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Willis Carrier

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Willis Carrier

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    Obadiah Holmes

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    • 8th Great-grandfather of Willis Carrier — 11th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1974 
    • Birth Date:
    • 18 Mar 1609/1610 
    • Birth Location:
    • Reddish, Manchester, Lancashire, England 
    • Christening Date:
    • 18 Mar 1609/1610 
    • Christening Location:
    • Didsbury, Lancashire, England 
    • Death Date:
    • 15 Oct 1682 
    • Death Location:
    • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Middletown, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 20 Nov 1630 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Collegiate Church, Manchester, England 
    • Children:

    • Lydia Holmes

      Mary Holmes (Ahnentafel No:987 )

      Jonathan Holmes

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  • Sources for Obadiah Holmes

    • 4 The Journal of American History, 1918, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 364-368.
    • 7 Bulkley, Abby Isabel (Brown), The Chad Browne Memorial: Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne, Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Daily Eagle Book Printing Department (1888), 10.
    • 9 De Forest, Louis Effingham and Anne Lawrence De Forest, James Cox Brady and his Ancestry, New York: De Forest Publishing Company (1933), 227-234.
    • 10 Greene, Frank L., Descendants of Joseph Greene, of Westerly, R. I.: Also Other Branches of the Greenes of Quidnesset . . ., Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1894), FHL #929.273/G83g, 14.
    • 11 Keiser, David S., "Lincoln's Ancestors Came from Ireland", Lincoln Herald, Winter 1977, Vol. 79, No. 4, page 150.
    • 12 Lea, James Henry and John Robert Hutchinson, The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1909), 94, 139.
    • 13 Weis, Frederick Lewis, The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England, Lancaster, Massachusetts: (1936), Reprinted for Clearfield Co., by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD (1997), 108.