When Henry Williams was born on 25 August 1836, in Sutton Forest, New South Wales, Australia, his father, Henry Thomas Williams, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Jenkins, was 18. He married Margaret Rose Winfred Quin on 22 July 1868, in Sandhurst, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 7 March 1869, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 32.
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George Grey explores Western Australia.
Non-convict European settlement of the Brisbane region commenced in 1838
Gold found in Port Phillip.
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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