James WILLIAMS St Briavels (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 20:25 (4717 days ago) @ 318cw

Do you have a birth hence age for James Senior ?
As he was married in 1812 I guess he was born 1794 at the very latest ?.
His widow was aged 55 in 1841 suggesting she was born abt 1786.

This is the only St Braivels James Williams Burial that seems possible

Record_ID: 91815
Entry_Number: 317
Year: 1832
Month: Dec
Day: 31
Surname: WILLIAMS
Forenames: James
Residence: Hudnals
Age_at_death: 83 years
Officiating_Minister: Yate Fosbroke Curate
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P278 IN 1/19
Page_No: 40
Parish_Chapel: St Briavels
Soundex: W452

Hence he was born abt 1749, so probably a generation before your James ?.

Re James Junior I assume he was born at least 1875 if not before, so aged at least 24 when buried but probably older ? (Clues re age, such as the ages of his wife and children in Bristol would be very helpfull here, please ?).
This is the nearest Baptism Record on this site's Records, but as you'll know there are a lot of James Williams in the Parish since the 1700s until now;

Record_ID: 73381
Entry_Number: 601
Year: 1857
Month: May
Day: 17
Parents_Surname: WILLIAMS
Child_Forenames: James
Fathers_Forenames: James
Mothers_Forenames: Jane
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Hudknolls
Occupation: Waterman
Officiating_Minister: Charles Hand
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P278 IN 1/6
Page_Number: 76
Parish_Chapel: St Briavels
Soundex: W452

Its reasonable this James would follow his father onto the water.
If this is our James he'd have been aged 42 when buried, so not unreasonable at all.

However searching FreeBMD for a Bristol Burial in 1899 only gives this one, perhaps registered a few months late and maybe the wrong age ?.

Surname Given Name Age District Volume Page Transcriber
Deaths Sep 1899
Williams James 57 Bristol 6a 39 Sukie

I would suggest it more likely he was buried at Newport( the ships home port), as this possible Burial shows ?

Surname Given Name Age District Volume Page Transcriber
Deaths Mar 1899
Williams James 42 Newport Mon. 11a 107 nahills

(NB By March this means the Burial was registered in the quarter to March 1899)

Could Newport have been considered his original home area ?. There are many instances of close ties between Forest families and Newport/Monmouthshire, I suggest more so than Bristol.

There are not any other likely Burials registered for any James Williams in Bristol or Newport at this time.

You say the other burials were reported in newspapers, where was this ? Perhaps this was from a different area than James was from/buried ??
Or perhaps his body hadnt been recovered by then ??

To help you we need any additional clues you have, please.