Monday, March 4, 2019

X00291: What happened to Hester Sophia Williams after 1841?

Hester Sophia Williams is daughter of Thomas Williams and Sybil Foxwell for whom I have very little information (a similar case to Samina Foxwell Williams - see X00287)

There are two sources that I've found for her so far:
1) Her 1833 baptism record [D00028]



2) The 1841 census where she appears with the rest of the family [D01530]



So, here are the details that we have:
  • She was baptized in 1833 and so was likely born about 1833 [D00028].
  • The family moved to Canada around 1842 and eventually settled in Guelph, Ontario. The 1851 census for Guelph did not survive, so the earliest census in which the family appears is the 1861 census (where she would have been about 28 years old). She does not appear with the rest of the family in the 1861 census [D01597].


Here are the possibilities:
  1. She died in the UK before the family came to Canada. In that case she would have died between 1841 and 1845.
  2. She stayed in the UK and never came to Canada. That would have been very unlikely as she would have been under 10 years old when the family came to Canada.
  3. She came to Canada, but died prior to 1861
  4. She came to Canada, but married prior to 1861.


I'm going to dismiss option 2 as unlikely. So, the next actions are:
  • Check UK deaths and burials for 1841-1842 [Option 1]
  • Check Guelph and Orillia burials prior to 1861 [Option 3]
  • Check Guelph and Orillia newspapers for deaths prior to 1861 [Option 3]
  • Check marriages prior to 1861 [Option 4]
  • Check later census records for a hester, ester or sophia born 1833 in England [Option 4]
  • Check death records for a hester, ester or sophia born 1833 in England [Option 4]



Sources:
[D00028] Saint Peter (Liverpool, Lancashire, England), "Baptism Record - Hester Sophia Williams," Batch No P020273; Dates 1826 - 1833l Source Call No 0093877-0093879; FHL microfilm.

[D01530] 1841 census of England, Liverpool, Lancashire, folio 45, page 37; digital images(accessed 6 May 2018); citing PRO HO 107/559/15.

[D01597] 1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Guelph, Guelph, p. 14; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca (accessed 13 May 2018).

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