When Mary Elizabeth Williams was born in September 1860, in Missouri, United States, her father, Richard White Williams, was 23 and her mother, Amanda Jane Ireland, was 19. She married Charles Christian Blair on 4 November 1883, in Woodbridge, San Joaquin, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Elkhorn Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States in 1880 and Vallejo, Solano, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 11 November 1910, in California, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.
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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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