change of Surname on Census Returns (General)

by m p griffiths , Sunday, July 11, 2010, 19:03 (5326 days ago) @ steve6975

Just had a quite look at Ancestry re William WILLIAMS - lots in Herefordshire.

England & Wales Criminal Register 1791-1892 - Hereford - lists a few William WILLIAMS, but not age quoted. However, it does show how alias names were used .....

2 July 1877, Frank WHITE alias William WILLIAMS - assaulting a Police Constable in the execution of his duty - 7 years

Michalemas - 15 October 1877 - General Quarter Sessions, Hereford
William WILLIAMS - Larceny - 6 months

2 July 1883 - Trinity General Quarter Sessions, Hereford
William WILLIAMS - Misdemeanour - 3 months

13 July 1883 - William WILLIAMS - Larceny - Acquittal

On the 1881 census - William & Jane STEPHENS are listed after (next) a Private House run by

Esther WILLIAMS - Widow - 79, Lodging House Keeper - born - not known
Ann WILLIAMS - unmarried daughter age 43, Laundress, Hereford, Ross
Richard WILLIAMS - Grandson, age 18 - Painter, born Ross ***
Mary WILLIAMS - Granddaughter - age 14 - born Hereford, Ross ***

*** FOD records, Richard WINFORD WILLIAMS - son of Ann - 25 December 1864, Overcross Street, Ross

*** FOD records, Mary Louisa WILLIAMS - daughter of Esther Anne WILLIAMS, Over Cross Street, 10 March 1867

trying to trace this family back, (just to eliminate a connection) as on William STEPHENS (born c 1842 - 1881 census) marriage he states his father name was James

* Steve your previous message mentions Overcross Street

1871 Census, Herefordshire, Ross, Overcross Street

Este WILLIAMS - 66, born Tetsworth, Oxfordshire
Ann - 29 - born Ross
Grandchildren, Edith 10, Richard 7, Mary 4

FOD records

Esther & Stephen WILLIAMS - had these children baptised at Ross

Edy - 1835, Edith 1836, Esther Ann - 1838 and Lydia - 1842

Stephen WILLIAMS died 27 July 1843, age 36 (Overcross Street)

1841 Census Overcross Street

Stephen WILLIAMS - 30 - Cheese Factory - not born in County
Esther - 40 - not born in County
Eleanor - 10 - ditto
Mary - 8 - ditto
Edith 5 - Esther 3 - Beatrice 1 - born in County

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Birth : Sept Qtr 1875 - Ross District

Thomas Alfred STEPHENS (is this Tom c1875) - 1891 Census, before William & Jane's Marriage in 1881)