Husband: William HOLMES
Birthdate: about 1740
Birthplace: North Ireland
Death date: about 1808
Place of death: Barnwell County SC
Burial: unknown
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown

Marriage date: about 1779
Marriage place: Silver Bluff SC

Wife: Barbara GALPHIN
Birthdate: about 1760
Birthplace: Silver Bluff, SC
Death date: 1830
Place of death: Barnwell County SC
Burial: unknown
Father: George GALPHIN I
Mother: Mulatto ROSE (slave)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Thomas Galphin HOLMES
Sex: M
Birthdate: Jan. 21, 1780
Birthplace: Silver Bluff SC
Death date: Oct. 19, 1852
Place of death: Tenesaw, Baldwin Co. AL
Burial: Baldwin Co. AL
Marriage date: 1820
Marriage place: Latham, AL
Spouse's name: Mary Weekley

Child No. 2: Mary Galphin HOLMES
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1782
Birthplace: Barnwell County SC
Death date: January 16, 1845
Place of death: Beech Island, SC
Burial: Bowers Cemetery Beech Island SC
Marriage date: 1800
Marriage place: Beech Island, SC
Spouse's name: Joseph Wood

Child No. 3: Judith Ann HOLMES
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1785
Birthplace: Barnwell County SC
Death date: 1833
Place of death: Barnwell County SC
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: Aug 2, 1803
Marriage place: Beech Island, SC
Spouse's name: Maurice Lehiffe

Child No. 4: George Galphin HOLMES
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1786
Birthplace: Barnwell County SC
Death date: 1803
Place of death: Barnwell County SC
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: none
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: none
 

Documentation:
* Barbara's data is detailed in her father's estate papers which include his voluminous will. In this will he gives an inheritance to her son, Thomas Galphin Holmes, to be under the guardianship of her husband, William Holmes. Her estate file from the Barnwell County Probate/Equity court names her legal heirs as "Thomas G. Holmes, George Bowers (he the son of Mary G. Holmes Wood Bowers), and Simon Coker for his wife Martha (she the only surviving daughter of Judith Lehiffe).
* Alabama historican Gen. Thomas Woodward knew Thomas G. Holmes personally and named his parents as Barbara Galphin, dau. of George Galphin, and William Holmes.
* The two daughters are listed in extensive files in both Edgefield and Barnwell courts.