Birth: 1791 Old Buckenham, Norfolk, UK
Father: John Adams 1764-1849
Mother: Mary Beals (Beales) 1759-1844
Christening: 29 May 1791 Old Buckenham, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: 12 October 1812 East Harling, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Sarah Edwards c1787-1875
Death: January-March 1868 Wayland, Norfolk, UK
Mary Ann Adams [Harper] 1817-1893
George Adams 1819-1843
Jemima (Jemimah) Adams [Houchen (Houghen)] 1822-1872
John Adams 1824
William Adams 1826-1881/91
Thomas William (Willm) Adams 1829-1910
Charlotte Adams [Taylor, Lane] 1830-a1901
Christening of William Adams in a submitted entry in the IGI on 29 May 1791 in Old Buckenham, Norfolk, parents John and Mary Adams.
Marriage of William Adams and Sarah Edwards in the IGI on 12 October 1812 in East Harling, Norfolk.
All the children were born in Stow Bedon.
In the 1841 census as William Adams aged 50, born in Norfolk, a farmer and living with Sarah (wife?), George, Thomas and William (sons?), daughter (Charllotte), and William (grandson?) by Church Lane, Stow Bedon, Norfolk.
In the 1851 census as William Adams aged 60, born in Buckenham, Norfolk, single, a famer of 8 acres and living with his wife (Sarah), son (Thomas), daughter (Jemima) and grandson (William) in Stow Bedon, Norfolk.
In the 1861 census as William Adams aged 69, born in Old Buckenham, Norfolk, a farmer of 7 acres, and living with his wife (Sarah Adams) and a general servant (Mary Ann Clarke aged 17, and born in Reyneston, Suffolk) in Hall Road, Stow Bedon.
His wife died in Guiltcross in 1875.
Death of William Adams in FreeBMD in January-March 1868 in Wayland (4b 189).
Thomas E Straughair has three entries in RootsWeb WorldConnect for William Adams, christened on 29 May 1791 in Old Buckenham, Norfolk, parents John Adams and Mary Beales, his marriage to Sarah, and his seven children. I cannot find any information on John.
Old Buckenham is 18 miles SW of Norwich, East Harling 8 miles SW of Old Buckenham, and Stow Bedon is about 10 miles NW of Old Buckenham.
I cannot identify the parents of his grandson William - Jemima seems the most likely.
William Adams was my second great granduncle.
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