Caroline Gager baptised. 24 Nov. 1805

[dated connections]

He George Fletcher Holmes took the name Fletcher not because he liked his stepfather better but because his stepfather got him Into boiler - making at cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour
( ship building) . He and his brother went back and forward crewing on boats as boilermakers to San Francisco a few  times before his marriage to my great grandmother Margaret. May have been to visit siblings and Father. It could have been William Fletcher who came with children on the “ Sarah Abigail”

[fuzzypiano067]

That's interesting regards reason of adoption of Fletcher name by George and the trade tradition continued.   George's son Percival (Percy - my great grandfather) and his son Jack, my father, were both boilermakers at Cockatoo Island also.

Can you advise I am on the right trail in that the George Holmes line is then
  John 1795-1865 and
  Samuel 1758-1838 then
  Jedidiah 1720-1800 please ?
Obliged

[Dundee]

According to his Australian  Marriage  certificate 1866 his mother signs Caroline Gager.

His mother didn't sign anything on the marriage certificate, she wasn't a witness.  George names his parents as John HOLMES and Caroline GAGER or GAGEN and says he was born in Sydney.

Debra