When Capt John Holmes was born on 14 January 1751, in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Holmes Jr., was 54 and his mother, Rebecca Waterman, was 40. He lived in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1751. He died on 20 March 1772, in Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 21, and was buried in Kingston, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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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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