When Mary Williams was born in 1827, in Penhow, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Shadrach Williams, was 26 and her mother, Mary Hughes, was 26. She married Samuel Lawrence in January 1851, in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom for about 20 years and Undy, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1881. She died in September 1889, in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 62.
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Sparked by a depression that was going through Wales the previous three years, the Merthyr uprisings were carried out by workers that were in debt. In the process, twenty-four people were killed and twenty-six were arrested. Troops were brought in to stop the protestors.
Like the iron and copper mines, the coal fields in South Wales were very important to the industrial revolution. Many of those that worked in the coal mines were part of the Merthyr uprising.
English: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
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