Houliston Genealogy Online

Alex Houliston

Welcome to Houliston Genealogy Online

This site contains the Houliston Genealogy Database compiled by Andrew Houliston of South Africa.

Thanks to extensive support from Stan Dunn, Roger Moffat, Charlie Areson, J. Lee Goodson Jr and John Houliston (Lake District).

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Photos

Roy Holliston

Stained glass window inscription at St-Andrew's United Church (presbyterian)in Trois- Rivières, Québec, Canada
"IN LOVING MEMORY OF ALEXANDER HOULISTON DEVOTED LIVELONG MEMBER OF THIS CHURCH AND HIS WIFE JANET BLAIR, PRESENTED BY THEIR DAUGHTER, LOUISA HOULISTON McDOUGALL."
crafted by CW Kelsey circa 1945

Alex Houliston
Le conseil de ville des Trois-Rivières
Le Monde illustré, vol. 17 no 854. p. 3113
(15 septembre 1900)

Individuals

Dryden, Olive
b. 1888, Manitoba, Canada

Gray, Margaret (Maggie)
b. 8 August 1852, Ednam, Roxburgh, Scotland

Noble, Olive Mina
b. 1909, England

Whillans, Aaron
b. 21 April 1847, Smailholm, Roxburgh, Scotland

Whillans, Agnes
b. 8 September 1881, Smailholm, Roxburgh, Scotland

Whillans, Elizabeth Jane (Lily)
b. 23 May 1893, Maryport, England

Whillans, George
b. 1886, Roxburgh, Scotland

Whillans, Ian Morley
b. 25 February 1944, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Birthdays	Anniversaries	Deaths
Birthdays for 8 December 2025 Louis Roelof van der Merwe - 1797 John Webster - 1814 William Gerrand - 1819 Elizabeth Robertson - 1854 Martha Skeldon - 1858 Robert Lavarack - 1906 Jan Petrus Rossouw - 1907 Isa Mabel Houliston - 1909 Anna Magrieta Bester - 1945	Anniversaries for 8 December 2025 John Borthwick & Jean (Jane) Houliston - 1837 John Lonie & Isabel Houliston - 1848 Johannes Jacobus Rossouw & Susanna Magdalena Solomon - 1862 Ezra Jay O'Dell & Carrie Gladys Hazelrigg - 1912 Alexander (Sandy) Houliston & Felicia Hemans Buchanan - 1927	Deaths for 8 December 2025 Johanna Clasina Cilliers - 1880 Johanna (Francina?) Clasina Cilliers - 1886 Gabriel Petrus Rossouw - 1890 Daniel Johannes Rossouw - 1897 Moses William Serat - 1911 Mary Ann Houliston - 1926 Laura Jane Thompson - 1968