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The
surname
Holmes,
and its many spelling variants, is a very common one,
and many genealogies and genealogical articles have been
published. Nevertheless, in about fifty years of researching my
own Holmes line, I have never been able to link it satisfactorily to
any one of the published Holmes lines.
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Holmes Genealogy: In Process
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In
my
attempts
to unearth the ancestry of my earliest proven Holmes
ancestor, John Holmes, 1765-1847, I have followed the trails of many
other men named John Holmes, always in the hope that each new trail
would be that of my man.
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To
put
it
bluntly, I have been unsuccessful in my long efforts to carry my
Holmes line back earlier than John Holmes, 1765-1847.
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In
the
process
of this researching, I have been able to assemble
fragmentary lines of a quite large number of men named John Holmes who
turned out not to be of my
long-sought Holmes line at all.
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Rather
than
have
all this research go to waste, so to speak, I am assembling
it all in a book, showing all that I have learned of each line in my
non-productive search. I will entitle this book, "John Holmes, 1765-1847: Whence,When and Why,"
not
to
be whimsical in my title choice, but actually reflecting why it
is coming into being. [Note: Father never finished this book; instead,
he donated all the notes for the book to the Rowan
Public Library, Salisbury, North Carolina, where it is available
for research - GL,III, ed.]
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Foreword
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In
Excursus
XIV,
I have elected not to duplicate material that will be
published in my book on Holmes. I am limiting this excursus
to those Holmes persons and their collateral families that are also
Massey descendants.
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XX.John
Holmes
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1
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1765
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Birth
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1847
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Death
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Marriage:
Presha
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Children:
YY.John Holmes, b.1809,
d.1851
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YY.John
Holmes
(XX.John Holmes)
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1
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1809
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Birth
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1851
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Death
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Marriage:
Sallie
Ann Gilbert, dau. of Henry Gilbert, b.26 Oct.1771, Q.A.Co.,
Md., d.31 Jan.1847, and Sally Smith b.21 Jun.1778, Q.A.Co., Md.,
d.6 Nov.1860.
Children:
26.Daniel Boone Holmes,
b.1850, d.1911.
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26.Daniel Boone Holmes (9.John, 3.John, 1.Thomas?)
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13
Mar.1850
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Birth:
in
Lexington,
Fayette Co., Ky.
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5
Nov.1911
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Death:
at
Kansas
City, Jackson Co., Mo.
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6
Feb.1877
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Marriage:
at
Jefferson
City, Mo., 7.Lyda (Eliza Adelaide) Massey, b.7 Oct.1854,
Sarcoxie, Jasper
Co., Mo., d.22 Dec.1929, Kansas City.
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Children:
34.Massey Bryant Holmes,
b.28 Jan.1878, Kansas City, Mo., d.29 Nov.1936, Kansas City, m.24
Sep.1907, Nahant, Mass., Ethel Greenough, b.30 May 1878, Boston, Mass.,
d. Pacific Palisades, Calif. She was the daughter of Malcolm
Scollay Greenough, b.31 Aug.1848, Cambridge, Mass. and his wife, Lizzie
Tiffany, b.13 Aug.1849, d.21 Feb.1911.
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| 35.Sidney Holmes, b.27
Aug.1881, Kansas City, Mo, d.11 Jun.1968, LaGrange, Cook Co., Ill.,
m.14 Nov.1900, Kansas City, 74.George Langford, b.26 May 1876, Denver,
Colo., d.16 Jun.1964, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill. |
36.Mignon Gilbert Holmes,
b.28 Jun.1884, Kansas City, d.7 Nov.1946, Kansas City, m.3 Nov.1906,
Kansas City, John Roy Russell, b.8 Sep.1883, Kansas City, d.29
Apr.1967, Kansas City.
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[Note
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The
data
on
which this page is based is located in the file, Excursus-Holmes.htm - GL,III, ed.]
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