Enid Gertrude Holmes
18 August 1895–
South Africa
The Life of Enid Gertrude
When Enid Gertrude Holmes was born on 18 August 1895, in South Africa, her father, William Isaac Holmes, was 48 and her mother, Annie Magdalina Hagan, was 45. She married Cecil Stanley Pond in 1919, in Pretoria, Tshwane, Gauteng, South Africa.
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Family Time Line
Cecil Stanley Pond
1894–1950
Enid Gertrude Holmes
1895–
Marriage: 1919
Spouse and Children
1894–1950Male
1895–Female
MARRIAGE
1919
Pretoria, Tshwane, Gauteng, South Africa
1919
Pretoria, Tshwane, Gauteng, South Africa
Parents and Siblings
1847–1902Male
1850–1939Female
siblings
(8)
1876–1905Female
1881–1938Male
1883–1960Female
1887–Female
1890–1966Male
+3 More Children
World Events (8)
1897
Age 2
Part of Zululand incorporated into British colony of Natal. King Solomon ka Dinizulu exiled.
1899
Age 4
British troops gather on the Transvaal border and ignore an ultimatum to disperse. The second Anglo-Boer War begins.
1934
Age 39
South African parliament enacts Status of Union Act claiming full sovereignty for South Africa.
Name Meaning
1 English (chiefly central and northern England): variant of Holme .2 Scottish: probably a habitational name from Holmes near Dundonald, or from a place so called in the barony of Inchestuir.3 Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thomáis, Mac Thómais ( see McComb ). In part of western Ireland, Holmes is a variant of Cavish (from Gaelic Mac Thámhais, another patronymic from Thomas ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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