| 👶 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 Feb 1848 | 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. 🏛️ Irish Potato Famine — mass emigration · Chartist movement peak · Public Health Act |
| 🏠 Lived | 1861 | St Silas Church School House, Ashton Road, Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1861 Census 📎 View 🏛️ Death of Prince Albert |
| 💼 Occupation | 1861 | Schoolmaster of National School ⓘ1861 Census |
| 🏠 Lived | 1871 | St Silas Church School House, Ashton Road, Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1871 Census 📎 View 🏛️ Bank Holidays introduced |
| 💼 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 Apr 1885 | ⓘWill 📎 View |
| 🏠 Lived | 1891 | 44 Great Cheetham Street, Lower Broughton, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1891 Census 📎 View 1891 Census - he was a Border. 🏛️ Free elementary education |
| 💼 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 Oct 1897 | Lyndale, 9 Rawlinson Road, Southport, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ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. 🏛️ Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee |
| 🪦 Burial | 16 Oct 1897 | Sale Cemetery (Brooklands), Marsland Road, Sale, Cheshire 📍 Grave Number M2430 ⓘBurial Records 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 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 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. |
| ⚖️ Probate | 10 Dec 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. |