Birth: 26 August 1897 Fforchcwm, Cross Inn, Llanllwchaiarn, Cardiganshire, Wales, UK
Father: David Rees c1855-a1911
Mother: Mary Jones c1864-a1911
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: October-December 1928 Islington, London, UK
Wife: Hilda Smith 1900-1992
Death: 17 January 1940 Shoreditch, London, UK
Mair Bethan (Bethun) Rees [Musto] 1933-1990
Birth of William Rees in FreeBMD in July-September 1897 in Aberayron (11b 41) which includes Llanllwchaiarn.
In the 1901 census as William Rees aged 3, born in Llanllwchaiarn, Cardiganshire, Wales, and living with his parents (David and Mary), three brothers (Charles, Howard and John T) and two sisters Catherine and Hannah J) in four rooms a Fforchcwm, Cross Inn, Llanllwchaiarn, Cardiganshire, Wales.
In the 1911 census as William Rees aged 13, born in Llanllwchaiarn, Cardiganshire, and living with his parents (David and Mary) in three rooms at Fforchcwm, Cross Inn, Cardiganshire, Wales.
Marriage of William Rees and Hilda Smith in FreeBMD in October-December 1928 in Islington (1b 594).
His daughter was born in Peterborough in 1933.
There are four entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for William Rees address 37 Roman Road, Lower Holloway, Islington in 1936 to 1938, two other families sharing this address, and 283 Essex Road N1, Canonbury, Islington in 1939, other occupant Hilda Rees (wife?) in all.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as HWilliam Rees born 26 August 1897, married, a manager of a grocery off licence, and living with Hilda Rees (wife?) and Mair B Rees (daughter?) at 283 Essex Road, Islington, London.
Death of William Rees in FreeBMD in January-March 1940 aged 42 in Shoreditch (1c 50).
There are six entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Rees adding his death on 17 January 1940 in Shoreditch, London.
William Rees was the father of Mair Bethan Rees, wife of Ronald Arthur Musto, son of Ernest Arthur Musto, husband of Gladys Grocock, my half third cousin.
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