Getting the marriage cert has cracked open the Williams family history!
Surprisingly, they were older when they married than we thought and that info and their addresses and their father’s names now make it easy to identify the families in census records
The marriage cert of 7/5/1894 from the Register Office Dolgelly shows a civil marriage between:
William Williams 26, Slate Quarrier of Aberlleferri farm Talyllyn with father Robert Williams also a Slate Quarrier, deceased.
Mary Lloyd 24, spinster of Tanrallt Corris, Talyllyn with father Richard Lloyd, also a Slate Quarrier.
Witnesses Robert Williams (subsequently found must be 2 years older brother) and Jane Ann Jones
WW is in 71 with father Robert and then in 81, and 91 census returns with mother Jane Williams widow, farmer of 10 acres Plas Farm and then at Aberlleferri Farm Talyllyn in the 91 returns. WW gave that farm as his address on marriage. Mother must have been married before (Jane Evans?), because WW has Hugh, Evan, Edward, and Humphrey Evans step siblings with him in censuses (still mostly single in ‘91).
Robert Williams must die between ‘71 and ‘81.
Haven’t worked on Mother’s family yet but it clearly isn’t William and Grace Lloyd as previously thought.
It's misleading the newspaper reports have WW as being younger and there is no indication of them having 2 young children when he died, although they were both old enough for one of them to have had children before their marriage.