Edmund Williams (1843–77)
Merchant seaman. Captained several voyages taking immigrants to New Zealand in the 1870s. Perished when his ship Avalanche, bound for New Zealand, collided with the sailing ship Forest in September 1877.
BMD (Birth index)
‘Loss of the Avalanche’ freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/avalanche.htm (accessed 6 November 2013).