LDS record for Thomas Guillim is WRONG (General)

by tomguilliam, Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 00:38 (5226 days ago) @ slowhands

I went back to the original Visitations of Gloucestershire in 1623. It seems that the LDS record was wrong, and so a lot of information that is on ancestry.com is wrong. It shows the parents of Thomas Guilliam as Henry Willes and Janne d. Lawrance Wins. But on the original document it cleary shows an abbreviation WMS. (not Wins). Looking in the index a the back of the book, it Lists, Jane (not Janne) and Lawrence WILLIAMS to be listed on page 251. 251 is the page that the Guillims are listed.

WMS was simply a abbreviation for Williams. The time of Thomas Guillims birth was near the time of Edward the 1st, (Longshanks), IT WAS REquired that all children born of royalty took the name of the royal line, that explains why Henry Wills son was name Thomas Guillims, the Welsh name Williams.

Good reading is the Diary of Mrs. John Graves Simcoe, it details this name change from i.e. William son of Thomas to Thomas Williams.