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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 📎 Census
💼Occupation
1841
Warehouse Man 1841 Census
Baptism
13/02/1848
🏛️ Irish Potato Famine
St Silas Church, Ashton Road, Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 Baptism Records 📎 Baptism

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 📎 Census
💼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 📎 Census
💼Occupation
1871
Schoolmaster 1871 Census
🏠Lived
1881
44 Great Cheetham Street, Lower Broughton, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 1881 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation
1881
Retired Teacher 1881 Census
🏠Lived
1885
44 Great Cheetham Street, Lower Broughton, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 Will
📝Will
30/04/1885
Will 📎 Probate
🏠Lived
1891
🏛️ Free elementary education
44 Great Cheetham Street, Lower Broughton, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 1891 Census 📎 Census

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 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Image 📎 Image

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 📎 Probate 📎 Death 📎 Probate

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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