| [Index] |
| John HOLMES (1805 - ) |
| type founder of Pyrmont |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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Rosa HOLMES George HOLMES (1842 - 1918) |
John HOLMES (1805 - ) + Caroline GAGER (1810 - ) |
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| b. abt 1805 at USA |
| m. 1830 Caroline GAGER (1810 - ) |
| Children (2): |
| Rosa HOLMES |
| George HOLMES (1842 - 1918) |
| Grandchildren (4): |
| James LAKE ( - 1872), William A LAKE (1863 - 1863), Frances Caroline LAKE (1865 - 1939), Charles Edward LAKE (1867 - ) |
| Events in John HOLMES (1805 - )'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| abt 1805 | John HOLMES was born | USA | |||
| 1830 | 25 | Married Caroline GAGER (aged 20) | |||
| abt 1842 | 37 | Birth of son George HOLMES | USA | ||
| 1918 | 113 | Death of son George HOLMES (aged 76) | Cargo, New South Wales, Australia | 15728/1918 | |
| Personal Notes: |
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E-mail from Caroline "I have been searching for my great grandfather George Holmes for yonks. He is a mystery man and supposed to come to Australia in about l857 and was born in san Francisco.
I know you saw the Edwards tree and he is following this line. I have given it up as I think George told more stories than Grimm’s Fairy Tales. My link was that on George Holmes marriage certificate I can send a copy his father was John Holmes a type founder of Pyrmont. I then found a Rosa Holmes marrying a Charles Lake on 25 th April l862 which appeared in the marriages column of SMH Sydney. I found this in Trove. When I tried to send it --it was all gobbly gook. They married at Scots Church and the notice mentions daughter of Late John Holmes, typefounder of Pyrmont. I don’t think there would be two and Therefore she would be Georges sister. The other interesting piece of information is that the Gulf Diggings mentioned in the ad is near Moruya and I have found Charles Lake later as a gardener in Woollahra but his children still in the south coast area. George Holmes also was supposed to have received an ISO for 40 years service as foreman boilermaker at Cockatoo Island and when I researched this with St. James Palace, it seems that it was a George Fletcher that got the ISO not George Holmes. Co incidentally George Fletcher built the home in l877 at 46 Louisa Road Balmain where George and his family lived in l880 This man may have led a double life and had two aliases. Any further details on John Holmes typefounder Pyrmont, I am currently getting info from transcription agent about the 7 John Holmes who died in Sydney prior to Rosa’s marriage in l862. I will let you absorb all this and you may wish to come back to me. Finally on George’s marriage certificate to Margaret Wade in l866 it lists his father as above and his mother Caroline gager . No info has been found on her or the family’s arrival in OZ. Kind regards Carolyn." |