Mrs Charles R. Williams
(1824-1901)
8 May 1861

Volume 3, page 215, sitting number 3549.

[Identified in the Silvy daybooks as Mrs Charles R. Williams, this is probably the wife of the solicitor Charles Reynolds Williams of Lincoln’s Inn Fields.]

Born Margaret Marshall Romer at Surat in Indian on 14 July 1824, she was the daughter of John Romer, who was appointed a magistrate in Surat in 1816, Acting Governor of Bombay in 1831, and vice-president of the British Empire Life Assurance Company Ltd in 1839.

She married Charles Reynolds Williams on 31 December 1846 at St Pancras Old Church in London. According to the announcement of their marriage in the Evening Chronicle (1 January 1847), the groom was ‘the second son of the late Lieut. Colonel Monier Williams, Surveyor-general of the presidency of Bombay’ and the bride was the ‘only daughter of John Romer, Esq., of Cambridge-terrace, Regent’s-park, formerly member of council of the same presidency.’

At the time of the 1851 census, the couple were living at 48 Gloucester Square, Paddington. Also present on the night of the census were their three young children, Mrs Williams’s parents, and seven servants.

In 1901 Mr and Mrs Williams were living at Dolymelynllyn near Dolgellau in northwest Wales, where Mr Williams was a ‘Deputy Lieutenant.’ Mrs Williams died there, aged 77, later that year on 26 November 1901.

Charles Reynolds Williams died, aged 89, on 20 November 1905, also at Dolymelynllyn near Dolgellau, leaving an estate valued at £85,807.