Rowland Taylor 'the Martyr' 13th great-grandfather

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Rowland Taylor (sometimes spelled "Tayler") (about 1510 – 9 February 1555) was an English Protestant martyr during the Marian Persecutions. 

At the time of his death, he was Rector of Hadleigh in Sulfork. He was Burnt at the stake at the stake at nearby Aldham Common.

Left - Dr. Taylor teaching: "To the the Glory of God and in pious Memory ot" / 

Center - his martyrdom:" Rowland Tayor D D Rector of Hadleigh Who" / 

Right - trial before Stephen Gardiner: "Suffered Martyrdum for Christ Sake 9th Feb 1555"

Religious Career

• • In the late 1530s Taylor served as Hugh Latimer’s chaplain and commissary general of the  Diocese of Winchester.

  • In March 1538 Taylor was collated by Latimer to the St Mary’s parish church of Hanbury, Worchestershire.

  • When Latimer resigned, Taylor was taken under the wing of Thomas Crammer, living with him and (1539) serving as his chaplain. He was ordained by Cranmer and admitted to the parish church of St Swithin's in Worcester. He was thus given his licence to preach and did so in the diocese of London.

  • On 16 April 1544, he was presented to the living of Hadleigh, Suffolk.

  • In 1543 the English Parliament banned Tyndale's English version and all public reading of the Bible by laymen. Religious persecution of Protestant clergy, especially by Roman Catholics, intensified in Britain at this time.

  • In 1546 the Council of Trent, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, decreed that the Latin Vulgate was the authoritative version of the Bible.

  • In the summer of 1547, Taylor was employed as a preacher for the royal visitation within the dioceses of Lincoln, Oxford, Lichfield and Coventry.

  • On 15 August 1547, he became canon of Rochester, the same year during which King Henry VIII had died in January.

  • In 1548, Taylor was appointed archdeacon of Bury St Edmunds and preached at the request of the Lord Mayor at Whitsuntide or Pentecost.

  • Edward VI who reigned from 1547 to 1553, followed Henry VIII, and in 1549 the Book of Common Prayer became the Protestant liturgical text in England.

  • In 1550, Taylor was called to serve on a commission against Anabaptists. The same year, he also helped to administer the vacant diocese of Norwich.

  • In 1551, at age 41, Taylor was made archdeacon of Exeter in the diocese of Exeter, was also appointed one of the Six Preachers of Canterbury Cathedral appointed chancellor to Bishop Nicholas Ridley. His leadership was expanded by serving on a commission to revise the ecclesiastical laws.

  • In 1552, he helped administer the vacant diocese of Worcester.

Political troubles from 1553

Taylor's troubles began on 25 July 1553. He was arrested just six days after the new queen, Mary I, ascended the throne. Aside from the fact that Taylor had supported Lady Jane Grey, Mary's rival, he was also charged with heresy for having preached a sermon in Bury St. Edmunds denouncing the Roman Catholic practice of clerical celibacy, which required that a priest in holy orders be unmarried. Many English clergymen, including Taylor, had abandoned this teaching since the 1530s as a token of the English Reformation.

Taylor also denounced the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, which is the belief that the two elements (bread and wine) taken during Holy Communion, or the Eucharist, actually become the body and blood of Jesus Christ....

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Trial and martyrdom

January 1555 was an ominous month for Anglican clergy in England. After several years of separation from Roman worship and governance, the accession of Mary I in 1553 and her immediate reversion to Roman Catholic rule in obedience to the Pope (an attempt to turn back the Reformation of the English church) led her to unleash her wrath upon those whom she defined as treasonably minded heretics. On 22 January 1555, Rowland Taylor (rector of Hadleigh in Suffolk) and several other clergy, including John Hooper, were examined by a commission of leading bishops and lawyers. As Lord Chancellor, Gardiner presided at the hearings. Just two days previously, on 20 January, Parliament had revived the old statute for burning convicted heretics.

One of the men, Edward Crome, recanted and was thus pardoned. William Barlow equivocated and was sent to the Tower of London, but not executed. Rowland Taylor, who remained committed, was probably taken to Poultry Compter Prison in London after his examination by Gardiner. Taylor gave a fervent defence of clerical marriage, which put him at odds with the Roman Catholic Church.

On 29 January 1555, Taylor was brought before Gardiner again at St Mary's. The next day he was excommunicated and sentenced to death. He was stripped of his clerical garments in a symbolic manner, and offered a last supper with his family.

His reaction to his accusers, as recorded by the martyrologist John Foxe,, was this:

And although I know, that there is neither justice nor truth to be looked for at my adversaries hands, but rather imprisonment and cruel death: yet know my cause to be so good and righteous, and the truth so strong upon my side, that I will by God's grace go and appear before them and to their beards resist their false doing

Final words

His wife awaited him in the early morning hours at St. Botolph's Aldgate churchyard in London; they exchanged a few last brief words and Margaret promised to be present for his burning in a couple of days. That same day, Taylor was handed over to the sheriff of Essex at Chelmsford. Before he was handed over, he spoke these words to his family:

I say to my wife, and to my children, The Lord gave you unto me, and the Lord hath taken me from you, and you from me: blessed be the name of the Lord! I believe that they are blessed which die in the Lord. God careth for sparrows, and for the hairs of our heads. I have ever found Him more faithful and favourable, than is any father or husband. Trust ye therefore in Him by the means of our dear Saviour Christ's merits: believe, love, fear, and obey Him: pray to Him, for He hath promised to help. Count me not dead, for I shall certainly live, and never die. I go before, and you shall follow after, to our long home.

Taylor was taken from London back to Hadleigh, and was held in the cellar of Lawenham Guildhall. Following [first] John Rogers on 4 February and Lawrence Saunders on 8 February, Taylor became Mary's third Protestant to be burned at the stake. His execution took place on 9 February 1555, at Aldham Common just north of Hadleigh. His wife, two daughters, and his son Thomas were present that day.

His final words to his son Thomas, as reported by Foxe:

Almighty God bless thee, and give you his Holy Spirit, to be a true servant of Christ, to learn his word, and constantly to stand by his truth all the life long. And my son, see that thou fear God always. Fly from all sin and wicked living. Be virtuous, serve God daily with prayer, and apply thy boke. In anywise see thou be obedient to thy mother, love her, and serve her. Be ruled by her now in thy youth, and follow her good counsel in all things. Beware of lewd company of young men, that fear not God, but followeth their lewd lusts and vain appetites. Flee from whoredom, and hate all filthy lying, remembering that I thy father do die in the defense of holy marriage. And another day when God shall bless thee, love and cherish the poor people, and count that thy chief riches to be rich in alms. And when thy mother is waxed old, forsake her not, but provide for her to thy power, and see that she lacks nothing. For so will God bless thee, give thee long life upon earth, and prosperity, which I pray God to grant thee.

A local butcher was ordered to set a torch to the wood but resisted. A couple of bystanders finally threw a lighted torch onto the wood. A perhaps sympathetic guard, named Warwick, struck Taylor's head with a halberd, which apparently killed him instantly. The fire consumed his body shortly thereafter. That same day, John Hooper was burned at the stake in Gloucester. 

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• Ancestral chain . . 13th great-grandfather 

• George Ensign SMITH 1898-1967 / Harriet Camilla ENSIGN / Martin Luther ENSIGN / Mary Bronson / Sylvanus Bronson / David Bronson / David Bronson / John (3) Taylor / John (Immigrant) (2) Taylor / John (I) Taylor / George William Taylor III / George Jr Taylor / Capt. Thomas Taylor Sr Taylor / Rev. Dr. Rowland "The Martyr" Taylor * Arch Deacon of Exeter, Canon of Rochester, Chancellor of London 1510-1555

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  15th great-grandfather John Rogers 'the Martyr'

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15th great-grandfather John Rogers 'the Martyr'

John Rogers

A minister, Bible translator and commentator of "Matthew" Bible
and the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.

John Rogers was born in 1500 in the parish of Aston, near Birmingham. He was a minister, Bible translator and commentator. John Rogers was the first English Protestant martyr to be executed by Mary I of England, a.k.a. “Queen Bloody Mary”. He was burned at the stake on February 4, 1555 at Smithfield.

Early Years of John Rogers

John Rogers, was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge University, where he graduated with a B.A. in 1526. Six years later he was rector of Holy Trinity, Queenhithe, London, and in 1534 went to Antwerp as chaplain to the English merchants of the Company of the Merchant Adventurers. Here he met William Tyndale, under whose influence he abandoned the Roman Catholic faith. Rogers took a wife named Adriana, a native of Antwerp, who eventually bore him ten children.

John Rogers / Thomas Matthew and the 1537 Bible

After Tyndale's death Rogers pushed on with his predecessor's English version of the Old Testament, which he used as far as Second Chronicles, employing Myles Coverdale's
translation of 1535 for the remainder and for the Apocrypha. The complete Bible was put out under the pseudonym of Thomas Matthew in 1537. John Rogers used the assumed name “Thomas Matthew” to avoid persecution and prosecution by the authorities who continued to forbid under penalty of death, the printing of the scriptures in the English language. As the work could obviously not be done safely in England, the Bible was printed in Paris and Antwerp by his wife Adriana's uncle, Sir Jacobus van Meteren.
John Rogers had little to do with the translation, but he contributed some valuable prefaces and marginal notes -- often cited as the first original English language commentary on the Bible. Rogers also contributed the Song of Manasses in the Apocrypha which he found in a French Bible printed in 1535. His work was largely used by those who prepared the Great Bible of1539-40, out of which in turn came the Bishops' Bible of 1568 and the Authorized Version of King James in 1611.
After taking charge of a Protestant congregation in Wittenberg for some years, John Rogers returned to England in 1548, where he published a translation of Philipp Melanchthon's Considerations of the Augsburg Interim. In 1551, John Rogers was made a prebendary of St. Paul's Church, where the Dean and Chapter soon appointed him as the divinity lecturer. He courageously denounced the greed shown by certain courtiers with reference to the property of the suppressed monasteries, and defended himself before the privy council. He also declined to wear the prescribed vestments, donning instead a simple round cap.

John Rogers Preaches boldly Against Catholicism

As Queen Mary took the throne, John Rogers preached at Paul's Cross commending the "true doctrine taught in King Edward's days," and warning his hearers against the "pestilent Popery, idolatry and superstition." Of the Roman Catholic Church. Ten days after this bold public display, on August 16, 1553, John Rogers was summoned before the council and bidden to keep within his own house. In January 1554 Bonner, the new bishop of London, sent him to Newgate Prison, where he lay with John Hooper, Laurence Saunders, John Bradford and others for a year, where their petitions were disregarded. In December 1554 parliament re-enacted the penal statutes against Lollards, and on January 22, 1555, two days after they took effect, Rogers with ten others came before the council at Gardiner's house in Southwark, and held his own in the examination that took place. On January 28 & 29, he came before the commission appointed by Cardinal Pole, and was sentenced to death by Gardiner for heretically denying the Christian character of the Church of Rome and the physical presence of the body of Christ in the sacrament of communion.


The Death of John Rogers

When the time came that he should be brought out of Newgate Prison to Smithfield, the place of his execution, Mr. Woodroofe, one of the sheriffs, first came to John Rogers, and asked him if he would revoke his abominable doctrine, and the evil opinion of the Sacrament of the altar. Rogers answered, "That which I have preached I will seal with my blood." Then Mr. Woodroofe said, "Thou art an heretic." Rogers replied "That shall be known at the Day of Judgment." Mr. Woodroofe added, "I will never pray for thee." Though Rogers responded "But I will pray for you.”
John Rogers awaited and met death on the 4th of February 1555 at Smithfield cheerfully, though he was denied even a last moment with his wife. Rogers stands as the first blood on the hands of Queen “Bloody” Mary… and the first of hundreds more to come. Noailles, the French ambassador, speaks of the support given to John Rogers by the majority of the people commenting, "even his children assisted at it, comforting him in such a manner that it seemed as if he had been led to a wedding rather than an execution."
History from: English Bible History
@ http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/john-rogers.html

Matthew's Bible > Britannica Article:
John Rogers: the compiler of the first authorised English Bible, the pioneer of the English Reformation, and its first martyr.
...sentenced to death by Gardiner for heretically denying the Christian character of the Church of Rome and the real presence in the sacrament. He awaited and met death (on the 4th of February 1555 at Smithfield) cheerfully, though denied even an interview with his wife. Noailles, the French ambassador, speaks of the support given to Rogers by the greatest part of the people: "even his children assisted at it, comforting him in such a manner that it seemed as if he had been led to a wedding." He was the first Protestant martyr of Mary's reign, and his friend Bradford wrote that "he broke the ice valiantly."

..."Truely and purely translated into English by Thomas Matthew." Thomas Matthew, is, however, in all probability, an alias for John Rogers, a friend and fellow-worker of Tyndale, and the volume is in reality no new translation at all, but a compilation from the renderings of Tyndale and Coverdale. Thus the Pentateuch and the New Testament were reprinted from Tyndale's translations of 1530 and 1535 respectively, with very slight variations; the books from Joshua to the end of Chronicles are traditionally, and lately also by external evidence, ⁽¹⁾ assigned to Tyndale and were probably left by him in the hands of Rogers....
1. Westcott, History of the English Bible (3rd ed.), revised by W. Aldis Wright (London, 1905), p. 172 note.

Ancestral Chain: John ROGERS martyr- b.1507, John ROGERS- b.1538, Richard ROGERS- b., John R. ROGERS Immigrant- b.1617, Ann ROGERS- b.Abt 1628, Mary HUDSON- b.1644, Katherine HODGES- b.1664, Mary DELAND-b.1683, Robert ROUNDY- b.1704, John ROUNDY- b.1726, Uriah ROUNDY- b.1756, Shadrach ROUNDY- b.1789, Almeda Sophia ROUNDY- b.1829, Charles PARKER- b.1853, Laura Elizabeth PARKER- b.1889, Kirt DeMar WOOD- b.1923, Lark, TR.

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Rowland Taylor 'Martyr' 13th great-grandfather

History - Thomas JONES and Mary Williams

Genealogy of Thomas Jones and Family and His Ancestors

by Thomas JONES

Thomas JONES (1822-1897)
and
Mary WILLIAMS JONES (1825-1877)

I, Thomas Jones, son of William and Mary Trow Jones, was born the 16th of Sept 1822 in the Parish of Hastleburg, county of Worcester, England and was baptized or christened in the Protestant church of Hastlebury by the rev. Samuel Pickard, in the month of October of the same year. My father William Jones was the son of Frances and Sarah Jones.

My mother, Mary Trow Jones, was the daughter of Thomas and Susanah Trow, who was born in the Parish stone, Worcestershire, England.

My grandfather Francis Jones was born in Wales. I don’t know when he was born but he died and was buried 19 June, 1825 in the Parish of Stone, Worcestershire. He was baptized the 15th of Oct 1750 in the Parish Church of England.

My Grandmother Susanah Trow was born in 1755 in the Parish of Stone, buried Feb. 26, 1829.

I was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the 11th day of May 1845 by elder Charles Knight in the Perceil Green Branch of the Worcester Conference, and confirmed the 16th day of May of the same year by elder Joseph Westwood in the same branch, and was ordained to the office of Deacon the same year by Bishop Elija Shuts at a conference held in Worcester. I was ordained to the office of a Priest on the 8th of June, 1849 by Elder Thomas Perks in Birmingham, England. And I was ordained to the office of an elder on the 12th of Sept. 1852 by Elder Abraham Merchant, Pres. of the Birmingham conference and appointed and set apart to act as secretary of the Ashter Branch of said conference by Elder Merchant and on the 19th day of same month I was appointed to preside overt eh Ashed District of said Branch.

I left England with my family for America on the 30th of June 1868, arriving in Salt Lake City on the 30th day of August 1868. Tues. June 30, 1868 The steamship Minnesota with 534 Saints under the direction of John Parry, sailed from Liverpool, Eng. Arrived New York July 12 and the immigrants reached Lamanie City July 22.

Moved to Logan, Cache county with my family on the 17th of Sept. of same year. Myself and wife Mary received our endowments in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City on the 10th of Oct. 1868 and I was received into the School of the Prophets the 17th of same month.

I was ordained a High Priest on the 10th of Feb. 1869 by Thomas McNeal. My wife, Mary William Jones, to whom I was Married in Jan. 1848 was born April 3, 1825 at Webs Green in the Parish of Halesowen in the country of Worcester, Eng. She was baptized on the 7th day of Feb. 1847 in Birmingham by Elder Henry Brown and confirmed the same day by Elder Thomas Perks and she died in Logan on the 22nd of Feb. 1877 after a long illness and in the full faith of the gospel. She was the daughter of John and Sarah Wood Williams. Her father John Williams was born on the 27th of June, 1800 in the Parish of hales Owen, County of Worcester, Eng. Her mother Sarah Wood Williams was born on the 14th of Feb. 1801 in the same Parish and she died in 1831, April 3, in Halesowen. Her grandfather, George Wood was born in 1777 and her grandmother, Betty Wood was born in 1778. Her grand father, John Williams was born in Wales. Her grandmother Sarah Rose Williams was born in Wales and died in England on the 20th of Dec. 1846.

[15 children all born in Birmingham, England.]

[1] My daughter Sarah Jane was born on Feb. 21, 1849, in Birmingham and was blessed in April 1849 by elder Thomas Perks and was baptized on the 23 of April 1857 by myself and confirmed on the 26thof same month by Elder Joseph Howard. [Married Charles Kingsford BOWRING 1869.]

[2] My son Cyrus Joseph was born on the 23 of Sept 1850 and blessed by Elder George Baugh and ordained a teacher by myself and ordained a priest on 9th of April 1867 by myself and ordained an Elder on 15thof Feb. by myself in Logan. Baptized 18th July1860 by George Taylor and confirmed same day by Elder John Lines. [Married Sarah WORLEY 12 Jan 1874 Salt Lake City, UT. Died 28 Mar 1919 Logan, UT.]

[3] My son Willard Thomas was born 20 June 1852 and was blessed on 19 July 1852 by elder Thomas Tame in Birmingham, Eng. Baptized 18 July 1860 by T. Howard same day. [Married Mary Alice HANSEN 9 Oct 1882. Died 2 Mar 1915.]

[4] My daughter Merintha Althera was born on 4 Nov 1853 and died on 5th same month.

[5] My son Thomas was born on the 21st of Dec 1854 and died same day.

[6 Mary Emma was born 21 Dec 1854, married John Stephen LIVERMORE abt 1875.]

[7] My son Albert William was born on the 6th of Jan 1857 blessed on 30th of same month by Elder Charles F. Jones and was ordained an Elder on the 15th of Feb 1869 by elder Geo. L. Farrell. [Married Louisa AFFLECK 2 Oct 1879 Salt Lake City, UT. Died 6 Feb 1909 Pocatello, Idaho.]

[8] My son Marlon John was born 3rd of Apr 1858, blessed 16th of same month by Elder Samuel Goddard, and was ordained an Elder on 15th of Feb 1869 by myself.

[9] My daughter Amy Ella was born on the 10th of Feb 1859 and blessed on the 23rd of same month by Elder D Bonelli and died on the 17th of May 1862. [Married Sarah Hovey TWICHELL 13 Jan1882. Died 19 Oct 1894.]

[10] My son Leonard James was born on 24th of July 1860 blessed 19th of Aug 1860 by myself. Baptized 27th Sept 1868 by Elder Rulen Gates, confirmed same day by Bishop Peter Maughan in Logan, Utah. [Married Annie V. EVERSON Nov 1882. Died 9 Feb 1901 Cache county, UT.]

[11] My daughter Linda Ellen was born on 21 of May 1862 and blessed on 22nd of June 1862 by myself. She died on 6th of Oct. of the same year.

[12] My daughter Bertha Annie was born was born on 13th of May 1863 and died on the 29th of same month.

[13] My daughter Edith Agnes was born on 9th May 1864 and blessed May 20 1864 by myself and died on 27th of Feb 1865.

[14] My son Herbert Ernest was born on 21st of Apr 1865 and blessed May 7, 1865 by myself. Baptized 4th July 1875 by Elder Paul Cardon and confirmed same day by Elder Thomas E. Richs. [Died 26 Jun 1894.]

[15] My son Lorenzo Charles was born on 23rd of August 1866 and blessed 6th January 1867
by myself. [Died 23 Apr 1867.]

Thomas JONES (1822-1897)

and

Jane Ann OUTSON WILSON JONES (1846-1916)



[After the death of Mary WILLIAMS JONES, Thomas married on 11 Apr 1878 in Salt Lake City, UT Jane Ann OUTSON the widow of William WILSON (two children Leah and David WILSON.) Seven children were born to Thomas JONES and Jane Ann OUTSON. They were Arthur Edger 1879 Logan UT, Ethel Maud 1880 Logan UT, Alice Louise 1881 Logan UT, Livinna Jane 1883 Logan UT, Lester William 1885 St. David AZ, Lila Myrtel 1888 Logan UT, Eliza Outson (Lila) 1888 Logan UT.]

(…In 1884 my father [Thomas JONES] was called to St. David, Arizona, to homestead a piece of land there. However, he and his family returned to Logan on September 4, 1886, because of his poor health. He had taken sick on the third of October, 1885, with malaria fever. They arrived in Logan after traveling four days and nights over two thousand sixty miles, On October 19, 1887 he met with an accident while hauling lumber from Crowther‘s Saw Mill in Logan Canyon. He was never in very good health after this, so he worked at selling church books and was a deacon at the old tabernacle. He helped to plant many of the old trees that still stand. He died after three weeks illness in Logan, Utah, on June 21st in 1897. He was a faithful member of the L.D.S. Church, and was respected by all who knew him. Written by his daughter, Alice Louise JONES DORSEY, October 1, 1951)

Poetry by Thomas Jones / Journal to be added.

Family Group Sheet - Cyrus Joseph JONES and Sarah WORLEY Family

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Cyrus Joseph JONES and Sarah WORLEY

Pictured are Cyrus Joseph JONES and Sarah WORLEY. They most likely meet on the Ship Minnesota as it sailed from Liverpool to New York City in 1868.

Cyrus had settled with his parnets and siblings in Logan, Utah in 1868 Sarah had joined her older brothers in Logan where her parents joined them in 1869. They married at the Endowment House in Salt Lake City 12 Jan 1874. They had 6 daughter and 2 sons. Their children were 1-Sarah Amy JONES born 1875 she married Herbert Henry HAWKES they became my great grandparents. (Sarah WORLEY JONES' brother Harry WORLEY married Herbert Henry HAWKES' sister Sarah Ann HAWKES.) 2-Eva JONES born 1877 she married William Michell LILLYWHITE (note to my children:These are Uncle Hal's grandparents, his mother Eva LILLYWHITE and my grandmother Amy Ella HAWKES were 1st cousins.) 3-Kate Jones 1876 she died unmarried two weeks before her 23rd birthday. 4-Cyrus Worley JONES born 1881 married Ellen May MURDOCK. 5-Clara JONES born 1883 married John Pearson SMTIH. 6-Frank Worley JONES born 1887 married Charlotte Edith NEUBERGER. 7-Ethel JONES born 1890 she died in 1010 at age 28 unmarried. Mabel JONES born 1892 she married Lawrence Edward SJOBERG.

Link to photo of the JONES home at 280 West Center Stree, Logan, Utah, picturing Eva,Ethel, Amy, Mable and Clara JONES.




[Cyrus Joseph JONES] was a salesperson for ZCMI and later a bookkeeper for Newman and Stewart Co.   [Sarah WORLEY JONES] besides taking good care of her family did temple work. The family was well known and well thought of. (See: A history of Cyrus Worley JONES found at familysearch.org)


Sarah WORLEY1851-1925
and
Cyrus Joseph JONES
1850-1919

1868 Mormon Trail - Thomas JONES and Mary WILLIAMS - Pioneer Family - English Saints

Thomas JONES 1822-1897 and Mary WILLIAMS 1825-1877

Seventh Generation Thomas Jones and Mary Williams Jones Family

English Saints Worcestershire, ENG / Logan, UT Thomas Jones age 45 / b. 1822 Hartlebury W. ENG - m. 1848 Halesowen, W. ENG - d. 1897 Logan, UT - Mary Williams Jones age 43 / b. 1825 Halesowen, W. ENG - d. 1877 Logan, UT 

BAPTIZED: England, Thomas 1845 and Mary 1847 

BY SEA: 1868 steamship ‘Minnesota’ Minnesota Information: British / 2869 tons Master: J. Price Depart Liverpool: Jun 30, 1868 Arrive New York: July 12, 1868 12 days Leader J. Parry LDS passengers 534 

BY LAND: 1868 Unknown wagon train Mid Trip Arrival: Laramie City, 22 Jul 1868 Arrival: 30 Aug 1868 Thomas Jones (45) husband Mary Williams Jones (43) wife Sarah Jane (19) Cyrus Joseph (17) Willard Thomas (16) Mary Emma (13) Albert Williams (11) Marlin John (10) Leonard James (8) Herbert Ernest (3) (7 or their fifteen children had died in England) Pioneer Information: Traveling with wife and eight children. From Thomas Jones diary: I left England with my family (wife Mary and 8 living children-ages 3-19yr) for America Tues.30 June 1868,arriving in Salt Lake City on 30 Aug 1868. My family and I sailed on the steamship "Minnesota" with 534 Saints under the direction of John Parry, sailed from Liverpool, England. Arrived in New York, Jul 12 and the immigrants reached Laramie City, 22 Jul 1868. Jones, Thomas, 1868, NA, Minnesota, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 176654 25692 Jones, Thomas, 1868, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Jones, Mary, 1868, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Jones, Mary, 1868, NA, Minnesota, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 176654 25692 Jones, Sarah, 1868, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 * Jones, Cyrus, 1868, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 * Jones, Cyrus, 1868, NA, Minnesota, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 176654 25692 Jones, Mary E., 1868, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Jones, Mary E., 1868, NA, Minnesota, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 176654 25692 Jones, Leonard, 1868, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Jones, Leonard, 1868, NA, Minnesota, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 176654 25692 Jones, Marlin, 1868, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Jones, Herbert, 1868, NA, Minnesota, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 176654 25692 Jones, Herbert E., 1868, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Jones, Albert, 1868, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Jones, Albert W., 1868, NA, Minnesota, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 176654 25692 Jones, William, 1868, NA, Minnesota, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 176654 25692 Jones, William, 1868, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Camilla SMITH - Amy Ella HAWKES pedigree

1868 Mormon Trail - Sarah and Catherine WORLEY - Teenage Pioneers - English Saints

Teenage pioneer sisters - Sarah WORLEY (Jones) 1851-1925 and 

 with little sister Catherine WORLEY (Cowley) 1853-1891

Sixth Generation 

English Saint Sarah Worley (Jones) age 16 / b. 1851 Tipton, Warwickshire, ENG - d. 1925 Logan, UT - buried Logan, UT. 

BAPTIZED: Sarah’s parents were baptized in England in 1848. Sarah had been born into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she was baptized in 1865. England to UT 

BY SEA: 1868 steamship 'Minnesota'

(Cyrus Joseph JONES and Sarah Worley were both aboard the steamship "Minnesota" from England) 

Minnesota Information: British / 2869 tons Master J. Price Depart Liverpool: June 30 1868 Arrive New York: July 12, 1868 12 days Leader J. parry LDS passengers 534. 

BY LAND: 1868 Chester Loveland Company Departure: 25 July 1868 Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 20 August 1868 Worley, Sarah (16) and her sister Worley, Catherine (14) Pioneer Information: Teen aged Sarah and Catherine Worley traveled together. Walking from Laramie to Utah. Company Information: About 400 individuals and 40 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Laramie, Wyoming. “It was the desire of Catherine’s father [Henry Worley] to have his family join the Saints in Salt Lake.” “He sent his sons, George and John, to America first. Then on June 30, 1868, Catherine and her sister Sarah, took passage on the steamship, “Minnesota,” with a company of Saints. After twelve days of rough sea and sea sickness, they docked at Castle Garden, New Youk.” “They left the next day by train for Laramie, Wyoming. The two girls walked all the way to Salt Lake as there were not enough wagons for them to ride.” “Joseph Enos Cowley, at age eighteen, had been called to go to Laramie, Wyoming, to meet the Saints in the Loveland Company. This is where Catherine and he became acquainted. They reached Salt Lake on August 20, 1868.” (Catherine Worley Cowley, Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude Vol. I, A to E, International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 688) Camilla SMTIH - Amy Ella HAWKES pedigree

sister Catherine WORLEY (Cowley) 1853-1891 

1869 Mormon Trail - Henry WORLEY & Catherine WILLMORE - English Saints

Seventh Generation

 

  Henry WORLEY (1827-1914) Catherine WILLMORE (1822-1904) 

Note: The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers don't consider Catherine and Henry to be Mormon Pioneers because they arrived in Utah with the first train 1869. I consider them to be Pioneers because they had joined the church in England 20 years before they arrived. All their children were born into the church and they had prepared and sent in 1866 two teenage sons, and in 1868 two teenage daughters. After the Worley's arrived in Utah two of Catherine's brothers and some nephews and nieces followed. English Saints Father and Mother with four youngest children. Seventh Generation Henry and Catherine Willmore Worley Worcestershire, England to Logan, UT Henry Worley age 42/ b. 18 ENG - m. 18 - ENG. - d. 18 UT - Catherine Willmore Worley age 47/ b. 18 ENG - m. 18 - ENG. - d. 18 UT - 

BAPTIZED: Both Henry and Catherine, 1848 England 

BY SEA: 1869 Minnesota Henry Worley (42) husband Catherine Willmore (47) wife Jane (12) Harry (10) Thomas (7) William John Worley (5) ‘Minnesota’ Information: Steamship / British / 2,869 ton Master: J. Price Departed: Liverpool Jun 2, 1869 Arrived New York: Jun 14, 1869 12 days of passage 338 LDS passengers Company Leader: Elias Morris Minnesota Information: June 2, 1869 The Guion and Co.’s Steamship Minnesota sailed from Liverpool, England, with 338 Saints, under the Direction of Elias Morris. It arrived in New York June 14th. (Our Pioneer Heritage Vol. 8 p.366) 

BY LAND: 1869 First Railroad train to Ogden, UT Train Information: June 25, 1869 The first company of Latter-day Saints to come all the way from the Missouri river by rail arrived by the U.P.R.R., in charge of Elias Morris. (Our Pioneer Heritage Vol. 8 p.366) Pioneer Information: Joined the LDS Church 1849. They Emigrated to the US / PIONEERED to Utah - from England on the ship MINNESOTA the year of the Train 1869. Husband Henry/ wife Catherine, and children Harry, Jane, Thomas and William. Four older children pioneered earlier: In 1866 sons George and John on the ship Arkwight and 1868 daughters Sarah and Catherine on the ship Minnesota then Chester Loveland Company See: Wiggins, Marvin E., Mormons and Their Neighbors, Worley, William 19 Jul 1864 - --------- Older children of Henry and Catherine Worley John (20) and George (18) 1866 ship‘Arkwright’ 1866 Daniel Thompson Company, ox train Worley, John, 1866, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Worley, John, 1866, NA, Arkwright, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 175624 25692 --------- Sarah (16) and Catherine (Kate) (14) 1868 steamship Minnesota 1868 Chester Loveland Company Worley, John, 1866, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Worley, John, 1866, NA, Arkwright, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 175624 25692 Worley, George, 1866, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Camilla SMITH - Amy Ella HAWKES pedigree

Mormon Trail - English Saints - William George COLE and Sarah LARNDER

Mormon Pioneer ancestor of Camilla SMITH WOOD CR - Seventh Generation William George COLE (1814-1890) and Sarah LARNDER (1813-1884) m. 1837. William George COLE

English Saints Seventh Generation William George Cole and Sarah Larnder Cole, England / Logan UT / Brigham City, UT / ID William George Cole age 49/ b. 1814 ENG - m. 1837 - ENG. - d. 1890 Logan, UT. Sarah Larnder Cole age 50/ b. 1813 ENG - m. 1837 - ENG. - d. 18 Parris, ID. 9 children. Other Spouse: George m. after 1884 Hannah Louisa SMITH SQUIRES. BAPTIZED: William and Sarah England 1848 BY SEA: 4 June 1863 Steamship 'Amazon' 1863 ‘Amazon’ Information: Sailing vessel with atleast three masts Master: H. Hovey Departed Liverpool: June 4, 1863 Arrived New York: July 18, 1862 44 days of passage 895 LDS passengers Company Leader: William Bramall In 1863 Charles Dickens, famous English writer, visited the Latter-day Saint emigrants on board the Amazon before it sailed from London. In his book, "Uncommercial Traveler," he presents an account of this interesting experience. Following are a few excerpts: Charles Dickens and the Mormons (Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 7, p.12-14) …I go aboard my Emigrant Ship. I go first to the great cabin, and find it in the usual condition of a cabin at that pass. Perspiring lands-men, with loose papers, and with pens and inkstands, pervade it; and the general appearance of things is as if the late Mr. Amazon's funeral had just come home from the cemetery, and the disconsolate Mrs. Amazon's trustees found the affairs in great disorder, and were looking [p.13] high and low for the will. I go out on the poop-deck for air, and surveying the emigrants on the deck below (indeed they are crowded all about me, up there too), find more pens and inkstands in action, and more papers, and interminable complication respecting accounts with individuals for tin cans and what not. But nobody is in ill temper, nobody is the worse for drink, nobody swears an oath, curses a coarse word, nobody appears depressed, nobody is weeping; and down upon the deck, in every corner where it is possible to find a few square feet to kneel, crouch, or lie in, people in every unsuitable attitude for writing are writing letters. Now, I have seen emigrant ships before this day in June. And these people are so strikingly different from all other people in like circumstances whom I have ever seen, that I wonder aloud, "What would a stranger suppose these emigrants to be!" The vigilant bright face of the weather-browned captain of the Amazon is at my shoulder and he says; "What, indeed! The most of these came aboard yesterday evening. They came from various parts of England in small parties that had never seen one another before. Yet they had not been a couple of hours on board when they established their own police, made their own regulations, and set their own watches at all the hatchways. Before nine o'clock the ship was as orderly and as quiet as a man-of-war…" …The Mormon agent who had been active in getting them together, and in making the contract with my friends, the owners of the ship, to take them as far as New York on their way to the Great Salt Lake, was pointed out to me. A compactly made, handsome man in black, rather short, with rich brown hair and beard and clear bright eyes. From his speech I should set him down as American. Probably a man who had "knocked about the world" pretty much. A man with a frank open manner, and unshrinking look; withal a man of great quickness. I believe he was wholly ignorant of my Uncommercial individuality, and consequently of my immense Uncommercial importance... BY LAND: 1863 railway to Florence NE, Unknown wagon train Departure: 1863 Arrived Salt Lake City: 4 Oct 1863 William George Cole (48) husband Sarah Larnder Cole (50) wife William George Cole Jr. (20) George Cole (17) Walter Charles Cole (14) Erastus Moroni Cole (11) Pioneer Information: William George COLE was a Mormon Pioneer with his wife Sarah and 4 sons. William G. and Sarah Cole and William G. Jr. are listed as passengers on the 1863 ship of Amazon. Also on the Perpetual Emigration Fund list of 1863. The Amazon traveled 44 days from London to NY with "895" Mormons on board. On Thursday 4 June 1863 George and his wife Sarah and four sons set sail as part of a company of "883" Saints on the packet ship "Amazon" with Elder william Brimhall as Presiding Elder. Charles Dickens visited the Mormons an the ship. New York 18 July 1863 to Florence, Nebraska by railroad. This was during the Civil war and Rebels burned a train and my Saints lost all their belongings. Then from Florence to Salt lake City by Ox team. (Family History) “They left England, June 4, 1863, and arrived in New York after a six week voyage. They took a train to Florence, Nebraska. It was during the Civil War and rebels set fire to the train and they were left stranded on the Plains until help arrived.” “Their journey westward, by ox-team and wagon train began in July. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, October 4, 1863, four months after leaving England.” (Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude Vol. I, A to E, International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 636 - Sarah Larnder Cole.) Daughters Elizabeth who married John Allen on the plains, and Eliza COLE with Eliza’s son Clarence had emigrated in 1862. Company Information: Began its journey from the outfitting post at Florence, Nebraska (now Omaha). Cole, William G, 1863, NA, Amazon, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 175586 25691 Cole, William Geo, 1863, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Cole, Sarah, 1863, NA, Amazon, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 175586 25691 Cole, Erastus, 1863, NA, Amazon, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 175586 25691 Cole, George, 1863, NA, Amazon, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 175586 25691 Cole, Walter, 1863, NA, Amazon, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 175586 25691 Cole, William G. Jr., 1863, NA, Amazon, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 175586 25691 Camilla SMITH - Amy Ella HAWKES pedigree