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A few years before Thomas Holmes was having his children baptized in St. Margaret Lothbury, a Robert Holmes was christening his children at the same place:
The parish registers of Saint Stephen Coleman Street, London contain the record of a marriage between Robert Holmes and Frances Dike on 26 Nov 1622. The date, given names, and the location (St. Stephen Coleman Street was united to St. Margaret Lothbury in 1954) suggest that these were the parents of the children named above. The same parish register records the marriage of William Holmes to Anne Arrowesmythe on 5 Jul 1579. Additional research is indicated to determine if Robert Holmes was a brother of Major William Holmes and Thomas Holmes and if their parents were William Holmes and Anne Arrowesmythe. Notice the similarity of the last names of the wives of Robert and Thomas (Dike and Dice), but also note that none of the children of Robert Holmes were named in the will of Major William Holmes. |
Church of England, St.
Margaret Lothbury Church, London. Parish registers for St. Margaret
Lothbury Church, London, 1558-1924 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the
Genealogical Society of Utah, n.d.), Family History Library film 374471. Church of England, St. Stephen Coleman Street Church, London. Parish registers of St. Stephen Coleman Street (London), 1539-1953 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964, 1968), Family History Library film 375013. |
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addition to his brother, sister-in-law, and four nieces, the will of
Major William Holmes named “my loving and kind kinsman Job Hawkyns of
Boston” with the exact relationship not stated.
Job, born about 1620, was from Huntindonshire. His parents were Richard Hawkins and Jane Angell. Job lived in Boston, where his mother was expelled for witchcraft, and Portsmouth, RI. No relationship between William Holmes and any of Job's family is known and the two were from distant places in England. The most logical relationship between William Holmes and Job Hawkins is through marriage. William did not marry, so it is possible that Job’s wife Frances, whose last name is unknown, was the Frances born in 1626 in St. Margaret Lothbury, London to Robert Holmes. Job and Frances married before 1646 when their daughter was born in Boston. Further research into the Holmes family of London may uncover the relationship between William Holmes and Job Hawkins. |
Anderson, Robert C., The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, (Online: NEHGS and Ancestry.com) Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown, and Co. 1862) (Online: USGenNet) |
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