The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: James Weaver
Surname: Palmer

Gender: Male

Birth date: 6 August 1820

Birth place: Dymock, Gloucestershire, Wales View Sources

Death date: 6 October 1905

Death place: Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States View Sources

Burial date: 8 October 1905

Burial place: Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States View Sources

Father: James Palmer
Mother: Hannah Weaver

Siblings

Mary Ann Price (1816-1888)

Married 14 March 1842 in England

Children

Winkless, Charlotte
Palmer, Mary Elizabeth
Winkless, Mary Eliza
Palmer, Joseph
Winkless, Joseph Thomas
Palmer, Mary Ann

Elizabeth Jenkins Foxall (1832-1920)

Married 10 December 1851 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Children

Wilkins, John Foxall
Palmer, William
Palmer, John
Palmer, Jane
Palmer, George Foxall
Palmer, Annie Elizabeth
Palmer, James Foxall
Palmer, William F
Palmer, John Franklin
Palmer, Elizabeth
Palmer, Charles
Palmer, Royal Alonzo

Mary Jane Ewer (1847-1934)

Married 10 August 1867 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Children

Palmer, Henry
Palmer, Alonzo
Palmer, Hannah
Palmer, Joseph
Palmer, Levi
Palmer, Wilford
Palmer, David
Palmer, Alice E
Palmer, Daisy E
Palmer, Richard
Palmer, Fannie
Palmer, Ada
Palmer, Heber

Mary Ann Jones Watkins (1815-1851)

Married 27 April 1894 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

1850 US Census	Great Salt Lake county, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory	Extract	Image
1860 US Census	the 7th Ward Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt LAke, Ter of Utah	Extract	Image
1880 US Census	Skull Valley North of Johnson's Pass, Tooele, Territory of Utah	Extract	Image
1900 US Census	Grantsville Precinct x, Tooele, Utah	Extract	Image

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 12 March 1842 aboard the ship Hanover.
Arrived in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States on 2 May 1842.

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 28 March 1857 aboard the ship George Washington.
Arrived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachuetts, United States on 20 April 1857.

"Pioneer Database," database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org: accessed 24 November 2020), James Weaver Palmer entry, Edward Hunter Company (1850).

"Pioneer Database," database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org: accessed 24 November 2020), James Weaver Palmer entry, Horace S. Eldredge Company (1858).

"Saints By Sea," database and images (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu: accessed 24 November 2020), James Palmer entry, age 34, arrived 20 April 1857 on the George Washinton.

"Saints By Sea," database and images (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu: accessed 24 November 2020), Jathro Palmer entry, age 21, arrived 2 May 1842 on the Hanover.

Skenfrith Bridge, Monmouthshire: The first LDS baptism in South Wales

Palmer, James - Journal

James Weaver Palmer was baptized in South Wales on 13 April 1840 by Wilford Woodruff.

The journal of James Palmer is housed at the Church Historian's Library in the Church Office Building in Salt Lake City. The portions in which he relates his missionary experiences in Wales appear on this website. He was one of the first missionaries to preach the gospel to the Welsh people.
More details about his missions are available here.

James Weaver Palmer was also researched by the Nauvoo Community Project.