Biography
Charles Henry Williams was born 16 November 1834 to William Williams, 1st Bt. (1791-1870) and Caroline Eales (1796-1886) and died 1 February 1908 of unspecified causes. He married Harriet Mary Basset (1829-1920) 7 January 1858 .
... became heir to the Davie-Basset family, namely Charles Henry Williams, Esq., (who later assumed the surname Basset) of Watermouth Castle, near Lynmouth, JP and MP for Barnstaple (1868–1874) and master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds from 1887 to 1893. Born 16 November 1834, being the fourth surviving son of Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet (1791–1870), MFH, of Tregullow, Cornwall, by his wife Caroline Eales, younger daughter of Richard Eales of Eastdon. He married on 7 January 1878, Harriet Mary Basset, only daughter of Arthur Davie Basset, Gentleman, of Watermouth Castle, and sister and co-heiress of Reverend Arthur Crawfurth Davie Basset, JP and MA, also of Watermouth. Again there had been a failure in the male Basset line. As a condition of his inheritance he assumed by Royal Licence in 1880 the surname of Basset in lieu of his patronymic, with the arms of Basset.
- -- see Wikipedia Manor of Heanton Punchardon#Williams
- -- see Wikipedia Manor of Heanton Punchardon#Williams
Children
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Edith Basset Williams (1861-1943) | 13 June 1861 Umberleigh, Devon, England, United Kingdom | 30 April 1943 Barnstaple, Devon, England, United Kingdom | Ernest Charles Penn Curzon (1856-1938) |
Walter Basset Williams (1863-1907) | 20 September 1863 Umberleigh, Devon, England, United Kingdom | 27 May 1907 Watermouth Castle, Watermouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom | Ellen Caroline Charlotte Dowell (-1945) |
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