Person:Mary Eynon (1)

BIRTH: Parish printouts [extracted records] of Martletwy, Pembrokeshire, Wales: Mary Eynon; chrs. 21 Apr 1838; dau of Richard and Sarah. Actual BT's of Martletwy [film 105,188 item 5] Bapt. 1 Apr, 1838; Mary, dau of Richard and Sarah Eynon, Landshipping, Collier. This looked to me like the 1 Apr. I will check again.

Information from J. L. Taylor: Mary Ann Eynon born 16 Feb 1837 and chrs. 1 Apr 1838.

Family diary: birth Marriage: 7 Mar 1861, marriage certificate by corresp. Diary gives earlier date.

Endowment House Film [183,406] 1868-1872: Mary Ann Burgoyne; born 16 Feb 1839, Pembroke, So. Wales, bap 1850; parents were Richard Eynon and S. Morse.

1851 CENSUS of Myrthr Tydfil: Mary Eynon, visitor, unmarried, age 13, born in Landshipping. With the family of Thomas Jenkins, head, age 30, miner, born Llandshipping; Sara Jenkins, wife age 29 born Landshipping and John, son, age 1; William Merriman, lodger, unmarried, age 23, born in Landshipping.

1861 CENSUS of Myrthr Tidvil [543,226]: Mary Burgoyne, dau, married, age 23, dressmaker.

EMIGRATION: Mary Eynon, sailed on the ship Manchester, Apr 16, 1861 p. 9, Index to Emigration: Spinster, age 22; address: Tei Tydfils Well, Merthyr, Wales, notified 5 Apr 1861.

1880 CENSUS of Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho: Mary Ann Burgoyne; wife; md; female; white; age 40; born in Wales; keeping house; parents born in Wales.

The History of Montpelier, Idaho, 1864-1925 by A. McKay Rich: p. 80. Mary Ann Eynon Burgoyne was a seamstree, candy-maker, store clerk and homemaker. p34: Edward L. Burgoyne who arrived in Montpelier with his family during the summer of 1864, had been a weaver in Wales; his wife, Mary Ann, had been a candy maker. The early years as a weaver and farmer in Montpelier were not very profitable and Mary Ann began to make candy which she displayed in the window of her home and sold to emigrants travelling the Oregon Trail, the Indians, and the neighbors. the business soon required 300 pounds of candy a week. She also began making butter which she stored in firkins in a cool cellar until sold.

Tribune Obit: Mrs. Burgoyne is susrvived by three sisters: Mrs. Martha Reese of Logan, Mrs. Katherine Lewis of Montpelier and Mrs. Jane Reumel of Calif. Death: Also Deseret New and Montpelier cemetery records.

Second Baptism date of 13 Sep 1967 is listed in the Burgoyne Book. IGI-1998:Also sealed to parents, 14 Aug 1956. Another birthdate: 16 Feb 1839. Another entry in IGI-extracted chrs. of Martletwy: Mary Eynon chrs. 21 Apr 1838. Temple work done in Ogden T. 1979.

Know your Eynon and Related Families by Luella Grace Eynon Garton: According to personal records kept by three of Richard Eynon's children, Margret, Martha and Mary Ann, they each said they were baptized in 1849 in Wales. Catherine was bapt. Jan 18, 1852 in Wales. Mary Ann left Wales with her husband, Edward Burgoyne on the ship Manchester, Apr 13, 1861. After her family moved back to Myrthyr Tydfil, she was an apprentice in learning candy making. She finally purchased her own machines and set up her own candy shop. She contributed what she could to her parents. After her father died, she helped her widowed mother and siblings. Mary Ann passed away at the home of her grandaughter in Salt Lake City, 21 Nov 1922, age 86.