Birth: About 1839 Stow Bedon, Norfolk, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Jemima Adams [Houchen (Houghen)] 1822-1872
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: October-December 1865 Illington, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Mary Mallows 1841-1926
Death: April-June 1877 Banham, Norfolk, UK
Lucy Adams 1868-a1901
Anna Elizabeth Adams 1870-a1901
Emma Jane Adams [Westhorpe] 1872-a1901
Adelaide (Adelaida) Mary Adams 1874-a1901
Jemima Eliza Adams [Hart] 1877-a1905
I cannot find any record of his birth so his mother is a guess - I cannot locate her in the 1841 census.
In the 1841 census as William Adams aged 2, born in Norfolk, and living with William and Sarah (grandparents?), George, Thomas and William (uncles?), and Charllotte (aunt?), by Church Lane, Stow Bedon, Norfolk.
In the 1851 census as William Adams aged 12, born in Stow Bedon, Norfolk, and living with his grandparents(William and Sarah), mother? (Jemina), and uncle (Thomas) in Stow Bedon, Norfolk.
In the 1861 census as William Adams aged 22, born in Stowbedon, Norfolk, single, an agricultural labourer and lodging with Thomas Ward (aged 82, born in Garbolisham, Norfolk, widowed and and an agricultural labourer) at Illington, Norfolk.
Marriage of William Adams and Mary Mallory (in the index, Mallows on the handwritten original) in FreeBMD in October-December 1865 in Wayland (4b 716) which included Illington.
In the 1871 census as William Adams aged 32, born in Stow Bedon, Norfolk, a drillman and farmer of 5 acres, and living with his wife (Mary), and two daughters (Anna S and Lucy) at Snailgate Street, Banham, Norfolk.
Death of William Adams in FreeBMD in April-June 1877 aged 39 in Guiltcross (4b 161) which included Banham.
Stow Bedon is some 20 miles ESE of Norwich on A1075. Illington is some 4 miles south of Stow Bedon and Banham is 6 miles east of Illington.
William Adams was my second cousin twice removed.
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