Thank you Elizabeth, I shall watch that later.
Most of the official biographies and trees for the Holden family state that the founding family were the de Haldanes who came over with William the Conqueror. This is simply not true and is easily disproved by any amateur researcher. The coats of arms were and still are completely different, the de Haldanes never held land in Lancashire and the Holdens were well entrenched in Lancashire long before the Norman invasion. Just try telling anyone though!
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