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From: "Audrey German" <>
Subject: Re: [CmnFHS] Re: John William senior
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 15:50:48 -0000
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Dear Diana,
Thanks for the offer, but you kindly sent me details of your family last
year and I didn't notice any obvious matches. My Mary William seems not to
have had an 's' on her name - it certainly wasn't evident on the record of
her marriage to James James in 1828 nor on her maiden name recorded on the
birth certificates of 2 of her children. There is an 's' on one of them
however! When, as the widow of James James, she gives birth to an
illegitimate daughter in 1838 there is a Thomas William (no s) recorded
under the father's column. I had always taken this to be a cousin but
Pauline did point out that the name of a brother or close relative was often
used to give a child a father's name. Of course an extra difficuly is that
sometimes the person actually writing the name ends the word William with a
curl which could almost be an 's'!
Happy hunting - I read all your correspondance with interest in the hope....
Regards,
Audrey

----- Original Message -----
From: "diana murray" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [CmnFHS] Re: John William senior


> Hi Audrey - I am not so sure about that they were posh. They were
> colliers on the censuses but it seems that they did farm as well.
> Probably tenant farmers. What names do you have as I think I know
> every William/s family in Llanelly now!!!!! I also have Williams
> living at Rhiros Hill in 1841 and then in Twyn in 1851 and then moving to
> Marble Hall These Williams married into my Morgans and then the daughter
> Margaret Morgan married John Williams - the deacon at Adulam Baptist
> Chapel. Let me know - they may tie up.
>
> best wishes
> Diana
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