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Holmes, William W

 Person

Biography

William Holmeswas born in 1814 and grew up at Slane Castle, Ireland. He worked as a gardener there and at other Irish estates until the potato famine, when he and his family emigrated first to Melbourne (1852) and then to Otago (date uncertain, but before 1865). A religious man all his life (the tone of this autobiography is strongly religious), William Slane became a Christadelphian in 1865, and was active in this religion.

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William W. Holmes autobiography

 Collection
Identifier: CCL Archive 0462
Scope and Contents

Typescript copies of the autobiography of William W. Holmes. Includes an index and historical notes on Ireland in the 1840s at the time of the potato famine.

Dates: 1892