Posted by Eileen McDonnell In 1823, John and Maria lived in Chalk, in the civil registration district of N Aylesford, less than 2 mi from Gravesend (66 houses and 360 inhabitants in 1841). People in the port towns of Dartford, Gravesend, Chatham, Sandwich, Deal, and Dover moved between these places easily because coastal shipping was frequent and cheap at the time. 1828-34 they were in Stone by Dartford. In 1840 they were living in Wilmington. In the 1851 census, living in Wilmington on Prospect pl, are John Williams, 49, farm laborer, b. Brompton, Kent, and Maria Williams, his wife, 49, b. Isle of Wight. Children in the home: Sarah, 16, b. Stone, Kent; Thomas, 11, farm laborer, b. Wilmington; and Frances, 9, scholar, b. Wilmington. John and Maria, with children Thomas and Frances (and grownup children John, Edmund, Richard, Sarah and William and their spouses) sailed steerage from Gravesend in August 1852 on the Company's barque Norman Morison to work for the Puget Sound Agricultural Company. --Previous Message--
on 6/8/2004, 7:39 am, in reply to "Maria Freed b. Freshwater 1800"
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I've learned more about Maria:
: My ggg grandmother, Maria Freed, was b. 1800 in
: Freshwater, daughter of Edward and Maria
: Freed (who also had a son Edward b.
: Freshwater 1798.
: Maria married John Williams of Kent and
: emigrated to British Columbia in 1853.
: Are there any descendants of Edward Freed b.
: 1798 out there who can fill me in on the
: family's life on the Isle of Wight or his
: subsequent life?
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