When Thankful Holmes was born on 2 December 1685, in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathaniel Holmes, was 46 and her mother, Patience Topliff, was 41. She married Edward Payson on 29 October 1712, in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 25 December 1758, in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in South Cemetery, Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, 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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