{"id":263,"date":"2010-08-23T22:25:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T21:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=263"},"modified":"2023-03-17T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:57:35","slug":"willett-antecedents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Willett Antecedents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The early Willetts take a bit of disentangling due to second marriages and marriages to other Willetts. What follows is a summary; there is a more detailed explanation with references on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=701\">another post<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Willett (the\u00a0 younger of daylight saving fame, 1856-1915) had two wives:\n<ul>\n<li>Maria Mills (b 1858, m 1879, d 1905)\n<ul>\n<li>Maria was the daughter of William Mills and Susannah Willett (b ~1834), herself the daughter of a Joseph Willett (b ~1797)<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Willett was the eldest son of Thomas Willett and brother of Everard Willett, the father of William Willett (the elder). Maria Mills is therefore the wife of her second cousin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Florence Mary Anne Strickland (b 1884, m 1910, d 1957)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>William himself was the eldest son of William Willett (the elder &#8211; founder of the eponymous building company)\n<ul>\n<li>William Willett (the elder 1837-1913, who married Maria Box in 1856) was the son of an Everard Willett (a Vitular ~1804-1845) and his second wife Maria (b 1803, m 1833, d 1851)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>William (the younger) had a first cousin Charles Willett (b ~1868) &#8211; who married a Florence Maud Willett (b 1863, m 1897 &#8211; who is a half first cousin of Charles &#8211; sharing a grandfather, Everard Willett &#8211; also William the younger&#8217;s grandfather)<\/li>\n<li>Florence Maud&#8217;s parents were Everard Willett (b 1829) and Sarah Ann Willett (b 1830, m 1853)\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah Ann is the daughter of Everard Willett (the Vitular b ~1804) and his first wife Sarah (m ~1830)<\/li>\n<li>Everard (b 1829) was the eldest son of Joseph Willett (b~1797) and a brother of Susannah (b 1834)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Everard Willett&#8217;s will confirms that he and Joseph Willett were brothers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Diagrammatically this may be summarised as below<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_718\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Willett-early-marriages-v3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-718\" class=\"size-large wp-image-718\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Willett-early-marriages-v3-1024x587.png\" alt=\"Willett Early Marriages\" width=\"1024\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Willett-early-marriages-v3-1024x587.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Willett-early-marriages-v3-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Willett-early-marriages-v3-768x440.png 768w, https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Willett-early-marriages-v3.png 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colchester Willett Early Marriages (click for larger view)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is also not known if Charles Inchbald Radford is related to Elizabeth E J Radford.<\/p>\n<p>The Willett family is said to have originally been a Huguenot family.<\/p>\n<p>(A number of comments of the type &#8220;Are we related&#8221; have been collated on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Are We Related: Willett<\/a> page.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early Willetts take a bit of disentangling due to second marriages and marriages to other Willetts. What follows is a summary; there is a more detailed explanation with references on another post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,66,105,124,67,63,99,119,50],"tags":[159,140,236,222,160,232,215],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-61","category-1837-1911","category-consanguinity","category-daylight-saving","category-family-tree-charts","category-half-families","category-interweaved-families","category-update-as-information-arises","category-willett","tag-builders","tag-consanguinity-2","tag-daylight-saving","tag-half-families","tag-huguenot","tag-interweaved-families","tag-willett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1996,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}