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Family History Beginners Board / Help with tracing my father's ancestors
« on: Sunday 20 January 08 15:40 GMT (UK) »
I wonder whether anyone can help me trace some Williamses (in Wales!)
My father, Harry Trevor Williams was born 19,10,1912, to Margaret ne้ Hopwood & John Williams, birth reg. Hawarden 11b 385.
John Williams, retired Colliery Manager died aged 60 in 1940.
I know that his father died young, and my mother tells me that his mother remarried, to a Mr. Millington.
When John Williams married Margaret Hopwood at the Primitive Methodist Tabernacle in Buckley on 24.10.1906, he was a 26yr old colliery manager living at Wood Lane, Hawarden. Edward Millington was his witness. His father was dead by then.
In the 1901 census, he was a 20yr old boarder in the home of Edward Millington, 47, at Pantile Cottages, Wood Lane.
I have found 2 birth registrations for John Williams in Q4 1880 - Chester 8a 457 & 8a 449.
I have found a 6month old John in the 1881 census at Pantile Houses, with 30yr old father John & 60yr old widowed grandfather William, but have no way of knowing if this is the correct person.
Any help would be very gratefully received.
My father, Harry Trevor Williams was born 19,10,1912, to Margaret ne้ Hopwood & John Williams, birth reg. Hawarden 11b 385.
John Williams, retired Colliery Manager died aged 60 in 1940.
I know that his father died young, and my mother tells me that his mother remarried, to a Mr. Millington.
When John Williams married Margaret Hopwood at the Primitive Methodist Tabernacle in Buckley on 24.10.1906, he was a 26yr old colliery manager living at Wood Lane, Hawarden. Edward Millington was his witness. His father was dead by then.
In the 1901 census, he was a 20yr old boarder in the home of Edward Millington, 47, at Pantile Cottages, Wood Lane.
I have found 2 birth registrations for John Williams in Q4 1880 - Chester 8a 457 & 8a 449.
I have found a 6month old John in the 1881 census at Pantile Houses, with 30yr old father John & 60yr old widowed grandfather William, but have no way of knowing if this is the correct person.
Any help would be very gratefully received.