Ancestry of
Abraham Lincoln

16th U.S. President

Lydia Holmes

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Abraham Lincoln — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 71 
  • Father:
  • Obadiah Holmes 
  • Mother:
  • Katherine Hyde   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1640 
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  • AFT 28 May 1684 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Bowne
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1 Apr 1664 
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  • Child:

  Sarah Bowne (Ahnentafel No:35 )

• Sources for Lydia Holmes

  • ¹ The Journal of American History, 1918, Vol. 12, No. 3, p. 367.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 364.
  • ³ De Forest, Louis Effingham and Anne Lawrence De Forest, James Cox Brady and his Ancestry, New York: De Forest Publishing Company (1933), 234-235.
  • ⁴ Keiser, David S., "Lincoln's Ancestors Came from Ireland", Lincoln Herald, Winter 1977, Vol. 79, No. 4, page 150.
  • ⁵ Lea, James Henry and John Robert Hutchinson, The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1909), 92, 139.
  • ⁶ Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and their Descendants, Vol. III, New York: Unknown (1914), 32-36.