
4th Rate Ship of the Line
, Ship of the Line at Deptford Dockyard - Deptford
BWAS-1714
25.5.1750 Launched
Swiftsure (68) 1750-1773
British 68 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
, Ship of the Line at Deptford Dockyard - Deptford
BWAS-1714
30.4.1751 Launched
Buckingham (68) 1751-1779
British 68 Gun
3rd Rate Ship of the Line
1777 Renamed "Grampus"
, Ship of the Line at Deptford Dockyard - Deptford
BWAS-1714

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Posted by John Hoadly on Monday 18th of November 2024 13:08

John Holland possibly buried at St Mary's Church, Chatham 31 May 1752 and will proved 2 June 1752 (see transcript):

“ Knowing the uncertainty of life, I declare this my last will, that after my debts paid, a decent but not expensive funeral, I give to my dear and loving wife, Mary Holland, the interest of my little house at Chatham, also the six pounds a year my brother Thomas Holland, his heirs and executors due to pay me out of the rent of the Queen’s Head, as my father’s will directs during her life. Also my wages of servants [apprentices] and my salary, with the interest of my shares in Navy Bills or otherwise and use of plate & household goods during her natural life. Th[a]n when she is dead the rent for house, annuity of six pounds, servants wages, all the plate and goods, moneys, Navy Bills etc to be divided into two equal parts: one of them to my daughter Elizabeth Holland; the other to be divided equally between Holland John Eales and Sarah[?] Janey[?] Eales, his sister.

This I declare to be my sincere intentions and will.

John Holland 17 October 1747”



“2nd June 1752

On which appeared personally Arthur Robbins of the parish of St Nicholas, Deptford in the County of Kent, Esquire.”


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