Edmund Williams
1843–77
Merchant seaman. Captained several voyages taking immigrants to New Zealand in the 1870s. Perished when his ship Avalanche, bound for New Zealand, collided with the sailing ship Forest in September 1877.
Sources
BMD (Birth index)
‘Loss of the Avalanche’ freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/avalanche.htm (accessed 6 November 2013).
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
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