Hello to you all, I am researching my Mothers family Holmes from Derbyshire and would love to hear from others with knowledge of this family. JACOB HOLMES m Mary ???? he was a farmer from Bakewell A son JAMES b 1854 Rowsley in 1876 m Jemima STEVENSON b in Brampton dau of Charles and Sarah. Jemimas 2nd marriage to Herbert Townsend Son JAMES HOLMES b 1880 in Chesterfield married Lucy DRAPER in 1901 dau of Thomas DRAPER and Lucy ? In 1881 census Holmes family lived at 73 west bar Chesterfield and Stevenson family at 71 west bar . JAMES and LUCY went to Bolton to live about 1905 as her parents were living there as Lucy was ill she died 1910-11 Children were ROSE .VIOLET,MARY ,LILY and THOMAS James then married Martha Hannah Harrison a widow with 4 children. Hoping that some one knows this family maybe a branch of yours. Beryl from Australia