When Priscilla Holmes was born about 1682, in New York City, New York County, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Jan Homs, was 31 and her mother, Magdalen Jans Bergen, was 28. She had at least 3 sons and 8 daughters with Andries Fredricksen Cadmus. She died before 22 October 1725.
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Historical Boundaries 1683: New York County, New York Colony, British Colonial America 1776: New York, New York, United States
Historical Boundaries 1683: New York County, New York Colony, British Colonial America 1776: New York, New York, United States
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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