Abigail Angelina Reed ^{2 3 4}

   Another name for Abigail was Mary Read.¹

  General Notes:

Somewhat puzzling is her actual middle names. The birth register from 1831 clearly states "Abigail Angelina Reed" but most other documents show her name as either Mary A. Reed or Abigail M. Reed.
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  Birth Notes:

Name: Abigail Angelina Reed
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 27 Dec 1831
Event Place: Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Event Place (Original): Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Gender: Female
Father's Name: Lewis Reed
Mother's Name: Mary Reed

Citing this Record
"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4VL-C5R : 15 January 2020), Mary Reed in entry for Abigail Angelina Reed, 1831.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• Birth Image: 27 December 1831, in Woburn, MA.

• She appeared on the 1860 US Census in Pepperell, MA on 22 August 1860. ²

1860 US Census
Page 236, Dwelling 1969, Family 1936, Roll 511
Pepperell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Value of Real Estate, $250 (comparatively very low)
Abigail Holmes..38..MA

(Living with husband, 2 of their children, and 2 step-children.)

NOTE - If her birth date was in 1831, then her age should have been 28 or 29 instead of 38.

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Abigail married Ira Holmes, son of John Holmes and Mary, in March 1852 in Pepperell, MA.^{1 2} (Ira Holmes was born in 1815 in New Hampshire ⁵ and died on 16 January 1890 in Groton, MA ⁶.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Image: March 1852, in Pepperell, MA. ⁷

• They appeared on the 1860 US Census in Pepperell, MA on 22 August 1860. ²

1860 US Census
Page 236, Dwelling 1969, Family 1936, Roll 511
Pepperell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Value of Real Estate, $250 (comparitively very low)
Ira Holmes..45..MA..Farmer
Abigail Holmes..38..MA
Ira K. Holmes..7..MA
George C. Holmes..4..MA
Abigail Holmes..23..MA.Domestic
Charles Holmes..19..MA..Farmer Laborer
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  Marriage Notes:

Name: Ira Homes
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: Mar 1852
Event Place: Pepperell, Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Birth Year (Estimated): 1817
Father's Name: John Homes
Mother's Name: Betsey Homes
Spouse's Name: Mary A. Reed
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 24
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1828
Record Number: 726
Reference ID: 137

Citing this Record
"Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N49G-J2Z : 24 May 2018), Ira Homes and Mary A. Reed, Mar 1852; citing Pepperell, Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,432,878.
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His second marriage to Abigail Angelina Reed is somewhat puzzling. There is a March 1852 marriage record from Pepperell, Massachusetts for an Ira Holmes (b. about 1817) and Mary A. Read (b. about 1828).

On that document, Ira's father is correctly given as John Holmes but his mother's name is Mrs. Betsy (or Retsy) Holmes instead of the expected "Mary".

Other than the exact given names for the bride and Ira's mother being somewhat wrong, this would seem to be the correct Ira Holmes because of the following:

The "Intention of Marriage" papers filed a month before in February in Pepperell state that Ira was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire and that this was to be his second marriage. This matches exactly what is known about the correct Ira Holmes. But why the bride's name appears as "Mary A. " instead of the expected "Abigail Angelina" is a mystery. Abigail's mother's name was Mary so perhaps this was a clerical error on the document.

So the question is if this was the correct Ira Holmes. There is no other marriage record found for the correct Ira Holmes and Abigail Angelina-Mary Reed.
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