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1847–1868

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Birth Date
18 September 1831
Death Date
24 June 1928
Gender
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Mary Ann Cornwall


Alternate Names

    Mary Ann Hunt, Mary Ann Miles, Mary Ann Leicht, Mary Ann Nielson

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  • Mary Ann lived in England.  In 1854 she married George Leicht, a widower with several children; he died in 1857, so when Mary Ann embarked for America aboard the ship General McClellen in 1864 she was a widow with children from her husband's previous marriage and children of her own. She married John Cornwall aboard the ship General McClellen (see the 19 June 1864 letter of Thomas Evans Jeremy found on the Mormon Migration website.)  The family then crossed the plains in the William S. Warren Company.  In the 1870 Utah census her surname is spelled "Cornwell."

     

William S. Warren Company (1864)

  • Age at Departure: 32

Traveled with

  • John Cornwell (Age: 47)
  • Job Cornwell (Age: 13)
  • John Cornwell (Age: 11)
  • Mary Leicht (Age: 11)
  • Sarah Selenah Leicht (Age: 9)
  • Thomas Cornwell (Age: 8)
  • Amelia Leicht (Age: 8)
  • Elizabeth Leicht (Age: 6)

Sources

  • 1861, England Census.
  • 1870 Utah census, Washington County.
  • “Captain William S. Warren Company (third ox train), manifests, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868. (CR 376 8, Box 1, Folder 13)
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 276.
  • Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America