Talk:Thomas Williams (Congregational minister)

Birthdate
I have removed the following paragraph from the lead:
 * From baptismal records he appears to be the son of William and Mary Williams of Talgarth, Breconshire, Wales and was baptised on 29 June 1725 in the non-conformist chapel of Tredustan, near Talgarth. William Williams was connected to the non-conformist Vavasor Griffiths’s Academy which operated from 1735 to 1741. In 1736 or 1737 Griffiths moved his home to Chancefield near Talgarth; he retaining his pastorate, and was teaching at the Carmarthen Academy, Llwyn-llwyd as well as at Chancefield. At this time the Welsh Methodist revival influenced the older nonconformist churches, or dissenters &mdash; the Baptists and the Congregationalists &mdash; who in turn also experienced growth and renewal.  As a result, by the middle of the nineteenth century, Wales was a predominantly a nonconformist country.

Of those four references, only the first one mentions Williams, and that one by now carries an explicit disclaimer that Thomas Williams' birthdate and parentage are not confirmed since there's a likelihood that the Thomas Williams described in our article and the one born to William Williams in 1725 are one and the same, but no definitive link. Huon (talk) 15:20, 14 March 2015 (UTC)