The Descendants of George Joseph
Introduction to Joseph and Other Welsh Names
This is a brief summary of the
descendants of George Joseph of Carmarthenshire, Wales. The patronymic naming system (after the
father) is by far the most common method of naming in Wales. Before the 19th century there were usually no
established last names in Wales. People remembered their “pedigree” as a
string of names - sometimes as many as nine - like William ap Robert ap Thomas,
etc. This would be William, the son of Robert, the son of Thomas, etc. A woman would also take her father’s name, so
she would be Ann ferch Robert ap Thomas, or Ann, the
daughter of Robert, the son of Thomas, etc.
When some Welsh people began using last names like the English did, the
“ap” was usually replaced by an “s” on the end to indicate possession,
English-style (William ap William became William
Williams, David ap John became David Johns or David Jones). Joseph, like some other Welsh names (Morgan,
Llewelyn, etc.), usually stayed “pure” (without the English “s”). During the
beginning of the Methodist movement in Wales in the late 1700’s, Old
Testament first names like Joseph, Samuel, and Isaac became popular. Gradually the English surname system became
adopted in many parts of Wales,
and about 1813 the English required
that last names be written on all parish records by introducing new baptismal
and burial forms. This meant that
“William ap Joseph” would become William Joseph, and the same Welsh last name
would now begin to be used for more than one generation.
The Joseph last name is not a
common name by Welsh standards - only about 0.22% of the people in Wales have
it. However, the number of different
last names in Wales is MUCH
smaller than in England, so
a last name shared by 0.22% of the people in England would be a very common
name! For example, 56% of all the people
in Wales
have one of the
ten most common Welsh last names. 14% of
the people in Wales
have the last name Jones and 9% are named Williams. In England, only
5% of the people have one of the ten most common English last names and Smith,
the most common English last name, is shared by only 1.33% of the
population. Barely 0.5% of the
population has the last name Taylor,
the second-most-common English name! The
reason for this is that in Wales the naming system is almost totally
patronymic, while in England it is a mixture of patronymic (Johnson,
Robertson), occupations (Smith, Taylor), physical traits (Long, Short), colors
(White, Green), place names (Windsor, London), titles (Duke, King), and so on.
The numbering format used
below assigns a 1 to the earliest known ancestor. 1.1 would be the first child of the earliest
ancestor, and 1.2 is the second child of the earliest ancestor. 1.2.4, for example, would be the fourth child
of the second child of the earliest ancestor.
The Josephs in Wales
The Josephs came from Carmarthenshire, a
county in southwest Wales. This area, even today, is one of the
strongest Welsh-speaking regions of the country. St. Ishmael’s parish is located near the
point where the Towy
River flows into the
Burry Inlet of Carmarthen Bay. The
earliest record of the Josephs is in Llansaint, a small town on the top of a
steep hill in St. Ishmael’s (Llanishmel) parish. The (VERY old!) parish church is located down
the hill about two miles west of Llansaint, with a spectacular view of the Towy River
estuary. Two Joseph marriages and a
number of baptisms and burials occurred at the St. Ishmael’s church.
Llansaint is best known for its
cockle women. It was one of the principal centers for the cockle industry of Carmarthen Bay. Tierney, in 1900, described it
thus:
"Llansaint ......
a place inhabited for generations by a somewhat primitive and exceedingly hardy
race of people who live by gathering shellfish, especially cockles. The trade
is almost entirely in the hands of the women, often assisted by children. The
business seems to pay them remarkably well ... there is some truth in the old
saying, so well known in St. Ishmael's parish, that "he who marries a
Llansaint woman marries a fortune".
Later the Josephs moved to
Llanelli, located on the northeastern shore of the Burry Inlet of Carmarthen
Bay. Llanelli had early importance as a
port town – especially after the exploitation of surface coal began in the 17th
century. The Llanelly Copperworks
Company was founded in 1804. (Note that
the original Welsh spelling is Llanelli, but the English spelling – with a ‘y’
- was used until 1963. The official name
of the town has now reverted to the Welsh word – Llanelli.) By the middle of the 19th century,
Llanelli’s two main industries were coal mining and copper smelting. The growth of the coal industry had slowed by
that time. Less surface coal was
available, and the development of deep mines elsewhere in South
Wales had begun.
Llanelli was a hotbed of
religious activity, too. John Wesley
preached there six times, and David Rees, a famous preacher in Llanelli,
preached at Capel Als, an Independent chapel, from
1829 until his death in 1869. He also
founded three other chapels between 1840 and 1850. David Rees edited a magazine, Y Diwygiwr
(The Reformer) which was circulated all over Wales. Although Rees was spectacularly successful in
his ministry, he was not always popular with either the Church of Wales
(Anglican) or other Protestant denominations, especially Baptists. Another preacher of the time, Dr. J.R.
Morgan, wrote the following lines (loosely translated from Welsh) to describe
Rees:
Baptists
are godless, Priests are false,
Truth
is found nowhere, except at Capel Als.
William and Ann Joseph were
married in Capel Als in late 1846 – during the tenure
of the Rev. David Rees mentioned above.
Another aspect of religious life at that time was the rise of Mormonism
in South Wales – particularly in Llanelli and
especially among coal miners and copper workers like the Josephs. Although brothers
David Henry and William Joseph both married in Llanelli, they and most of the
rest of the immediate Joseph family were not there in the 1851 census. We know that the Josephs made several stops
in other coal mining areas of Wales
before emigrating to the United States. In June of 1849, Joseph Henry became a Latter-Day Saint and the same year he was ordained
successively to the office of a deacon, priest, and the next year to an
elder. William and Ann went first to Bedwellty in Monmouthshire, southeastern Wales, where
son Henry was born in February of 1849.
They then moved west a bit to Penydarren (presumably to join other
members of the Joseph family – see below) in the county of Glamorganshire,
then slightly northeast to Dowlais, where they arrived in 1850. William, Ann, and family are listed in the
1851 Glamorganshire census in Tramroadside, Dowlais. There were a number of tramroads; the
specific location of this one was by the Gellifaelog Bridge
across the Morlais Brook in the southwestern part of Dowlais. William and Ann Joseph are also listed as the
last two “starting” members of the Mormon congregation at Dowlais – joining
June 8, 1851. (Since they lived in
Dowlais, they probably transferred for convenience reasons; they had been
members of the Penydarren congregation before that time.) According to LDS records at Dowlais, they
stayed there until at least late 1853 with the exception of a two-month stay back
in Llanelli between August and October, 1853.
Older brother David Joseph and his family were also known to be Mormons
in Wales. David and the other Josephs lived on Lower Elim Street
(named after the Elim Baptist Chapel on the street) in northeast Penydarren. Note that Penydarren and Dowlais abut, so the
distance between Elim Street
and Tramroadside by the Gellifaelog
Bridge is less than half
a mile. Medical records of Dowlais Iron
Company workmen seen by F. J. Dyke, surgeon, in 1855/1856, indicate that
someone in the family of David Joseph, collier, on Lower Elim Street was seen in that
period. The visit(s) may well have been
associated with the birth of daughter Sarah Joseph in 1855.
In March of 1853, Joseph Henry Joseph landed in New York on his way to Utah.
He took out a marriage license on January 29th, 1855, and
married Mary Ann Richards from Merthyr Tydfil on February 15th in Meigs County. Census records indicate that William and Ann
Joseph arrived in America
in 1856. Since son Joseph was born in Wales in 1853 and son John was born in Ohio in 1857, this
certainly would support a year close to 1856.
David Henry Joseph, his wife Sarah, and their children sailed to America on the clipper ship Underwriter,
a ship chartered by the Mormons, and landed in New York on May 1st, 1860.
The 1860 Meigs
County, Ohio, census shows three
Joseph families, headed by brothers, in Minersville, Sutton Township. William and Ann Joseph headed one
family. David Joseph, 38 years old, and
his wife Sarah headed a second family.
Also, Joseph H. Joseph, 29 years old, and his wife Mary A. headed a
third. Anne Joseph, the mother of the
three brothers, was living with Joseph and listed as 60 years old. David and Sarah’s oldest daughter was named
Ann – presumably after her grandmother.
Ann was christened in Llanelli on November 2, 1845.
A fourth Joseph brother, John
Henry Joseph, also came to Meigs County and settled in Syracuse, just upriver from Minersville.
The Josephs along the Ohio River
The Pomeroy area, along with
the area east of Youngstown, contained the
richest known coal deposits in Ohio before the
development of the “Great Vein” (the Straitsville coal vein) in Perry County. There was some mining in Pomeroy (Salisbury Township)
itself, but the greatest activity was in Minersville, Sutton
Township, about two miles east along
the Ohio River. Most of the miners were Welsh or German, and
there was a small community just northwest of Minersville, still shown on
today’s maps, called Welshtown.
Joseph Henry and Mary Ann
Joseph had two sons, William Henry (born in 1856) and John Thomas (1858), in
nearby Syracuse
and Minersville. Joseph Henry’s brother
William and wife Ann had most of their children in Meigs County
beginning with John in 1857. The oldest
brother David Henry’s daughter, Ann Joseph, was married to Robert Lewis on July
13, 1861, in Meigs
County by Rev. William
Edwards. In addition, the last two
children of David Henry and Sarah, William and Ann, were born in Minersville in
1862 and about 1867, respectively.
According to a descendant of
John Henry Joseph, John Henry came to America
in 1856 and settled in Syracuse. A Henry Joseph married Ann Jane Davis on
August 23, 1856. There is no record of
that Henry Joseph in Meigs
County in 1860. That MAY have been John Henry Joseph. According to family lore, John Henry may have
returned to Wales for a time
before coming to America
permanently.
In the 1860s the Joseph
brothers split up. Joseph Henry left
first, in 1861, and moved his family to Utah.
David Henry, the oldest, first headed
north (Trumbull County, Ohio) in about 1869, then went west the next year on
the Mormon Trail but stopped well short of Utah, homesteading land in Platte
County, Nebraska. William and Ann stayed
in Minersville until about 1868, when they moved across the river to Clifton, Mason County, West Virginia and eventually to Shawnee, Perry County,
Ohio. John Henry moved south and
eventually settled in Rockwood, Roane
County, Tennessee.
FIRST GENERATION
1. GEORGE JOSEPH
B. Date Unknown (prob. Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. July 5, 1808 (Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
A. ANNE JONES February 22, 1793
(Llanishmel, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
B. ca. 1762 (prob. Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. November 28, 1824 (Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
C. 1.1 HENRY
1.2 DAVID
1.3 MARY
1.4 SARAH
1.5 SARAH
1.6
THOMAS
GEORGE
and ANNE appear in the St. Ishmael’s parish records for the first time in 1793
– their marriage and also the birth of son Henry are listed. The records also show the burials of GEORGE
and ANNE. GEORGE was identified as from
Llansaint, and ANNE was listed as ‘62 years old, Llansaint, widow’.
SECOND GENERATION
Children of George and Anne Joseph
1.2 HENRY JOSEPH
Bp. May 26, 1793 (Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. September 12, 1846 (Rhandir, Llanelli,
Carmarthenshire, Wales)
M. ANNE THOMAS November 26, 1816 (Llanishmel,
Carmarthenshire, Wales)
B.
ca. 1800 (Llanishmel, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
December 7, 1872 (Adamsville, Beaver
County, Utah)
C. 1.1.1 THOMAS JOSEPH
1.1.2
MARY JOSEPH
1.1.3
DAVID HENRY JOSEPH
1.1.4
MARY JOSEPH
1.1.5
WILLIAM JOSEPH
1.1.6
JOSEPH JOSEPH
1.1.7
JOSEPH HENRY JOSEPH
1.1.8
JOHN HENRY JOSEPH
1.1.9
ISAAC JOSEPH
1.1.10
ANNE JOSEPH
HENRY was born in Llansaint, a small town in the same
parish (Llanishmel, or St. Ishmael’s) where his wife ANN(E)
was born. ANN was the daughter of David
Thomas and Mary Lewis. ANN’S hometown,
Llanishmel (St. Ishmael’s), is about ten miles west of Llanelli and two miles
west of Llansaint on the east bank of the Towy River. Their marriage record indicates that they
were both “of this parish”. HENRY was
listed as a ‘labourer’ in Llansaint. The
family moved to Llanelli in 1830, where he worked in a copperworks – probably
the Llanelly Copperworks. The family
first lived in the Forge area of Llanelli.
HENRY and ANN are listed in the 1841 Llanelli census living in “Kilwrva”
(actually Cilwrfa, a Welsh word) Row near Swansea Road. He was listed as a “copperman” in that census
and also in the marriage records for children Mary and David who both married
before Henry died. ANNE stayed with her
son JOSEPH HENRY after her husband’s death – migrating first to Penydarren in
South Wales, then to Ohio, and finally moving
with his family to Utah.
1.3 DAVID
JOSEPH
Bp. May 14, 1797 (Llansaint,
Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. After 1851
M1. ELIZABETH LEWIS July 24,
1821 (Llandefeilog, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
M2. LUISA abt. 1847
B.
Abt. 1821
D.
After 1851
C. Wife 1 -
ELIZABETH
1.2.1 SARAH
1.2.2 ANN
1.2.3
MARY
1.2.4
MARGARET
1.2.5
GEORGE
1.2.6
THOMAS
Wife 2 –
LUISA
1.2.7 ANN
1.2.8 DAVID
DAVID was baptized in the Llanishmel church. He worked as a ‘labourer’ and first wife
ELIZABETH, from nearby Llandefeilog, was listed as a ‘housemaid’ on their
marriage record. The family lived in
Llansaint until about 1823, when they moved to nearby Kidwelly. They became Nonconformists in about 1825;
daughter MARY was baptized in a Kidwelly chapel. DAVID is listed in the 1841 census as a
lodger living in a lodging house in the New Dock area of Llanelli. Sons GEORGE (5) and THOMAS (2) were shown living
with him. ELIZABETH and daughters MARY
and MARGARET are listed in the 1841 Kidwelly census living on Ferry Road. DAVID is listed in the 1851 Kidwelly census,
living at 40 Water Street
in Kidwelly with second wife LUISA and children ANN (3) and DAVID (11 months).
1.4 MARY
JOSEPH
Bp. November 16, 1800
(Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. Date
Unknown
M. WILLIAM
REES March 27, 1821 (Llanishmel, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
B. Abt.
1798 (Llanishmel, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. Date
Unknown
MARY was baptized in the church at St. Ishmael’s. WILLIAM and MARY are listed in the 1851 St.
Ishmael’s census living in Llansaint.
WILLIAM’s occupation is given as agricultural laborer, and children MARY
(29 years old), JAMES (9), and HENRY (4) are living with them.
1.5 SARAH
JOSEPH
Bp. February 6, 1803
(Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. September 11, 1803
(Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
SARAH was baptized and buried in the church at St.
Ishmael’s.
1.6 SARAH
JOSEPH
Bp. May 12, 1805 (Llansaint,
Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. Date Unknown
SARAH was baptized in the church at St. Ishmael’s.
1.7 THOMAS
JOSEPH
Bp. August 23, 1807 (Llansaint,
Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. November 28, 1807
(Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
THOMAS was baptized and buried in the church at St.
Ishmael’s.
THIRD
GENERATION
Children
of Henry and Anne (Thomas) Joseph
1.1.7
THOMAS JOSEPH
Bp. July 5, 1817 (Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. Date Unknown
THOMAS
was baptized at St. Ishmael’s church.
1.1.8
MARY JOSEPH
Bp. September 11, 1819 (Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. September 14, 1819 (Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
MARY
was baptized and buried at St. Ishmael’s church. The parish record indicates she was 1 week
old when she died.
1.1.9
DAVID HENRY JOSEPH
Bp.
November 5, 1820 (Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
July 1, 1890 (Postville, Platte County,
Nebraska)
M. SARAH
CLEMENT December 22, 1844 (Llanelli Parish Church,
Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
B. February 5, 1825 (Llanelli,
Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. March 3, 1899 (Postville, Platte County, Nebraska)
C:
1.1.1.1 ANN
1.1.1.2 DAVID H.
1.1.1.3 LORENZO
1.1.1.4 JOSEPH
1.1.1.5 SARAH
1.1.1.6 WILLIAM
1.1.1.7 ANN
DAVID was baptized in
the church at St. Ishmael’s. DAVID was
listed as a “collier” (coal miner) in the marriage record, although he also worked
as a “copperman” in Wales. SARAH was the daughter of David Clement,
collier, and Ann Lewis of Llanelli.
David Clement was married just a few months before the birth of his
daughter, and he died one month after she was born! DAVID, SARAH, daughter ANN,
and son DAVID are listed in the 1851 Glamorganshire census in Penydarren. DAVID, Sr. is listed as a collier. The Mormon
Immigration Index indicates that DAVID, listed as a collier, SARAH, and their
five children at the time emigrated to America in 1860
on the ship Underwriter. DAVID was listed as a coal miner in the 1860
Minersville census. The family went to Trumbull County, Ohio,
in the late 1860’s (son-in-law ROBERT LEWIS was naturalized there) before
heading west. By 1870 he and oldest son
David were homesteading in Platte County, Nebraska, (they are listed in the census there) while the
rest of the family (actually, the WHOLE family) is listed in the Trumbull County
census in Ohio.
After they were reunited in Nebraska,
DAVID and SARAH spent the rest of their lives there. DAVID’s “estate” (excluding land) was valued
at $75 at the time of his death. DAVID
and SARAH are buried in the First Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Cemetery in Platte County.
1.1.10 MARY
JOSEPH
Bp.
April 6, 1823 (Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
Date Unknown
M.
DAVID DAVIES December 22, 1847 (Llanelli
Parish Church,
Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
C. Unknown
MARY was baptized in the parish church at St.
Ishmael’s. MARY is listed in the 1841
Llanelli census living with her family.
DAVID’s occupation was listed as “shipper” on the marriage record.
1.1.5 WILLIAM JOSEPH
Bp. January 1, 1826 (Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. December 17, 1902 (Shawnee,
Perry County,
Ohio)
M. ANN (ANNIE) JONES December 25, 1846 (Capel Als, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
B. October 26, 1828 (Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. March 8, 1912 (Pleasant City, Guernsey County, Ohio)
C. 1.1.5.1 HENRY
1.1.5.2 WILLIAM
1.1.5.3 JOSEPH
1.1.5.4 JOHN
1.1.5.5 WILLIAM
1.1.5.6 DAVID
1.1.5.7 THOMAS
1.1.5.8 MARY ANN
1.1.5.9 DANIEL
WILLIAM was baptized in the
church at St. Ishmael’s. WILLIAM is
shown in the 1841 Llanelli census living with his family as a 15-year-old
collier. ANN was the daughter of William
Jones, a coal miner in Llanelli. WILLIAM
and ANN along with sons HENRY and WILLIAM are shown in the 1851 Welsh census
living in Dowlais, an industrial town near Merthyr Tydfil. The actual location was on Tramroadside, near
the Gellifaelog Bridge across the Morlais Brook. WILLIAM and ANN emigrated to the U.S. in
1856. They settled first in Minersville
in Meigs County, just east of Pomeroy, and
WILLIAM was listed as a “coal digger” in the 1860 census. About 1868 the family moved across the Ohio
River to Clifton, West Virginia. In the late 1890’s second son JOSEPH moved to
Portsmouth, Ohio,
and WILLIAM and ANNIE moved to Shawnee,
Perry County, Ohio. They were now close
to three sons – JOHN, WILLIAM, and DAVID – as well as daughter MARY ANN. Neither WILLIAM nor ANNIE could read or
write in 1900, but both spoke English.
According to the 1900 census, ANN had 14 children, but only six – Henry,
Joseph, John, William, David, and Mary Ann – were still living at that
time. Also, in the 1900 census WILLIAM
and ANNIE had a 16-year-old boy, CHARLIE STRAWN, listed as their adopted
son. WILLIAM died of “old age” in
1902. ANNIE (listed as “ANNIE JOPHER”)
was living with daughter MARY ANN and her husband ISAAC WILLIAMS in 1910. ANNIE is listed on her death certificate as
being buried at Shawnee, Ohio, on March 10, 1912, and her parents are
listed as William Davis and Ann Jones.
1.1.6 JOSEPH JOSEPH
Bp. June 1, 1828 (Llansaint, Carmarthenshire,
Wales)
D. March 23, 1830 (Llansaint,
Carmarthenshire, Wales)
JOSEPH was baptized and buried
at the parish church at St. Ishmael’s.
1.1.7
JOSEPH HENRY JOSEPH
B. November 17, 1830 (Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. December 17, 1907 (Adamsville, Beaver
County, Utah)
M. MARY ANN RICHARDS February 15, 1855 (Minersville, Meigs County, Ohio)
B. October 1, 1837
(Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales)
D. July 1, 1907
(Adamsville, Beaver County,
Utah)
C: 1.1.7.1 WILLIAM HENRY
1.1.7.2 JOHN THOMAS
1.1.7.3 LORENZO DOW
1.1.7.4 HYRUM JOSEPH
1.1.7.5 REUBEN ALBERT
1.1.7.6 ELIZABETH ANN
1.1.7.7 REESE MORGAN
1.1.7.8 MARY JANE
1.1.7.9 HARRIET
1.1.7.10 LUCY
As a boy JOSEPH worked at coal mining. At nine years of age he was badly burned by
an explosion of gas in a mine. Surgeons
gave up all hope of his recovering his eyesight, but after two months it
returned. JOSEPH is shown in the 1841 Llanelli census living with his parents. He attended night school and the
Sabbath school of his district. In June
of 1849, he became a Latter-Day Saint and the same
year he was ordained successively to the office of a deacon, priest, and the
next year to an elder. He is listed living with his mother, ANNE, in the
1851 Glamorganshire census in Penydarren.
His occupation is listed as collier.
His wife MARY ANN was the daughter of Thomas Morgan Richards and Elizabeth
Powell. JOSEPH and MARY ANN began their
journey to Utah
on June 1st, 1860. JOSEPH was
a farmer in Utah.
1.1.8
JOHN HENRY JOSEPH
B.1834 (Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. February 2, 1909 (Rockwood, Roane
County. Tennessee)
M. JANE JONES 1855 (Wales)
B. 1827 (Wales)
D. July 30, 1910
(Rockwood, Roane County, Tennessee)
C. 1.1.8.1 ANNIE JONES
1.1.8.2 WILLIAM HENRY
1.1.8.3 WILLIAM HENRY
1.1.8.4 WILLIAM HENRY
1.1.8.5 WILLIAM HENRY
JOHN, like JOSEPH, is shown in
both the 1841 Llanelli and 1851 Penydarren censuses. He was living with his parents in 1841 and
his mother, ANNE, in the 1851 Glamorganshire census in Penydarren. His occupation is listed as collier. After settling in Syracuse,
Meigs County, Ohio,
JOHN may have returned to Wales
for a time. He is not listed in the 1860
Meigs County census. He moved to Tennessee
in 1869 and is listed in the 1870 Roane
County, Tennessee,
census. He moved to Rising Fawn,
Georgia, and then returned to Rockwood.
He was a mine foreman and gas inspector in the mines of the Roane Iron
Company.
1.1.9
ISAAC JOSEPH
Bp.
October 3, 1837 (Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
October 5, 1837 (Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales).
ISAAC drowned at the age of
two, yet he was apparently baptized at the Llanelli Parish
Church shortly before his
death. He is buried in the cemetery of
the Llanelli Parish
Church (the only major cemetery there
at the time; the large Box
Cemetery had not yet
opened).
1.1.10
ANNE JOSEPH
B.
February 10, 1839 (Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
June 13, 1841 (Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales).
ANNE is listed in the 1841
Llanelli census with the rest of the Joseph family but died shortly
thereafter. She is buried in Llanelli
with her home given as the Rhandir district.
Children of David and Elizabeth
(Lewis) Joseph/Luisa Joseph
1.2.1 SARAH JOSEPH
Bp. January 20, 1822 (Llansaint,
Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D. September 10, 1851 (St.
Louis, Missouri)
M. WALTER ROACH June 17, 1841 (Llanelli,
Carmarthenshire, Wales)
B. October 16, 1819 (Forge,
Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
December 24, 1877 (probably Utah)
C. 1.2.1.1 WALTER
1.1.7.1
ELIZABETH
1.1.7.2
WALTER
1.1.7.3
SARAH
SARAH was baptized in the Llanishmel church. SARAH (15???) is listed in the 1841 Llanelli
census as a dressmaker living on Anne
Street with carpenter Thomas Morgan and his wife
Esther. Husband WALTER was the daughter
of John Roach, a Llanelli coal miner, and Elizabeth Evans. John is listed in the 1841 census with sons
WALTER (a 20-year old coal miner), Thomas (15 – also a coal miner), and William
and daughters Mary and Elizabeth. All
children of WALTER and SARAH were born in Llanelli. First child WALTER was baptized January 22nd,
1842, and died December 5th, 1842.
ELIZABETH
was born September 18th, 1843.
The next WALTER was born September 29th, 1845. Daughter SARAH was born July 14th,
1848.
1.1.7.
ANN JOSEPH
Bp.
1823 (Kidwelly Parish
Church, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
September, 1824 (Kidwelly. Carmarthenshire, Wales)
ANN was buried September 9th,
1824, in Kidwelly. She was listed as 8
months old and the address is Bower
Street, Kidwelly.
1.1.7
MARY JOSEPH
Bp.
1825 (Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
Date Unknown
Although her older sisters had
been baptized in the parish churches, MARY was baptized in a Kidwelly chapel,
indicating the family had become Nonconformist.
MARY was listed in the 1841 Kidwelly census, living with her mother.
1.1.8
MARGARET JOSEPH
B.
Abt. 1829 (Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
Date Unknown
MARGARET was listed in the
1841 Kidwelly census, living with her mother.
1.1.9
GEORGE JOSEPH
B.
Abt. 1836 (Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
Date Unknown
GEORGE is listed in the 1841
Llanelli census, living with his father.
1.1.10
THOMAS JOSEPH
B.
Abt. 1839 (Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
Date Unknown
THOMAS is listed in the 1841
Llanelli census, living with his father.
1.1.11
ANN JOSEPH
B.
Abt. 1848 (Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
Date Unknown
ANN is listed in the 1851
Kidwelly census, living with her father and mother, LUISA.
1.1.12
DAVID JOSEPH
B.
Abt. 1850 (Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales)
D.
Date Unknown
DAVID is listed in the 1851
Kidwelly census, living with his father and mother, LUISA.
