Elisha Holbrook
Machinist of Plymouth, Massachusetts, son of Gideon Holbrook and probably of Nancy Ellis, and a brother of Capt. Richard Blackmer Holbrook, whose share of their father's land he bought in 1855. He lived at Manomet until at least 1864, later went to California, and died at Port Harford in 1887, recorded as single, a laborer of Santa Rosa; he has a cenotaph at Manomet.
Life
- c. 1823Bornc. Dec 1823
From the age on his cenotaph, 63 years 5 months 11 days. The San Francisco funeral record says born in Massachusetts about 1824.
documentedprobable - 1850Lived
- 1887Died7 June 1887, Port Harford (now Port San Luis), San Luis Obispo County, California
From his cenotaph at Manomet.
Family
- Father
- Gideon Holbrook
A legatee of Gideon's will. In 1855 his brother Richard B. sold him his share of their late father's estate.
documentedproven - Mother
- Nancy Ellis
Born during Gideon's second marriage; in Nancy's household, aged 25, in 1850.
inferredprobable
Pedigree
Notes
“Machinist,” aged 25, in his widowed mother’s household at Plymouth in August 1850, beside his brother Richard. In 1849 “Elisha Holbrook, of Plymouth … Yeoman” sold David Clark his ninth of his father’s land for $200, “reserving to my mother Nancy Holbrook the use, income and improvement” of it for five years, “provided she so long live” (deed). He stayed at Manomet until at least 1864, buying out several of his brothers’ and sisters’ shares of their father’s estate, among them Richard’s in 1855. Later in California. His cenotaph at Manomet reads “Died at Port Harford Cal. June 7, 1887, Aged 63 y’rs 5 mo’s 11 days.” A San Francisco funeral record of 8 June 1887 calls him single, a laborer of Santa Rosa.
A letter of January 1854 from Penn Cove, Whidbey Island, to his mother, signed “E. Holbrook,” a brother of Capt. Richard B. Holbrook, is filed under his brother Eliphalet; it could be his.
Mollie's typescript
By the will Mollie copies, his mother left the rest of her estate to Elisha and his sister Mary in equal shares, as the children who had chiefly supported her.
All the rest, residence and (?) of all the estate I may leave at my decease whether real or personal, to my son Elisha Holbrook, and to my daughter Mary Holbrook in equal shares.
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Checked against the records
- PossibleGideon came from Wellfleet with his uncle Naaman and inherited his house
Partly supported. Gideon was born at Wellfleet about 1765 (his daughter Mary's death record), and Naaman Holbrook of Plymouth, another Wellfleet Holbrook, is in the records. No record yet shows that Naaman was his uncle or left him a house. The deeds show Gideon's son Elisha, not Eliphalet, buying the other heirs' shares (Richard's in 1855).
Read it in the book, p. 7 →
Connections
- In his ancestry
- 49 notable connections →
Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Elisha's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.