Do you know his parents names at all? I will have a little look and see what I can find. Think I can see him on the 1901/11 censuses in Swansea as you say, married to Margaret.
Hi Kat,
It's very kind of you to look. On his Marriage Cert to Margaret Rees he gives his father as, 'William Wilson, (Deceased) Occupation: Mason'. Masons would have moved around the country for work, & so I've looked around, but can't find him anywhere. And they are such common names too:-( My late father was one of William James & Margaret's sons, but he died in 1957, and so I've never been able to ask him). It's quite possible that William Wilson Snr died when William James Wilson was very young and his mother re-married, but I have no knowledge of this at all... :-((( I have a theory that his mother was an Alice, - because one of his 6 sons was initially registered as a girl, (Alice Rencella Wilson) & the gender was reassigned as a 'Clerical Error' 3 months later & he was re-named Ernest Rencella Wilson(!)
Romilly.
