When John Holmes was born in 1782, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Richard Holmes, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth McGauhey, was 24. He married Anne Newton from 1820 to 1825, in Madison, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Lawrence, Alabama, United States in 1830. He died after 1840.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state in the Union.
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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