Williams is the rd most widespread surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 2, people. It is also the 6, th most frequently used first name internationally. It is borne by , people. It is the most widely held surname in 4 countries: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, where 0. Williams is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is held by 1,, people, or 1 in In The United States Williams is mostly found in: Texas, where 10 percent live, Georgia, where 8 percent live and California, where 7 percent live.
Beside The United States this last name occurs in countries. It also occurs in England, where 9 percent live and Wales, where 4 percent live. The occurrence of Williams has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Williams last name rose percent between and ; in England it rose percent between and ; in Wales it rose percent between and ; in Scotland it rose percent between and and in Ireland it rose percent between and In The United States those holding the Williams last name are 6.
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Turks and Caicos Islands. Williams Surname Definition: Williams is a patronymic surname derived from the forename William. Read More About This Surname. Williams Surname Distribution Map. By incidence By incidence By frequency By rank. Also Wilhelm, Willem, Guilliaume. Welsh, English The son of William resolution, helmet. Read translated descriptions of this surname from other languages.
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When he died in he was said to have been the richest man in Wales. John Williams, a lawyer born in Carmarthen in , was the progenitor of a line of England-based lawyers and judges and the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Thomas Williames was recorded in the Staffordshire rolls. But the Williams name was mainly to be found in southwestern counties in succeeding centuries. SW England. Robert Williams of this family, a banker in London, acquired the Bridehead estate nearby in ; while a branch of the family moved to Trevers in Cornwall.
Some Williams in Cornwall supposedly had Welsh origins. The elder brother John settled at Burncoose in Gwennap in and died there in The Williams family of Burncoose and Caerhays — through their ownership of mines and smelting works — became a major force in the Cornish industrial revolution of the 18th and early 19th century.
Charles Williams is the current owner of Caerhays castle, a mock-medieval castle on the Cornish coast acquired by the family in His family made their home at St. Albans in Hertfordshire. Williams were also in London. One family story began with Thomas Williams, a mariner born in Stepney in Subsequent Williams were lightermen on the Thames, but they then ran drinking places after Dalby Williams became the publican of the Three Tuns tavern in Poplar in Williams in Ireland would probably have come originally from either Wales or England.
Charles Williams, from Coleraine in county Derry, was a 19th century war correspondent who founded the Press Club. Early Williams came to New England and Virginia. New England. Roger Williams from Hertfordshire arrived at the Massachusetts colony in At odds with the Puritan authorities there, he fled the colony and purchased land at a place he called Providence.
He is considered the founder of Rhode Island and the founder of religious toleration. Matthew Williams from Wales said to have been a kinsman of Oliver Cromwell had arrived in Massachusetts some years earlier.
He was one of the early settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut in Robert Williams from Norfolk arrived in and settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts. A nother line via his son Samuel led to the Rev. John Williams, the first pastor at Deerfield. In he was captured by Mohawk Indians and taken to Canada in an incident that became known as the Deerfield massacre. During that time his daughter Eunice was adopted by a Mohawk family. Her grandson Thomas was a tribal chief at the time of the Revolutionary War.
He lived until The early generations of this family appear to have been involved in whiskey distillation, something possibly brought with them from Wales. John Williams was a colonel in the state militia there during the Revolutionary War and started the Montpelier plantation in Granville county. Roger Williams, born around , was the progenitor of the Williams family in what became Cumberland county, Virginia. His descendants were to be found in Kentucky and Missouri. African Americans. Williams is the most common surname amongst African Americans.
In fact almost half of the Williams in America are African American. The Williams name appeared in many places before Emancipation:. It was estimated that more than 3, of the enlistments by African Americans during the Civil War did so under the surname of Williams. Rowland Williams was an early planter and slave owner in Jamaica.
He died in and his Westmoreland estates was held by his descendants until the death of Joseph Stone Williams in There were freed blacks recorded in Jamaica as early as Francis Williams was born into such a family at around that time.
He was educated, travelled, and wrote poetry. In after emancipation, James Williams, a former slave, came to Britain and had published his Narrative of Events. John Tucker Williams from a Cornish Williams family came to Canada with the Royal Navy in , stayed and dabbled in land speculation. His son Arthur, born at Port Hope in Ontario, died west in after military skirmishes along the Saskatchewan river; his grandson Victor was a Canadian general during the First World War.
The William family would become a prominent member of their Poplar Grove community — through Edward, his son Robert, and his grandson Little Harry who was a house builder of Colonial Revival style homes.
Australia and New Zealand. Henry was instrumental in the negotiations with the Maoris over the Treaty of Waitangi. William translated the Bible and the prayer book into Maori. Henry VIII, whose family the Tudors were of welsh decent from the Welsh house of Tudur, had not previously seen a need to reform the Welsh Government during his time on the throne, but in and , as a result of a supposed threat from the independent Welsh Marcher lords, Henry introduced the Laws in Wales Acts These laws meant that the Welsh legal system was completely absorbed into the English system under English Common Law and both the English Lords who had been granted Welsh land by Edward I and their native Welsh contemporaries became part of the English Peerage.
As a result of this creation of a modern sovereign state of England, fixed surnames became hereditary amongst the Welsh gentry, a custom which was slowly to spread amongst the rest of the Welsh people, although the patronymic naming system could still be found in areas of rural Wales until the beginning of the nineteenth century. The change from patronymic to fixed surnames meant the Welsh people had a limited stock of names to choose from, which was not helped by the decline in the number of baptismal names following the Protestant Reformation.
Whilst most Welsh surnames are now fixed family names which have been passed down through the generations there has been a resurgence of the patronymic naming system amongst those Welsh speakers keen to preserve a patriotic history of Wales. Each year almost 50, people from across the world meet in Edinburgh, to celebrate Scottish culture and heritage.
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