Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameChristopher Henry Maxwell Holmes 
[32, His will proved on 28 April 1978 and explicitly naming his wife.]
[32, His will proved on 28 April 1978 and explicitly naming his wife.]Birth21 Feb 1931, Uxbridge district, Middlesex
Death4 Feb 1978, Nether Staples Steel, Hexham, Northumberland
GeneralFrom Burke: 1st s. Flight LT in RAF.
Spouses
FatherCapt James Coverley Stopford RN (1909-1985)
MotherKatherine Sheila Hope Macleod (1909-1986)
Notes for Christopher Henry Maxwell Holmes
In his will he named his wife, Serena Margaret Holmes, left her all his estate and Lloyds Bank renounced the executorship of his will and the probate office appointed his wife as the sole executor.
This is evidence enough that they were husband and wife, even though no marriage information can be found for this.
The special extra is that their children were given the surname of Holmes and the mother’s maiden name of Stopford and I have not thought it necessary to pay for their birth certificates to expand on this. Curiously neither he nor his wife mentioned their children’s names in their wills.
So he has been added to this database. Their children have the asset of being twice descended from Powyses, quite unlike the large majority of Powyses who have only one such line of descent.
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BP records for him “F/Lt Christopher H M Holmes, RAF, est son of W/Cdr K E M Holmes, RAF, of Rochesters, Great Leighs, Essex,”
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His birth index, using the birth date in his death index:
Name: Mother's Maiden Surname:
HOLMES, CHRISTOPHER HENRY MAXWELL SCOTT
GRO Reference: 1931 J Quarter in UXBRIDGE Volume 03A Page 56
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Not found in the 1939 Register, possibly because his father was in the RAF and remotely that they may have been abroad.
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His death index, with birth date:
First name(s) Christopher Henry M
Last name Holmes
Gender Male
Birth day 21
Birth month 2
Birth year 1931
Death quarter 1
Death year 1978
District Swindon
County Wiltshire
Volume 23
Page 2461
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
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This is evidence enough that they were husband and wife, even though no marriage information can be found for this.
The special extra is that their children were given the surname of Holmes and the mother’s maiden name of Stopford and I have not thought it necessary to pay for their birth certificates to expand on this. Curiously neither he nor his wife mentioned their children’s names in their wills.
So he has been added to this database. Their children have the asset of being twice descended from Powyses, quite unlike the large majority of Powyses who have only one such line of descent.
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BP records for him “F/Lt Christopher H M Holmes, RAF, est son of W/Cdr K E M Holmes, RAF, of Rochesters, Great Leighs, Essex,”
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His birth index, using the birth date in his death index:
Name: Mother's Maiden Surname:
HOLMES, CHRISTOPHER HENRY MAXWELL SCOTT
GRO Reference: 1931 J Quarter in UXBRIDGE Volume 03A Page 56
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Not found in the 1939 Register, possibly because his father was in the RAF and remotely that they may have been abroad.
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His death index, with birth date:
First name(s) Christopher Henry M
Last name Holmes
Gender Male
Birth day 21
Birth month 2
Birth year 1931
Death quarter 1
Death year 1978
District Swindon
County Wiltshire
Volume 23
Page 2461
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
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Will notes for Christopher Henry Maxwell Holmes
His probate index:
1978
HOLMES, Christopher Henry Maxwell of Nether Staples Steel Hexham Northumberland died 4 February 1978 Administration with will Newcastle-upon-Tyne 28 April £16261 782203088K
Ordered to see if it established his marriage with Serena Stopford.
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Yes it did, see the reasoning in his Notes section.
In his will dated thirty-first of August One thousand Nine hundred and Sixty-five he appointed Lloyds Bank as his executors. This the bank then renounced, possibly because his relatively small estate would not produce enough fees to cover their costs. So his wife Serena was appointed to execute his will in their stead by the probate office.
Provided his wife survived him, he left everything to her and she was named as “my Wife Serena Margaret Holmes”.
If she did not survive him, his children were to inherit. But he did not name his children at all. Nor did his wife in her will. So we can only identify their children by their birth records on the General Record Office files. Luckily these child records correspond with the information provided by Burke from sources unknown.
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1978
HOLMES, Christopher Henry Maxwell of Nether Staples Steel Hexham Northumberland died 4 February 1978 Administration with will Newcastle-upon-Tyne 28 April £16261 782203088K
Ordered to see if it established his marriage with Serena Stopford.
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Yes it did, see the reasoning in his Notes section.
In his will dated thirty-first of August One thousand Nine hundred and Sixty-five he appointed Lloyds Bank as his executors. This the bank then renounced, possibly because his relatively small estate would not produce enough fees to cover their costs. So his wife Serena was appointed to execute his will in their stead by the probate office.
Provided his wife survived him, he left everything to her and she was named as “my Wife Serena Margaret Holmes”.
If she did not survive him, his children were to inherit. But he did not name his children at all. Nor did his wife in her will. So we can only identify their children by their birth records on the General Record Office files. Luckily these child records correspond with the information provided by Burke from sources unknown.
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