Thomas Holmes

Male20 September 1695–

Brief Life History of Thomas

Thomas Holmes was christened on 20 September 1695, in Edwalton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom as the son of Thomas Holmes.

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Thomas Holmes
1675–1676
Thomas Holmes
1695–
Alice Holmes
1705–
Hannah Holmes
1707–
William Holmes
1710–
Thomas Holmes
1710–1775
Catherine Holmes
1711–
Samuel
1712–
Mary Holmes
1714–
Alice Holmes
1714–
Elizabeth Holmes
1724–1724
Alice Holmes
1728–1729
Sarah Holmes
1729–1779
Elizabeth A. Holmes
1869–

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    World Events (3)

    1801 · The Act of Union

    The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.

    1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

    The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.

    1815

    The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

    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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