Stanley Williams to Aus 1914-1918

[SCH]

Hi,

Came across your old post while helping a member of our local FHG research her family. Stanley was her grandfather, here in NSW Australia. If you get this I can fill you in on some details, as well as a mystery at this end.

Lindsay Swadling in Cowra, NSW

That sounds pretty promising !

Since posting up the original thread, my life has got busy busy and Family History has been pushed to the back of my life........and all the paperwork into the loft ! And a couple of house moves etc !

However, despite getting married and having a child, I have a pretty good memory, so the information that I started this thread is very handy to me.

So pleased I did a lot of Family Reasearch a few years ago - as there is little time now. However, this will I hope be changing soon.

I would love to know what information you have - can you confirm the link back to Wales ?

And I would be really interested in the 'mystery' ?!!?!?

Quite happy for you to add details onto this Thread - then we can use other methods if there are documents etc.

Many thanks indeed. The me from 2014 really appreciates it.........and the me from 2006 would be amazed !!

Thank you

[linswad]

Hi again

Yes, Stanley and wife Florence Christabel (Chivers) came to NSW in 1927 via SS Ballarat, with their two children, Hazel Doreen and Audrey Joyce. Florence's parents also came to NSW around this time.

Stanley and Florence married on 27 Aug 1921 at Llanhilleth, Monmouthshire, Wales (we have the marriage cert). I have traced Stanley's family back through censuses in Llanhilleth. His father Charles was born in Linton, Herefordshire about 1860, his mother Fanny in Lydbrook, Gloucestershire.

Although there were several Stanley Williams enlisted during WWI, none of them seem to match up with what I know of this Stanley.

The mystery at this end is that Stanley disappeared from his family in the 1930s. Christine (grand-daughter) doesn't know any more than that, as nobody would talk about him. She came to us (Cowra FHG) for help trying to find what had happened to him.

Stanley and Florence appear in the 1930 electoral roll of NSW, but that is his last appearance. So far I have been unable to find any further trace of him. Florence appears in the 1936 electoral roll as the wife of Patrick Coyne of Griffith, NSW (although I have found no marriage for them).

So - what happened to Stanley?

Write to me directly at
lindsay _ swadling [at] hotmail.com

[cando]

This man born c1896.

Death
9998/1953    
WILLIAMS Stanley   57 years at Cooma
District Cooma

Cando

[SCH]

Hi again

Yes, Stanley and wife Florence Christabel (Chivers) came to NSW in 1927 via SS Ballarat, with their two children, Hazel Doreen and Audrey Joyce. Florence's parents also came to NSW around this time.

Stanley and Florence married on 27 Aug 1921 at Llanhilleth, Monmouthshire, Wales (we have the marriage cert). I have traced Stanley's family back through censuses in Llanhilleth. His father Charles was born in Linton, Herefordshire about 1860, his mother Fanny in Lydbrook, Gloucestershire.

Although there were several Stanley Williams enlisted during WWI, none of them seem to match up with what I know of this Stanley.

The mystery at this end is that Stanley disappeared from his family in the 1930s. Christine (grand-daughter) doesn't know any more than that, as nobody would talk about him. She came to us (Cowra FHG) for help trying to find what had happened to him.

Stanley and Florence appear in the 1930 electoral roll of NSW, but that is his last appearance. So far I have been unable to find any further trace of him. Florence appears in the 1936 electoral roll as the wife of Patrick Coyne of Griffith, NSW (although I have found no marriage for them).

So - what happened to Stanley?

Write to me directly at
lindsay _ swadling [at] hotmail.com

Sent an e-mail a couple of days ago Lindsay - did you get it ?

I spoke to my father, but he can add no more to what I already knew.

I really need to get up into the loft and dig out the Williams files, that would help a bit. Also very happy to contact my new found Australian relatives.

All exciting stuff.

Thanks