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  SIR JOSEPH WILLIAMSON - LoveToKnow Article on SIR JOSEPH WILLIAMSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
WILLIAMSON, WILLIAM CRAWFORD (1816-1895), English naturalist, was born at Scarborough on the 24th of November 1816.
Young Williamson's maternal grandfather was a lapidary, and from him he learnt the art of cutting stones, an accomplishment which he found of great use in later years, when he undertook his work on the structure of fossil plants.
Williamsons work in fossil botany was scarcely appreciated at the time as it deserved, for its great merits were somewhat obscured by the authors want of familiarity with the modern technicalities of the science.
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 Bio of Joseph Williamson
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON, the eminent lawyer, historian, and author, of Belfast, is a son of Joseph and Caroline Cross Williamson.
Williamson has a peculiarly natural aptitude and a great love for historical investigation, and on all matters relating to the earlier history of at least a portion of Maine he is regarded as prominent authority.
Williamson was married to Miss Ada H. Peirce, of Bangor, who died in 1872, leaving three children, one of whom, Joseph Williamson, Jr., is in the practice of law in Augusta.
history.rays-place.com /bios/maine/williamson-j.htm   (862 words)

  
 Williamson's tunnels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Williamson recognised the potential of the land he purchased in the area and made use of this void by encouraging his men to build arches: mainly from bricks but occasionally out of sandstone.
Joseph Williamson was a 19th-century philanthropist, tobacco merchant, property owner and pioneer of tunnels.
Williamson was buried in the Tate family vault at St. Thomas' Church, situated at the intersection between Park Lane and Paradise Street in Liverpool city centre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Williamson's_tunnels   (974 words)

  
 Virginia and North Carolina Genealogical Exchange - pafg516 - Generatedby Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joseph Williamson [Parents] was born in,, Isle of Wight, Virginia.
Absolom Williamson was born in,, Isle of Wight, Virginia.
Silvia Williamson was born in,, Isle of Wight, Virginia.
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 Virginia and North Carolina Genealogical Exchange - pafg488 - Generatedby Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joseph Williamson was born in,, Isle of Wight, Virginia.
Hardy Williamson was born in,, Isle of Wight, Virginia.
Joseph Holloman was born in,, Isle of Wight, Virginia.
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 Joseph Williamson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-3 October 1701), English politician, was born at Bridekirk, near Cockermouth, his father, Joseph Williamson, being vicar of this place.
After a period of comparative inactivity Sir Joseph represented England at the Congress of Nijmwegen in 1697, and in 1698 he signed the first treaty for the partition of the (additional info and facts about Spanish Monarchy) Spanish Monarchy.
Williamson was the second president of the (An honorary English society (formalized in 1660 and given a Royal Charter by Charles II in 1662) through which the British government has supported science) Royal Society, but his main interests, after politics, were rather in antiquarian than in scientific matters.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joseph_williamson.htm   (395 words)

  
 Joseph Williamson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sir Joseph Williamson (1633 - 3 October 1701) English politician was born at Bridekirk Cockermouth his father Joseph Williamson being vicar this place.
He was educated at St at Westminster School and at Queen's College Oxford of which he became a fellow in 1660 he entered the service of the Secretary of State Sir Edward Nicholas retaining his position under the succeeding Sir Henry Bennet afterwards Earl of Arlington.
In 1673 and 1674 he represented his country at the of Cologne and in the latter year became Secretary of State having practically purchased this position from for £6000 a sum which he required his successor when he left office in 1679.
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 Carolyn Harris - Williamson Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joseph WILLIAMSON came out to Tasmania with his brother on the "Britomart" on 4th February 1822 with a letter of recommendation from the under-secretary of state for the colonies in England, Henry Goulburn and appears to have been granted 800 acres of land which he located at Broadmarsh.
Joseph died on 1-4-1826 and is buried at St.David's, Hobart Tas.
William WILLIAMSON jnr was admitted sizar at Emmanuel (Cambridge) 20 December 1799, Matriculated Michaelmas 12800 B.A. According to Lambeth Place, William was a curate of Westbere from 1805, was ordained deacon 1805 and priest 1806 respectively, and can be identified with the Cambridge graduate who was admitted at Emmanuel College 20 Dec. 1799.
members.westnet.com.au /web/talltrees/CMH/williams.htm   (596 words)

  
 Williamson's Tunnels Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Williamson's Tunnels in Edge Hill (a district of Liverpool, England) are a bizarre collection of seemingly pointless tunnels built by Joseph Williamson from 1806 to 1840.
Williamson made use of this by encouraging his men to build arches - mainly from bricks but occasionally out of sandstone.
Williamson was buried at St. Thomas' Church, situated where Park Lane and Paradise Street meet in the city centre.
www.stardustmemories.com /encyclopedia/Williamson%27s_tunnels   (774 words)

  
 New Page 2
Joseph Williamson is arguably the most noteworthy of them all.
Williamson established himself within the firm and his success enabled him to setup as a merchant and in 1802 he married Thomas's sister, Elizabeth with the blessing of the Tate family.
Williamson then built several houses in the street, employing men returning from the Napoleonic war and others who had lost work as a direct result of the war's end.
www.timbosliverpool.co.uk /folklore/legends/williamson.htm   (518 words)

  
 Liverpool - Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre
Joseph Williamson employed thousands of labourers to create a strange, underground kingdom, which has lain beneath the city since the early 1800s.
After years of fund-raising and campaigning by enthusiasts, the Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre was officially opened late last year by HRH the Duke of Gloucester.
Their instigator, Joseph Williamson, was born in unremarkable circumstances on March 10, 1769.
www.manchesteronline.co.uk /entertainment/daysout/s/50/50832_liverpool__williamson_tunnels_heritage_centre.html   (998 words)

  
 Williamson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Williamson is a variant of the name William.
Troy Williamson, a wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Williamson   (90 words)

  
 Biography of Peter Williamson
A Peter Williamson was a Justice of the Peace in Fairfield Co. in 1810 and 1811 for he performed some marriages during that time.
However, it appears that Peter was in Fairfield Co., OH in 1812 not in VA. In an article about Joseph A. Williamson that appeared in the Newark Advocate newspaper (Newark, Licking Co., OH) in 1883, it said that Peter move his family to Monroe Twp., Licking Co., OH 1818 when Joseph was 14 years old.
A John Williamson family was living next to them at that time and it is possible that this was John and Deborah Green Williamson and their family.
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 JOSEPH HOWARD PATON Monaro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joseph Howard PATON was an itinerant labourer and sharefarmer on and around the Monaro Shire.
Joseph resided in Berridale at the time of his marriage to Mabel Mary Ann SMITH, daughter of Joseph Henry SMITH and Mary Ann DUNN.(See Thomas DUNN –Pioneer) Joseph and Mabel’s marriage and children are listed at the DUNN site.
Ronald T.Vivien WILLIAMSON born 1893 at Goulburn, N.S.W Baptised Nth Goulburn.
www.cooma.nsw.gov.au /monaropioneers/paton-jh.htm   (710 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | The enigma of Liverpool's labyrinth
Williamson set his gangs of men burrowing in all directions but most of the tunnels lead nowhere.
Williamson, it is said, responded to the poverty around him by creating work, whether it really needed doing or not.
The tunnels therefore were a place of sanctuary for Williamson and for fellow believers to flee to and emerge from to start a new city once God had wreaked his vengeance on the world.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2342183.stm   (1023 words)

  
 BBC - Beyond the Broadcast - Making History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Keith Williams, headmaster of Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School in Rochester, gave the background of the school's benefactor.
Sir Joseph Williamson was a high-placed politician and diplomat in the government of Charles II.
Williamson's aim was also to enter Parliament which, after several failed attempts, he managed in 1669, representing Thetford in Norfolk.
www.bbc.co.uk /education/beyond/factsheets/makhist/makhist6_prog7a.shtml   (567 words)

  
 The Bethel Baptist Church of White Plains, NY
Rev. Williamson is married to Deborah A. Williamson.
Rev. Williamson answered the call to the gospel ministry in 1985 and was licensed to preach the gospel at the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church located in East St. Louis, Illinois, Rev. John H. Rouse, pastor.
Rev. Williamson has held several occupations including serving as a district executive and senior district executive for the Boy Scouts of America, an intensive drug abuse probation officer in St. Clair County Illinois, and as a clinical interventionist and aide in a mental health and chemical dependency treatment center.
pages.prodigy.net /percussions/bethel/pulpit_frm.htm   (504 words)

  
 Diabetic damage to eyes, heart, nerves, kidneys may be explained by controversial theory
Williamson's theory focuses on the energy-producing compound's reversible transformation between two forms, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and NADH (NAD plus H, or one atom of hydrogen).
Williamson and his coauthors used in vitro studies of rat retinas to show that both of these conditions decrease the ratio of NAD to NADH in different ways.
Williamson and his coauthors propose that long-term use of these processes causes the damage seen in diabetes.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-10/wuso-ddt102804.php   (899 words)

  
 Williamson\'s tunnels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Other guesses include a refuge from "the end of the world", secret passageways for secret activities (slaves, smuggling, whatever), and lastly some think he was simply crazy.
Joseph Williamson was born on 10th March 1769 possibly at Warrington.
Williamson died, aged 70, on 1st May 1840.
williamsons-tunnels.area51.ipupdater.com   (190 words)

  
 The Joseph Williamson Society
A new development in the publicity arm of the Joseph Williamson Society; a charitable trust that is the process of restoring the hidden labyrinth of tunnels which lie dormant under the city of Liverpool, England.
Joseph Williamson provided vital employment for local residents in the early 1800's.
The Joseph Williamson Society pledges, as a registered charity, to work with enthusiasm and dedication to advance the education of the public in the life and philanthropic achievements of Joseph Williamson (1769-1840) and to restore and preserve his complex of tunnels and buildings for the access and benefit of the public.
tunnels.www8.50megs.com /tunnels/home.html   (910 words)

  
 Port Cities: - Joseph Williamson - The Mole of Edge Hill
Joseph Williamson wanted these people of Liverpool to have a better way of life and earn honest wages, however, he did not want to just give money to them.
Joseph Williamson himself was not always rich and had to work hard to earn his living.
Joseph Williamson later went on to buy the expanding tobacco company from Thomas Tate and the business continued to do well and earning him his fortune.
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 GREEN2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The daughter of the late Frank and Emma Williamson of Monroe Township, she is survived by one sister, Mrs.
Williamson complained of not feeling well and was found dead on a couch a short time later.
Williamson was a native of Licking County, born March 5, 1889, the son of the late Charles and Flora (Green) Williamson.
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 LINEAGE
Joseph Williamson, deceased, is numbered among the honored pioneers of Van Buren County Iowa.
Williamson, a son of Francis and Eve McNamar Williamson, was born June 20, 1814, in Scioto County Ohio, where the first twelve years of his life were spent upon his father’s farm.
Williamson and his wife removed to the vicinity of Bonaparte where they resided until 1850, when they became residents of Davis County.
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 descendants of isaac williamson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Notes for CHLOE WILLIAMSON: The 1850 Census of Williamson District, Richmond County, NC shows Chloe Williamson was living with her sister Mary Sneed/Snead (House #320) and her family.
Notes for MARY WILLIAMSON: Chloe Williamson, 59; Catherine Williamson, 30; Jane Williamson, 16; Frank Williamson 20, and Mary Wallace 9, lived in the Henley and Mary Sneed during the 1850 Census of Williamson District of Richmond County.
Notes for JAMES WILLIAMSON: James Williamson, 60, voted October 15, 1902 in the Williamson District of Richmond County, N.C. Children of JAMES WILLIAMSON and MARY SNEAD are: i.
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 Williamson's Tunnels
Williamson's Tunnels were comissioned by Joseph Williamson to provide work for unemployed soldiers returning from the Napoleonic Wars.
The cost of excavating the tunnels was met by Joseph Williamson a wealthy Liverpool merchant.
Williamson saw the impact unemployment had on the population so he organised a workforce to dig tunnels under Edge Hill.
www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk /lhol/content.aspx?itemid=75   (88 words)

  
 Outlook: Understanding Blood Flow Variation in the Brain
Williamson took his idea to Raichle, who put him in touch with Thomas A. Woolsey, MD, professor of anatomy and neurobiology, cell biology and physiology, and of neurological surgery.
Williamson shared the successful results of the second rat experiments with Raichle in advance of publication, and they made the idea of testing the same principles in humans irresistible to Mark A. Mintun, MD, professor of radiology and of psychiatry.
Williamson notes that while he’s not going to be conducting any follow-up experiments per se, he does plan to use the studies of the rat retina and data from other pre-retirement experiments to advance a new theory he has about how diabetes damages tissues.
outlook.wustl.edu /spring2004/bloodflow.html   (1508 words)

  
 About the Tunnels
Built in the 1820’s and 30’s by local philanthropist Joseph Williamson, this subterranean labyrinth of uncharted multi-level tunnels is said to include complete houses, deep tunnels and a banqueting hall 80ft long and 40 ft high.
Joseph Williamson called himself ‘King of Edge Hill’ but is now known as the ‘Mole of Edge Hill’.
Williamson would simply order them to make rooms, passages and doorways at whim.
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 Alice Williamson Diary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alice Williamson is bitterly resentful of the Union occupation.
The census list R.R. Williamson, aged 19, and Joseph Williamson, age 15, presumably her brothers Rush and Jo mentioned on pages 23, 34, and 35 in her diary.
We have no other papers of Williamson or her family nor are we aware of any other family papers in another library or archival repository.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~we3sumneritesjblcsf/awdiary.htm   (359 words)

  
 Thomas Jefferson University Faculty Research Interests
Joseph SK; Boehning D; Bokkala S; Watkins R; Widjaja J. Biosynthesis of inositol trisphosphate receptors: selective association with the molecular chaperone calnexin.
Joseph SK, Pierson S, Samanta S. Trypsin digestion of the inositol trisphosphate receptor: implications for the conformation and domain organization of the protein.
Busa WB, Ferguson JE, Joseph SK, Williamson JR, Nuccitelli R. Activation of frog (Xenopus laevis) eggs by inositol trisphosphate.
www.tju.edu /facint/details.cfm?key=sxj118&version=print   (930 words)

  
 Genealogy.com: Descendants of Joseph Williamson of Kent
The various branches of the Williamson family lived in the Medway area of Kent consisting of the adjoining towns Strood, Rochester, Chatham, and all linked by the common High Street.
The first recorded member of the Williamson family was Joseph Williamson (c.1730) who married Elizabeth Arlidge (b.1728) on Friday 28th June, 1751 at St.Margarets Rochester Kent.
The Williamson family had long followed the occupation of mariners, fishermen, watermen and bargemen working on the Medway River near Rochester, Kent which is a tributory of the River Thames.
www.genealogy.com /genealogy/users/c/u/f/Peter-Cuffley   (421 words)

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