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Given Name: William
Surname: Richards

Gender: Male

Birth date: 25 February 1798

Birth place:
English Spelling: Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales
Welsh Spelling: Merthyr Tudful, Glamorganshire, Wales

Death date: 1885

Death place: Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States

Burial date:

Burial place: Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States

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Father: William Richards
Mother: Mary (Margaret) Thomas

Siblings

Harriet Jones (1808-1847)

Married 01 July 1826 in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales * Merthyr Tudful, Glamorganshire, Wales

Children

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 17 April 1855 aboard the ship Chimborazo.
Arrived in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on 21 May 1855.

James, James and Mary Richards - Biography

On the Chimborazo with William were his son Thomas (age 24), his son David (age 19), his daughter Elizabeth (age 16), and his son John (age 14). William, his daughter Elizabeth, and his son John crossed the plains to Utah with the Charles A. Harper Company. William’s oldest son William (age 25) had come to America two years earlier with four of his siblings: Mary (age 20), Elias (age 11), Martha (9), and Eleazer (age 8). William’s wife and the mother of all nine of their children was Harriet Jones Richards who had died seven years earlier on 8 March 1847 in Merthyr Tydfil.