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From: "Malcolm Ward" <>
Subject: RE: [AUS-Tas] WILLIAMS
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:37:01 +1100
In-Reply-To: <00f601c5df8d$2d91cd80$0201a8c0@nann>


Hi Lyn

From Digger - Tasmanian Pioneer Index 1803-1899

Surname: WILLIAMS
Given Names: WILLIAM BELL
Event: Birth
Father/Spouse Surname: JOHN EDWARD
Mother/Spouse Given Names: SMITH CHARLOTTE ANNE
Day: 22 Month: 12 Year: 1876
Sex: M
Registration Place: SORELL
Registration Number: 1667/1877
Reference: RGD 33

Surname: WILLIAMS
Given Names: JAMES BELL
Event: Birth
Father/Spouse Surname: JOHN EDWARD
Mother/Spouse Given Names: SMITH CHARLOTTE ANNE
Day: 22 Month: 12 Year: 1876
Age:
Sex: M
Registration Place: SORELL
Registration Number: 1668/1877
Reference: RGD 33

Hmmm...same birth date, but different registration number - twins? Also, have
a look at this marriage record, which has James not William marrying Lucy,.....

Surname: WILLIAMS
Given Names: JAMES BELL
Event: Marriage
Father/Spouse Surname: LOCKLEY
Mother/Spouse Given Names: LUCY EMMA
Day: 05 Month: 11 Year: 1897
Age: 20
Sex: M
Spouse Age: 24
Spouse Sex: F
Registration Place: HOBART
Registration Number: 459/1897
Reference: RGD 37

The following entry may give substance to the James/Lucy marriage:

Surname: WILLIAMS
Given Names: HORACE JAMES
Event: Birth
Father/Spouse Surname: JAMES BELL
Mother/Spouse Given Names: LOCKLEY LUCY EMMA
Day: 16 Month: 9 Year: 1898
Sex: M
Spouse Age:
Spouse Sex:
Registration Place: HOBART
Registration Number: 962/1898
Reference: RGD 33

There is also this record that looks connected...

Surname: WILLIAMS
Given Names: PURLEY MARY BELL
Event: Birth
Father/Spouse Surname: Name Not Recorded
Mother/Spouse Given Names: WILLIAMS EMMA
Day: 26 Month: 10 Year: 1896
Sex: F
Spouse Age:
Spouse Sex:
Registration Place: TASMAN
Registration Number: 2577/1896
Reference: RGD 33

No sign of Lucy (or Emma) Lockley birth looking under Lo*k* on TPI.

Regards

Malcolm Ward
Hobart Tas


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyn [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2005 8:10 PM
> To:
> Subject: [AUS-Tas] WILLIAMS
>
> G'day AllI
> I have John Edward and Charlotte Ann Rosetta WILLIAMS [nee HARRIS] being
parents
> to the two boys below but I am having a hard time fitting them into my family,
I would
> apprecaite if someone would check their parents for me please.
> William Bell WILLIAMS b 1876 [married Lucy Emma LOCKLEY 1897] and James Bell
> WILLIAMS b 1876.
> cheers
> Lyn
> VIC
>
>
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