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| Name | Country | More Information | |
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| Charles Williams | nimmo1000@optusnet.com.au | AUSTRALIA | I am trying to trace the descendants of Isaac Williams – the eldest brother of my great-grandmother, Margaret Jane Williams, from Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire. Isaac was born in 1831, and married Emma Hunt in 1861. Their children were: Rachel, born 1862; George Henry, born 1864 and died 1870; Sarah Ann, born 1866; John, born 1868; Joshua, born 1870; Albert, born 1873; Henry, born 1876, and Thomas William, born 1881. All births registered at Stow-on-the-Wold. The 1891 census shows Isaac, … |
| Mr D W Laker | fhm@metropolis.co.uk | UNITED KINGDOM | Can anyone find my grandfather’s Welsh roots? He was William Owen Williams, born c1870 in Caernarfonshire, North Wales. He emigrated to America possibly in his late teens, and met my grandmother Jane Parry (from Wales) in Philadelphia. They returned to this country and married on 12th December 1900 in Liverpool. His father is given as Edward Williams, a farmer. They settled in Bootle, and had three children. William was a joiner and worked at the docks. He died aged 44 in 1914. Any … |
| Mrs Val Flynn | valfly@sky.com | UNITED KINGDOM | I have obtained copy death certificates of two ladies during my search, neither of whom are related to me. Caroline Jones died 29th December 1948, aged 80, in Cheam. Caroline Beatrice Williams died 9th July 1965, aged 67, in Highlands Hospital, Southgate. If any family member of either of these ladies would like the certificates I would be happy to pass them on. |
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