When Emma Holmes was born on 26 October 1907, in Dunnegan, Polk, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Harden Holmes, was 29 and her mother, Pearl Myrtle Wildey, was 20. She married Arthur William Akins about 1925, in Polk, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Ventura Judicial Township, Ventura, California, United States in 1940 and Saticoy, Ventura, California, United States for about 1 years. She died on 14 January 1976, in Ventura, Ventura, California, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Ventura, Ventura, California, 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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