John Holmes, Philadelphia Paper-Maker, and His Wife Mary Hooper

JOHN HOLMES, PHILADELPHIA PAPER-MAKER, AND HIS WIFE MARY HOOPER BY VALUER LEE SHEPPARD, JR., P.A.S.G. Elizabeth Ralph Holmes, born 12 November 1823, prepared two statements of what she knew of her family. The first was written about 1880 for her nephew, Franklin Lawrence Sheppard; Mary Hotoper, born May 7, 1790, in Tiverton, Devonshire, married...John Holmes of Mirfield, Yorkthire, 'August 1820, at Ainderby Steeple Church. It ;s near North Alia:ton, in Yorkshire, England. Sailed for Philadelphia in October 1820. John Holmes died in Philadelphia January 1828. Her father's name was Robert Hooper. He was killed in an explosion of gunpowder on board a vessel at Plymouth where he had gone to meet a brother who was returning from East India. They were both lost. Her mother's name was Grace Vinicomb of Tiverton. Mother had two brothers, John who died with a white swelling, and Samuel who was living in London when she left England, and one sister Elizabeth Hooper who married Joseph Ralph who was in the Army arid started for India about the time mother left England. Their grandmother Hooper married for her second husband Abraham Duckham of Tiverton.' Mother had an uncle Tucker, the husband of mother's [grandmother's?] sister all of Tiverton, Devonshire. They had one daughter, Sallie Tucker I have forgotten her married name. Mother died April 9, 1879, in Philadelphia; buried in Odd Fellow's Ground, Philadelphia. The second statement was prepared by Elizabeth Ralph Holmes after 1900 for her nephew, Howard Reynolds Sheppard: My father's name was John Holmes of Mirfield, Yorkshire, England. His mother's name Elizabeth Barron, her father's name William Barron. My mother's name, Mary Hooper of Tiverton, Devonshire, England, her father's name, Samuel Hooper. He was lost at sea; his mother for her second husband married a man' named Abraham Duckham. On mother's side her name was Grace Vinicomb. Mother had two brothers, John and Samuel, and one sister Elizabeth who married one Joseph Ralph. They went out to India. Mother and father were married August 1820 in a church called Ainderby Steeple or Enderby Steeple, near North Allerton, Yorkshire, England. Came to America 1820. Mother had an uncle named Tucker, he had a daughter named Sallie Tucker, can't 241 242 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine remember the name of her husband. They lived in Tiverton. Mother's brothers Samuel and John I think went to London to live. I do not think you can read this as my hand trembles so I can hardly hold the pencil.' With the above information as a starting point, the following account has been assembled, reconstructing the family from substantiating documents. JOHN HOLMES was born, probably between the years 1792 and 1794, at Mirfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, son of John Holmes and his wife Elizabeth Barron, the probable daughter of William Barron. On 8 August 1820, John Holmes "of Leeds," was married at Ainderby Steeple, near North Allerton, Yorkshire, to MARY HOOPER, born at Tiverton, Devonshire, on 7 May 1790, daughter of Robert Hooper and his wife Grace Vinicomb.' John and Mary Holmes set sail for America the September following their marriage, and by winter were probably living in Philadelphia. The ship and date of arrival have so far not been discovered. The Philadelphia City Directory for 1824—the first in which he can be identified—shows John Holmes at 412 North Second Street, Northern Liberties, near the corner of Second and Coats Streets (now Fairmount Avenue), where he had a "paper store." The directories continued to list him at this address, selling "stationary," through 1827, but not in that of 1828, which probably went to press after his death. Possibly before 1824 he started to manufacture paper, and though the directories do not show him as such, when he joined Masonic Lodge No. 3 in February, 1826, he was called a "paper manufacturer," and was stated to be 34 years old.' Little more is known of him. He died either on 11 January 1828, according to the family Bible and the inscription on his tombstone, or on 10 January 1828, "of an inflamatory fever, aged 34," and was buried in St. John's Methodist North Burial Ground sometime "between St11 and 12th January 1828." 1. The writing is quite legible, and is now in the possession of the present author. a The copy of the marriage certificate, in the possession of the author, shows dam the ceremony took place at the church of St. Helm, Parish of Ainderby Steeple, and that Mary Hooper was "of this wish." William Hutchinson and Ann Hildereth, the witnesses, both signed the mister. For the birth date of Mary blooper, see the Holmes-Maxwell Bible record, presented following the text, and for the year of birth of John Helena, the text, infra. In earlier Philadelphia directories, a John Holmes, labourer, is listed. But as the muse was a common on, It is not possible to show that he was identical with the John Holmes, formerly "of Leeds," 4 kiis membership certificate is in the possession of the author. 1, St. John's Methodist Cemetery, et "7th and Poplar,. was opened in 1817. Part of the cemetery, includnig the Holmes' lot, was sold in 1858, and the balance of the property in 1064. See Charles R. Barker, A Register of the Bmying Grounds of Philadelphia, II, 71, Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (to?). On 14 Jan. 1857. Elizabeth Ralph Holmes purchased by deed #7244, John Holmes, Philadelphia Paper-Maker 243 John Holmes, "stationer and paper maker," left no will. Letters of administration on his estate were granted 15 January 1828, to his widow Mary Holmes.' Sureties for the $32,000 bond posted were James Lupton of 438 N. Treat [Front?] Street, Philadelphia County, Joseph Holmes, grocer, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia County, and the widow Mary Holmes. Separate inventories were taken of his personal and business effects, the latter includmg materials "at the mill in Delaware County." This mill, and the store and home in Philadelphia apparently were all rented properties since no deeds in either Philadelphia or Delaware County have been found in his name. Efforts to identify the mill have so far been unsuccessful. The store inventory, dated 12 February 1828, and taken by Isaac Pugh and Joseph McDowell, totalled $5,020.12. It lists a wide variety of paper products and books, including "readers" and "spelling books." The household inventory, made on 4 February 1828, by Daniel Miller and John Engard, totalled $236.62. Since it did not state in which rooms the items were found, the size of the house and the number of rooms remain uncertain. The mill inventory totalling $4,224.87 3%, was sworn to on 7 February 1828, by John B. Duckett and Joseph Hall. It included.rags of various kinds, lead, starch and other raw materials, as well as a variety of finished paper ranging from fine through sized and glazed to felts and boards. It also included molds, kettles, stoves, wheels, nails, presses, pumps, etc., and would be of interest to students of paper making in this period. A preliminary account showed payments on immediate debts of $1,356.98, the largest of which was $483.19 to "J. Hall wages for labour at the mill as per bill." Receipts totalled $286.61. The final accounting, submitted 17 December 1828, showed a total estate of $11,276.46, of which $3,573.79 remained for distribution after settlement. Apparently the business was operated chiefly on borrowed money. The bulk of the payments shown were on twenty-two notes held by a numLot 189, Section 0, in the American Mechanics' Cemetery at 22nd and Diamond Sts., from the Odd Fellows' Cemetery Co, to which the remains of John Holmes and his young son William B. Holmes, according to Mechanics' Cemetery records, were removed in 1856. Their noon,,, also removed to Mecham.' Cemetery, were transcribed in 1940 by the author: "John Holmes died January 11, 18211 aged 34," and "William B. Holmes son of John and Mary died November 28, 1324 aged 2 years 11 months." For the burial record, see Burial Records, Board of Health, Philadelphia, 29 Dec. 1827—k March 18211, 50, GSP. In 1950, both Mechanics' and the original ground of the Odd Fellows' Cemetery were closed our to make room for a housing development. All interments were removed to Lawnview Cemetery, Huntington Pike, Fox Chase. The old tombstones WM destroyed as the Lawnview rules require that all markers be uniform in size and design and of bronze. The Holmes' graves, now in Glenwood Lawn, Sation 54, graves 27, 28 and 29, arc now unmarked. 6 For the letters of administration on the estate of John Holmes, see Philadelphia Administration Book N, 178, #8:1828. Data relating to his estate is from the original papers in the dodret. Settlement was accepted by the Court on 20 Feb. 1329, for which we Philadelphia Orphans Court Book 01- 403 244 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine ber of persons. Chief of these was John B. Duckett, who had taken the mill inventory with Joseph Hall. Duckett held about one-third of the notes. He might have been a partner. No baptisms for the children of John and Mary Holmes have been found, nor has their church affiliation, if any, been established. However, the Holmes-Maxwell family Bible, kept by John Holmes and continued by his widow's second husband, has survived and provides the record of their children, all born in Philadelphia. Issue of John Holmes by his wife Mary Hooper: ' WILLIAM B[arron] HOLMES, b. 20 December 1823; d. 27Noyember 1824. His tombstone 'gave the date as "November 28, 1824, aid 2 years 11 months." ELIZABETH RALPH HOLMES, b. 12 November 1823; d. urun. 22 May 1906.. She 'Was the author of the two records cited first above. m. CAROLINE PRESTON MARY HOLMES, b. 5 February 1824; d. '24 May 1897; m. 5 February 1850, ISAAC APPLIN SHEPPARD, b. 11 July .1827, M Cumberland County, N. J., son of Ephraim and Mary (Westcott) Sheppard; d. at Philadelphia, 6 March 0898; both buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, as were their children.. After the death of her husband, Mary (Hooper) Holmes apparently continued to operate the store, but not the paper mill. She was listed in the directories from 1829 to 1833 as "Mary Holmes, Bookstore, 416 N. Second." " But though she was so listed, she had in fact married a second time. On 3 October 1830, she was married at the Second Baptist Church in Philadelphia by Reverend Thomas J. Kitts to WrmaX1.1 REMmaroN MAXWELL. The marriage record stated they were both of the Northern Liberties, and that the groom was "a Minister of the Gospel of the Baptist denomination," and a member of "N. Market." 11 'See the Bible record, cited in Note 2 above, photostats of which, and of the Christie Bible, are in GOP. The original Bibles are owned by Mrs. Andrew Jackson of Wynnewood, a Christie descendant'. 8 Records of Mmhanics' Cemetery give her age as 82%. The inicrIption on her stone was read in 1940 as "Elizabeth R. Holmes died May 22 1906 aged 83." They had issue: 1. Appli. Holmes Sheppard, b. 28 Nov 1850; 1 21 Jan. 1851. 2. Franklin ShePPard, b. 7 Aug. 1852; d. 14 Feb. 1990, who had issue. 1. Mary Ball Sheppard, b. 7 June 1858; d. 2 May 1872, without issue. 4 Hahn lid!. Sheppard, b. 8 'June 1861; d. 28 Oct. 1886, without hew. 5. Howard Reynolds Sheppard, b. II Dec. ISO; d. 24 Dm. 1934, with issue but line extinct. See also the Amobiographical Sketch of Isaac Applin Sheppard, GOP, and the Vineland Historical Mdganine, Vole. 12, 80, and )1, 28. 10 A Joseph Holmes, perhaps John Holmes' brother, and her fellow bondsman, vrns Sex listed in the Philadelphia directory for 1821 as "led above Co,,,,," and continued to be so listed through 11)3. Neither name appeared in the 18954 volume. "For the marriage, see Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (POOP), XII, 130, 'Marriages of Rev. Thomas J. Kitts," whemin the Baptist Church, of which Mr. Maxwell was a member, is erroneously given as "North Market," properly Neu, Market Street Baptist Church, then above Noble Street. John Holmes, Philadelphia Paper-Maker 245 Born "about 30 June 1793," at "Haslingden," Lancashire, England, William Maxwell had been married before. His first wife Lydia had died 6 September 1822, at Woodstuwn, Salem County, N.J. A year later on 20 August 1823, he had married secondly, one Hannah Paul, possibly a widow, who died in -Philadelphia 14 June 1829, aged thirty-seven.' He had no issue by either. wife. A little over three months after his marriage to the widow, Mary Holmes, William Maxwell appeared before the Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions on 17 January 1831, presenting his declaration of intent to become a citizen of the United States. In his declaration he stated he -had sailed from Liverpool, arriving in the "Port of Philadelphia about 1 - September 1821." He was granted his final papers of citizenship by the Philadelphia District Court on 13 May 1832 [1834], "aged 38, in the country 12 Years." His sponsor was his brother Francis Maxwell, who must have been naturalized earlier, although no record of such has been seen." Although he was a Baptist clergyman, a check of clergy lists has failed to show where he was ordained, or what charges he filled." He appears in many of the city directories, 1876 - 1879, usually listed as a clergyman, but with no affiliation shown. According to information passed down through the family, in his later years he was without a charge, and apparently was not a well man. Mary (Hooper) Holmes Maxwell died in Philadelphia 9 April 1879, her second husband, William Remington Maxwell, less than a year later, on 6 January 1880. Both were buried in Mechanics' Cemetery." 18 A family Bible notation possibly referring to Hannah PauL reads "Hannah B. Wamer, born 6 September 1791 in Philadelphia." William Maxwell's first two marriages arc from an outline of a biographical sketch of him, giving dates only, now in the possession of Mn. Andrew jukson,. for whom see Note 7 above. 18 The index for Philadelphia District Court Naturalizations givm 1832 as the year in which William Maxwell received his final papers, but the records themselves show it was 1834. Francis Maxwell, William's brother, was born in Haslingen 5 Feb. 1797, and died in Philadelphia 24 - Jan. 1838. He may be the Francis Maxwell, weaver, who appeared in the 1830 directory at 489 N. Third St., at which time 07illiain R. Muwell was at "Second near Germantown Rd." A James Hindi& Maxwell subrintted a declaration of intent to the District Court of Philadelphia Co. on 6 Feb. 1828. In this he stated he was born in the county of Lancaster, England about 1 Mar , 1790, and had sailed from Liverpool to New York , on 28 May 2820. Sponsored by one Anthony Davis, he was "admitted" by the District Court on 6 Mar. 1830, "aged about 37, resided 1years," Perhaps he was a relative. 14 His only known affiliation sus with the Odd Fellows' to which order be was admitted in Philadelphia 26 July 1826. 18 Mechanics' Cemetery records give Mary Maxwell's age as 86 at the time of burial, and 'William Maxwell's as 87 in 1580, when he was buried. Their stones, however, as read in 1940, stated that "Mary Maxwell died April 9 1879 aged 87," and that "William R. Maxwell died January 6 10110 aged 88.". Their son "John H. Maxwell died March 9 1867 aged 36," =cording to his 00* 246 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Issue of William Remington Maxwell by his 3rd wife (Hooper) Holmes: Mary I. JOHN H. MAXWELL, b. 17 September 1831; d. unm. 9 March 1867. MARY JANE MAXWELL, b. 13 November 1835; d. 2 January 1904; m. 4 June 1866, JAMES CHRISTIE, b. 28 August 1840; d. 24 August 1911, aged 71. He m. 2nd, 10 November 1904, JOSEPHINE JANNEY. He had issue by both wives." The first probable ancestor of the above-noted Mary (Hooper) Holmes Maxwell appears to be one ROBERT HOOPER, JR., who married at St. Peter's, Tiverton, Devonshire, on 8 August 1720, one AMEY GILL." She was either the Amey Gill, daughter of Francis Gill, baptized at St. Peter's 29 July 1698, or the Amey Gill, daughter of Richard Gill, who was baptized at St. Peter's 15 September 1698. One of these two children was buried 7 November 1707. Robert Hooper, Jr., husband of the one which survived, was buried at St. Peter's on 17 October 1743, and his wife Amey (Gill) Hooper on 21 December 1748. Since probate records at Exeter in Devonshire were destroyed by a direct hit during the bombings in World War II, it is not possible to supplement either the Hooper or Gill lines by wills, and the parish records are by no means complete. Only one child of Robert and Amey Hooper is recorded. This was HENRY HOOPER, born 28 January, baptized 31 January 1721 [1721/2], son of Robert and Amey Gill, at St. Peter's Church. He married MELLONY (or Meller) PrERcv at St. Peter's on 4 July 1742. Neither her baptism nor her death record have been found." Henry Hooper was buried 17 December 1764. Known Issue of Henry Hooper by his wife Mellon), Piercy: i. ROBERT HOOFER, b. 21 January, bapt. 1 February 1759, at St. Peter's, Tiverton, for whom see below. 16 James Christie', issue by hi, 10 wife Mary Jme Maxwell, were: 1. Mary Chrirtk, b. 28 Mar. 1867; d. 20 Dec. 1881. 2. Charles Cameron Christie, b. I July 1868; d. Nov 1868. 5. Alexander lames Christie, b. 5 Oct. 1869; rn. and had issue. 4. Elizabeth Ralph Christie, b. 17 Jan. 1872; d. 28 Jan. 1915. 5. Herbert Maxwell Christie, b. 27 Oct. 1871; no issue. By his 2nd wife, JosePhim JameY, James Christie had issue two children: 6. JosePhine Christie. 7. Henry Christi& 51 Th e p.,;,b registers of Sc. Peter's, Tiverton, from which this and following records were extracted, were first searched for Howard Reynolds Sheppard fifty years ago. and have been again examined at the request of the author. The records do not appear to have been wen kept during the eighteenth century, and are not complete. Pew deaths or burials appear. Mi From Sc. Peter's registers, it appmrs that Joan, daughter of a Humphrey Piercy, was baptized in 1694. No second marriage for Mellony (Piercy) Hooper, presumably the "grandmother Hooper" mentioned by Elizabeth Ralph Holmes, has been found. But St. Peter's registers do show the marriage on 15 Aug. 1795, of "Abraham Duckham of this parish, widower, to Elizabeth Clove of this parish, spinsta." Was he the some Abraham Duckham whom Elizabeth R. Holmes claimed married her greatItrondmethee Hooper? John Holmes, Philadelphia Paper-Maker 247 ii. CHRISTOPHER HOOPER, b. 11 July, bapt. 19 July 1743, at St. Peter's; bur. September 1747. iii. CHRISTOPHER HOOPER (2nd), b. 13 June, bapt. 13 August 1746, at St. Peter's. iv. JOHN HOOPER, b. 26 March, bapt. 4 April 1752, at St. Peter's. v. (Abraham or Absolom/) HOOPER, b. ca. 1764, for whom see below. ROBERT HOOPER, son of the above-mentioned Henry Hooper and his wife Mellony Piercy, married at St. Peter's, Tiverton, 30 January 1780, Gitric.n ViNicoms. She was probably the Grace Vinicomb, born 5 December 1752, who was the daughter of William and Elizabeth Vimcomb of the same parish." Robert Hooper's trade or business is not known, but his younger brother, "Al,'" according to Admiralty records, entered the Royal Navy as a seaman on 9 July 1793, aged 29, "born in Tiverton." " In 1796 he was attached as "Able Seaman," to His Majesty's frigate Amphion which had been cruising in the North Sea with Admiral Duncan's squadron, under the command of Captain (later Admiral) Israel Pellew. On orders to join Admiral Sir Edward Pellew's squadron, Amphion put into the Royal dockyard fronting the Hamoaze, an estuary of the Tamar River opposite Plymouth, for refitting and victualling. While she was in harbor many visitors came aboard. On 22 September, a farewell dinner was given by Captain Pellew for his officers and a guest, Captain Swaffield, master of the Dutch ship Overryssel, then also in port. On deck, seamen entertained their guests, among whom apparently was Robert Hooper, come to see his brother. In the midst of these festivities, and without any warning, the ship blew up." "At the moment of the explosion, the signal lieutenant on board the Admiral's ship, which lay a short distance off, happened to be looking at the Amphion and described afterwards how he saw her rise out of the 20 William and Elizabeth Vinicomb had another daughter, Ruth, b. 26 June, bapt. 12 July 1747. at St. Peter's. Ruth may have been the sister who married a Tucker, and had a daughter Sallie, but no records have been found to substantiate the supposition. Nor have any baptisms been found for Ruth's and Grace's parents, William and Elizabeth Vinicomb. In an earlier generation, a William Vinicomb had children baptized between 1714 and 1726: Joan, hops. 1 Jan. 1714; Ann, bapt. 13 Sept. 1717, but no William was found in the registers. The marriage record is also missing. Registers examined for the years 1736 - 1755, at the request of Mr. Sheppard included, beside thou of St. Peter's, those of Unloosen, St. Mary's Washfield, lialburton and Bickleigh, with negative reports from au. At Bickleigh, the rector did find the marriage of a John Vinicomb to an Alice Woodbury on 4 Apr. 1754. The author is indebted to Mr. Kenneth Timings of the Public Record Office in London who located this emry in an early muster book of the Amirbion, for which see the text infra. 2 1 A check with the Lord Mayor of Plymouth has resulted in the initial identification of this occurrence. See also Llewellyn Jewitt, A History of Plymouth (London, 1873), 373-170; Henry Francis Whitfeld, Plymouth and Devonport: In times of War and Peace (Plymouth, 1900), 202; Charles Bracken, A History of Plymouth and her Neighbors (Plymouth, 1934), 114, all of which contain 2CCOUnt, of the tragedy. The quotation in the text was furnished by the Admiralty 248 The Pennsylvania Genealogical 'Magazine water until her keel was visible. The strangeness of the sight made him feel that he was giddy. The next moment she blew up. The whole fore part . of the ship Was torn to pieces and the remaining hulk sank directly in about ten fathoms of water. "Captain Pellew and his first lieutenant were blown out of the windows of the cabin, the captain onto the deck of the sheer hulk (the repair ship close to which AmPiton was lying)', and the lieutenant into the water, whence he was able to swim to shore. Neither was seriously injured. Captain Swaffield was killed." His head had been crushed. Apparently little or no effect of the explosion was felt ashore, or even aboard nearby vessels, but the loss of life on the Am/Atom was tremendous. Out of a crew , of some 220, only 15 men survived, and of the officers, only Captain Pellew and his first lieutenant. The death toll of visitors was never accurately determined, nor was the Court of Enquiry able to fix the blame. The general consensus was that it had been caused by a gunner who, while , stealing ammunition, had dropped a match in the magazine. The pay book of the Amphion was recovered, and in it was subsequently entered "Ab' Hooper, Able Seaman, Discharged Dead on 22 September 1796." According to the parish register of Charles Church, Plymouth; his brother Robert Hooper was buried 4 October 1796.' Whether the delay in burial was due to delay in recovering his body, or whether he lingered a few days before dying, is not known. The burial record of .a Grace Hooper of Tiverton appears in the same St. Peter's records under the date of 28 September 1815. Her age, given in the record as 66, places her birth in 1749. If, then, she was indeed Grace Vinicomb, widow of Robert Hooper, her age was in error by three years. No other Grace Hoopers were found. Issue of Robert Hooper by his wife Grace Vinicomb: i. JOHN HOOPER, b. 25 July 1781; bapt. 7 September 1783, at St. Peter's, Tiverton; "died with a white swelling." ii. ELIZABETH HOOPER, b. 28 August, bapt. 7 September 1783, at St. Peter's; m. JOSEPH RALPH, said to be in the British army; went to India between 1815 and 1820. 21 The current mutter book was not recovered, but Mr. Tisnangs found this record in the pay book, and kindly supplied the illustration of the explosion ucompanying the text. It is from a pamphlet entitled "The Dreadful explosion of His Majesty's frigate AmPhion ... September 22, 1296," published by T. Tegg in 1809, and is bound with other auounts of marine disasters to Volume LV, The Mollocine, in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Engl.& 28 The City Lib rrr i a n of Plymouth, Mr. W. Best Harris, located this entry for the author in the parish register He also noted a memorial tablet in the Tomes (Tiverton) Church for "William Harvey Hooper, R.N., Secretary of the Royal Navy Hospital at Greenwich, Ind son of Thomas Hooper of Tomes. He was at the capture of Java, and made four voyages of discovery in the Polar sas, and died at Paignton, 5 Nov. 1838 , aged 41 " Perhaps he was relative. John Holmes, Philadelphia Paper-Maker 249 SAMUEL HOOFER, baptism not found; said to be living in London in 1820. iv. MARY HOOFER, b. 4 May, bapt. 12 May 1788, at St. Peter's, Tiverton, This last above-named Mary Hooper may have been the one who married first, John Holmes, as noted above, and second, William R. Maxwell. However, since the family Bible states that Mary Hooper, wife of John Holmes, was born 7 May 1790, it is possible the Mary, born in 1788, was an elder sister who died in infancy. On the other hand, if the Mary, born in 1788, was identical with Mary, wife of John Holmes and William Maxwell, both of whom were younger than she, it would not be unnatural for her to lessen the difference in age by a few years. Whatever the true date of her birth was, there seems little reason to doubt that a Mary, daughter of Robert and Grace (Vinicomb) Hooper of Tiverton, Devonshire, eventually became the wife of John Holmes in Yorkshire. What took her to Yorkshire remains unexplained. Left fatherless before she was ten years old, she may have been bound out as a child. Since . she did not marry until she was about thirty, she may have been "in service" with some county family in the West Riding, and there met her future husband. JOHN HOLMES FAMILY BIBLE RECORD [Printed by C. Ewer and T. Bedlington, Boston, 1827; now in the possession of Mrs. Andrew Jackson, Wynnewood, Pa. The record, first kept by Mary Hooper, wife of John Holmes, was continued by her second husband, William Remington Maxwell.] Marriages John Holmes to Mary Hooper August 8. 1820 at Ainderby Steeple Near North Allerton Yorkshire England William R. Maxwell to Mary Hoboes Octbr 3°' 1830 Philadelphia America Married on the 4. of June 1866 Mary Jane Maxwell Daughter of the Above to James Christie at Pittsburg Pa Married on the Sth Felt' 1830 Caroline P. M. Holmes to Isaac A. Sheppard of Philadelphia Pa. Births William B. Holmes Son of John & Mary Holmes was born Dec' 20. 1821 Elizabeth R. Holmes Daughter of Jo' & Mary Holmes was born Nov 12th 1823 Caroline Preston M. Holmes Daughter of Jo' & Mary Holmes was born Felt' S. 1826 John H. Maxwell Son of William R & Mary Maxwell was born Sept 17 1831 Mary Jane Maxwell Daughter of William R & Mary Maxwell was born Nov' 13. 1835 2O The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine [Second page] Mary Hooper Born May 7. 1793 Tiverton Devonshire in England Robert Hooper the Father of the above and Grace hir Mother John & Samuel Hooper Sons of Rob' & Grace and Elisabeth Ralph liar Daughter John Holmes Husband of Mary Hooper was born in Murfield Yorkshire — England Deaths William B. Holmes Died Nov 27 5. 1824 John Holmes Died Jan' 11. 1828 John H. Maxwell Son of W R & Mary Maxwell Died March 7. 1867 Died on the 2 May 1872 Mary B. Sheppard Daughter of Isaac A & Caroline M. Sheppard In the 14'° year of hir age Elizabeth Ralph Holmes Daughter of John and Mary Holmes Died May 22'. 1906 Agnes Ashworth Daughter of Francis & Elizabeth Maxwell Died June 24 1836 in Haslingden Lancashire England. She was born 19 June 1791 Haslingden Lancashire England Francis Son of Francis & Elizabeth Maxwell was Born Petty 8. 1797 in Haslingden, Lanc. England. The above died Jane 24 05 1838 in Phild North America Betsey Maxwell Daughter of Francis & Elizabeth Maxwell Died 6 March 1843 — Haslingden England In Memory of The Late Mrs. Jane Schofield of Haslingden — Lancashire who died Jan" 20. 1848 aged 53 Years Daughter of F & E Maxwell England Philadelphia, March 20. If JOHN COOK, Son of John Cook, carpenter and joiner, of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen, in the borough of Southwark, in the kingdom of Great Britain, by Sarah his wife, and also Grandson of Moses Bywater, of the same place, potter, (all of whom are deceased) be living, and will apply to Messrs. Hewes de , Anthony, of Philadelphia, Daniel McCormick of New York, or Patrick Jeffrey, Boston, he will hear something much to his advantage, or if any person can give any account of him it will be esteemed a favour. Pennsylvania Packet. 22 March 1788