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Rev. William Homes

Male Abt 1663 - 1746  (~ 83 years)


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  • Name William Homes  [1, 2
    Prefix Rev. 
    Birth Abt 1663  Donaghmore, Donegal, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Gender Male 
    Death 20 Jun 1746  Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    Alternate death 27 Jun 1746  Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Burial Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Person ID I20491  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 20 Nov 2020 

    Father John Homes   d. Donaghmore, Donegal, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F12325  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Katherine Craighead,   b. Abt 1673, Donoughmore, Donegal, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Apr 1754, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 81 years) 
    Marriage 26 Sep 1693  Londonderry, Londonderry, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Children 
    +1. Capt. Robert Homes,   b. 23 Jul 1694, Stragolan, Fermanagh, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 22 Oct 1727 (Age < 33 years)
    +2. Margaret Homes,   b. 28 Feb 1696, Strabane, Donacavey, Tyrone, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Apr 1778, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    Family ID F12321  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Aug 2019 

  • Notes 
    • From a display at the Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin, Ireland:

      "Donegal-born Holmes settled as the minister in Chilmark, Massachusetts. He published books and his diary is a valuable source of local historical information. Holmes's son Robert was a sea captain, and through him Holmes encouraged hundreds of Ulster-Scots to emigrate to America. In 1716, Robert Holmes married Benjamin Franklin's sister Mary."

  • Sources 
    1. [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.

    2. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931.

    3. [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., year only.

    4. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy.

    5. [S1579] The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States, Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History by Gary Boyd Roberts. Second edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2022., year only.

    6. [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.

    7. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897.