He is married to Annie Sophia MILLS.
They got married on December 8, 1854 at Church Of St Peter Wellington, New Zealand, he was 29 years old.
MARRIED BY R.B.PAUL/.WITNESSED BY RICH MILLS,JESSIE HOUGHTON,EDWARD LEWIS
Child(ren):
OCCU: NAME HEADMASTER,TE ARO SCHOOL
New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume X, Issue 976, 9 December 1854, Page 2
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On the 8th inst., at St. Peter's Church, Te Aro, by special license, by the Rev. R. R. Paul, M. A., Mr. William Howard: Holmes to Annie Sophia, eldest daughter of Mr. Richard Mills of Wellington.
«b»THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. HOLMES.
«/b»Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5882, 7 October 1885, Page 2
THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. HOLMES.
The New Zealand Times sayß.: Tho funeral oE tlio lato Mr. William Howard Holmes took place on Siturdtiy afternoon, and a large number of relatives aud friends followed tiic rc.mainß to tho Church of. Englaud cmnetery. Several members oi; tho Education Board, ond many of Iho pupils of the dece.isod, joined in the cortogo. The funeral service was read in a very impressive manner by the Yen. Archdeacon Stock arid the Rev. Mr. Coffey. The deceased "Was one of the oldest members of St. Peter'a congregation, but his new residence at Island Bay was within the boundaries of St. Mark's Parish. The deceased gentleman was a great favorito with his pupils, and wiihrall who had ths pleasure of his acquaintance, and- much sympathy has been expressed for the family in their sudden bereavement. One son, who is olerk of ths Resident Magistrate's Court at Now Plymouth, rode j overland, and arrived just as the burial service wus being read, at the mortuary chapel. lie wasjvery much agitated after tho Jon,; strain on tho nervous system. At St. Peter's Church on Sunday muffl ;d psals were rung on the bells, and the choir-stalls were draped ia black as a mark of respect to the memory of Mr. Holmes, who has been for S3 many years a member of the congregation and choir, an 1 an office-bearer of the Church. Appropriate allusion was also made by the preacher, tho Yen. Archdeacon Stock, to the sad event. The "Dead March" f rotu Handel's "Saul" was played by the organist, Mr. West, uad the liymnß " When our heads are bowed with Woe," "Thy will be done," "Now the laborer's task is o'er," and " Brief life is here our portion" were sung by the choir, also SiF 1 " John Goss' beautiful anthem, "v, Saviour of the world." .
«b»MR. W. H. HOLMES.
«/b»Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 81, 2 October 1885, Page 2
«u» «/u»MR. W. H. HOLMES.
Another well-known resident whom doath has very suddenly taken from our midst is Mr. William Howard Holmes, the oldest schoolmaster in Wellington a gentleman to whom many of our leading citizens owe their early training who died at his residence, Island Bay, at 9 o'clock last night, at tbo age of 60, after only a few days' illness. He was taken with violent rotohing and siokness on Monday last, and by Wednesday his indisposition had developed into acato congestion of the lungs, whioh the medioal men called in were unable to arrest. Mr. Holmes was as highly respected as he was well-known, and his widow and numerous family will meet with general sympathy in their affliotion, which oomes upon them with all the more Btunning force from the fact that the deoeased was a man who enjoyed exceptionally good health, and was rarely known to be laid up for a day through illness. He first arrived in tho colony in the year 1850, ooininjj out to Canterbury with the earliest settlers of the Canterbury Association. About two years later he oamo to Wellington, where he has resided ever since. For a year or two he was aaaifctant to Mr. Wheeler in his private Bohool, and on the institution of the Te Aro Churoh _of England Sohool in Ghuznoe-street he received the appointment of master. When the sohool was taken over by the Board of Education in 1873 his appointment was confirmed, and he has really retained the position until the present time, although sinoe tho building of the new sohoolhouse in Willis-street ho has had charge of the Infant Sohool, supplementing thiß by giving drawing lessons at the College. Mr. Holmes waa married soon after his arrival in Wellington to Miss Mills, a daughter of Mr. Eiohard Mills, at that tim* Governor of the Terrace Gaol. One of his daughters in married to Mr. P. P. Webb, of tbe Civil Service, another to Mr. W. P. James, Clerk of the E.M. Court, and a third to Mr. W. B. Rhodes, of Murray, Roberts & Co. He a! bo leaves four unmarried daughters and two unmarried sons. Both Mr. and Mrs. Holmes took a prominent patt in Churoh matters, and up to the time of their removing to Island Bay they were enthusiastic mombors of tho ohoir of St. Peter's. In Volunteer affairs, alto, the deceased was keenly interested. He held a commission in one of tho first Volunteer corps established in Wellington, and was oommo.tid.ijagf offices of the Td Aro SoKool Cadets ; he was also up to the time of hi« death a captain in the New Zealand Militia. The funeral is to take plaoe to-morrow afternoon.
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