When Edward Charles Holmes was born on 2 May 1882, in Timaru, New Zealand, his father, Henry Francis Holmes, was 52 and his mother, Elizabeth Joanna Giles, was 37. He married Florence May Stapley on 30 October 1907, in New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 31 July 1962, in Christchurch, New Zealand, at the age of 80, and was buried in Christchurch East Electorate, Canterbury, New Zealand.
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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.
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