The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Emma
Surname: Blinstone

Gender: Female

Birth date: 17 September 1807

Birth place: Llanasa, Flintshire, Wales

Death date: 23 August 1856

Death place: Nebraska, United States View Sources

Burial date: 23 August 1856

Burial place: Nebraska, United States View Sources

Father: John Blimstone
Mother: Mary Pierce

Siblings

Brooks, Samuel (1789-1856)

Married 27 July 1835 in Llanasa, Flintshire, Wales

Children

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1841 UK Census	Trewailace, Flintshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1851 UK Census	Llanasa, Flintshire, Wales	Extract	Image

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 31 January 2020), entry for Emma Brooks, age 48, Edward Bunker Company, 1856.

"Saints By Sea," database (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu : accessed 31 January 2020), entry for Emma Brooks, age 48, arrived 23 May 1856 in Boston on the S. Curling.

Emma Blinstone Brooks died while crossing the plains in or somewhere West of Florence, Nebraska. She would have been buried almost immediately.