Researching William Cust
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The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Cust on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Cust and the Cust Genealogy
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Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of William Cust using the FreeBMD database.
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Explore the LDS Database for records about William Cust.
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Cust Family Tree Databases
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Cust Forums
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Miscellaneous Cust Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on William Cust. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called William Cust
William Cust
The Honourable William Cust (23 January 1787 – 3 March 1845), was a British barrister and Member of Parliament (MP). He also served as Commissioner of Customs.
Cust was a younger son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow, by Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Bankes, of Wimbledon. John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, Peregrine Cust, Rev. Henry Cockayne Cust and Sir Edward Cust, 1st Baronet were his brothers. He sat as Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire between 1816 and 1818 and for Clitheroe from 1818 to 1822, when he took the Chiltern Hundreds.
Cust married Sophia, daughter of Thomas Newnham, in 1819. One of their sons, the Very Reverend Arthur Purey-Cust, was Dean of York. Arthur's son Sir Herbert Edward Purey-Cust was an Admiral in the Royal Navy. William Cust died in March 1845, aged 58. His wife survived him by almost forty years and died in January 1884.
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