Person:John Holmes (110)

John Holmes was proprieter of the Wheatsheaf Inn, Main St./High St., Irvine, Ayrshire (family letters, A. Lindsay and Pigot's Directory 1837). John Holmes Irvine innkeeper, became burgess of Irvine in 1817 (ayrshirearchives). In 1841 John Holmes (1771, publican), Elizabeth Longmuir (1806), Agnes Longmuir (1811), Janet Holmes (1816), Ann Holmes (1821), all b. at Ayrshire, were at High St., Irvine (census). In 1851 John Holmes (1780 Irvine, widower, retd innkeeper) and the following, unm, b. at Irvine, stepdaughters Elizabeth Longmuir (1803), Agnes Longmuir (1806), and daughters Janet Holmes (1813), Ann Caldwell Holmes (1815), were at High St., Irvine (census).

1. ↑ International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).
2. ↑ Family letters.
3.   The laird of Barloch.
4.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1841 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).
5.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1851 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).