Researching William Weston
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 12214 people with the Weston surname? In that year Weston was ranked number 338 for popularity in the UK. |
The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Weston on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Weston and the Weston Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Weston 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 listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. 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 Weston family tree.
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Search for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of William Weston using the FreeBMD database.
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| Did you know that there are currently 16365 people with the Weston surname in the UK? Weston is now ranked number 339 for popularity in the UK. |
Weston Family History Databases
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Weston Forums
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Miscellaneous Weston Databases
Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on William Weston. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called William Weston
William Weston (Australian politician)
William Pritchard Weston (28 November 1804 – 21 February 1888) was the third Premier of Tasmania.
Born in Shoreditch, England, Weston emigrated to Tasmania in about 1830, purchasing a property near Longford, and lived there for several years. He also received a grant of 2500 acres (10 km²). He was made a magistrate and with the Rev. John West took a prominent part in the formation of the anti-transportation league which between 1849 and 1853 had an important influence in the success of this movement. Holding office on two occasions. Weston was elected to parliament at the original opening, in 1856 in the electoral district of Ringwood. He served for a short term as Premier from 25 April 1857 until 12 May 1857. He resigned his seat in the Tasmanian House of Assembly on 20 May 1857, instead taking a position in the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the member for Longford on 19 May 1857. He became Premier again on 1 November 1860 holding the position until 2 August 1861. He resigned from the Tasmanian Parliament altogether and later moved to Victoria, dying in St Kilda. He was survived by a son and five daughters.
Source: William Weston (Australian politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Weston (engineer)
William Weston (1763 – 29 August 1833) was a civil engineer who worked in England and the United States of America. For a brief period at the end of the 18th century, Weston was the pre-eminent civil engineer in the new United States and worked on the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company, the Western and Northern Inland Lock Navigation Companies in New York, the Middlesex canal in Massachusetts, the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Potomac navigation. * His notebook (donated to the Institution of Civil Engineers, London) includes, amongst other things, a diagram of 'centring at Sawley Bridge', the costings of a guard lock, a diagram of a canal bridge and costings of 'Gainsboro' Bridge'.* William, an Englishman, was son of Samuel Weston, the Oxford Canal engineer: he married Charlotte Whitehouse of Gainsborough in 1792; daughter Sophia Weston (who later, in England, married a Staveley) was born in Albany.* Sometime after William Weston returned from America he commissioned a porcelain service, which came to light circa 2005. Possible connections of William Weston to William Weston Young and Lewis Weston Dillwyn - financial backers of the potter and ceramic artist William Billingsley - were then investigated. The bulleted information is sourced from the book Billingsley, Brampton and Beyond ... in search of The Weston Connection by Pamela (Theophilus) Gardner, pub Matador/Troubador Publishing Ltd., 2010
Source: William Weston (engineer), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Weston
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