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Given Name: William
Surname: Rowland

Gender: Male

Birth date: 15 October 1811

Birth place:
English Spelling: Aberdare, Glamorganshire, Wales
Welsh Spelling: Aberdar, Glamorganshire, Wales

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Evans, Rachel J. (1830-1918)

Married 18 December 1848 in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales * Merthyr Tudful, Glamorganshire, Wales

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 26 February 1849 aboard the ship Buena Vista.
Arrived in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States on 19 April 1849.

William Rowland was widowed five months before emigrating. He married nineteen-year-old Rachel Evans, his first wife's niece, just two months before leaving on the "Buena Vista". The Rowlands had the misfortune of being on board the steamer "Saluda" in April 1852 when the engines exploded. Quite a number of Mormons were killed, including William, two of his children (Rachel and David) by his first wife and the two born to him and Rachel in America (William and Sarah). Rachel, although left permanently crippled, later married James E. Harris and gave birth to eight more children. She died in 1918 at Cedar City. Stepdaughter Mary was badly burned by the accident; she married Thomas James in 1857 and Isaac Riddle in 1861; she died in 1920. Stepdaughter Anne was later adopted by a couple on their way to California.