William Adams 1826(?) - 1870 (General)

by nigeldownunder , Australia, Thursday, February 12, 2015, 03:55 (3573 days ago) @ MPGriffiths

Thank you for your response.
Of the two possible families for William Adams from the 1851 census, I had already pretty much ruled out the second one, MARGREAT (sic) ADAMS, as I had found the family, including Margaret's husband WILLIAM, in the 1841 census.
I was certainly leaning towards the first family, that of John and Mary Adams. It doesn't require much of a stretch to go from John to Jonathan, as found on "my" William's marriage certificate. I'll obviously have to investigate this further.

I had noted the ADAMS family entry before Elizabeth ADAMS on the 1871 census, that of George and Emma Adams, but can't as yet find any link between the two families.

I've looked at the public trees on Ancestry, but I find many of those trees unreliable, and use them as research pointers only. I remember some years ago, on one of my now-defunct public trees, I made a couple of heroic (and unrealistic) assumptions - and within days the same mistakes started popping up on numerous trees, where people had blindly taken my "information" as gospel truth!

My next step is to get hold of "my" WILLIAM ADAMS' death certificate (already ordered, but can take weeks to get out here to Far North Queensland)- this will, I hope, confirm that he is the WA who was buried at English Bicknor on 2nd March 1870.

I also want to verify the baptism entry that is transcribed on FoDFHT for WILLIAM ADAMS MARMONT ADAMS on 16th May 1824. Parents are John and Mary, but I suspect a transcription error on the child's forenames. Do you know where the original documents that were transcribed, are held?

Small steps I know. We can't always have "Eureka" moments!!

Cheers for now, and thanks again for your input.