The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Margaret Pitt
Surname: Meredith

Gender: Female

Birth date: 12 June 1841

Birth place: Llanfabon, Glamorganshire, Wales

Death date: 23 January 1915

Death place: Philipsburg, Granite, Montana, United States

Burial date: 26 January 1915

Burial place: Philipsburg, Granite, Montana, United States

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Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 5 March 1849 aboard the ship Hartley.
Arrived in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States on 28 April 1849.

Married (1) as a plural wife to John Martin Stewart 2 March 1857 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Married (2) Hugh O'Neill 19 July 1858 at Fort Bridger, Wyoming.
Married (3) Alva Mason about 1900 in Montana.

Name on both birth certificate and temple records in Utah was Margaret Pitt Meredith. Her parents were James Meredith and Mary Williams (NOT Mary Owens). She traveled to America with her father, step-mother, and four other siblings. Her father died as group was traveling upriver from New Orleans to Iowa. Her step-mother married a widowed Welshman. Then her step-mother and new step-father died, leaving the five Meredith children and his daughter orphans. All of the five girls came to Utah, apparently about 1852, and married. The one boy did not make it to Utah.

For additional information, contact: Ruth Ann Baker.