The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Hugh
Surname: Evans

Gender: Male

Birth date: 9 March 1823

Birth place: Newmarket, Flintshire, Wales View Sources

Death date: 24 May 1884

Death place: Kamas, Summit, Utah, United States View Sources

Burial date: 31 May 1884

Burial place: Kamas, Summit, Utah, United States View Sources

Father: Edward Evans
Mother: Sydney Parry

Siblings

Phebe Jones (1823-1858)

Married 9 March 1842 in Wales

Children

Roberts, Jane Eleanor (1835-1901)

Married 07 May 1860 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Children

Evans, Erastus Emanuel
Evans, Margaret Jane
Evans, Hugh Arthur
Evans, Joseph Goodman
Evans, Sarah Ann
Evans, George Augustus
Evans, Harriet Jane
Evans, Lavina Charlotte
Evans, Caleb Robert
Evans, Gronway Cradock

View Sources

1841 UK Census	Newmarket, Flintshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1851 UK Census	Newmarket, Flintshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1861 UK Census	Holywell, Flintshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1880 US Census	Kamas Precinct, Summit, Utah	Extract	Image

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 23 April 1862 aboard the ship John J. Boyd.
Arrived in New York, Kings, New York, United States on 1 June 1862.

"Pioneer Database," database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org: accessed 19 January 2021), Hugh Evans entry, Homer Duncan Company (1862).

"Saints by Sea," database and images (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu: accessed 19 January 2021), Hugh Evans entry, age 38, arrived 1 June 1862 on the John J. Boyd.

Hugh Evans is a cousin to John Parry, Jr., born 15 October 1817. Hugh and his second wife Jane Eleanor Roberts were on the "John J. Boyd" with his four children by his first wife (Lydia, age 18; Bernard, age 11; John, age 7; and Edward, age 5) and their one-year-old boy Erastus.