When Ridley Williams was born on 6 March 1850, in Murray, New South Wales, Australia, his father, Henry Thomas Williams, was 47 and his mother, Elizabeth Jenkins, was 31. He married Alice Sophia Forsyth on 1 November 1905, in Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 1 December 1922, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 72, and was buried in Morphett Vale, South Australia, Australia.
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End of transportation to Western Australia.
British troops withdraw from Australia.
Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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