Brief Life History of Frances Augusta
When Frances Augusta Holmes was born on 25 August 1848, in Janesville, Rock, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Lemuel Holmes, was 41 and her mother, Lucy Jane Herrick, was 32. She married Gillispie Birney Corwin on 13 February 1871, in Janesville, Rock, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died on 24 October 1930, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 82.
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Sources (10)
- Frances A Cowin in household of Charles L Hubbard, "United States Census, 1930"
- Augusta Holmes, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Frances A Holmes in entry for Harly G Corwin, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Los Angeles, California, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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