Wow! That brought us all out of the woodwork didn't it? My earliest HOLMES is Henry HOLMES working as a hairdresser in St George Hanover Square in the late 1820s and 1830s. Gives his birthplace as GREAT YARMOUTH on the 1851 census. Married Mary SURNAME UNKNOWN born Kingsbury Green Middlesex England circa 1800. Suspect there may hav been an earlier marriage as there is 7 years between his first son Henry and the next child born 1828. Children born after registration but no entries found. No baptisms found. No marriages found. No deaths found. Where did they go?????? Come on cousins - Talk to me. Beryl