Edwin Gee Williams

Edwin Williams was in fellowship with the Park Street brethren, presently known as the PBCC. He was born between April and June of 1846 in Plymouth, Devon, England, and died on Jan. 29, 1916 at Woodcote Lodge in Wallington, Surrey. His second wife, Susanna, died just two months later on Mar. 26, 1916.

He was an active contributor to two Raven magazines, and authored at least two pamphlets. He also wrote two hymns in the Little Flock hymnbook (included in the 1903-1962 revisions).

Little Flock Hymns

• Glory, Lord, Is Thine Forever (1903, 1932, 1951 & 1962: #181)

• Lord, We Do Not Ask The Question (1903: #375; 1932: #15; 1951: #27; 1962: #127)

Also see Little Flock on Wikipedia

Writings

Periodicals

• "The Believer's Friend"
• "Mutual Comfort"

Pamphlets

• Christ Contemplated and Apprehended
• The Assembly as the Special Interest of Christ on Earth

Locations

• 1847-1861: Newton Ferrers, Plymouth, Devon
  • 1851: 15 Newton Village
• 1868: Battersea, Surrey
• 1871: Croxley Green, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
• 1877-1880: Nobab, Bournemouth
• 1881: Bushy Villa, Teddington, Middlesex
• 1883-1887: Weybridge, Surrey
• 1889: Portsea Island, Hampshire
• 1891: Curdridge, Bishops Waltham, Hampshire
• 1898: Chertsey, Surrey
• 1901: Wallington, Surrey
• 1911: Woodside, Wallis Rd., Waterlooville, Cosham, Hants
• 1916: Woodcote Lodge, Wallington, Surrey

Family

Parents & Siblings

He was born between April and June of 1846 at Newton Ferrers (N.F.), Plymouth, Devon, England, the son of Jonathan Williams, Jr. (1799-1870 Newton Ferrers, Devon) and his wife Joanna (bap. Apr. 10, 1803 Dean Prior, Devon - d. 1895 N.F., Devon). On Aug. 21, 1825 Jonathan married Joanna Gee, daughter of Richard & Joanna Barrett Gee, in N.F., which is where they lived the duration of their lives. In 1841, Jonathan and Joanna were living at Bridgend Village in N.F. Jonathan may have been self-employed as a "lime burner". Edwin was the youngest of four children, his siblings included:

• James Williams (b. 1828)
• Richard Williams (b. Nov. 22, 1829)
• Eliza Williams (b. 1834)

In 1841, two of Edwin's father's brothers resided with them, James (b. 1806) and Henry (b. 1816). Edwin's brother Richard stayed at home into his 30's, and never married.

Ancestry

• Edwin Gee Williams (b. 1846 Newton Ferrers, Plymouth, Devon - d. 1916 Woodcote Lodge, Wallington, Surrey)
  • Jonathan Williams, Jr. (1799-1870 N.F.)
    • Jonathan Williams, Sr. (1766-1836 N.F.) & Mary Parsons
      • Nicholas Williams (m. 1763 & d. 1782 N.F.)
        • possibly Nicholas Williams (m. 1736 N.F.) & Anne Roper
      • Agnes Fox (b. 1743 Ugborough, Devon - d. 1771 N.F.)
        • Tobias Fox & Elizabeth Prowse Fox
    • Mary Parsons (b. 1775 Yealmpton, Devon - d. 1827 Newton Ferrers, Devon)
  • Johanna Gee Williams (b. 1803 Dean Prior, Devon - d. 1895 N.F.)
    • Richard Gee (1758-1851 Modbury, Devon) & Joanna Barrett Gee
      • Richard Gee (1736-1813 Modbury, Devon) & Mary Wyatt Gee (b. 1722 Holbeton, Devon)
        • Peter Gee (b. 1702 Modbury, Devon) & Elizabeth West Gee (b. 1704 Modbury, Devon)

• Susanna Selina Warren Williams (b. 1845 Newcastle, Northumberland - d. 1916 Westhampnett, Sussex)
  • Charles Robert Warren (b. 1803 Poole, Dorset - d. 1892 Christchurch, Hampshire)
    • John Warren, son of Thomas Warren & Mary Taylor Warren;
    • Amelia Burt Warren
  • Alicia C. Bulgin (b. 1814 Poole, Dorset - d. 1898 Melbourne, Australia)
    • Samuel Bulgin (1779-1854) & Susan Hellier Bulgin (1746-1820); Samuel Bulgin (b. 1779 Atworth, Wiltshire - d. 1854 Great Cranford, Longfleet, Poole, Dorset); son of Richard & Ann Bulgin; pastor for 47 years of Hill Street (Particular) Baptist church at Longfleet, Poole, Dorset. Susan Hellier Bulgin (1st wife: b. 1746, m. 1803 @ Bathwick, d. 1820); 2nd wife: Sara Soper Sara's obit; Samuel's will; 3rd wife: Elizabeth Sanders (1781-1850);

Marriage and Children

Edwin's first marriage was to Jessie Endacott (b. 1843 N.F., Devon), commencing in 1866 at Newton Abbot, Devon, and their first daughter, Amy, was born in 1868 at Battersea, then by 1871 they were living in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Jessie was the daughter of Thomas Endacott (b. 1819 Chagford, Devon - d. 1891 Newton Abbot, Devon), gardener, and his wife Jane Hutchings Endacott (1818-1871). Jessie died in 1871.

• Amy Jane Williams was born Jan/Feb/Mar, 1868 in Battersea, Wandsworth, London. She may have died July 15, 1957 at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, at the time living at 1 Hobbs-building, Newtown. If so, her effects went to Mary Ann Balchin and Rosa Ellen Stacey.

In the summer of 1875, Edwin remarried Susanna Selina Warren (b. 1845 Newcastle, Northumberland), and they had six more children:

• Frank Warren Williams was born in 1877 in Bournmouth, Hampshire. He became an architect and surveyor.

• Herbert Edwin Warren Williams was born in 1880 in Nobab, Bournmouth, studied medicine in 1899 at the Birkbeck Institute and became a dental surgeon. On July 26, 1904, he married Florence Margaret Stevenson at St. James, Derby, Derbyshire. Herbert died at Chichester, Sussex in 1953.

• Mabel Joanna Williams was born in 1883 in Weybridge, Surrey. In 1911, she married Leslie D. Malpas, a self-employed accountant, in Catherington, Hampshire. In 1935, she and her husband left Bournemouth for Cape Town, South Africa, returning a month later via Brisbane, Australia. She died in New Forest, Hampshire in 1957.

• Alicia J. Williams was born in 1885 in Weybridge. In 1907, in Wareham, Dorset, she married Hubert Grugeon (b. 1879 Windsor, Berkshire - d. 1962 Hertfordshire, Hertford). Alicia died Aug. 3, 1960 in Katoomba, Blue Mountains City, NSW, Australia.

• Stanley Williams was born in 1887 in Weybridge, and became a dairy farmer in on the Shillinglee Farm in Chiddingfold in Surrey. In 1911, in Christchurch, he married Ivy Jane Mary Gunning (b. 1886 Bournemouth, Hampshire - d. 1977 Worthing, West Sussex), dau. of John Gunning (b. 1859 Clane, Wiltshire - d. 1932 Bournemouth) & Mary Ann Paulina White Gunning (b. 1855 Wincanton, Somerset - d. 1934 Bournemouth). Stanley died in 1923 in Westhampnett, Sussex.

• Elda Williams was born in 1889 in Portsea Island, Hampshire. She died at the age of nine in 1898 in Chertsey, Surrey.

Occupation

Edwin was self-employed as a stone mason, and later a building surveyor. In 1881, he was employing Hugh Smith Craig (b. 1864 Islington, London) and John Dance (b. 1865 London).

Sources

• History of the "Little Flock Hymn Book" and its Authors, Edwin O.P. Mutton, p. 35. Whitney: Saville Street Distribution, 2020 rev.
• Ancestry.com
  • including probate calendar
• BrethrenArchive's bio