Brief Life History of Johannah
When Johannah Holmes was born on 29 November 1719, in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuell Holmes, was 11 and her mother, Elizebeth, was 20. She married Elijah Lincoln about 1736, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 2 April 1763, in her hometown, at the age of 43, and was buried in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Johannah Holmes, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Joanna Lincoln, "Find A Grave Index"
- Johannah Holmes, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
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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