George WILLIAMS
- Born: 1737, of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada 1
- Marriage (1): Marie MONIER on 1 Jun 1762 in St. John the Baptist, St. John's, Newfoundland
General Notes:
http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Newfoundland_Quarterly_1914-15_1000311196/19
George married Mary Monier ist June 1762, settled in Newfoundland, was appointed Magistrate and died in 1803 at the age of seventy five.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NFLD-ROOTS/2001-09/0999483569
Family Traditions: The Williams family of Bay Bulls is thought to have descended from Vaughan's Welsh colonists (Dillon). George, from Silverdale near Swansea, Wales, chief magistrate and judge in Newfoundland about 1763 (NF Archives Z42).
http://www.mocavo.com/A-History-of-Newfoundland-From-the-English-Colonial-and-Foreign-Records-Microform-2/390902/606
Appointed Chief Magistrate Newfoundland 1796
Lt. Col. William Thomas Skinner ( aka Thomas William Skinner) did not marry Marie Monier. He married Anne Williams, daughter of George Williams of Wales and Newfoundland, Chief Magistrate, merchant and at times a soldier when the French tried to take the island each summer! George Williams wife was Marie Monier, daughter of Dr John Monier, 'of an old Jersey family'
See http://www.62ndregiment.org/George_Williams.htm
He [Griffith Williams] was an elder brother of George Williams, chief magistrate of Newfoundland, who married Marie Monier [on 1 June 1762 at St. John's], of a French refugee family. This George and his wife were the grandparents of the late Sir Monier Monier-Williams, and one of their sons, George also by name, accompanied major Griffith Williams to America on this voyage [to Canada aboard the Charming Nancy] in 1776, although he was at the time only eleven years of age. In the following year, at the Capitulation at Saratoga, it was this small boy who carried the flag of truce to the camp of the victorious party. He was afterwards colonel of the 20th Regiment and M. P. for Ashton-under-Lyne, and died in 1850. His uncle, Griffith Williams, died Colonel Commandant of Woolwich in 1790, leaving no male issue.
George married Marie MONIER, daughter of Dr. John MONIER R.A. and Hannah ROBERTS, on 1 Jun 1762 in St. John the Baptist, St. John's, Newfoundland. (Marie MONIER was born in 1742 of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada 2.)
Marriage Notes:
http://ngb.chebucto.org/Vstats/pre-1891-st-john-ang-mar-1754-1782-vol-26e-sjc.shtml
June 1 1762 St. John's George WILLIAMS Mary MONIER? none given Corrected to MONIER by family member in UK: Mary Monier was one of three daughters of Dr. John Monier, Surgeon to the St. John's Garrison.
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