That was not his name.

Before he was seven both his grandparents died and he was taken by a farmer who called him Bill.

The farmer did not send him to school and he grew up barely able to write his name, Will Williams, which was not his real name.

He didn't even know what his real name was.
"Probably my brothers are alive," he said, "but what chance have I got of ever finding them when I don't know what the family name is.

Maybe they've all got new names now like I have.