When William Edwin Adams was born on 4 August 1852, in Cradley, Worcestershire, England, his father, Jabez Adams, was 38 and his mother, Nancy Billingham, was 32. He married Sarah Tildesley on 25 September 1876, in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Halesowen, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Cradley, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died on 18 February 1894, in Cradley, Worcestershire, England, at the age of 41.
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English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
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