Thomas Williams of Gosport proposed Society for Constitutional Information 23.2.1781 by John Cartwright 2nded Capel Lofft
His father Thomas Williams was educated at Plaisterers Hall Academy 1745-49 by Congregational Fund Board (Surman Index Database & Encyclopaedia) / Sermon preached at Gosport on ordination of Rev Thomas Williams 6.6.1750 by John Cumming publ London 1750 / Thomas Williams = Rowner, Hants 6.8.1750 Rebecca Isgar / according to an Ancestry user-submitted tree the Rev Thomas Williams was born 1724 and his wife Rebecca born 1713, their son Thomas was born at Gosport 27.5.1753 / Rev Thomas Williams of Gosport died 19.6.1770 (Gents Mag) / will PCC 1770 Rev Thomas Williams of Gosport / Mrs Rebecca Williams of Gosport admitted 1780 to Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among Poor / Thomas Williams = Gosport 17.4.1783 Mary Marsh / SunFire 1784 Thomas Williams mercer & draper Gosport / Lydia dau of Thomas & Mary Williams bapt 15.3.1788 Portsea / Mr Williams of Gosport subscr 1793 to Distress by Robert Noyes / will PCC 1799 of Rebecca Williams widow dated 1.6.1797 mentioned her son Thomas Williams late of Portsea but now of Nottingham hosier, and her married daus Harriet & Rebecca / according to Ancestry user-submitted tree Thomas Williams died at Nottingham 6.1.1804 and his widow Mary died 1831 age 75 / Derby Mercury 29.6.1809 partnership dissolved between M Williams, T S Williams, J Williams & A Bond hosiers of Nottingham / Williams & Co manufacturers of hosiery, Pilcher gate, Nottingham (Holden's directory 1811) / will of Mary Williams of Southwell, Notts proved 23.3.1832 PCC mentioned daus Mary, Rebecca, Lydia & Catherine, exec was nephew Rev Edward Garrard Marsh (matric Brasenose, Oxford 1800 age 17 son of John Marsh of Salisbury, prebendary of Southwell 1821, died 1862)