When Mary Holmes was born in September 1845, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, her father, Wardman Holmes, was 28 and her mother, Naomi Bland, was 19. She married John Easton on 1 May 1867, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She immigrated to New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1850 and lived in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1880 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 30 years. She died on 12 May 1934, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 88.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
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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