On March 20, 1711, Hester Wormwell, was the daughter of Josiah Wormwell and Remember Brown married Richard Holmes, the son of John Holmes and Patience (Bonum) Willis Holmes of Plymouth, Mass[1][2]. Their children included[3]:
Mary, born Feb 5, 1712[4][3], and who married Thomas Kempton[5]
Richard Holmes died before 2 May 1718[8], when his estate passed probate[9]
Hester was alive when her husband's probate was passed. Some family trees give her death date of 1752, with no sources identified to date.
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Sources
↑Plymouth Mass Vital Records V1, page 90 found in Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016)
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-GH5Q : 3 November 2017), Richard Holmes and Ester Wormwell, 20 Mar 1711; citing Marriage, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 416,334.
↑ 3.03.13.23.3Plymouth Mass Vital Records p72 found in Plymouth Vol 1, page 46 of the Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016).
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-GQHC : 3 November 2017), Richard Holmes in entry for Mary Holmes, 05 Feb 1712; citing Birth, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 416,334.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-GQC5 : 3 November 2017), Richard Holmes in entry for Girshom Holmes, 13 Oct 1714; citing Birth, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 416,334.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-GQ84 : 3 November 2017), Richard Holmes in entry for Silvanos Holmes, 27 Dec 1716; citing Birth, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 416,334.
↑ Holmes, Denwood Nathan Stacy. "The Black Sheep of Some Good Family": The Essex Ancestry of John Holmes, Gentleman, Messenger of the Plymouth Court, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., Spring 2017) Vol. 171, WN. 682, Page 91
↑Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881 Case # 10553 for Richard Holmes, husband of Hester found in .Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
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