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Elizabeth (Holmes) Nye (1734 - aft. 1779)

Elizabeth (Betty) Nye formerly Holmes
Born in Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of , , , , , , , , [half], [half], [half], [half] and [half]
Wife of — married 23 Dec 1756 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Baymap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , and
Died after after age 44 [location unknown]
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Biography

Elizabeth Holmes was born on January 16, 1734 in Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay. Her parents were Elisha Holmes and Sarah Bartlett.[1]

She married Joseph Nye on December 23, 1756 in Sandwich.[2]

Together they had 5 children:

  1. Elisha Nye[3]
  2. Joseph Nye
  3. Bartlett Nye
  4. Heman Nye
  5. Temperance Nye

She died in 1779

Research Notes

  • She was originally attached as the daughter of Ebenezer Holmes. His daughter, mentioned in his estate distribution in 1763 was deceased and unmarried or married to a Holmes.

Sources

  1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-G764 : 20 May 2022), Betty Holmes, 16 Jan 1734; citing Birth, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934186.
  2. ↑ "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC96-TB9 : 28 December 2022), Elizabeth Holmes in entry for Joseph Nye, 1756.
  3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DDMF-37ZM : 20 May 2022), Elizabeth in entry for Elisha Nye, 1757.
  • Esther Littleford Woodsworth-Barnes, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol 16, Part 1, The Descendants of John Alden, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2002. "The Silver Book" Page 268
  • Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Silver Books, Volume Eighteen, Part 2, The Descendants of Richard Warren Through His Children Mary, Anna, and Elizabeth, Published 2011, Page 68




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St. Jean-158 Karen St. Jean
Holmes-10170 and Holmes-1354 do not represent the same person because: Not the same person.
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