Digby & Hotspur, Victoria, Australia
John James WILLIAMS b. 1812 Bristol, England married in 1852, Portland, Victoria to Mary Ann DEADMAN b. 1829 Marlborough, England, daughter of William DEADMAN and ___.
John WILLIAMS was a juror at the inquest into the death of Andrew BOURKE at the "Rising Sun Hotel", Hotspur in 1862.
John WILLIAMS was a bootmaker at Hotspur from 1862 to 1868.
Mary Ann WILLIAMS died at Hotspur in 1889 and it is not known what happened to John WILLIAMS after 1889......
John James WILLIAMS and Mary Ann DEADMAN had the following known children:
- John WILLIAMS b. 1855..........?;
- Mary Ann 'Annie' WILLIAMS b. 1856, m. Robert VINEN at Hotspur in 1878 and they had a family of nine children born at Casterton from 1879 to 1896.;
- Henrietta Elizabeth WILLIAMS b. 1858, Hotspur, Vic, m. Charles DAWSON;
- female WILLIAMS b. 1860 Hotspur, Vic, d. 1860;
- Mary Jane WILLIAMS b. 1861 Hotspur, Vic, m. William COOK;
- Eliza Rebecca WILLIAMS b. 1862 Hotspur, Vic, m. James NEWTON;
- Arthur John WILLIAMS b. 1864 Hotspur, Vic .....?;
- Martha WILLIAMS b. 1866 Hotspur, Vic, m. Alexander Harding SCOTT at Deniliquin, NSW and had a family of 7.;
- William WILLIAMS b. 1868 Digby, Vic, ........?
- Mary Ann WILLIAMS b. 1869, d. 1869 Ararat, Vic.
Another entry shows that a John WILLIAMS b. 1818 Bristol, Eng married 1852 Portland, Vic to Mary Ann DERDMAN b. 1830 Wiltshire, Eng and had the following children: Henrietta Elizabeth b. 1858 Hotspur, Vic.
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