The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Catherine
Surname: Edwards

Gender: Female

Birth date: 20 August 1819

Birth place: Pembrokeshire, Wales

Death date: 29 July 1859

Death place: Nebraska, United States

Burial date: 29 July 1859

Burial place: Nebraska, United States

Father: James Edwards
Mother: Joan Kendry

Siblings

Hopla Sr., John (1820-1892)

Married 1 November 1845 in Pwllcrochan, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Children

1851 UK Census

Monkton, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Extract

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Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 19 April 1856 aboard the ship Samuel Curling.
Arrived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachuetts, United States on 23 May 1856.

"Pioneer Overland," database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org : accessed 6 January 2020), entry for Catherine Hopla, age 39, Edward Stevenson Company, 1859.

"Saints By Sea," database (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu : accessed 6 January 2020), entry for Catharine Hopla, age 35, arrived 23 May 1856 in Boston on the Samuel Curling.

Monkton and the 'Mormons'

According to the Pioneer Overland Database entry, Catherine died and was buried at "Castle Creek" which was roughly 50 miles East of Chimney Rock.

Catherine Edwards

Siblings