Williamson Family History & Genealogy

Arthur William Williamson of VIC Australia was born on December 23, 1904 in Echuca, Campaspe Shire County, VIC 3564, Australia to William Williamson and Jane Wills Williamson. He had siblings Margaret Williamson, Catherine Williamson, Lillis Ada Williamson, Rosabelle Eleanor Williamson Walker, Jessie Williamson, Walter Alexander Williamson, and Emily Jane (Williamson) Janson. Arthur Williamson died at age 69 years old on October 21, 1974 in VIC Australia.

Emily Jane (Williamson) Janson of Echuca, Campaspe Shire County, VIC Australia was born on December 12, 1883 in Echuca to William Williamson and Jane Wills Williamson. She had siblings Margaret Williamson, Catherine Williamson, Lillis Ada Williamson, Rosabelle Eleanor Williamson Walker, Jessie Williamson, Walter Alexander Williamson, and Arthur William Williamson. She married August Janson in 1907, and had children Frederick August Janson, Oscar Murray Janson, Ruby Janson, and Peter Janson. Emily Janson died at age 78 years old on July 13, 1962 in Echuca.

Jessie (Williamson) Maxwell of Echuca Australia was born on March 19, 1900 in Echuca, Campaspe Shire County, VIC to William Williamson and Jane Wills Williamson. She had siblings Margaret Williamson, Catherine Williamson, Lillis Ada Williamson, Rosabelle Eleanor Williamson Walker, Walter Alexander Williamson, Emily Jane (Williamson) Janson, and Arthur Williamson. Jessie Maxwell died at age 72 years old on September 7, 1972 in Sydney, NSW.

Lillis Ada (Williamson) Hicks of Shepparton, Greater Shepparton City County, VIC Australia was born on January 10, 1895 in Echuca, Campaspe Shire County to William Williamson and Jane Wills Williamson. She had siblings Margaret Williamson, Catherine Williamson, Rosabelle Eleanor Williamson Walker, Jessie Williamson, Walter Alexander Williamson, Emily Jane (Williamson) Janson, and Arthur Williamson. Lillis Hicks died at age 74 years old on October 8, 1969 in Shepparton, Greater Shepparton City County.

Rosabelle Eleanor (Williamson) Walker of Hobart, TAS Australia was born on May 30, 1898 in Echuca, Campaspe Shire County, VIC to William Williamson and Jane Wills Williamson. She had siblings Margaret Williamson, Catherine Williamson, Lillis Ada Williamson, Jessie Williamson, Walter Alexander Williamson, Emily Jane (Williamson) Janson, and Arthur Williamson. She married John Walker, and had a child Arthur Williamson Walker. Rosabelle Walker died at age 82 years old on August 22, 1980 in Hobart, TAS.

Margaret (Williamson) Forster of VIC Australia was born on May 6, 1885 in Echuca Village, Campaspe Shire County to William Williamson and Jane Wills Williamson. She had siblings Catherine Williamson, Lillis Ada Williamson, Rosabelle Eleanor Williamson Walker, Jessie Williamson, Walter Alexander Williamson, Emily Jane (Williamson) Janson, and Arthur Williamson. She married Thomas Ridley Forster in 1915, and had a child Alice Jessie Forster. Margaret Forster died at age 49 years old on October 6, 1934.

Catherine (Williamson) Trinham of Melbourne, VIC Australia was born on August 24, 1887 in Echuca, Campaspe Shire County to William Williamson and Jane Wills Williamson. She had siblings Margaret Williamson, Lillis Ada Williamson, Rosabelle Eleanor Williamson Walker, Jessie Williamson, Walter Alexander Williamson, Emily Jane (Williamson) Janson, and Arthur Williamson. Catherine Trinham died at age 68 years old on April 1, 1956 in Melbourne.

William Williamson of Echuca, Campaspe Shire County, VIC Australia was born on September 15, 1849. He was married to Jane Wills Williamson, and had children Emily Jane (Williamson) Janson, Margaret Williamson, Catherine Williamson, Lillis Ada Williamson, Rosabelle Eleanor Williamson Walker, Jessie Williamson, Walter Alexander Williamson, and Arthur Williamson. William Williamson died at age 56 years old on July 2, 1906 in Echuca.

Jane (Wills) Williamson of Mordialloc, City of Kingston County, VIC Australia was born on October 4, 1864 in Port Adelaide, SA. She was married to William Williamson, and had children Emily Jane (Williamson) Janson, Margaret Williamson, Catherine Williamson, Lillis Ada Williamson, Rosabelle Eleanor Williamson Walker, Jessie Williamson, Walter Alexander Williamson, and Arthur Williamson. Jane Williamson died at age 72 years old on April 29, 1937 in Mordialloc, VIC.

Walter Alexander Williamson of Belmont, Greater Geelong City County, VIC Australia was born in 1902 in Echuca, Campaspe Shire County to William Williamson and Jane Wills Williamson. He had siblings Margaret Williamson, Catherine Williamson, Lillis Ada Williamson, Rosabelle Eleanor Williamson Walker, Jessie Williamson, Emily Jane (Williamson) Janson, and Arthur Williamson. Walter Williamson married Ethel Florence Amelia Bennett in 1929, and died at age 62 years old on October 29, 1965 in Belmont, Greater Geelong City County.

Edith (Williamson) Lowry of Benalla, Benalla Rural City County, VIC Australia was born in 1831 in Northern Ireland United Kingdom, and died at age 68 years old in 1899 in Benalla, VIC Australia.

Nicol Williamson was the notorious bad boy of the theatre, his unpredictable behaviour, unreliability and blunt rudeness to those he did not respect – which may well have been the majority of those he met in and out of the theatre world – having to be weighed by the theatres that employed him for his undoubted brilliance as an actor, and a star appeal that never fully flowered because of the reluctance of film producers and theatrical impresarios to engage him. Twin devils seemed to co-exist in his lanky body, one that drove his private life to frequent excess and public exhibitionism, and the other in which a creative genius seemed to be about to explode. He was quintessentially a model for the 19th century decadent romantic, a Byron, a des Esseintes or a Rimbaud. As an actor he could be electric: John Osborne declared him to be "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando". He was born and brought up in Hamilton outside Glasgow; it is difficult to imagine him as a boy in that quiet little town where the main cultural event of the year is the Salvation Army's Christmas carol concert. He started his career at the Dundee Rep in 1960, stayed there two years, then went to the Arts Theatre in Cambridge and transferred to the Royal Court from there with That's Us, staying on with the English Stage Company in a number of demanding roles. They included Jacobean and period drama and modern plays, the most successful of which was Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence, a palpable hit that transferred to the West End and had several later revivals, about a complex London barrister, but he was also well cast as Sebastian Dangerfield in The Ginger Man. One of his greatest performances was as Vladimir in the 1964 revival of Waiting for Godot. Anthony Page, Nicol's preferred director, was in charge, but Beckett turned up at rehearsals and was unhappy about the way the production was progressing, the actor retaining his London barrister's accent for the author's reflective tramp. "Where do you come from? Is that your natural voice?" asked Beckett, and when told that Nicol was Scottish, asked if he could not use his natural non-London intonation. That evening Beckett looked pleased, more so as the days passed, and he commented, "There's a touch of genius there!" The opening night was a triumph, the audience electrified by his trumpeted scream of "I can't go on!" at the climax of the great final monologue. From then Beckett was Williamson's God. When I invited him in 1965 to take part in a Beckett reading at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford on a Sunday night, he insisted on Beckett's personal direction, and we visited him at Ussy on the Sunday before. We had launched the previous day and Nicol's single-minded enthusiasm was such that he cancelled both his Saturday performances of Inadmissible Evidence, then playing at Wyndham's, next door to our restaurant, and sent on his understudy – who also had to play the whole week following, because Williamson, having returned from the rehearsal in France on the Monday, then disappeared for the whole week. But the day before the Sundayperformance at Stratford, when I had made emergency changes in the programme, he appeared at my flat to rehearse, and took the audience by storm the next day, throwing the other readers into confusion by his innovations. Patrick Magee said that he would never again appear on the same stage as an actor so selfish. With the RSC he performed Arden of Faversham at the New Arts Theatre and played Sweeney in the TS Eliot memorial production of Sweeney Agonistes. He became a charismatic actor in films as well, but his appearances, especially in commercial productions, became rarer because his temperament and arrogance did not appeal to directors. His marriage to the actress Jill Townsend was of short duration, and problems rising from his divorce, his messy private life and his mounting debt to the Inland Revenue forced him to move to New York, where he quickly blotted his copybook by knocking down David Merrick, the most powerful man on Broadway at the time. There he repeated some of his British successes and performed in roles that included Hamlet and Macbeth, but always for short runs. He was cast as the ghost of John Barrymore, appearing to help a young actor play Hamlet, commented voluably to the press on the weakness of the play and others in the cast, and at an early performance actually stabbed the other actor during a fencing episode. He strode to the footlights and announced, "Something's gone wrong. You'd better bring down the curtain." Most thought it was part of the play. The second act started after more than an hour's interval with an understudy, and Williamson playing normally, but the actors had summoned Equity and the play closed a few nights later. Williamson's career was peppered with such incidents. He had a good natural tenor voice and could mimic any crooner perfectly, and if he heard an accent he could imitate it; years later he could still do Beckett's voice perfectly. He devised a number of one-man shows, songs, patter and extracts from plays and other literature, but, in spite of brilliant moments, they were not successful, and while he could excite an audience, he had little critical judgement in choosing and interpreting a text without outside help. His films included: Inadmissible Evidence (1967), The Bofors Gun (1968), The Seven Per Cent Solution (1975), The Human Factor (1979), Excalibur (1980) – the film for which he is probably best known, as Merlin – Black Widow (1986) and several others of varying quality, including The Exorcist III. Other plays in which he appeared include The Entertainer (1983), The Lark (1983) and The Real Thing (1985). In person he was entertaining but often embarrassing company, carrying role-playing to extremes and needing to dominate every assembly at which he was present, especially in his manic moods. When depressive he was pitiable and usually stayed on his own. But whoever saw his Vladimir and heard that despairing scream, embodying the whole anguish of the human condition, which is then followed by a resumption of the human need to regain a vestige of dignity, will never forget it. Metaphorically it also encompassed his life. Although Williamson's death was only announced yesterday, his son Luke said that he had died on 16 December of oesophageal cancer. John Calder Nicol Williamson, actor: born Hamilton, Scotland 14 September 1938; married 1971 Jill Townsend (divorced 1977; one son); died Amsterdam 16 December 2011.

Grace Murray (Williamson) Edgar of Woodacres, VIC Australia was born on September 11, 1826 in South Lanarkshire County, Scotland United Kingdom. She was married to Walter Edgar, and had children Alexander Williamson Edgar, Walter Edgar, Jessie Williamson (Edgar) Mathieson, David James Edgar, Elizabeth Catherine Grace (Edgar) Stewart, and Robert Halbert Edgar. Grace Edgar died at age 92 years old on November 24, 1918 in Woodacres, VIC Australia.

Etta May (Busbridge) Williamson of Parkville, VIC Australia was born in 1900 in Carlton, City of Melbourne County to Henrietta Elizabeth (Vare) Busbridge and William Ethelbert Busbridge. She had a sister Daisy Marie Thelma (Busbridge) Burrows. Etta Williamson married Keith Hamilton Williamson in 1924, and died at age 47 years old in 1947 in Parkville.

Jessie Isabella (Williamson) Parkes of Surrey Hills, VIC Australia was born on January 17, 1882 in Launceston, TAS to William "Benjamin" Williamson and Sarah Hamilton. She had siblings Lilias Gray (Williamson) Greig, Annie Williamson Johnston, George Henry Williamson, Charles Edward Williamson, and John Hamilton Williamson. She married Henry Norman Parkes in 1912, and had children Jean Parkes and Edna Jessie Parkes. Jessie Parkes died at age 83 years old on June 29, 1965 in Surrey Hills, VIC.

John Hamilton Williamson of Coburg, City of Merri-bek County, VIC Australia was born on April 12, 1870 in Launceston, TAS to William "Benjamin" Williamson and Sarah Hamilton. He had siblings Lilias Gray (Williamson) Greig, Jessie Isabella Williamson, Annie Williamson Johnston, George Henry Williamson, and Charles Edward Williamson. He married Ethel Harriett Clephane in 1896, and had children Ethel Madge Williamson and Keith Hamilton Williamson. John Williamson died at age 86 years old on December 16, 1956 in Coburg, VIC.

Annie (Williamson) Johnston of South Melbourne, Port Phillip City County, VIC Australia was born circa 1876 in Launceston, TAS, and died at age 81 years old on December 18, 1958 in VIC.

Lilias Gray (Williamson) Greig of Surrey Hills, VIC Australia was born on March 5, 1868 in Launceston, TAS, and died at age 69 years old in 1937 in Surrey Hills, VIC.

Ethel Madge (Williamson) Taylor Cliffe of Melbourne, VIC Australia was born in 1897 in Melbourne, and died at age 80 years old in 1978 in Labrador, City of Gold Coast County, QLD.

Leslie Thomas Williamson of Nhill Australia was born in 1889 in Nhill to William Williamson and Anne Sarah Williams. He had siblings Robert Williams, William Cornelius Williams, Sarah Ann Williams, Frederick James Williams, William Harold Williamson, Edward John Williams, and Beatrice May Williams. Leslie Williamson died at age 91 years old in 1980 in Macl.