When Dorcas Holmes was born on 15 August 1795, in Cornish, York, Maine, United States, her father, James Holmes, was 28 and her mother, Mehitable Webber, was 28. She married Silas Durgin on 15 November 1810, in Cornish, York, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Effingham, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States in 1860 and Carroll, New Hampshire, United States in 1880. She died on 3 January 1881, in Wolfeboro, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 85.
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English: either from the plural form of Holme , or else a variant of Holme or Home , with excrescent -s (see Holm ).
Scottish: probably a habitational name from Holmes near Dundonald (Ayrshire), or possibly from another place so called in the barony of Inchestuir (Angus). Both placenames likely derive from the plural form of Middle English, Older Scots holm ‘islet, raised land in a marsh’ (see Holm ).
Scottish and Irish: adopted for Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Thómais, Mac Thómais (see McComb ). In parts of western Ireland, Holmes is also a variant of Cavish, from Gaelic Mac Thámhais, another patronymic from Thomas . Early bearers in Ireland were probably immigrants from Scotland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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