Memorable Manitobans: Thomas William Holley (1860-1920)

Thomas William Holley Click to enlarge

Real estate and insurance broker.

Thomas William Holley Click to enlarge

Born at Granby, Quebec on 17 February 1860, son of Henry and Roxana Holley, he was educated at public schools in Massachusetts. He began working as a paper manufacturer at Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1880. He came to Winnipeg in 1904 and established the Holley and Baird Realty Company, in partnership with Clarence Henry Baird, with offices at 265 Portage Avenue, in 1905.

In 1891, he married Dora Gertrude Fales (1868-1942) at Holyoke, Massachusetts and they had ten children: Elsie Gertrude Holley (1893-?, wife of Thomas Swann), James Holley (1894-?), Ruth Emma Holley (1896-?, wife of Carl Murdough Allen), Thomas Gilford “Gil” Holley (1897-1987), Stuart F. Holley (1898-?), Marian Holley (1902-?), Esther Holley (1902-?), Carl Gordon Holley (1906-1970), Ethel Beatrice Holley (1908-1969, wife of George Hamilton Butcher), and Dorothy Louise Holley (1910-?, wife of Graham Coultry Mills). In 1911, the family lived at 132 Furby Street, Winnipeg. He was a member of the Canadian Club and Presbyterian church.

He died at his Winnipeg home, 95 Langside Street, on 29 October 1920 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.

Sources:

1906 and 1911 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.

Birth registration [Dorothy Louise Holley], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, edited by C. W. Parker, Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911.

Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.

Death registration [Thomas William Holley], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

“Thomas W. Holley, realty agent, dies,” Winnipeg Tribune, 30 October 1920, page 37.

Marriage registration [Dorothy Louise Holley, Graham Coultry Mills], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Marriage registration [Ruth Emma Holley, Carl Murdough Allen], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Marriage registration [Ethel Beatrice Holley, George Hamilton Butcher], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Death registration [Doris Gertrude Holley], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Obituary [Ethel Beatrice Butcher], Winnipeg Free Press, 21 October 1969, page 34.

Obituary [T. Gilford Holley], Winnipeg Free Press, 7 August 1987, page 28.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 26 June 2022

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