{"id":701,"date":"2016-10-27T01:39:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T00:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=701"},"modified":"2023-03-17T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T17:14:24","slug":"the-willetts-of-colchester-essex-and-daylight-saving-2-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"The Willetts of Colchester, Essex (and Daylight Saving) 2 of 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have split my current discussion of the Willetts of Colchester into two posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. (Previous Post<\/a>)<\/strong> How I am related (through an adoptive line) to the William Willett of Daylight saving fame. He is my Great Great Uncle, so I need to trace back to his father (also William Willett) and thence to him.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. (This Post) <\/strong>Checking out the structure of the family at the beginning of the 19th Century (William Willett,  the elder’s ancestors). Hopefully this will provide a few hooks for those who think they are related to the Colchester Willetts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    This article is fairly long and detailed – a briefer post about Willett Antecedents<\/a> summarises some of the relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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    Willett Early Marriages, particularly showing where surnames recur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

    A) Tracing back from William Willett senior<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Starting with the earliest ancestor noted in the previous post<\/a>, we have William Willett (the elder, fourth from the right in the third row of the summary tree above), who is the father of the William Willett of daylight saving fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    (I) Colchester St Leonard Register of Baptisms shows a William Willett in Colchester in 1837 – which is the year of birth reported in the Dictionary of National Biography and within a year of the year of birth implied from the 1881 and 1871 census records. (The 1881 Census also reports the parish of birth as St Leonard’s)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1837, No 946. May 3, William Son of Everard & Maria Willett of St Leonard, Victualler, E N Bull, Curate<\/p>\nColchester St Leonard Baptisms (Essex Archives D\/P 245\/1\/6)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    (II) The 1851 Census shows William’s widowed mother as head of household at the Queen’s Head Inn, Hythe St, Colchester:<\/p>\n\n\n\n