Thomas Williams (1753 - 1804)

Born 27 May 1753 in Gosport, Hampshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Marsh) Williams — married 17 Apr 1783 in Gosport Holy Trinity, Gosport, England

Descendants

Died 6 Jan 1804 at age 50 in Sneiton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

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Biography

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Williams_%28Congregational_minister%29

Thomas Williams married Mary Marsh on 17 April 1783. Thomas was a supplier of uniforms to the Royal Navy in Gosport. In 1794 Thomas and Mary and their six children moved to Nottingham, then the thriving centre of the East Midlands industrial revolution. Thomas was listed in the Nottingham trade directories as a hosier. The industry was based on William Lee's stocking frame knitting machine. The business was successful. Thomas received recognition as a Burgess of Nottingham in 1796 and as a Sheriff of Nottingham in 1803. However the prosperity that had been such a feature of the hosiery industry in the second half of the 18th century ended. In 1804 when Thomas died of typhus at the age of 50, Mary was left with a heavily mortgaged business with five sons and three daughters to look after. Their daughter Lydia married Edward Garrard Marsh, a member of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), who was influential in two of her brothers, Henry and William, joining the CMS and becoming missionaries in New Zealand.

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Notes

FIVE SONS - THREE DAUGHTERS