James HOLMES

1824 – 1897 · Manchester, Lancashire

Father: David HOLMES · Mother: Sarah HOUGH

👶Birth abt 1824	Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘBurial Records
🏠Lived 1841	Broom Square, Acton Street, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1841 Census 📎 View
💼Occupation 1841	Warehouse Man ⓘ1841 Census
⛪Baptism 13/02/1848 🏛️ Irish Potato Famine	St Silas Church, Ashton Road, Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘBaptism Records 📎 View No trace of any child baptism for him or any siblings and as he was School Master at St Silas in 1861 assume he needed to be baptised and was was an adult.
🏠Lived 1861 🏛️ Death of Prince Albert	St Silas Church School House, Ashton Road, Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1861 Census 📎 View
💼Occupation 1861	Schoolmaster of National School ⓘ1861 Census
🏠Lived 1871 🏛️ Bank Holidays introduced	St Silas Church School House, Ashton Road, Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1871 Census 📎 View
💼Occupation 1871	Schoolmaster ⓘ1871 Census
🏠Lived 1881	44 Great Cheetham Street, Lower Broughton, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1881 Census 📎 View
💼Occupation 1881	Retired Teacher ⓘ1881 Census
🏠Lived 1885	44 Great Cheetham Street, Lower Broughton, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘWill
📝Will 30/04/1885	ⓘWill 📎 View
🏠Lived 1891 🏛️ Free elementary education	44 Great Cheetham Street, Lower Broughton, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1891 Census 📎 View 1891 Census - he was a Border.
💼Occupation 1891	Retired Schoolmaster ⓘ1891 Census
🏠Lived 1896	Lyndale, 9 Rawlinson Road, Southport, Lancashire 📍 ⓘGrant of Probate
💼Occupation 1896	Retired Schoolmaster ⓘGrant of Probate
✝️Death 12/10/1897 🏛️ Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee	Lyndale, 9 Rawlinson Road, Southport, Lancashire 📍 ⓘFree BMD Ref: Ormskirk 8b 549 Aged 74 Burial Records Death Notice: The Southport Visiter Saturday, October 16, 1897 HOLMES - October 12 at "Lyndale", Rawlinson-road, Southport, in his 74th year, James Holmes, late, of Manchester, and for many years master of St. Silas's Schools, Higher Ardwick. Interment at Brooklands Cemetery, to-day (Saturday), at 1-15pm. No flowers.
🪦Burial 16/10/1897	Sale Cemetery (Brooklands), Marsland Road, Sale, Cheshire 📍 Grave Number M2430 ⓘBurial Records 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View IN LOVING MEMORY OF ISAAC HOLMES OF SOUTHPORT, WHO DIED OCTOBER 19TH 1896, AGED 75 YEARS. ALSO SARAH, HIS DEARLY LOVED WIFE WHO DIED AUGUST 7TH 1897, AGED 72 YEARS. JAMES HOLMES HIS BROTHER WHO DIED OCTOBER 12TH 1897, AGED 73 YEARS. Grave Number M2430 purchased by Sarah Holmes on 21/10/1896 Burials: Sarah Holmes 11/08/1897 aged 72 years James Holmes 16/10/1897 aged 73 years Isaac Holmes 23/10/1896
⚖️Probate 10/12/1897	Liverpool, Merseyside 📍 Effects: £3715 18s. 11d. (£480,000 2018) ⓘGrant of Probate 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View HOLMES James of "Lyndale" Rawlinson-road Southport Lancashire gentleman died 12 October 1897 Probate Liverpool 10 December to Charles Henry Holmes and Frederick William Holmes merchants Effects £3715 18s. 11d.

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