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I am looking for the family information of James Williams, born Llanelli Carmarthenshire abt 1813

In the 1851 Wales census he and a wife Sarah and son William were listed in

71 Talywain, Trevethin, Carmarthenshire and his occupation is a Blacksmith.

They have a daughter Margaret, baptised Swansea 1852 and the family emmigrated to South Australia aboard the ship Shackamaxon Oct 1852.

As I have no information as to either James or Sarah’s families in Wales I am hoping this story sounds familiar to someone.

Sarah’s surname could be Jones but I have no proof of this.

Family History and Family Illness

My father and two of my brothers had all died of heart attacks at a fairly young age. My dad and my eldest brother were in their forties, and my younger brother was just thirty two years old.

A Great advantage of knowing about family history is that sometimes it can help you to trace and pinpoint occurrences of illness.

By tracing back my paternal side of the family, I discovered that rarely did any of the males live beyond the age of forty four, and many had died of heart disease before they reached the ripe old age of forty. The females in the family line hardly ever suffered with any heart trouble at all.

It occurred to me that the heart disease in the male line was too frequent to be coincidental, especially as it all seemed to be because of high cholesterol levels,