John Holmes (Y-DNA)
Contents
Status summary
As of April 11, 2026:
- Recruiting patrilineal (all male line) descendants for NGS/WGS testing. Anyone believing they are such a descendant should Read me First
IMPORTANT: Read me First
Paper trail
First Generation
John Holmes was baptized at St. James, Colchester, 22 Feb 1603, son of Thomas Holmes[1] and died prob. in England after 3 Jun 1652.[2] He married Sarah ____ and they had:[3] Thomas (bp 1628 rem. in Eng.), John (c1636) and Nathaniel (c1643).
Second Generation
John Holmes (II) was born Plymouth abt 1636 and died there "last of" Jul 1697. He married twice, first Plymouth 20 Nov 1661. Patience Faunce then abt 1681 Patience BONHAM, widow of George Willis (no ch.) By his first wife he had eleven children: John (1662/3), Ebenezer (1667), Joseph (c1671), Thomas (1673), Nathaniel (c1675), Desire (c1678), Richard (1682), Mehitable (c1683), Patience (1685), George (1690) and Sarah (c1690).
Nathaniel Holmes was born Plymouth abt 1643 and died there 25 Jul 1727. He married Plymouth 29 Dec 1667 Mercy Faunce and they had: Elisha (1670), Mercy (1673), Nathaniel (1676), Sarah (1680), John (1682), Elizabeth (1686) and Eleazer (1688).
Third Generation
- ↑ NEHG Register 171:
- ↑ Named in will of his sister, Susan HOLMES Morton.
- ↑ Some sources state they also had Josiah and Sarah, but no documentation exists.
DNA Results
Previous testing
The Holmes surname DNA Project does not currently display their Y-DNA results. Anyone who is a patrilineal/Y-DNA descendant of John Holmes is encouraged to Y-DNA test and to contact Raymond Wing email: MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com
References and External Resources
- Anderson, Robert Charles, The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2004) pp. 265-267.
- Holmes, Denwood Nathan Stacy, "The Black Sheep of Some Good Family": The Essex Ancestry of John Holmes, Gentleman, Messenger of the Plymouth Court, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 171:85-92.
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