The Family of Thomas Holme

ME& NZ.2_&93119.920..93MM The Pennsylvania sg GENEALOGICAL Magazine 93 msgmagmTgnmnmmgmisgmgnmggns The Family of Thomas Hohne MARY IRMA CORCORAN * I N VIEW of the continuing interest in Thomas Holme and the general confusion concerning his background and family relationships, it seems appropriate at this time to bring together in one article whatever documents regarding his forebears and immediate family are currently available. At the time of Thomas's birth at the Waterhead at Monk Coniston in upper Lancashire,' the name Holme was widely dispersed from Yorkshire to Scotland, through Westmorland, Lancashire and Cheshire. It appeared in various spellings — Holme, Holmes, Hulme, Hume — but probably all of the Lancashire families of the name had a common ancestor in the John of Stockholm who is said to have received a large tract of land in Yorkshire as a reward for his part in William's conquest of England. According to legend, one of his descendants ran afoul of John Lackland and fled to the secluded valley of Mardale beside Hawes Water in Westmorland.' All of this is plausible but conjectural. The earliest records of the parish of Shap,s which originally included Mardale, yield many Christian names that reappear in the records of the not-far-distant parish of Hawkshead to the southwest in northernmost " Sister Mary Irma Corcoran, a descendant of the Holme and Whitaker families of Philadelphia, is a professor of English at Mundelein College, Chicago. This article is based upon some of the materials collected at home mod abroad for the hfe of Thomas Bob,,, upon which she is currently engaged. Her research was made possible by a fellowship from the American Association of University 'Women and a grant from the American Philosophical Society. 'The revealing clues to the parentage of Thomas Holm, and his wife, his birth and marriage, arc his personal record in the manuscript volume, Wexford Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 10401720, (F. 1), Item 2, Friends' Library, Dublin. Whiteside, "The Holmes of Mardale," Transactions of the Cumberland-Westmorland Archeological Society, N.S., II (1902), 149. These records are unpublished, but have been microfilmed. 3 4 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Lancashire: William, George, Christopher, Reginald, Thomas, Agnes, Ann, Isabella, Ellen. The earliest unmistakable evidence concerning Thomas Holme's family commences late in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I with two wills preserved in the County Library of Lancashire at Preston: those of his great-grandfathers, Michael Holme and Myles Sawrey. Michael Holme, by his will, dated 13 March 1598, left to his son George all his tenements and other property at Yewdall with the rent of Mr. Fleming, the almshouse, his interests in Skellwith Bridge, the "great arke," and, to be shared with George's mother Agnes, all the meal in it. His brothers-inlaw shared in two corn mills and, among other beneficiaries, his father's man David was remembered, receiving the pair of blue breeches — allin-all, a considerable estate. Michael Hohne was buried at Hawkshead, according to the parish record, on 20 February 1600.' One of Michael's executors was Myles Sawrey, father-in-law of Michael's son George. Sawrey was a member of a substantial mining family who employed full or part time many of their neighbors to work in the iron mills, or fell and cut wood that fired the furnaces where the ore was smelted.' Myles outlived his son-in-law George Holme by ten years,' but he was solicitous for his grandchildren. His will, dated 24 August 1613, is an impressive document engrossed on vellum. In it he bequeathed to his sons William and Henry Sawrey tenements and farmholds at the Waterhead and elsewhere in the parish of Hawkshead : together with grounds in "farre Coniston" on the opposite side of Coniston Water, as well as sundry other properties. He left cash legacies to the children of Robert Jopson and Richard Hodgson, as well as to Elsabeth Holme, daughter of George, "wch I am grandfather unto," to Mabel Holme, her sister, and "lykewise to George Holme there brother A supervisor of his will was his "welbeloved in Christ M' Edwyn Sands," probably, it would appear from the Hawkshead registers, a nephew of 'An obsolete term for a large chest or coffer. H. S. Cowper, ed., The Oldest Register Book of the Parish of Howkshead 5, Laneasbae, 1568-1704 (London, 1897), 94. The baptisms, marriagm and burials in these registers are listed by years, each year beginning 25 March or later, under the Julian calendar and ending no later than the following 25 March. Since the historical year actually began 1 January, the dates in these records between 1 January and 25 March need to be double-dated. Thus, the bunal of Michael Hohne actually was in 1601 (1600/1). The wife of Michael Holme was bur. II October 1607, "in the church." Ibid., 109This and other information about the Sawrey family was communicated to the writer by a local driver and business man in the Lake District. According to the Hawkshead Register, 126, cited above, Myles Sawrey was bur. "in the church" 12 October 1613. 'George Hohne W79 bapt. 16 April 1592, Elsabeth on 29 March 1593, and Mabel on 24 March 1599 U16001, according to Hawkshead Register. 70, 74. 93. The Family of Thomas Holme 5 the Bishop Sands who founded the Hawkshead grammar school. From the will of Myles' son, William Sawrey, we know that Richard Hodgson and Robert Jopson were the husbands of Ellen and Mabel Sawrey. According to the Hawkshead register, George Holme, son of Michael, was baptized 7 March 1568. He married Ann Sawrey on 26 August 1586, when they both were only seventeen years old." They had been married only sixteen years when his will was written on 2 December 1602, and he died five months later. His burial record identifies him as George Holme of Waterhead," a distinguishing title sometimes applied to his son George (second of the name), to whom he willed property inherited from his own father, Michael Holme. This included the tenement and farmhold at Yewdall, and the rent of his tenement and farmhold at Waterhead when young George should arrive at the age of twenty-one. After he had attained his majority, he was to render their shares to his three sisters, Agnes," Elsabeth and Mabel, when they reached twenty-one or married. Other legatees in the will of George Holme of Waterhead were his wife Ann (Sawrey) and miscellaneous relatives and friends. George's widow Ann seems to have remarried within the year; there is no record of the death of an Ann Holme or of the widow of George Holme. An Ann Holme, not otherwise accounted for in the Hawkshead registers, married one William Middlef all on 27 November 1603," exactly six months after the inventory of George Holme's estate was made. George, son of George Holrne of Waterhead, came of age in April, 1613. On the following 18 May he married Alice Whitesyde, according to the parish register of Coniston." . His sisters' marriages, in the autumn of the same year, were entered in the Hawkshead register.' Just where young George Holme met his bride is not known. She may have been the daughter of William Whiteside of Poulton, the Alice whose baptism is recorded in the Poulton-le-Fylde register as hayActually 1568/9; it ww entered at the end of the entries for the year 1568, the same year the register was opened. Ibid., 2. "She was bapt. 29 April 1569. Ibid., 4, '6. "He was bur. 10 May 1601. Ibid., 100. George's will, like those of his father and father-in-law. is in the County Library at Preston. "Agnes's baptism is not found in the Hasekshead Register Ibid., 102. "The Rev. Hector Maclean and Henry Brierly, eds., "Ti,, Registers of the Parish Church of Coniston, Lancashire. Christenings, Bunals and V7eddings, 1599-1700," Lancashire Parish Register Society (Wigan, 1907), Vol. XXX, 42. These records contain entries supplementing those in the Hawkshead register 'Haw/ahead Register. 127, 6 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine ing taken place on 21 April 1598. 1' The Whiteside name does not occur in either Hawkshead or Coniston registers prior to this date, but does appear frequently in the Poulton register. George and Alice Holme's son Thomas identifies his parents only as George and Alice Holme of the Waterhead at Monk Coniston. Two unmistakable offspring of George and Alice are known: Thomas, son of George Holme of Waterhead, baptized at Coniston 3 November 1624, and Mary, daughter of George Holme of Waterhead, baptized at Hawkshead 13 September 1627." The identification of other children is complicated by the existence of at least two other George Holmes within the parish of Hawkshead." All one can do is list, as possible siblings of Thomas Holme and his sister Mary, those children of a George Holme not identified with any specific locale, whose baptisms were entered in the Hawkshead register between 1614 and 1630. These were, with the dates of their baptisms: EaIse, 20 April 1614 William, 29 June 1615 Agnes, 26 May 1616 Agnes, 8 March 1617 [/18] Michael, 9 December 1618 Elsabeth, 22 July 1621 Christopher, 27 August 1626 Michael, 27 October 1628 Agnes, 20 March 1630[/31] During this same period, the only offspring of a George Holme whose burial is recorded at Hawkshead was John, son of a George, who was buried 7 June 1618. The repetition of names — three Agneses and two Michaels — with no record of the burial of any of them intervening between their baptisms, suggests that at least three families are represented in the list. This is further born out by the burial in Hawkshead church on 5 March 1623, of a George Holme, tanner (of Coulthouse) ; the burial "in templo" on 27 December 1630, of George Holme of the Waterhead, and the burial "in the church" on the following 17 Wm. Edward Robinson, ed., "Ti,, Reimers of the Parish Church of Poulton-le-Pylde," Lancashire Parish Register Society (Wigan, 1907), Vol. XIX, 14. Poulton is about three miles inland from Blackpool on the west coast of Lancashire, due south of Hawkshead and across Morecombe Bay. Coniston Register, cited above, 7; Hawluhend Register, 161. In the latter register there are only five entria for 1624; presumably there was no one available for the baptism there, and hence Thomas's baptism at Coniston. A George Holme and Elsabeth Banke were in. 24 September 1614, and a George Holme and Margaret Rooks were m. 12 December 1619, according to che Hawkahead Register, 110, 144. The identity of the wife of one of these George Holmes, who was buried in the Hawkshead church on I April 1618, has been established. The Family of Thomas Holme 7 January 1630 [/31] of a George Holme, not otherwise identified." Of these three, George of the Waterhead is undoubtedly the father of Thomas and Mary. Of his other children, the most certain name among the possible siblings of Thomas and Mary for the present record is Michael, of whom more will be said later. Between Thomas Holme's baptism at Coniston in 1624, at the age of three days, and his marriage on 5 August 1649, to Sarah Croft of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, we have no datable information about the career of the future Surveyor General of Pennsylvania. But during this period two events important to his life occurred: England was involved in two civil wars between 1642 and 1648, and a young man named George Fox was beginning to draw large crowds to hear sermons of overwhelming simplicity and conviction. Both events displaced large numbers of people and split families, in the one case, between King and Parliament, in the other, between the Established Church and the religiously disestablished, of whom Fox's group soon would begin to be called "Quakers" in derision. We know that Thomas Holme was in the Parliamentary army before 1649, since he described himself that year as being a membt!r "of the English Army," a technical term used to denote an army of veterans. Very probably he was in a group garrisoned at Tewkesbury, for it was there that he married in 1649 the daughter of William and Maudlin Croft. The marriage of these parents-in-law, William Crafte (also written Crofte) and Maudlin White on 13 June 1613, was recorded in the Registers of Tewkesbury Abbey, Volume II, now in Shire Hall, Gloucester. Other than Thomas Holme's own record in the Wexford Friends' Registry at Dublin, there seems to be no record of his marriage to Sarah Croft. A book containing such may have been lost in one of a number of accidents that befell the Tewkesbury registers or, conceivably, it may have been performed privately according to an independent ritual and so not registered in the books of the Established Church. A month after their marriage, Thomas, as "a member of the English Army," and his wife Sarah went to Ireland where, between 1651 and 1665, eight of their ten children were born. The first, Thomas's namesake, was born in Tewkesbury in 1651, where it would seem that Thomas had sent Sarah home to her family to preserve her from the dangers of embattled Limerick, where he presumably was stationed. No doubt she had been with him up to this time, both for 157. 175. 8 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine companionship and because the wives of soldiers were encouraged to accompany them in order to help care for the sick and wounded. The next three, Sarah (1653), Hester (1654), and Mary (1656), were all born in Limerick where their parents continued to live in the interval between the end of the war and the establishment of veterans on Irish land. The next two, Susanna in 1657, and Samuel in 1658, were both born at the family's first home in County Wexford — Dungiar, as their father wrote it — across Ireland on the east coast. Elinor, the seventh child, was born in Tewkesbury in 1659. Since the later children, Hester (second of the name) in 1661, Tryall in 1663, and William in 1665, were all born in a new home in Wexford, Brigurteen, the change of residence may have been the reason for Sarah's return to England for Elinor's birth. Of these children, five died in Ireland: the first Hester and Mary in infancy, Hester at fifteen months and Mary at five months. Thomas died aged seventeen, Susanna at fourteen, and Samuel, at seventeen, shortly after the death of his mother in 1676. The first two burials were in Limerick, the others "in the burial place of the people of God at Corlecane," " a peaceful circular plot enclosed by a moat and earthenwork, shaded by myrtle, not far from the road down which the army had come from Dublin to Wexford. Of the surviving children, Sarah, the second child and eldest daughter, married Richard Holcomb of Dulverton, Somersetshire, and went back to England with him." The remaining children, the second Esther, as she was known in Pennsylvania, Elinor, Tryall and William, all accompanied their father to Pennsylvania on the Amity in 1682. They constituted the family for whose entertainment during their first six months' residence Thomas Fairman billed William Penn after the death of Thomas Holme." The subsequent history of the two daughters is well known. Soon after her arrival Esther married Silas Crispin, The births and burials of Thomas Holme's children and wife are from his permnal record in the Wexford Registry, noted above. .) The births of two children of Richard and Sarah Holcomb are entered in the records of Bristol and Somerset Meetings) Susannah b. 25 4n1 1675, and Richard, b. 5 5m 1675. They belonged to the Withil/ and "Dilverton" Meeting, in the Western Division of Somerset. Neither the death of Sarah nor of her husband has been found. Abstracts of Records of the Quarterly Meeting of Bristol and Somerset, Marriages and Births, 122, in Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. This corrects and supplements the account by Richard C. Holcomb, "The Descendants of Sarah Holme," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (PMHB), XLIV (1920), 158 - 169, and ibid., XLVII 119231, 277. There may have been other children of Richard and Sarah Holcomb, as indicated in a fetter from one Richard Holcomb, written in 1734, who claimed to be the only child of his father who was the "eldest son" of liss grandfather who had married Sarah Hohne. See M. Jackson Crispin Mss, Am.04851) Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP). nn Recited in Philadelphia Deed Book 0 - 13, 474, Department of Records, City Hall: 10 December 1713, Release of Thomas Fairman: "to Lodging Capt. Holm, his two Sons & two Daughters with their and other, Friends Accomodation is the Proprietaries Service, D 0." The Family of Thomas Holine 9 son of the deceased William Crispin whom Penn had hoped would be his Chief Justice. Various accounts of her descendants have been published," and further information is included in the volumes of Crispiniana in the Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. Elinor Holme, Esther's sister, married Joseph Moss, was widowed in 1687, and later married Joseph Smallwood. Tryall and William Holme are not so well known. Both seem to have been employed as assistants to their father. The meager evidence that has so far come to light in support of Tryall's position consists of his signature on a few documents, notably Indian deeds of 7 4m (June) 1684, and of 30 5m ( July) 1685; a somewhat rough sketch of a field map, apparently made in 1684, of three adjoining properties near Concord in Chester County, and a page of doodling." Below the map is a cryptic comment signed by Deputy Surveyor Robert Longshore: "Tryall Holme Concordance of Neighbors in good design is a thing commendable." In 1684, five hundred acres of land in Dublin Township, Philadelphia County, were laid out and surveyed "unto Richard Corsley for the use of Tryall Holme." The following year one thousand acres were surveyed and laid out for Tryall adjoining lands of William Stanley and Nicholas More in Philadelphia County.' In 1701, however, when Silas Crispin was attempting to close his father-in-law's estate, he found no record of a regular return into the Secretary's office of the 500-acre tract. He requested Penn to order a return made into the Secretary's office, and to permit the sale of the tract, with all of which Penn promptly complied." Since Tryall took no part in the transaction, was not mentioned in his father's will, and was not referred to as either "late" or "deceased," it is possible that he was still alive but absent. One more reference to Tryall in relation to his father concerns an incident that must have been somewhat embarrassing to the Surveyor General when he learned of it. On the "1" 3' day in y' first See for example, Oliver Hough, "Captain Holm,, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania and Provincial Councillor,. PMHB, XIX (1895), 413 and ibid., XX (1896), 128, passim. "Petintylvonia Archives [1st Series (1852)1, I, 92, 91; Old Rights Book 0-85, 80, 101°, Land Office, Department of Internal Affa,n, Harrisburg, P. Tryall also witnessed the conveyance by IM father of 80 acres of Liberty Land to Nicholas More, for which see Philadelphia Deed Book Earl, 134: 3 9m (November) 1685, Thomas Hohne to Nicholas More. Warrants and Surveys of the Province of Pennsylvania including, the Three Lower Countles, I, 439; HI, 516, Mumcipal Archives, City Hall, Philadelphia. Corsley's name is variously &oven in the records as Corslett, Crosier, Crosley and Crosby. Old Rights Book D-85, 4, 14, 16, cited in Note 24. For Crispin', sale of the 500 acres, in which recital no mention is made of Tryall, see Pennsylvania Arehives, 2nd Series, XIX, 301, 332. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 10 weeke in r 7th month 1690," at Chester County Court, Thomas Holme, by his attornies, Charles Pickering and Patrick Robinson, brought suit against Charles Ashcom, deputy surveyor for Chester County, for withheld fees due Holme amounting to some £205, of which only four pounds had been received. In the course of the testimony, Ashcom produced a receipt for four pounds which Tryall at some past date had borrowed from him and never repaid." Where Tryall was at the time was not disclosed, nor is there any further record of him. He may have disappeared into the interior of the Province, gone to sea, or returned to Ireland or England. Perhaps he was disowned by his father, if he did not die in Thomas's lifetime. William Holme, Thomas's youngest son, appears to have served even more briefly than his brother in their father's office, entering documents with the careful notation, "Intra. per Wm. Holme."" It was he, seemingly the more responsible of the two sons, who was the first to die, just eight months past his eighteenth birthday. In the Wexford Friends' Register is the record that William, son of Thomas and Sarah Holme, died in Philadelphia on 8 9m (November) 1683. Whether his father was bitter or merely brusque in his reference to the event in a letter to William Penn on the day of the funeral, it is hard to say. He wrote, "Governour — Please to excuse my further attendance on thee 'clay [sic] 3. 'clock one hour hence this afternoon, Being appointed for y' burial] of my son's corps."" The identification of Thomas Holme's sons leaves a Michael Holme still to be accounted for. Some relationship to Thomas is strongly suggested by his signature as witness to the will of Joseph Moss, Thomas's son-in-law." Beyond this, nothing pertaining to him has been found in the public domain in America. However, other items draw him into a narrower circle of probability as a brother of Thomas. Two refer to the latter's position in Ireland. Two years after the restoration of Charles II, on 11 November 1662, from Dublin Castle, Captain Michael Hohne addressed a petiRecord of tbe Courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 16811697 (Philade(phla, 1910), 92, 214, 215, 217. "See for example, Thomas Holmes orders to Thomas Fairman and Charliu Ashcom to survey land, in Albert Cook Myers Collection, Penn Papers, Vol. 59, 144, 165, 183; Vol. 62A, 97, Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pa. .Penn Manuscripts, 4, Friends' Library, London. The identification of William as Thomas Holm,' son thus corrects the account in PMHB, XX, 251, cited in Note 23. "Philadelphia Will Book A. 71, #35:1687, will of Joseph Moss. He hardly seems to be identical with the Michael Bohm who received three months pay-08 8s. — as a private in Col. Daniel Redman's troop on the musters of 7 May, 4 June, and 2 July 1662. Historical Manuscripts Commission, Calendar of the Manusnipts of the Monsoon of Ornsonde. KR, Preserved at Kilkenny Castle, New Series, III (London, 1904), 459- ° The Family of Thomas Holme 11 tion to James, Duke of Ormonde, Governor of Ireland. In view of faithful service to "His late Ma" in England and his Ma" y' now is yo' Grace in this Kingdome beyond Seas after the yeare 1650," and the lack of subsistence for his servant and his poor wife since his discharge from the army on 17 July of that year, he prayed that he be granted the Duke's particular warrant "to receive the seasonable cornfitt of his and his servants stated arrears out of his Ma' Treasury at Dublin or by way of Assignment on his brother in the County of Wexford ..." until re-employment in the King's service. Ormonde ordered an examination of Michael's claim. Then on 10 March 1664, Michael Holme was admitted as Captain-Lieutenant to Lord Caulfield's troop." The signature to the 1662 petition to Ormonde and that of the witness "Michaell Holme" on Moss's will in 1687, are beyond any reasonable doubt by the same hand. Moreover, meticulous records of residents in Ireland were kept during this period and, although the original registers perished by fire, the published volumes containing the Deputy Keeper's copies are available. Thomas Holme was the only land holder of the name residing in Wexford at that time." That a troublesome brother of Thomas years later haunted his erstwhile home in Wexford is attested in a letter which John Tottenham, the friend who looked after Thomas's Irish interests, sent to Thomas in London in 1692. "I find thy Brother," Tottenham wrote, "a great plague to thee," from which he went on to many discreditable details." Thomas Holme died between the time his will was written on "10th day of 12th month [10 February] 1694/5," when he was "aged full seventie years," and 8 April 1695, when the will was admitted to probate in Philadelphia." It caps the list of recovered documents which set forth, from the beginning of the pertinent parish records in England, his ancestry and family. "Manuscript Letters and Papers of James, Duke of °monde, Vol. 27, 209, National library, Dublin. "Historical Manuscripts Comminion, Ninth Report of The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part 17, Appendix (London, 1884), 161. 'For example, see the entry for "Shelmaleer Barrony, Wexford County, Carrick Parish, Townlmds: Bragurteen, 6 people: Thomas Holmes, gent., 2 English, 4 Irish," in Seamus Pender, ed., A Census of Ireland, circa 1659, with Supplementary Material from tbe Poll Money Ordinances, 1660-1661 (Dublin, 1939), 542-543. 'Society Miscellaneous Papers, Am.3841, 11, HSP. 'Philadelphia Will Book A, 508, #123:1695. In his will Thomas Holm, left a bequest to one Susanna James, "his niece," who remains unidentified. She may have been the Susanna James, wife of John James, to whom Phihp Theodore Leknmann, Penn's secretary, left 300 acres to be laid out in Pennsylvania, in his will in 1687. Silas Crispin Elinor Moss, and Thomas Hohne were also legatees under Lehnmann's will. Philadelplaia Will Book A, 72, ' #37:1687. 12 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Thomas Holme's Personal Record" Thomas Holme, son of George & Alice Holme of Waterhead, Monk Coniston, in the parish of Haukshead in ffourness fells in Lancashire, born the first of ye 9 man 1624, St marryed Sarah the daughter of William & Maudlin Craft of Tewksbury in Gloucestershire ye 5th of the 6 month 1649 and came over into Ireland ye 7th month following, a member of the English Army, and by his said wife had these children following, and (for consceince sake) did not suffer any of his said children to be sprinkled or as some call it to be baptized, their being no Scripture for such a practise, but was introduced by the pope & papists or other Apostates, in the right of Apostacy Births Where and when Thomas 1 HoIme the son of the ad Thomas & Sarah Holme was born in ye psh of Tewksbury in Gloucestershire ye 19th of the 4th month Sarah 2 Holme daughter of the sd Thomas & Sarah Holme was born in Limerick City in Ireland ye 4th of 7 mon Hester 3 HoIme daughter of ye said Thomas & Sarah Holme was born in ye sd Limerick ye 8th of the 12th month Mary 4 Holme daughter of the said Thomas & Sarah Holme was born in ye sd Limerick ye 29th of 2d month Susanna 5 Hohne daughter of the said Thomas & Sarah Holme was born at Dungiar palsCounty Wexford 19th 5 mo Samuel 6 Holme the son of the said Thomas & Sarah Holz= was born at Dungiar aforesaid ye 20th of ye 7th month Elinor 7 Holme daughter of the sd Thomas & Sarah 'Holme was born at Tewksbury aforesaid ye 26th of ye 7th month Hester 8 Holrne daughter of the sd Thomas & Sarah Holrne was born at Brigurteen in Xilbride pish in Wexford Countie 27 2 mon Tryall 9 Holme son of ye ad Thomas & Sarah Holme was born at Brigurteen aforesaid the 25th 2 ma William 10 Holme the son of the sd Thomas & Sarah Holme was born at the sd Brigurteen ye 5th of the first month Ana 1651 1653 1654 1656 1657 1658 1659 1661 1663 1665 The Burials of the said family Burials When and where Area Hester Holme daughter of the said Thomas & Sarah Holme deceased ye 10th of 3d mon in Limerick City 1656 Holme daughter of ye sd Thomas & Sarah Holme deceased in the Mary 7th month in Limerick & there buryed 1656 Thomas Holme son of the said Thomas & Sarah Holme deceased at Brigurteen in ye County of Wexford on the [blank] day of ye [blank] month & was buryed in the burying place of the people of God at Corlecane 1668 . Reproduced here with the kind permission of Mrs. Olive Goodbody, Librarian of Friends' Library, Dublin, from a photo-copy of the Wexford Registry of Births, Marriages and Burials, 1640-1720 (F. I), Thomas Holme Summary #2. if 2, 5. The Family of Thomas Holme 13 Susanna Holme daughter of the sd Thomas & Sarah Holme deceased at Brigurteen aforsd ye 17th of 6th month & was buried in ye burying 1671 place of the people of God at Corlecane Sarah Hohne the wife of the said Thomas Holme deceased at Brigurteen aforesaid the 30th of the 2d month & was buryed M the burial place of the people of god at Corlecme the first of ye 3d month 1676 Samuel Holme the son of the said Thomas & Sarah HoIme deceased at Brigurteen aforesd the 11th day of the fiveth [?] month & was buried in friends buriall place aforesaid 1676 William Holme son of the sd Thomas & Sarah Holiest deceased at philadelphia 1683 pensilvania the 8th day of the ninth month in the year Thomas Holme's Commission as Surveyor General TO all, whom this may come, and more especially to all such as are or may be concorned as adventurers, Purchasers Planters & Inhabitants in the Province of Pensilvania in America Whereas King Charles the second by his Letters Pattents under the great seal of England for the considerations therein mentioned hath given, granted and confirmed unto me William Penn (by the name of William Penn Esquire son and heir of Sir William Penn deceased) the absolute proprietary of the said Province of Pennsilvania, with ample jurisdictions and powers necessary for the well being ordering and government thereof as by the said Letters Pattents do appeare. Now know ye, that I the said William Penn reposeing special confidence in the Integrity and ability of my Loveing friend Captain Thomas Holme of the City of Waterford in the Kingdom of Ireland, do by these presents elect, empower and establish him the said Thomas Holrne in the office, Trust and employment of Surveyor Generall of all the said Province of Pennsilvania for and dureing his Natural life, he behaveing himself honestly and faithfully in the said Office, Trust and employment, Hereby giveing and granting unto the said Thomas Holme full power and Authority to enter into, survey and admeasure, or cause to be entered into, surveyed and admeasured (with all reasonable expesheion) all the said Province of Penmilvania, and all and every parts, Islands and terntories thereof, which by the said Letters Pattents do or may of right belong and appertaine unto me my heirs and assignes. And to the end, I the said William Penn as absolute proprietary of the said Province by Letters Pattents aforesaid, may have and obtaine a true and certaine knowledge of the exact quantities of every distinct & individual part and parcell of Land in the said Province that already is or hereafter may be granted and disposed of 14 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine by me, my heirs and assignes, unto any person or persons whatsoever, and to whom and for what use or purpose soever, the said Thomas Holme as Surveyor General!, is hereby empowered from time to time to cause all persons employed in the survey, and admeasurement of any part or parcell of land in the said Province, to return a true duplicate of all their original! fieldworks and the protractions and quantities of their operations unto his said office, there to be examined, and tryed, and what there shall be approved of the same, and no other to be fairely entred in the said office and there to remame upon record as a standing rule, conclusive & binding to me my heirs and assignes as absolute Proprietary and also to all the Adventurers, Purchasers, Planters and Inhabitants concerned in the said Province, in relation to the respective quantities, meets and bounds of their Lands Lotts and holdings. And if any person or persons whatsoever that now are, or hereafter may be concerned, iss the said Province shall survey and admeasure or cause to be surveyed and admeasured any part or parcell of Land in order to be taken up and planted without orders & directions from the said Thomas HoIme that all such surveys and admeasurements shall by me my heires and Assignes be held and deemed invalid, and no wayes hinder the due disposal thereof. And the said Thomas Ho!me is to observe such orders and directions about the method of proceeding in the survey and admeasurement of the Lands in the said province, and also of the allottments and distribution thereof, as he shall from tun - e to time receive from me my heirs or assign., and according to such Concessions as are or may be agreed upon betweene me and the persons concerned in the said Province, And to keep his publique office of Surveyor Generall in the Capital! City or Town in the said Province that so if any difference happen about the quantities, meers or bounds of Lands, the same may be there regulated and composed. And I hereby grant to the said Thomas Holme to take, receive and to his own use enjoy, all and every such proffers and benefits f or the Surveys and admeasurements of the said Province, or any part thereof, and keeping his office of Surveyor Generall there as are allowable in the like cases in America. Given under my hand & seal of the province of Pennsilvania this eighteenth day of the second Month one thousand six hundred Eighty two. /s/ W Penn Recorded y° 27' of the verbatim Ne literatim 1684 in Patent Book A-i, 7, and transcebed therefrom