Holmes

Origins of surname

This name is believed to be derived from one of the many villages in England called Holm or Holme. The name is particularly common in East Anglia. The name was applied to an area of dry land surrounded by fenland, from the Viking holmr = 'island'.

Early records

The name first appears in Jersey church records in 1801. The first three baptisms are all for children of Mary, but they appear to be three different Marys, married to Francis, Uriah and Thomas. The first couple to establish a family were Thomas and Elizabeth Huelin, from 1825 onwards.

Variants

• Holm
• Holme
• Home
• Homes
• Holmes
• Holms

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Charles Holmes
• Descendants of Jean Holmes

Church records

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• Holmes baptisms in Jersey
• Holmes marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Holmes marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Holmes burials in Jersey

Great War service

• Alfred Henry Holmes (1890-1943) (St H) son of Henry George and Sarah Jane Ford, Mercantile Marine
• Clifford Reuben Holmes (1896- ) (St H) son of William and Ellen Mary Romeril , Private RMIJ
• John Romeril Holmes (1892- ) (St H) son of Simon and Ellen Mary Romeril, Private, Northamptonshire Regiment

Family wills

These wills created by members of the Holmes family are now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, dates and reference numbers shown here, it is possible to view a copy of each will. You will have to subscribe to the Archive's online service to do this. To find out more about this collection, which covers the period from 1663 to 1980, and how to search for your family's wills there, visit our Jersey wills page

• James Holmes - 15 October 1879, D/Y/A/40
• Joseph Holmes, Gorey, St Martin Dated - 10 July 1940, D/Y/A/107
• Marguerite Holmes, St Helier - 14 December 1918, D/Y/A/78
• Mary-Ann Holmes, Melbourne House - 1 February 1917, D/Y/A/76
• Simon Holmes of St Clement, now of La Roulerie, Vingtaine de La Croiserie, Trinity - 29 August 1898, D/Y/A/57
• Thomas Holmes of Birmingham, Warwickshire, now of Vingtaine de Noirmont, St Brelade - 26 May 1894, D/Y/A/53
• Thomas Holmes, St Clement - 3 May 1939, D/Y/A/104
• William Holmes, Summerville, Tower Road, St Helier - 9 September 1932, D/Y/A/93

Burial records

• Holmes burial records 1820-1978

Family album

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  John Henry Holmes and Agnes Mary, nee Davey

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  E A S Holmes

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  C G Holmes

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  Brothers in the States of Jersey Police, Arthur and Charlie Holmes

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  Arthur Holmes pictured during a firearms course

Family businesses

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  An envelope addressed to Messrs Holmes of Bath Street during the German Occupation in 1941

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  1927

Family gravestones

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  Holmes - Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

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  Holmes - St Ouen parish cemetery

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  Holmes - St John’s Church cemetery

Tips

The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.

We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling

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New records

Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form

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