Williams Ancestry
Williams Coat of Arms at www.williams-home.com.
Williams: This is a name common wherever the English language is spoken. It is of great antiquity in Wales and England. In the former country it can be traced to a remote period. The family in Wales was noble and bore arms, the ancient coat being: "Sable, a lion rampant argent armed and langued gules." The seat of the family was Flint, Wales and Lincolnshire, England.
David Payne Williams,
1830-1891, Senior Chaplain, India.
He was Turberville's younger brother, and married
Augusta Louisa Cobb, daughter of Rev Samuel Wyatt Cobb. Felicity Walker's
great-grandfather. Felicity provided the Williams photos, thanks very much!.
Sarah Anne Williams,
1833-1911,
Turberville's sister, called Sally. She went to India in her thirties
and set up a school at Landour, in the foothills of the Himalayas. She married
aged 70 to Major Matthew Fox Johnstone, in Landour.
Here are
Sally and Major Johnstone.
Wadham Pigott Williams, 1821-1902, Turberville's older brother, Vicar of Bishop's Hull, Somerset. He married Jane Elizabeth Jekyll Leir, daughter of Thomas Macie Leir. They had a son, Wadham Campbell Leir Williams, who died young and unmarried, and a daughter Janet Ella Jekyll Williams, who died in infancy.
Llewellyn Evelyn Williams. Felicity Walker's father. (Felicity, what can you say about him here? There is no size limit, I would link to a separate page(s))
Llewellyn Evelyn Williams on the right and his half-brother David Wadham Williams on the left.
Turberville Picton Williams was a railway engineer (likely an architect or draughtsman) building bridges on the Punjab railway. Later in England he worked with the Great Western Railway, likely as an accountant.
He married Catherine Isabella, who held off the sepoys at the door with a gun when she was pregnant with Edmund (born in a ship on the Indian ocean).
Edmund's cousin Harry Llewellyn Williams,
Superintendant of Police in the Punjab. This photo was taken circa 1905 at Hissar.