Benjamin
Holmes
I
Born in Meenahoney, Castlefin, Ireland
Ancestors 
Son of Charles Holmes I
and Mary (Foster) Holmes
Brother of
John Holmes, Joshua Holmes M.D., James Holmes II, Rebecca (Holmes) Hamilton, Elizabeth (Holmes) Allison, Charles Holmes II, Margaret Holmes, William Holmes, Thomas Holmes, Robert Holmes II and Mary Holmes
Husband of
Martha (Stewart) Holmes
— married
20 May 1803 [location unknown]
Husband of
Margaret (King) Holmes
— married
after 1826 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Charles Holmes IV, Daniel Stewart Holmes, Martha (Holmes) McCurdy, Mary Elizabeth (Holmes) King, John Holmes, Benjamin Holmes II, Robert Holmes III, James Holmes III, Andrew Thomas Holmes and Margaret Holmes
Died
at age 89
in Meenahoney, Castlefin, Ireland
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Jun 2015
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Biography
Benjamin was born in 1779. He was the son of Charles Holmes and Mary Foster. He married (1st) 20 May 1803, Martha Stewart of Altrest, Donagheady, by whom he had ten children, and (2ndly) Margaret King, by whom he had no issue. He passed away in 1868.[1][2][3][4]
Sources
- ↑ T/2333/1: Pedigree of the Holmes of Meenahoney, with attachments: Public Record Office, Northern Ireland (PRONI), Belfast, Ireland
- ↑ Consists principally of extracts from Baskervilles's Genealogical Tables, 2nd edition, 1927, printed privately at Poona, India, having been compiled by H.D. Baskerville, I.C.S., Collector of Kanera, Karwar, India.
- ↑ Information from Simon Elliott and Mary Stewart Kyritsis, May 2015.
- ↑ Information from Eric Wray, Nov 2015
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Benjamin:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Benjamin:
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~1.56%
Julianne (Taylor) NcNeill
:
23andMe
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Sue (Charnley) Gatherum-Goss :
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