When Milton Holmes was born on 16 January 1811, in Groveland, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Nathaniel Holmes, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Harriman, was 35. He married Aphia S Woodman on 25 January 1846, in Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Maine, United States in 1870. He died on 30 April 1881, in Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Maine is the 23rd state.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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