Talk:SS Connemara/@comment-86.139.116.66-20161102163336

John Williams of 36, Gilbert Street, Holyhead was a seaman on the Connemara. He was 22 years old. His mother Jane died giving birth to him in March 1894. He was then brought up by his aunt Martha who became the second wife to John's father Wlliam who was an undertaker at Y Felinheli on the Menai Straits. William died in 2005 when John was 10years old. His ambition was to go to sea, but Martha had him serve an apprenticeship with a local draper because his elder brother Richard had already served an apprenticeship as a shipwright. In 1915 John went to sea and sailed to China, Japan and Germany, before joining the Connemara and meeting his untimely death.