Capt. Robert Homes

1694 - Bef 1727  (< 33 years)

• Name	Robert Homes  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Prefix	Capt.
  Birth	23 Jul 1694	Stragolan, Fermanagh, Ireland   [5, 6]
  Baptism	25 Jul 1694  [5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 22 Oct 1727  [5, 6]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Capt. Robert Homes ,   b. 23 Jul 1694, Stragolan, Fermanagh, Ireland d. Bef 22 Oct 1727  (Age < 33 years) ▻ Mary Franklin ,  m. 3 Apr 1716 + 2. Margaret Homes ,   b. 28 Feb 1696, Strabane, Donacavey, Tyrone, Ireland d. 26 Apr 1778, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts  (Age 82 years) ▻ John Allen
  Person ID	I20489	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Rev. William Homes,   b. Abt 1663, Donaghmore, Donegal, Ireland d. 20 Jun 1746, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (Age ~ 83 years)
  Mother	Katherine Craighead,   b. Abt 1673, Donoughmore, Donegal, Ireland d. 10 Apr 1754, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (Age ~ 81 years)
  Marriage	26 Sep 1693	Londonderry, Londonderry, Ireland   [5]
  Family ID	F12321	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Franklin,   b. 26 Sep 1694, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 1731, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	3 Apr 1716	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 7]
  Notes	"My son Robert was Marryed in Boston to mrs Mary Franklin April 3rd at 9 at night by the Revd mr Eben Pemberton." ["Diary of Reverend William Homes", citation details below]
  Children	+ 1. William Homes,   b. 10 Jan 1717, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 21 Jul 1785, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F12318	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Assumed to have been lost at sea in about 1727. "May 15 1726. I heard this day from son Robert and understood that he has sold his sloop and designs to settle on shore and leave off the sea." ["Holmes, William. Diary." Manuscript digitized at the Congregational Library and Archives. 15 May 1726 entry on manuscript page 126 (click on the "close and view content" button on the lower right). Thanks to Jan Wolfe for finding this.] "October 22. 1727. I heard the melancholy news of son Robert's death, but had no account of the circumstances of it." ["Diary of Reverend William Homes", citation details below] Robert Homes is mentioned several times in the autobiography of his brother-in-law Benjamin Franklin, who consistently spells his last name "Holmes." Those instances are reproduced here on Janet and Robert Wolfe's (excellent) genealogy site.

  
  

• Sources

  [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931. [S2651] Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Tappan: Taken in Part from the Home Missionary Magazine, of November, 1828, and Printed for Distribution Among Her Descendants by Sarah Homes Tappan. New York: West & Trow, 1834. [S2738] Boston Evening Transcript, 22 Apr 1931. [S4425] Benjamin Franklin's Family: Volume I, English Ancestors by Michael J. Leclerc. 2019. [S2647] Charles Edward Banks, "Diary of Reverend William Homes." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 48:446, 1894; 49:413, 1895; 50:155, 1896. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897. [S2646] Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), on americanancestors.org. Database built from the card index used by Annie Haven Thwing (1851-1940) to write The Crooked and Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (1920).