Section V  Massey Excursi One Maryland Massey Family by George Langford, Jr. 1901-1996
©Cullen G. Langford and George Langford, III, 2010


Excursus XIV: Holmes

Date
Published Holmes Genealogies
Source

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.


Holmes Genealogy: In Process


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.


To put it bluntly, I have been unsuccessful in my long efforts to carry my Holmes line back earlier than John Holmes, 1765-1847.


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.


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.
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Foreword


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.


XX.John Holmes
1
1765
Birth

1847
Death

...
Marriage: Presha


Children:
YY.John Holmes, b.1809, d.1851


YY.John Holmes (XX.John Holmes)
1
1809
Birth

1851
Death


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.


26.Daniel Boone Holmes (9.John, 3.John, 1.Thomas?)

13 Mar.1850
Birth: in Lexington, Fayette Co., Ky.

5 Nov.1911
Death: at Kansas City, Jackson Co., Mo.

6 Feb.1877
Marriage: at Jefferson City, Mo., 7.Lyda (Eliza Adelaide) Massey, b.7 Oct.1854, Sarcoxie, Jasper Co., Mo., d.22 Dec.1929, Kansas City.


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.
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
The data on which this page is based is located in the file, Excursus-Holmes.htm - GL,III, ed.]

Sources
Note: Excursus XIV largely quotes from, genealogy-in-process, "John Holmes, 1765-1847: Whence, Where, and Why."   Other references are listed below.

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Bible records of John Holmes, 1765-1847

2
Excursus XIII: Langford.

3
Excursus XV: Russell.

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Our Holmes-Krider Identification Project, with Jo White Linn, handwritten manuscript, ca.1985