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Jane Williams later life and death

Unfortunately, there is minimal documentation of Jane (Terry) Williams’s later life and death. Due to the death of her husband, John Williams, in 1806, she single-handedly raised her children, while completing her work. She is known for this work, that is renowned as beautiful and expensive, and it is much better documented than her later life and death. It is said that in her later life “there are no records of her activities in the years before her death”. However, some minor details regarding her father and her work in Cork are still available. Her father, Carden Terry, died in 1821, and it is known that while working with her father in the years before his death, she made some incredible works. These are now on display in the National Museum of Women in Arts, located in Washington DC. Two of the works there, Marrow Scoop, made in 1810 and Freedom Box, made in 1814, solidified her name in silversmithing history. An important part of her later life is that after her father’s death, the Carden Terry business in Cork, that she used to work in, was closed. In the years 1824-27 she made a name for herself as a "linen draper and haberdasher in Cork going by the name ‘Jane Williams and Sons’." After those years, there are no records of Jane Williams' doings before her death. This is probably because Jane Williams eventually retired. She spent the last few years of her life with her children in Cork. Jane Williams' last twenty years of her life are not documented, and she passed away at the age of 74 on April 17, 1845, in Cork. She left a legacy of silversmith art to her seven children.

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