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Given Name: Naomi
Surname: Biggs

Gender: Female

Birth date: 7 September 1865

Birth place: Llanfoist, Monmouthshire, Wales View Sources

Death date: 2 November 1954

Death place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States View Sources

Burial date: 6 November 1954

Burial place: Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States View Sources

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Father: Thomas Biggs
Mother: Ellen Pitman

Siblings

George Mesach Biggs
Thomas Biggs Sr.
Albert Biggs
Sarah Ann Biggs
Frederick Biggs
Ruth Biggs
Sarah Ann Biggs
Jesse Biggs
Joseph Biggs
Anne Biggs
Ellen Biggs
Ada Biggs
Edgar Biggs

William Forward (1859-1933)

Married 30 May 1883 in Trevethin, Monmouthshire, Wales

Children

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1871 UK Census	Llanfoist, Monmouth, Wales	Extract	Image
1881 UK Census	, Monmouthshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1891 UK Census	Llanover Tyner, Monmouth, Wales	Extract	Image
1901 UK Census	Blaenavon, Monmouth, Wales	Extract	Image
1911 UK Census	Abersychan, Monmouth, Wales	Extract	Image
1940 US Census	Precinct 1, Salt Lake, Utah	Extract	Image

Left Southampton, Hampshire, England on 7 September 1935 aboard the ship Britannic.
Arrived in New York, Kings, New York, United States on 15 September 1935.

"New York, Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957," database (www.ancestry.com: accessed 6 May 2020), Naomi Forward entry, age 70, arrived 15 September 1935 on the Britannic.

Allen, Sarah (Forward) - Biography
Biggs, Naomi (Forward) - Biography
Biggs, Naomi (Forward) - Obituary
Forward, William - Biography

In 1935, two years following the death of her husband, Naomi Biggs Forward was finally able to fulfill her lifelong dream of going to Utah to live.

The children of Ellen Pitman (1843) and Thomas Biggs (1837):

1. Fredrick Biggs (1859) – Polly Rogers
2. Ruth Biggs (1861) – George Morris Prosser
3. Naomi Biggs (1865 – 1954 in SLC) – William Forward
4. Jesse Biggs (1867) – Mary Rees
5. Thomas Biggs (1869 – 1961 in Price, UT) – Emily Carey
6. Joseph Biggs (1870 – 1951) – Martha Jane Jones
7. Anne Biggs (1872 – 1916) – Henry Werrett
8. Albert Biggs (1876 – 1953 in Orem, UT) – Mary Ann Nichols
9. Ada Biggs (1877 – 1938) – John Watkins
10. Sarah Ann Biggs (1880 – 1960 in Provo, UT) – William John Bendall
11. Edgar Biggs (1883 – 1927) – Rachel Werrett
12. George Biggs (1886 – 1981 in Springville, UT) – Millicent Car

Five of the above migrated to Utah: Naomi, Thomas, Albert, Sara Ann, and George.

The children of Naomi Biggs (1865) and William Forward (1859):

1. William Forward (1883 – 1939) – Bertha Alice Eddowes
2. Thomas Forward (1885 – 1913) – Beatrice Meredith
3. Naomi Forward (1887 – 1978 in SLC) – Richard Charles Thomas
4. Edwin Forward (1889 – 1955) – Sarah Allen
5. Ruth Forward (1891 – 1986 in Utah) – Joseph Henry Sleight
6. Harriet Forward (1894 – 1973) – William Jenkins
7. Charles Forward (1896 – 1922) – Ivy Parry
8. Ellen Forward (1898 – 1982 in SLC) – James Levi Wheat
9. Alice Forward (1903 – 1997 in Farmington, UT) –Carlo Emanuel Richard Klitgaard
10. Mable Forward (1903 – 2000 in UT) – Thomas Biggs

Five of the above migrated to Utah: Naomi, Ruth, Ellen, Alice, and Mable.