The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Mary
Surname: Owens

Gender: Female

Birth date: Abt. 1814

Birth place: England

Death date: 1851

Death place: Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States

Burial date:

Burial place: Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States

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Meredith, James (1808-1849)

Married 1842 in Glamorganshire, Wales

Children

Meredith, James Pitt

Jones, Noah Roberts (1813-1852)

Married 14 October 1850 in Stringtown, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States

1850 US Census

District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa

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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.

"Saints by Sea," database and images (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu: accessed 21 June 2021), Mary Meredeth entry, age 35, arrived 28 April 1849 on the Hartley.

Mary Owens traveled to America with her first husband James Meredith and his five children (ONLY the two youngest of which she was mother to--Mary Williams was mother to the three older ones). Her husband James died of cholera as the Welsh group was traveling upriver from New Orleans to Iowa. By 1852 she she had also died of cholera and her second husband Noah Roberts Jones had died as well, leaving the children orphans.

For additional information, contact: Ruth Ann Baker.