Born in London.
1841 Census
3, Plough Court, St Clement Dane, Westminster.
John Hollingdale, 39.
Ann, 29.
Three children show: Edward, 7, Jane, 4, Richard, 2.
Enlisted at London on the 16th of January 1855.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 5".
Trade: Groom.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
Sent to the Depot at Canterbury when the regiment went to India, 25th of July 1866.
Discharged, "time expired", from Canterbury on the 27th of February 1867.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.
His Crimean medals were among a number stolen from the Chelsea Royal Hospital Museum on the night of the 22/23 of June 1978 and there is no knowledge if they have ever been recovered.
Further enquiry of the Hospital in 1993 shows that his medals were originally presented to the Hospital by a relative, Mr. W.E. Hollingdale, in 1932, and that the pair of medals to him are still missing.
Cannon Lummis states that he had met Edward Hollingdale at Regimental Dinners. (See report of his illness, obituary and funeral report in the 11th Hussar file.) This was taken from the Regimental Journal of the period.
Marriage registered [first]
Edward Hollingdale married Sarah Silver, June Quarter 1867, Kensington.
1871 Census
3, Chryssell Road, Lambeth.
Edward J Hollingdale, 35, Coachman, born Strand.
Sarah, 2, born Slough.
1881 Census
6 Hertford Terrace, Park Road, Battersea
The 1881 Census shows him as a Car Man (Unemployed), aged 46, born in St Clement Danes Parish, London, with his wife, Sarah, aged 46, born at Langley, Bucks.
Death registered
Sarah Hollingdale, 51, Kensington, March Quarter 1886.
Marriage registered [second]
Edward Hollingsdale [sic] married Margaret Evans, September Quarter 1886, Wandsworth.
1891 Census
46a, Sussex Place, Kensington.
Edward J Hollingsworth [sic], 56, Horse keeper Groom, born Strand.
Margaret, 40, born Middle, Shrops.
One child shown: Walter E, 3.
1901 Census
11, Kendrick Mews, Kensington.
Edward J Hollingdale, 66, Horse keeper, born Strand.
Margaret, 50, born Shrops.
Walter 13.
1911 Census
12, Breer Street [a Tenement building], Fulham.
Edward John Hollingdale, 76, Army Pensioner & Horsekeeper to Florist, born St Clement Dane.
Margaret, 60, born Newton on the Hill, Shrops. [Married 24 years.]
One son shown: Walter Edward Hollingdale, 23.
Death registered
Margaret Hollingdale, 81, March Quarter 1932, Chelsea.
Died on the 1st of August 1912 at No. 122 Swaby Road, Earlsfield, London. He was buried with military honours in the Magdalen Road Cemetery, Wandsworth, on the 7th of August 1912. A search shows his grave to be in common ground and is unmarked.
Registration of marriages and deaths, and Census information for 1841, 1871, 1891, 1901, 1911, kindly provided by Chris Poole.