Harold Holmes in the uniform of the 96thInfantry Battalion: Canadian Highlanders, circa 1916 (Just before sailing for England).
In Scotland holm is flat fertile land along river banks, farmers of this type of land took it as their surnane.
Beginning as Holm the spelling changed to Holmes. It was once said in south west Scotland all the Holm (Lang & Love)
families originated in Kilmalcolm before 1600.
http://www.surnameweb.org/registry/h/o/l/holmes.shtml
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Harold Holmes in the uniform of the 96thInfantry Battalion: Canadian Highlanders, circa 1916 (Just before sailing for England). |
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Counting the days until the next Holmes Family Reunion: |
In February of 2008 my wife and I were visiting Marvin and Linda in Arizona when Elsie and Andy Evjen stopped by. Elsie voiced an interesting concept for the upcoming reunion. She suggested holding it near John W. Holmes' old homestead near Cut Knife, Saskatchewan. There exists the possibility of visiting the actual site and of course my grandfather, Harold, and my grandmother, Ethel, are buried in the Cut Knife cemetary as well. Well, we had the reunion in Cut Knife, and it was a roaring success! Once again Marvin, Linda, Art and Sandra did it in style. We toured the old homestead and were really blown away by the work that the current owner did to make it presentable and meaningful to us. The grass had been cut short and RAKED so we could easily see all the features and clues on the ground. He escorted us in convoy right through his 35 to 40 bu/acre wheat crop to get to the site. It was extremely interesting, and helped us to appreciate much more what my great grandfather and his folks did coming to this area in the early 1900's.
Group pictures are available here for viewing and download.
Before the reunion, Marvin looked at the state of our finances, decided we were in good shape, and made an executive decisiom: NO REGISTRATION FEES! That only meant that we had to finance things out of the proceeds of the auction on Sunday evening. As it so happened we did just that. The auction raised approximately $1800, so we still have roughly as much in the kitty for the next reunion as we did when we started! Isn't that great?
Also, I believe we set a new record (correct me if I am wrong) with 101 attendees of all ages and flavours.
It is said confession is good for the soul. Well, I suppose my soul could use some help so here goes: I have done virtually 'Diddly-Squat' on this web site since the last (2006) reunion. I have loads of excuses; Didn't have time, waiting for pictures to be emailed to me (never came either!) problems accessing the server via FTP, etc. etc. The REASON (not an excuse) was I was too flippin' lazy and just didn't feel like it. Now that the pressure is on in a way, I will attempt to bring it back up to snuff, make all those corrections and additions that have been sent to me, and generally get off my duff. However, don't expect too much too soon. I retired in June and as many retirees will tell you it's hard to figure out how I held a full time job, I'm just too busy to work now.
There will be some broken links and broken pages as I work through the site, but I will try to keep that to a minimum as I work. In any case I will get the job done, a bit at a time. Thanks in advance for your understanding.
We have quite a lot of genealogical information on this site. I have posted descendant "lists" in the classical format. As they become available, we are posting individual biographys of some of our forebears. Click on the "Genealogy Information" link in the left column to get to this information.
Unfortunately, we have been forced to disable the guestbook feature on our web site. It just became too much of a chore removing the nasty postings unscrupulous individuals were putting up with links primarily to pornographic sites. This is a family oriented web site, and this could not be tolerated. This is regretable but there was no other alternative. Dave
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Douglas Wayne Daniels; a lost relative. Can you help find him? |  |
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WebMaster: Scott Holmes Brampton, Ontario |
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