Tims family genealogy

Of Ireland, and Queensland

Arms—: Per chev. nebulée or, and az. three fleurs-de-lis counterchanged. Crest: A goat’s head issuant.

The ancient Irish family name of O’Tiom (“tiom;” Irish, soft, tender, fearful), has been anglicised Tims, Timms, and Timbs; in Kerry, it is known under the forms of Timms and Timbs; in England, as Tims.

1. Colonel Timbs, of Worcester, England, was an Irishman; he fought on the Stuart side in Cromwell’s time. It is said that Col. Timbs successfully held for some time Upton Bridge against Cromwell. After the defeat of Worcester, Charles I. fled to Coleford.

2. (—): son of Colonel Timbs.

3. (—): son of No. 2; was out in the “Rising” of 1745, on behalf of the “Pretender.”

4. (—) of Barford: son of No. 3.

5. William Timbs or Timms (b. 1770): son of No. 4.

6. William Timms or Timbs (born 1800): son of William; m. Margaret Parker, of Ripon, Yorkshire.

7. Edwin Timms or Timbs: son of William; born 17th Nov., 1829, at Warwick, in the co. of Warwick; married Susanna Anne Morris,[1] of All Saints, in the co. of Worcester, on 5th Sept,, 1857; he d. in 1875, and was buried at St. John’s, Worcester.

8. William Henry Timms or Timbs, Chemist: son of Edwin; b. at St John’s, in the county of Worcester, on 25th July, 1858; and living at Bundaberg, Queensland, in 1887.

Notes

[1] Morris: The tradition of this family (MacMorris) is that they are Morrisons of the Highland clan of this name which followed the fortunes of the Stuarts in the wars with Cromwell.

1. Henry Morris, brother of Canon Morris, of Worcester Cathedral, had:

2. Henry Morris (born at Worcester, England), who mar. Catherine Anne Spring, of the county Kerry, Ireland, and had:

3. Susanna Anne Morris, who was born at Colombo, Ceylon, in 1835, and married Edwin Timms or Timbs, above mentioned, who died 1875.

A reference to No. 131 on the “Nicholson” (No. 8) pedigree, p. 290, Vol. I., will show that Patrick William Nicolson married Ellen Cowley, of Cowley Manor, near Thornbury, in the co. of Gloucester; her mother was a Miss Ellen Morris of Whitebrook, near Chepstow, in the county of Gloucester. Miss Ellen Morris was a member of the Worcester family; and the Whitebrook Morrises are clearly correct in the assertion that they are MacMorris, or Morrisons, of the Highland clan, here mentioned.