Records of Adolphus Williamson on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Adolphus Williamson in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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DNA

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Adolphus Williamson and the Williamson Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Williamson Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Williamson family tree.

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ukDid you know that there are currently 33825 people with the Williamson surname in the UK? Williamson is now ranked number 136 for popularity in the UK.

Williamson Family Tree Databases

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Williamson Forums

There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.

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Miscellaneous Williamson Databases

Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Adolphus Williamson. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Adolphus Williamson

Adolphus Williamson

Adolphus Frederick "Dolly" Williamson (1830 – 9 December 1889) was the first head of the Detective Branch of the Metropolitan Police and the first head of the Detective Branch's successor organisation, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). He joined the force in 1850 and eventually became Chief Constable.

Williamson was buried in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.

In the television films The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2011) and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher II (2013) he was played by William Beck.

In the Steampunk book series The Guild Chronicles by J.M. Bannon Williamson is used as a character. The prequel to the series is titled [ "The Untold Tales of Dolly Williamson]" and is a fictional story of the detective's involvement in solving a crime with a supernatural killer.

Source: Adolphus Williamson, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Williamson

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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