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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. He was born in 1847 in Plymouth, Devon, England, and died in Jan. 29, 1916 at Woodcote Lodge in Wallington, Surrey. His second wife, Susanna, died just two months later on Mar. 26, 1916.
=Edwin Williams=Locations==He was born * 1847 at -1861+: Newton Ferrers, Plymouth, Devon** 1851: 15 Newton Village* 1868: Battersea, Surrey* 1871: Croxley Green, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire* 1877-1880: Nobab, [[England]]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. He died in Jan. 29, Waterlooville, Cosham, Hants* 1916 at : Woodcote Lodge in , Wallington, Surrey. He lived for a time at Inglemere, Waterlooville.
==Family==
===Parents & Siblings===
* 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=Ancestry===By 1871* Jonathan Williams, Edwin was living in RickmansworthJr. (1799-1870 N.F.)** Jonathan Williams, HertfordshireSr. (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, employed as a stone masonDevon - d. His first wife's name was Lessie 1827 Newton Ferrers, Devon)* Johanna Gee Williams (b. 1843 Revelstoke1803 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. In the summer of 18751722 Holbeton, he married Susanna Selina Warren Devon)**** Peter Gee (b. 1845 Newcastle1702 Modbury, NorthumberlandDevon)& Elizabeth West Gee (b. Children:1704 Modbury, Devon)
* Susanna Selina Warren Williams (b. 1845 Newcastle, Northumberland - d. 1916 Westhampnett, Sussex)
** Charles Robert Warren (b. 1806 Poole, Dorset)
** Alicia C. Bulgin (b. 1814 Poole, Dorset)
*** Samuel Bulgin (b. 1779 Atworth, Wiltshire - d. 1854 Dorset); pastor of Particular Baptist church at Longfleet, Poole, Dorset in 1823. 1st wife: Sara Soper [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SU0EAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PA383&ots=DExRKoe5sD&dq=Rev%20%22Samuel%20Bulgin%22%20of%20Poole&pg=PA383#v=onepage&q&f=false Sara's obit]
*** Susan Samuel Bulgin
* Frank Warren Amy Jane Williams was born Jan/Feb/Mar, 1868 in 1877 in BournmouthBattersea, Wandsworth, HampshireLondon. He became an architect 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 surveyorRosa Ellen Stacey.
* Herbert Edwin Frank Warren Williams was born in 1880 1877 in Nobab, Bournmouth, studied medicine in 1899 at the Birkbeck Institute Hampshire. He became an architect 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 1953surveyor.
* Mabel Joanna Herbert Edwin Warren Williams was born in 1883 1880 in WeybridgeNobab, Surrey. In 1911Bournmouth, she married Leslie Dstudied medicine in 1899 at the Birkbeck Institute and became a dental surgeon. MalpasOn July 26, a self-employed accountant1904, in Catherington, Hampshirehe married Florence Margaret Stevenson at St. In 1935, she and her husband left Bournemouth for Cape TownJames, South AfricaDerby, returning a month later via Brisbane, AustraliaDerbyshire. She Herbert died in New Forestat Chichester, Hampshire Sussex in 19571953.
* Stanley Mabel Joanna Williams was born in 1883 in Weybridge, Surrey. In 1911, she married Leslie D. Malpas, a self- farmeremployed 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'', p. 35. Whitney: Saville Street Distribution, 2020 revision.
* Ancestry.com
** [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1904/images/31874_222523-00298?usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&pId=4187308 probate calendar]