Basil Williams

These are Conway's census entries -
1891 - RG12/4379/83/25 - Rogerstone Vicarage, Newport Monmouthshire
Basil b1847, C M b1846 Cranford Middlesex, Garnet b1881, Conway b1884, Stanley b1886
1901 RG13/4963/144/16 - Risca Vicarage
Basil, Caroline, Garnet (an engineer), Conway (no occupation), Stanley
1911 Risca Vicarage RG14 PN32009 SN112
Basil enters married but no wife present, plus Garnet and Conway both engineers (no Stanley)
So Conway was still in Wales in 1911
1921 - The Vicarage, Rogerstone
Basil with a new wife called Florence Caroline b1876 - pob unknown, and Garnet now a mill manager no Conway.
So Conway must have left for Australia sometime 1911 - 1921
 
I only had access to the free Welsh newspapers, and they all said Robert Stephenson! I guess I have to subscribe to one of those sites now
 
MollyMay said:
These are Conway's census entries -
1891 - RG12/4379/83/25 - Rogerstone Vicarage, Newport Monmouthshire
Basil b1847, C M b1846 Cranford Middlesex, Garnet b1881, Conway b1884, Stanley b1886
1901 RG13/4963/144/16 - Risca Vicarage
Basil, Caroline, Garnet (an engineer), Conway (no occupation), Stanley
1911 Risca Vicarage RG14 PN32009 SN112
Basil enters married but no wife present, plus Garnet and Conway both engineers (no Stanley)
So Conway was still in Wales in 1911
1921 - The Vicarage, Rogerstone
Basil with a new wife called Florence Caroline b1876 - pob unknown, and Garnet now a mill manager no Conway.
So Conway must have left for Australia sometime 1911 - 1921
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I know Conway was here in 1915, because he married then. I also found something about a Conway playing cricket in 1914 in Wales, but it seems unlikely to me he could've moved to Australia, bought a farm, and married in the space of a year
 
So John Wright had a daughter named Matilda Wright, who married Robert Stephenson and had a daughter named Caroline Matilda Stephenson. Then Matilda Wright married George Rumsey in 1849, but her daughter Caroline married my Rev. Basil Williams. Does that fit with everything?
 
There is a very confusing tree online, maybe two that have your Conway as Conway de Courcy Blennehassett Williams born in Moama NSW in 1894, son of same name. Marrying Marion D’Arcy in 1915, then some years later marrying someone else in England. They have his father immigrating at age 15, dying in Australia in 1914. Conway they have dying in New Zealand. What a mess. A fine example of seeing a name and running wild with it. I know your Conway died in Killara and Marion in Merewether in 1953. There was a young boxer by the name of Conway Williams around 1910 and disappeared from newspapers around 1914. I think he was also a lecturer on religion.
 
I know that Conway married again when Marion died, to a person named Margot, a widow of a man named Partridge. Where did you find those trees, by the way? I have my tree on FamilySearch, but also on ancestry, but a free version. On Conway and Marion's marriage cert, it says he is from "East Lynne" Inverell, on the 28th of April 1915.
 
In 1956 there is a marriage in Chatswood of Conway Williams to Ivy Margaret PARSONS. Will look further into it later today. Food shop lurking this morning.
 
I havent checked your trees but was Marion D’Arcy Middleton who married Conway Williams somehow a descendant of Archdeacon Gerard D’Arcy-Irvine?
Her death has mother Minnie and father Charles Middleton. Minnie’s death has her father as Thomas mother Harriet. Thomas I believe is the son of the Archdeacon.
 
Archie's Mum said:
I havent checked your trees but was Marion D’Arcy Middleton who married Conway Williams somehow a descendant of Archdeacon Gerard D’Arcy-Irvine?
Her death has mother Minnie and father Charles Middleton. Minnie’s death has her father as Thomas mother Harriet. Thomas I believe is the son of the Archdeacon.
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OK. Got it. Marion was the Archbishop Gerard’s niece. :)
 
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