{"id":437,"date":"2012-02-23T21:51:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T21:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=437"},"modified":"2017-01-08T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T21:24:11","slug":"the-williamsons-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"The Williamsons in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1861 Census for England and Wales shows a Thomas Williamson born 1845 in New Jersey, United States.\u00a0 He is listed as a Tinplate Worker staying in Worcester (England) with his uncle William Bliz(z)ard Williamson.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>William Blizzard Williamson was born in Cork, Ireland in about 1812 (data from England and Wales Census).\u00a0 The England and Wales census also names his wife as Elizabeth Williamson also born in Cork but in about 1818.\u00a0 I do not yet know who were his parents &#8211; or who was his brother, the father of Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>My Cousin Helen (from the Williamson side) has heard that William Blizzard Williamson&#8217;s youngest son, George Henry fought for the Confederates in the American Civil War (1861-1865).\u00a0 George and Thomas&#8217;s ages make this a possible youthful activity &#8211; although given Thomas was born in New Jersey, one would have guessed that he (and his cousin) might have fought on the Union side.<\/p>\n<p>American Civil War Records may give a route into finding WB Williamson&#8217;s parents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1861 Census for England and Wales shows a Thomas Williamson born 1845 in New Jersey, United States.\u00a0 He is listed as a Tinplate Worker staying in Worcester (England) with his uncle William Bliz(z)ard Williamson.<\/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":[180,177,117,106,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1861-65-acw","category-research-note","category-awaiting-further-work","category-united-state","category-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}