- I have a few wiliam williams in my family tree and yes they came from wales ,regards sylvia Hi all Yes, there are a lot of us Williamses about (about a quarter of a million in the UK alone today). I'm looking for Davies, Thomas, Morgan, Beynon, Morris, Jones (Oh dear!) and Williams, all in Llanelli and all about 1850. The number of times in Wales they went for David Davies, Thomas Thomas, Morgan Morgan, John Jones and William Williams is quite remarkable but probably a hangover from and adaptation of the patronymic naming convention where this sort of thing would be just a reflexion of the common practice of calling a boy after his father (Eynon ap Eynon becoming Eynon Beynon, for instance). Oh for an unusual occupational name like Smith. Count your blessings you are looking in Liverpool and not in deepest Wales! Best wishes Allen Williams Sale Cheshire On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:15:06 -0000, hobby.horse <hobby.horse@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Peter > > I too am searching for a William WILLIAMS born about 1891, probably in > Wrexham then later living in Liverpool. When I started I thought there > wouldn't be many men with that name - how wrong can you be? There are > lots and lots of them. And if they don't give their middle name (in my > case Howell) on documents, how can you know which one is 'yours'? > > Good luck with your search! > > Megan > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > Admin Message - List guidelines: > http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm > > The list admin can be contacted at Eng-Liverpool-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-LIVERPOOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Admin Message - List guidelines: http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm The list admin can be contacted at Eng-Liverpool-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LIVERPOOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message