When Hannah Holmes was born on 29 August 1730, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Holmes, was 27 and her mother, Rebecca Bell, was 23. She married Israel Smith on 21 January 1762, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters.
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Post office est. July 26, 1775
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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