Records of Lyall Holmes on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Lyall Holmes in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Lyall Holmes and the Holmes Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Holmes Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Holmes family tree.

Study Parish Records for Lyall Holmes at Find My Past.

Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Lyall Holmes using the FreeBMD database.

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Explore MyHeritage for Lyall Holmes information.

Check out the LDS Database for records about Lyall Holmes.

Research the Holmes surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Holmes Military records.

ukDid you know that there are currently 48582 people with the Holmes surname in the UK? Holmes is now ranked number 84 for popularity in the UK.

Holmes Family Tree Databases

Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.

Study the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Lyall Holmes.

Study MyTrees for information on the Holmes family and people looking to contact living Holmes relations.

Look at One Great Family for Holmes records submitted by people who are already researching the Holmes Family Tree.

Find Lyall Holmes from Ireland on findmypast.ie

Holmes Forums

There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.

Research the Holmes surname using Genealogy.com forums .

ukDid you know that there are currently 197486 people with the Holmes surname in the USA? Holmes is ranked number 92 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Holmes Databases

Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Lyall Holmes. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Lyall Holmes

Lyall Holmes

Ivan Lyall Holmes (16 October 1920 – 26 August 1970) was a New Zealand structural engineer whose advances in concrete masonry building methods in the 1950s and 1960s were central to the avant-garde style of modernist architecture known as New Brutalism which emerged in the 1950s. It was epitomised locally in the work of architects such as Miles Warren, Maurice Mahoney (Warren & Mahoney) and Paul Pascoe.

Holmes engineered many of Canterbury's first modernist buildings including the Dorset Street Flats, the SIMU building, the Students' Association building at the University of Canterbury, and the Christchurch Town Hall. He also worked in Vanuatu (then called the New Hebrides) and the Solomon Islands engineering hospitals, schools, a Government House and a cathedral. Holmes was 49 when he died during construction of the Christchurch Town Hall.

Source: Lyall Holmes, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Holmes

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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