The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Martha
Surname: Morris

Gender: Female

Birth date: Abt. April 1775

Birth place:
English Spelling: Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Welsh Spelling: Glan-y-fferi, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Death date: June 1854

Death place: Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States

Burial date: June 1854

Burial place: Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States

Father: George Morris
Mother: Catharine Anthony

Siblings

Davis/Davies, Henry (1788-1854)

Married 1829 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Children

Davis/Davies, Mariah

1841 UK Census	Saint Peter, Carmarthen, Wales	Extract	Image
1851 UK Census	Saint Peters, Carmarthenshire, Wales	Extract	Image

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 4 February 1854 aboard the ship Golconda.
Arrived in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States on 18 March 1854.

"Mormon Migration," database and images (www.mormonmigration.byu.edu: accessed 24 February 2015), Martha Davies entry, age 59, arrived 18 March 1854 on the Galconda.

Martha Morris was a sister to Rachel Morris. Rachel and her husband William Rees Davis were baptized on 19 February 1843 by William Henshaw, his first two converts as a missionary in Wales.