Betty,
Have you obtained a copy of the marriage certificate of John and Mary from
the local Registrar's Office or the GRO. It would name father of both plus
places of residence and occupations. Also, siblings of the pair might have
been witnesses of the marriage.
As the marriage was in 1851 both John and Mary, and their families would
have been listed in the census of that year, probably in the districts noted
on the marriage certificate.
Regards,
John
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From: "Betty A. Pace" <bapace2(a)juno.com>
To: <WLS-DENBIGHSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:44 PM
Subject: [DEN] John Williams and Mary Jones, married 1851
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 may be 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. He may have served as a mate on the Tay and Tees schooner when a
John Williams (his father?) was captain of that vessel.
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.
Thus, I am looking for the families of the John Williams and Mary Jones
of the 1851 marriage.
Betty Pace
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