I am looking for a Williams family in Llanddulas, Denbigh and a Jones
family in Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire.
According to the IGI, a John Williams was born in 1822 in Llanddulas ,
Denbighshire--father John and mother Mary.
According to the free BMD website, a John Williams married a Mary Jones
in Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire in March 1851 (recorded). I think these
John Williams are one and the same.
In May 1852, a seaman John Williams and wife Mary Jones had a daughter
(Mary Jane Williams, my great grandmother) in Liverpool. By 1861 Mary
Jones Williams as died and apparently John and his little daughter moved
to Amlwch, Anglesey, where John Williams remarried, to a Mary Griffith
(b.abt. 1827, Amlwch). John Williams died in March 1879 when his ship
was lost at sea (between the 1871 and 1881 census reports). By 1881 Mary
(Griffith)Williams was a widow living in Amlwch with the children of John
Williams (John G., William, and Thomas R.).
There is a Master John Williams who was captain of the schooner "Rose
Schneider", owned by James Fisher of Barrow and lost on 28th August
1879. He had also been the Captain of several other ships of the Fisher
fleet. This Capt. John Williams was also born in 1822, Llandulas,
Denbighshire, and probably my John Williams.
1880: The will of John Williams, late of Amlwch in the County of
Anglesea, Master Mariner, who died on or since 22nd March 1879 at sea,
was proved at the Principal Registry by Mary Williams of Amlwch, Widow,
the relict, one of the executors. Other executors were Robert Jones of
Amlwch, Ship Owner, and Owen Owen of Amlwch, Flour Dealer; it is possible
that Robert Jones was in some way related to the first wife Mary Jones of
Llanfyllin.
This will suggests another marriage for John Williams around 1857,
possibly in Liverpool, and a son named James Williams was born of that
marriage. I do not know the name of the mother of James Williams, but as
an adult he may have lived in Liverpool, West Derby.
Thus, I am looking for the families of the John Williams and Mary Jones
of the 1851 marriage..--his family from Llandulas and hers from
Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, with possible ties to the Jones of Amlwch,
Anglesey. The ships of John Williams were never homeported in Amlwch and
yet he took his family there to live while away at sea, suggesting some
tie to Amlwch.
Betty Pace--bapace2(a)juno.com