Person:Mary Blanch (7)

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Mary BLANCH
d.22 Oct 1915 Manila, Dagget, Utah
  1. Mary WARBY1848 - 1953
  2. James Warby, III1848 -
  3. Philidelphia WARBY1849 - 1853
  4. John WARBY1850 - 1850
  5. Thomas WARBY1852 - 1853
  6. Sarah Warby1854 - 1886
  7. William Edward WARBY1856 -
  8. Samuel WARBY1859 - 1941
  9. Isaac WARBY1861 - 1938
  10. Noah WARBY1863 - 1863
  11. Maryia WARBY1863 - 1863
  12. Joseph WARBY1864 - 1926
  13. James Henry WARBY1866 -
  14. Matilda Warby1868 - 1932
  15. Maria WARBY1868 - 1901
  16. George WARBY1870 - 1925
  17. Sephen WARBY1874 - 1936
  18. James Morgan Warby1876 -
Facts and Events
Name Mary BLANCH
Gender Female
Birth? 28 Oct 1828 Rolvenden, Kent, England
Reference Number 16343
James Warby
Death? 22 Oct 1915 Manila, Dagget, Utah
Reference Number? 1493

Roots Web.com - Geraldine Olson King Mary (Blanch) Warby [from the book "The Forest of Blanches" by William Good-1988]

Mary Blanch, the second youngest child of Edward and Maria Blanch was born at Rolvenden, Kent, England in October 1828. It was not a good time for the family, her mother had died when Mary was just eight years old and for several years the family had to depend on charity for the necessities of life. At the age of nine Mary left England bound for Australia with her father and brothers and sisters on board the ship "Maitland". Their voyage to Australia was a lengthy one and sickness was rife on board. Fortunately none of the family succumbed although Mary was among the sick. On November 5, 1838, they arrived at Port Jackson and the ship was placed in quarantine for a month with a suspected outbreak of typhus. While in quarantine, Mary celebrated her tenth birthday.

After their release from quarantine the Blanch family headed north from Sydney to join the rest of the family on the Williams River. Here Mary spent the next eight years of her life. Among the other families in the area where the Blanchs? lived was that of James Warby.

James Warby arrived in New South Wales on the ship "Neptune" in 1839. Although born in Hertfordshire in England, James had married a Kentish woman, Mary Wood. Among their children was a son, named after his father, and born at Hythe in Kent in 1822. In 1846 James jr and Mary Blanch were married at Morpeth on the Hunter River. As her father was a Baptist the majority of his children had not received infant baptism, accordingly in March 1847 Mary was christened at Raymond Terrace.

The early years of their married life were spent on the Williams River working on farms at Seaham, Raymond Terrace and at Nelsons Plains. During this period of their life, up to 1853, the couple had five children. Of these the eldest had died while an infant. It was at this time that a great change came over the lives of James and Mary Warby. Their granddaughter Sarah Boren remembers the story of this [1]

"One night as grandfather was walking home from work, in Australia, he saw two men standing on the street corner talking aloud, he stopped and talked to them. They told him of their purpose being there; that they were Mormon missionaries from America, and that they were going to have a meeting that night and would like to have him come. He gladly accepted their invitation, told them he would hurry home, and he would be back to their meeting. On arriving home, he told his wife about these men, and that they would go to town and hear these men explain the gospel, which they did. Grandfather, carrying the two larger children, and grandmother taking the younger ones, walked back to town and got there in time for the meeting.

At the close of the meeting, grandfather, being so inspired by what he heard, was ready to be baptized. Grandmother was also ready for baptism on hearing of Joseph Smith, the prophet, and Brigham Young bringing the saints to Utah, gave them the urge to come to Zion, so they started immediately to save, and prepare to come to Utah?.

?Their new beliefs must have given them great comfort at a time of great loss in their lives for in July 1853, during an epidemic which saw the deaths of many children in the area, three of their children died, leaving an only surviving child, a son, John. The following year the family left Australia for America.?

"Grandfather and grandmother ... packed ... left their home and went to a brother of grandmother's until they sailed for America on March 22, 1854 on the ship Julia Ann with about seventy.... on board, under the direction of William Hyde, bound for Utah.

"I remember our grandparents telling us that they would sail along for maybe a day, then the wind would change its course, and they would drift back maybe a whole day's travel, and this would happen a number of times, back and forth, until finally they reached their destination, San Pedro, California, June 12 1854?.

On arrival in America the Warbys? first settled in California where their seventh child was born. A sixth child had been born before the departure from the Williams River. In late 1856 or early 1857 the family made the trip from California to Utah where they settled near the town of Beaver. They were among the first four families to settle the area. Sarah Boren best tells their story:

"(The) men started to clear land, help make roads to get into the canyons for timber to build their houses. They found many kinds of timber such as maple, oak, and mountain ash, which they used to make spokes for wagon wheels, also to make cradle fingers, cradle, and scythe handles. There were no machines to cut hay or grain, so scythes and cycles were used. Soon after these families settled there, more people continued to move in?.

"In 1861 Henry Blackner and James Warby discovered ore in the mountains northwest of Adamsville, also lime rock. In the fall of 1861, lime was imported from Parowan to Beaver. In 1862 these four men located near where the village of Adamsville now stands, and built a furnace, and erected waterpower, but for lack of means, no iron was ever made there. The arrival of these men; namely Jarnes Warby, David Adams, William Baker, and Henry Blackner, resulted in the founding of Adamsville as a farming community. These four men built houses in the spring of 1857, about a mile from the present village of Adamsville. They fenced in 12 acres of land as a beginning around which enclosure they built their houses, and raised a good crop of grain that year?.

"Their houses consisted of small built homes, mud roofs, hard packed dirt floors, with one window. In the evening the glow from the fireplace assisted the burning of candles to illuminate the pioneer's homes?.

"In the fall of 1862, James Warby, and Henry Blackner left the infant settlement for Greenville...?

"As soon as the government survey was made in Beaver, certain early settlers were entitled to make homestead entries with the understanding that land which had been selected under the above plan and farmed and occupied since 1856-1857 when the local survey was made, should be deeded to those who were entitled to it. Our grandfather (James Warby) was among others who made a homestead entry?.

"Grandfather (was) farming on North Creek at this time, which was one of the progressive farming areas of Beaver County. He, with his four sons, now old enough to help him on and about the farm. As time went on, grandfather James Warby, with his sons, operated a lime kiln in the mountains west of Beaver?.

"When the town of Beaver was established and organized, he took up a city lot there..?

"Grandfather planted an orchard, and had one of the best orchards in Beaver .. As times were bad it was hard to make a living for a large family, or even a small one. None of his children were privileged to attend school....?

"In the year 1887, the month of June, our grandparents lost a son, William Edward, at the age of 22. In the following August, their son, John, cutting timber, missed his strike, and cut his foot open, which resulted in blood poisoning, and caused his death?.

But the Warbys were not to remain at Beaver. In 1896 James and Mary, together with some of their children and grandchildren left Beaver for a new settlement in the county of Daggett. The new country was barren and desolate but offered great possibilities for a new settlement. This was quite a trip, over four hundred miles, and took some six weeks in travelling.

?Each family brought along a few head of cattle, some poultry, cook stoves, and some household goods. Soon after arriving the men started building some

Cabins close to where the water tunnel was, and a little dugout was built in the

hill, where they lived the first winter?.

In 1899 the community laid out the town site for the new township of Manila. The village was situated in the so-called Lucem Valley near to the border with the state of Wyoming.

"Grandfather Warby was among the first to build a house in the little town site. He planted some fruit trees, and raised a wonderful garden....... (He) had the first Post Office in Manila."

James and Mary Warby had moved for the last time in their lives. For nearly ten years they lived in Manila and on December 14, 1906, James died at the age of eighty four. Nine years later Mary also died at the age of eighty seven. At her death the only remaining member of Edward and Maria's family was Samuel Blanch still living in New South Wales. Their granddaughter?s final comment on them was:

"These Warbys were of humble birth, their progenitors were toilers, but

their characters were Godly and their names untarnished. "