Christian Holland

(Probably) not the same as Christian Corbin

References

• Christian Holland. Gender: Female Christening: Mar 30 1578 Stokenham, Devon, England Father: John Holland Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C05248-1 System Origin: England-ODM GS Film number: 917534
• Note: “ Bartelot speculates further that Christian was a sister to John Holland of Tincleton. Since Edward Sprague III married John Holland’s daughter Elizabeth in Tincleton 31 Jan. 1651, this would lead to the awkward conclusion that Christian’s grandson married her niece.
• https://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/trees/218086/I19485/christian-/in... RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. NEHGS Register, July 1980, v. 134, pp. 194-198, article entitled "Some Sprague Records in Weymouth, Tincleton, and Dorchester, Dorset," by Ruth Sprague Dowty [see notes of Edward Sprague for full transcript from which this partial excerpt is taken]: "...This also mayt be the property about which John Corbin, stepfather of Ralph Sprague, urgently wrote him from Upway on 25 March 1651, "write unto mee your mynd aboout the tenement of yours in Upway being now in the possession of Thomas Murrie. Also I am very Sorrie to understand that my brother in law John Holland shall report...that your are dead...but I give God praise that I heare to the contrary..." Since Ralph had been dead for a year the lease was legally his brother's, if alive. In not, the 1636 document would return the property to the Hayne family. From that letter stems the 128-year-old Sprague/Holland puzzle about which many genealogists have speculated.(14) Corbin's signature as "father in law" has been correctly interpreted to mean stepfather but "brother in law" should not have been then literally since terms of family relationships then were used so loosely. The solution to the puzzle lies in Tincleton's parish records, which begin in 1576: John Holland married Sprague's widowed daughter, Alice. Thus the Holland family has no apparent connection with Christian's own ancestry, as has been thought.