Ancestry of
James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

Marvin Holmes

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of James Taylor — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 419 
  • Father:
  • Joshua Holmes Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Fear Sturgis   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Nov 1717 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 28 Jan 1774 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Asa Swan
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Nov 1740 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Swan

  Susanna Swan (Ahnentafel No:209 )

  Asa Swan

  Jabez Swan

  • Notes: 

  • Marvin Holmes's given name is also seen as Marier and Marvel. Marvin Holmes is a female.

• Sources for Marvin Holmes

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p. 248, Birth record for son Jabez Swan.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1988, Vol. 142, pp. 167, 176.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 372.
  • ⁴ Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, Jr., The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, Boston, Massachusetts: American College of Genealogy (1914), 308.
  • ⁵ Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, Jr., The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, Boston, Massachusetts: American College of Genealogy (1914), 309.
  • ⁶ Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 611-612.
  • ⁷ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 60, 255-256.