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Offline Rainbow Rebel

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Searching for a death
« on: Wednesday 01 June 16 10:10 BST (UK) »
I am searching for the death of Richard Williams.
Richard Williams born 1851 Llantrisant, Glamorgan, Wales.
Married Margaret Evans.
Margaret Evans born 1853 Pendoylan, Glamorgan, Wales.
Margaret Evans died 1924.

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Re: Searching for a death
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 01 June 16 10:22 BST (UK) »
Do you have a copy of Margaret's death certificate?  If so is she shown as "wife of" or "widow of"?   That will narrow the search window.


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Re: Searching for a death
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 01 June 16 12:14 BST (UK) »
Assuming he stayed in the Bridgend District & the informant knew his age there's this one:
Dec 1917
Williams  Richard  67  Bridgend  11a 773
or
Mar 1933 
Williams  Richard  81  Bridgend  11a 1176
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: Searching for a death
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 01 June 16 18:56 BST (UK) »
There seems to be a photo on ancestry of the grave of the Richard Williams who died Dec  8 1917 (born 1850 - but on the 1851 census there is a 5 months old Richard Williams in the right area, so with every other census it would suggest a 1851 birth)

In the same grave is his wife Margaret Evans, who died in 1924 - they lived in Tyla Gar, Pontyclun (buried in Llantrisant Church)

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Re: Searching for a death
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 01 June 16 19:32 BST (UK) »
I think I am on the right track. I  have a bible in my possession that was returned to Richard Williams, Llantrisant. The bible I believe was printed in 1715 (The first translation into Welsh).
Richard Williams & Margaret Evans had a lot of relatives that went to the United States.
My bible was on a boat sunk South of San Francisco at the end of the American Civil War.
I believe my bible is one of the original produced by Peter Williams.
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