This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Holman, Doldin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mNC.2ACE/1904 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on the family of origin of Stephen Holman born June 21, 1852 in Tudely Kent. His mother's name was Martha Doldin. His father (Josiah or John, I believe) died when Stephan was young from an accident with a wagon. Three of his (poss 8) siblings were Jabez, Arnold, & Dorcas (Arnold and Dorcas may be middle names) who married Sam Hayward and lived on Lavendar Hill in Tonbridge. The Holman family attended the Baptist Church in Tonbridge. He worked at the Tonbridge Castle when he was young and then in London for Lord Clissold. He married Alice Eleanor Day in London in 1876 from Aldersgate Street within the sound of Bow Bells in London. They had four children: Percival William, Lillian, Ernest John, and Ethel Frances (my grandmother b. 1891). They returned to the Tonbridge area and lived in a 500 year old house in Haysden. The family lived nine more years in East Ham London and then immigrated to Canada (except Lillian who was married by this time) in A! ugust 1905. Originally the Holman's were to stay with relatives in the Winnipeg area, but homesteaded in Saskatchewan. If you have any information, our family would love to hear from you. I have looked up info in several sites but there seems to be some errors posted on who he married. Our family has several pictures of Stephen's siblings which we would like to have identifed. Merrielee