Elizabeth Holmes was born in 1756, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States as the daughter of John Holmes and Jennet Wilson. She married Hugh George Reed III on 7 November 1775, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States. She died in March 1803, in Maury, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Georgia, 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.
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