Show 1 Corner in Ancestors If Y Same Xante of Ince Origin f fID Days In ID Virginia and New ew City City of or Philadelphia Laid Out by hy On One of ot Family Ancient Heraldic Charges Charge El BY ELEANOR LEXINGTON Holmes Is a name with an attractive personality lIty If It the expression or Is allow allow- able Is 19 It not partly because with the omission of It one ona len letter r r we have homes Homes Indeed Is la one form of ot tho the name namo found round In colonial times Holmes Is from the tho Norman word holm an on islet In a lake lako or river It al also o means lowland lowlands In German it Is Helm Holm In l- l Flemish Holms 1 Is found in Book Holmbury in lu a in Surrey The family has been for Cor centuries In Yorkshire Norfolk Chestar Chester Ches Ches- tar ter Lancaster Cam- Cam brides e and Nottingham l' The rhe chief brunch branch of ot the family in Scotland lives at whore the last JASt Lard Holmes died In 1764 the title becoming extinct The Toe Holmes were In Virginia In the tha early days and have havo hel helped ed to make history all allIon Ion along the ahe apes ages In 1635 George Holmes was th the leader In an on expedition to the tha valley of tho the Delaware Dela Dola- ware river This was wu several eera years before Penns Penn's time Geor George e Holmes finally settled In Now Nea York city where he owned ned a 1 large e slice tHee of ot the town or from what is now seventh Forty street lr t to second Fifty-second street It takes take away a ones one's breath to think of tho tIme millions mil mu- lions lIon shall lions shall wo wn m say billions billions to to which hl his heirs would be bo entitled had haa the tile property remained in the family all these years What hat connection UH there tharo ro Is between G George or e and Thomas Holmes If It any the writer is not prepared to say Thomas W wa wn tho timo son of or Thomas a lawyer of Grays Gray's Inn London an ami a soldier ol In tho timO civil war nar Thomas junior came caine to Virginia and litter ll re removed removed re- re moved mo to New London where ho no mar mar- ned ried Du Dudley le Th Their lr I s on John was born In 1656 and married Willey They that They that Is John and had Mary had an aero acre of rocky land Jand by Cedar Swamp whore where h Te his father lather haUl bath planted t d some apple trees trees Some of this branch of or the family ro- ro moved mo to East st Haddam There wa a S Captain John about this time timo and a good rood ancestor to appropriate Ho lie i Is without doubt John son of ot Thomas Captain John Jolts riled dIed 1734 an and his was as tho burial in one of or the East Haddam Haddam Had Had- dam grave yards Ards His widow married Samuel Adams also of ot East Easl Haddam whose first v Ifo Eleanor Leo Lee bequeathed be be- G- G quel thed him a tI rich legacy sixteen legacy sixteen children Captain John Holmes and wife also o had hod a a. largo large family Other patriarchs of the Holmes famIly fam famIly Ily are Goorge George a freeman of ot Roxbury 1639 Isaac of John and William of ot Portsmouth 1632 William was a a. lieutenant in the Pequot war var l out but ut as he neglected to lo take a wife no descendants are ale scanning scanning- the records on his account Let Lot us hope that he was well lined fined ned for tor this little oversight for tor bachelors were fined and Quito proper properly too The Holmes of ot i hew cw York state trace back to Lemuel son eon of ot Joseph of Plymouth Ply Ply- mouth born 1766 Lemuel settled not tar from Albany and his wife was Polly oIly Battles It was Thomas Holme no rio a s If you OU please who was surveyor general of Pennsylvania and one of ot tho the most Important Im lin- men In n the early history of ot tho the state Holme laid out Philadelphia according to the thc modified instructions of ot Penn and arid his Portraiture of ot tho the city of or was published pub pub- In London In 1683 Heltman's Officers of ot the tho American Revolution gives the following names if r Holmes From Massachusetts a Captain Lemuel from Connecticut Surgeon David DavJd surgeons surgeon's mate Sias Silas and Lieutenant Url Uric Uriel from Rhode thode Island Island Isi- Isi and Lieutenant Hugh from New ew Jer Jer- soy sey Captains James and Jonathan Lieutenants John William and Ellsha Elisha from P Pennsylvania lv Lieutenant James and Ensign David from Virginia Lieutenant Lieu Llou- tenant Benjamin Holmes whose hose namo name also appears as Hoomes Surgeon David and Ensigns Isaac and James f from rom rom- Georgia Captain Captin John LI Lieutenant Uriel of ot Connecticut l lived ived at Hartford whore he w was s Justice lo o of li f the tho peace and a 3 member of the he leg leg- i In 1764 he h married Statira Cone H He wao was a a church member and gave avo the he hell bell hel to the Hartford church His son Uriel married Esther Austn Austin He the He too has han hal a record worth looking up for tor ho tie was member of ot tho the legisla- legisla t ture ture ure and In conge congress Marriage connections of th the ti-me Holmes i Include the families of ot Hatch eon Rawson Fuller Fuel Mather Hungerford and vlon Kno Knowltons Christian Christan names run to Biblical ones for tor example Elijah Zachariah and and Deborah Debor and za Thir-za ThIr are demure maids and so eo I is Silence Ho How many ar are ar tho the Dorothy Dorothys who arc aro named for tor Dorothy Q Q grandmothers mother mother A nephew of ot the te author of or Dorothy Doroth Q named a daughter after the heroin of ot the portrait and the te verses terses and ad ahu shu ht Dorothy Upham was her name name re re received calved ehod a a couple of or stanzas which make mako a pretty pendant to tho original pendant to poem poe Dear little Dorothy Dorothy Drothy Q Q What hat can cn I to write to lo you You he have e two Us U's In your name nama It I It In true An And mine Is adorned with a 3 double u. u But theres there's this difference In hi the te us UE u That one lose y you u will stand a chance chanco chanco to When en a happy man of th the bearded sc sex Shall ShaH make It Dorothy Doroty Q X X N. x sex May rry H Heaven ful Cui avon avon day smile bright on tho the bl blissful bliss bliss- That teaches teaches this lesson In algebra sabr When Then head th the thA orange blossoms crown crow your OUI Then ie reed d what hat your old great undo said Eald I Aud mud remember how boa boaIn In your our time baby lie fie scribbled a of Idle rhyme rhyme- re idle idle it I may l hut e hut kindly too I For the little lady Dorothy Q Oliver Wendell Holmes was the son of Rev Rov Holmes and his second wife wie Sarah daughter of ot Oliver Oller W Wen t- t dell deli of Boston was waa born at nt Woodstock Conn the tho von ton of ot Sui- Sui goon David of or the revolution first wife was as Mary daughter Iry of or Rev He D Dr Ezra Stiles president of or Sties Yale ale lle Too The tn first t years ears of hl his hla ministerial Jf life were weN spent In the state of ot Georgia Ho He returned to New l' England Eng Eng- land and dle died at t Cambridge Mass ns The Tho arms of cot of reproduced Is blai- blai on d Sable a lion lon ardent r char charged cd with wih thren gules Crost Crest A griffin deml azure dor d'or hol holding n In his hs dexter claw da 1 a mm Sword erect azure pommel pomme and and hilt or r Other arms arias aro are blazoned hit ar for Cor the tha olmes Holmes and roost most of ot them show that they were granted In In the early days of or erly heraldry For example one Is Barry of ot six ar argent ent and azure another harry Barry of ot eight or and azure still two Brry others Barry of six siz or azure and or and Barry of ot S x or and sable One nur nearly re re me- me the Illustrated arms is 18 Is Sable a lion lon rampant bendy beady of ot six argent and Jlee gales gules Crest Crost A domi |