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Given Name: William James
Surname: Edwards

Gender: Male

Birth date: 10 November 1807

Birth place: Newmarket, Flintshire, Wales

Death date: 6 January 1872

Death place: Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States

Burial date: 9 January 1872

Burial place: Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States

Father: Robert Edwards
Mother: Margaret Hughes

Siblings

Elizabeth Jones (1810-1851)

Married in Flintshire, Wales

Children

Edwards, Edward

Davis/Davies, Margaret Ann (1825-1886)

Married 25 May 1867 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 29 July 1855 aboard the ship Cynosure.
Arrived in New York, Kings, New York, United States on 5 September 1855.

William James Edwards and his thirteen-year-old son Edward came to America in 1855 on board the "Cynosure". Williams's wife Elizabeth apparently had died before this time, or perhaps she chose to stay in Wales.