Edwin Gee Williams

Edwin Williams wrote two hymns in the Little Flock hymnbook. He was also an active contributor to "The Believer's Friend" and "Mutual Comfort" publications. He was in fellowship with the Park Street brethren, presently known as the PBCC.

Edwin Williams

He was born 1847 at Newton Ferrers, Plymouth, Devon, England. He died in Jan. 29, 1916 at Woodcote Lodge in Wallington, Surrey. He lived for a time at Inglemere, Waterlooville.

Family

Parents & Siblings

Edwin was the son of Jonathan Williams (1801-1870 Devon) and his wife Joanna (bap. Apr. 10, 1803 Dean Prior, Devon - d. 1895). On Aug. 21, 1825 Jonathan married Joanna Gee, daughter of Richard & Joanna, in Newton Ferrers, which is where they lived the duration of their lives. Edwin was the youngest of four children:

• 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.

Later Life

By 1871, Edwin was living in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, employed as a stone mason. His first wife's name was Lessie (b. 1843 Revelstoke, Devon). In the summer of 1875, he married Susanna Selina Warren (b. 1845 Newcastle, Northumberland). Children:

• Amy Jane Williams (b. 1868 Battersea, Surrey)

• 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.

• Stanley Williams - farmer

Sources

• History of the "Little Flock Hymn Book" and its Authors, p. 35. Whitney: Saville Street Distribution, 2020 revision.
• Ancestry.com
  • probate calendar