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Edwin Williams was in fellowship with the Park Street brethren, presently known as the PBCC. He was born in 1847 between April and June of 1846 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.
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).
==Family==
===Parents & Siblings===
He was born 1847 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)
===Ancestry===
* Edwin Gee Williams (b. 1847 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
**** 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)
==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.