>From the IGI's England & Wales , Birth Index 1837-1920 Charles HOLMES, Birth, Year 1880, Where Spalding Lincs. Page 407, Vol, 7, Reg Qtr 2 Bill Stratton Cole Harbour NS Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter HOLMES" <[email protected]> To: "Lincolnshire new" <[email protected]>; "ZA-IB Immigation to S Africa" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:54 AM Subject: [LIN] Charles HOLMES b 1880 or 1881 Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire > G'day from Western Australia, > > Ardent followers of this list may remember that I have been researching > the > above born to John Thomas HOLMES & Lucy (GILL), as in about 1894 he > travelled to South Africa and decided to stay after marrying Sarah > Adelaide > MCCAULAY in 1907 - they had 7 children.(mainly females and some unmarried > sons and grandsons so the HOLMES name petered out!) > > My enquiry is: > > I believed from the English 1881 census that Charles was aged 1 year old > and > birth search on Ancestry tells me a Charles was born in March 1880 on the > Spalding RD (although when I look for the original typed book list, he is > not there!) > > The 1891 census has him living with his mother's parents in East Keal, as > an > 11 year old (= born in 1880). > > A distant cousin in SA has advised me this week Charles (with a previously > unknown 2nd name "Thomas") was born 1st March 1881. In view of the above, > I > have my doubts about her suggestion and have pointed it out to her. > > He apparently died in May 1935 (in SA?). > > Can anyone throw light on my Charles' birth date etc., based on English or > Southern African records? > > Peter Holmes > > Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes > > [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington > then > Leicestershire)]. [HOLMES to S. Africa as from mid 1890's]. [DAVISON > (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, > Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & > WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton > Clough > etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida > USA)] > Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - > from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message