More of 5th Generation of Oakley Leighs
8th Generation of Leighs
80. DANIEL LEIGH (chr 3 Sep 1776 - 26 Jul 1848 Llanedi).
Father:74 Rev. EDMUND LEIGH
unmd ELIZABETH UNKNOWN (? - aft 9 Oct 1799)
95. Evan LEIGH (chr 9 Oct 1799 - 18 Jan 1807)
Rev. EDMUND recorded Evan's birth and death in the original parish records (as found by Derek Williams) but not in the Bishop's Transcripts (Film no.105162). SAMUEL LEIGH's journal has no reference to this step-brother Evan, presumably because the boy died young and was unknown to SAMUEL.md MARY REES (abt 1780 - 26 Jul 1848 Llanedi), dau of ?WILLIAM REES, on 17 Feb 1801 in Merthyr Tydfil. Details about this family are given in our "modern" site.
Despite considerable effort, we have been unable to find the parents of DANIEL's wife, MARY REES, or any christening record. Study of the numerous Rees families in Llanedi, Llanarthney, Carmarthen, New Church, and Llanelli was inconclusive. Strikingly, the journal of her son SAMUEL has no mention of his mother's ancestry, despite his strong interest in LEIGH genealogy. Also unknown is why she and DANIEL were married in Merthyr Tydfil instead of Rev. EDMUND's church in Llanedi. Their marriage record gives no additional data, except that both were "residents." Perhaps DANIEL was temporarily working there.
96. MARY REES LEIGH (chr 20 Jul 1801 Llanedi - 21 Oct 1878 Carlisle, Ont. Canada)
md DAVID PHILLIPS (abt 1790 - 5 Aug 1874 Carlisle, Ont.) on 11 July 1825 at St Mary's, Swansea.
Father: 80 DANIEL LEIGH
MARY'S christening appears in the original parish records and in SAMUEL LEIGH's journal, though not the Bishop's Transcripts. Their first child was born in Llanrhystud, Cards, before they emigrated to New York and Ontario, Canada, where their other seven children were born. Their many descendants are researched by descendant Wendell Phillips. Email contact Wendell Phillips: wenberphil@earthlink.net
97. Edmund LEIGH (b. 4 Dec 1802, chr 19 Mar 1803 - 20 May 1803 both Llanedi)
98.ANNE LEIGH (chr 19 Aug 1804 Llanedi - abt April 1890 "Traveler’s Rest" between Neath and Llansamlet). Father: 80 DANIEL LEIGH
md (1) ?JOHN JAMES
The journal of lists his sister ANNE LEIGH JAMES (p.29), and the journal of his son WILLIAM DAVID LEIGH records frequent visits to his "Aunt Ann, my father’s sister" (p.35) and her “daughter-in-law the widow of John James her son" (p.6) in Morriston in 1888-90. ANNE’s son and his wife Mary had 7children, the eldest son being named William Leigh James, according to the census records on www.ancestry.co.uk seen by Derek Williams.
md (2) DAVID LEYSHON (?-bef 1888)
The journals of both SAMUEL and WILLIAM make clear that this ANNE was later named Leyshon/Leison/Leasson, with at least three daughters from her second marriage. SAMUEL visited "my niece, my sister’s daughter and her husband, name William Watkins, her name Jane Leyshon Watkins" in St Louis, Missouri (p.11). Elsewhere he lists the children of DAVID LEYSHON and ANNE LEIGH, including JANE WATKINS, according to Amy VanCott. WILLIAM’s journal records his visits to "Cousin Mary Davies, the daughter of Aunt Ann Leasson," who lived at Quaker’s Yard near Merthyr Tydfil (p.3), and also to the third daughter, HANNAH THOMAS, who with her husband owned "Traveler’s Rest" on the road between Neath and Llansamlet, where her mother also lived (p.4). On the next Sunday WILLIAM "attended Church of England Services in Company with Cousin Hannah," and later he spent New Year’s Eve with this family (p.6). ANNE’s death date and place come from WILLIAM’s journal (p.35). Derek Williams found 5 families in census records that he believes descend from ANNE and DAVID LEYSHON.
99. SARAH REES LEIGH (chr 18 Jan 1807 Llanedi - 30 May 1892 Wellsville, Cache co, Utah) md WALTER WALTERS (chr 20 May 1795 Llandebie - 1867 Utah) on 21 Jan 1828 in Llanedi. Father: 80 DANIEL LEIGH
SARAH REES is the only daughter of 80.DANIEL who signed her marriage license with an X. She and her husband apparently moved to Llanelli with the other children of DANIEL LEIGH who became Mormons. Mormon records in Llanelli list them as members by early 1849 and as emigrating to Utah (ymfudodd) in January 1854 (Film no.104169). Descendants of the WALTERS family are numerous in Cache county in northern Utah, then in Idaho, and they have researched thisfamily. Email contact Lynne Nielsen: AAndlyn@aol.com
100. LYDIA LEIGH (chr 19 Mar 1809 Llanedi - ?)
md JOHN MORGAN on 2 Feb 1836 in Llanelli "by license, of this parish''
Their children were probably Elizabeth in 1837, twins William and John in 1844, and John in 1845, where John MORGAN was called a maltster, i.e a maker of malt for brewing, living at the "Clubhouse" (Films no.105163-4). It is uncertain whether this couple became Mormons like the other Llanelli LEIGHs. A Lydia Morgan was listed as a member in 1848, but no other names were recognizable (Film no 104169). This family too belongs to research on modern Welsh LEIGHs.
101. EDMUND LEIGH (chr 15 Sep 1811 Llanedi - 22 Dec 1848 Llanelli), carpenter
Father: 80 DANIEL LEIGH
md JANE MORGAN (? - aft 22 Dec 1848) on 18 Dec 1832 in Llanelli "by banns.
At EDMUND's burial his age was given as "46 years," though he was only 37 (presumably by confusion with Edmund who was born in 1802 and died as a child). EDMUND was listed as a Mormon in the spring of 1848 (Film no.104169) but without his family, and his funeral was at the Llanelli parish church (Film no.105164). None of EDMUND’s family were found as emigrants, and presumably all remained in Llanelli as non-Mormons. His infant son John did not survive (chr 5 Feb 1837-bur 12 Jun 1839), but two of his three daughters were visited by their cousin WILLIAM DAVID LEIGH in 1888-90 when he was living in South Wales. HARRIET (chr 14 Apr 1833) and a sister (either Mary Ann chr 25 Jan 1835 or Maria chr 29 Jun 1838) were living in Seaside near Llanelli when WILLIAM visited them in December 1888. Derek Williams found several later descendants in census records.
102. DANIEL LEIGH (chr 21 Aug 1813 Llanedi - 25 Dec 1866 Malad, Idaho), carpenter
Father: 80 DANIEL LEIGH
md (1) MARY WILLIAMS (? - bef 6 Nov 1846) on 23 Oct 1835 in Llanelli "by banns, of this parish''.
md (2) ANN MORRIS (1822 Llanelli - 1891 Idaho) on 6 Nov 1846 in Llanelli
This couple were listed as Mormon members in early 1848 (Film no. 104169), and the family of two sons and two daughters emigrated to Utah on the S.S.Buena Vista in the first Welsh Mormon contingent to Utah, leaving Liverpool on 26 February 1849, as documented by Ronald D. Dennis in The Call of Zion. Family members (including the son John born in 1839 to the first wife) are researched by their descendants in Utah and Idaho.
103.SAMUEL LEIGH (chr 1 Dec 1815 Llanedi, d - 13 Jul 1894 Cedar City, Utah), joiner, carpenter
Father: 80 DANIEL LEIGH
md (1) ANN DAVID (May 1815 - 6 May 1849 near St Joseph, Missouri), dau of HENRY DAVID, butcher and MARY FRANCIS, butcher, dressmaker, in December 1841 in Llanelli.
Dates for SAMUEL's marriage and children's births come from his journal (pp.5,6,22). We did not find them in the Llanelli Bishop's Transcripts, where his siblings EDMUND, DANIEL, and LYDIA were married and had at least their earliest children christened. ANN DAVID was a Baptist of Felinfoel in Llanellli, so their children were probably not baptized as infants. SAMUEL's family of three sons and a daughter emigrated in 1849 on the SS. Buena Vista with SAMUEL's brother DANIEL. Near St Louis ANN DAVID died of cholera with her newborn son, and SAMUEL stayed there for two years with his three children before traveling to Utah. From this SAMUEL and his first wife ANN DAVID came my own line [Norma] and that of the earlier family historians Amy Leigh VanCott and Allen W. Leigh. Email contact for Allen is welshleigh@bergstedt.org
Unlike most of our LEIGHS and their spouses, the DAVID family were classic South Welsh working class, though ANN's father HENRY had a butcher's shop. But her grandfather MORGAN, her uncle Thomas "Twm," and his son Morgan were Welsh coalminers. This Morgan and his family of six daughters and a son-in-law David Bowen left Llanelli with SAMUEL and ANN's family, planning to travel with them as a group on the same ship, but had to wait a few weeks for the S.S Hartley (Dennis p.106 and Appendix C). They stayed together in the Mormon settlement of Council Bluffs for two years before traveling to Utah, where the Morgan David family settled in Spanish Fork. For details and photos see Dennis and our site for modern Leighs. For David Bowen's journal about the DAVID family, see Ronald Dennis' website at http://welshmormon.byu.edu/
md (2) MARY TREHARNE (abt 1826 ?Pontyates - 14 Apr 1882 Cedar City, Utah), dau of WILLIAM TREHARNE, blacksmith from Pontyates, Carms. and ANN UNKNOWN, in Jun 1850 in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
The TREHARNE family also emigrated from Llanelli on the S.S. Buena Vista in 1849 but stayed in or near Council Bluffs until 1852. Both parents soon died leaving a young son and four daughters (Dennis p.120 and Appendix B). Data on SAMUEL's eleven children by his second wife came from his journal (pp.7,8,9,18,22-23. This couple traveled by covered wagon to Utah in 1852, and settled in Cedar City. Their children are well researched by their descendants. Email contact Susan Leigh at sleigh@azstarnet.com
md (3) Sage Treharne, sister of MARY TREHARNE and widow with six children of Thomas Jones (d. 1862), on 9 Oct 1868 in Cedar City
md (4) Mary LEWIS on 28 Dec 1882 in Cedar City
104. Hannah LEIGH (b. 30? Nov 1817 ?Llanedi - d. Utah?)
We found no christening of Hannah, but SAMUEL's journal gives this birth date (actually 31 November, p.25). She must be the Hannah Leigh listed as a Mormon after SAMUEL, DANIEL, their wives, and EDMUND (Film no.104169), as well as the "Anna" who appears with SAMUEL's family on the S.S.Buena Vista ship's list as age 32 in 1849 (Dennis, App.B p.[88]) She may have married Alexander Wright, but this is a question for the study of modern LEIGHs.
105. ?Mary LEIGH (Aug 1818 - 2 Dec 1818 Llanedi)
Only her burial was found, but she is attributed to DANIEL because no other son was living in Llanedi. Possibly another son returned for his infant's funeral.
106. REBECCA LEIGH (chr 2 Jun 1820 Llanedi - 12 Nov 1847 Eglwysilan, Glams.)
md JAMES EDWARDS, farmer of Ty-yn-y-park
Their son, James Leigh EDWARDS, was christened and REBECCA was buried the same day by her cousin Rev Edmund LEIGH, son of Vicar WILLIAM LEIGH. James was their third son according to Derek Williams’ study of later census records.
Sources: Bishop's Transcripts of Llanedi (Film no. 105162), Llanelli (Film nos.105163-4), and Eglwysilan (Film no.104869); Mormon records in Llanelli (Film no.105169); SAMUEL LEIGH's manuscript journal, Sp Coll, BX 8695 1447 cop.2 at the Southern Utah State University, Cedar City; Ronald D. Dennis, The Call of Zion; the manuscript journal of William David LEIGH was obtained from Ronald D. Dennis, Provo, Utah.
83. ELIEZER LEIGH (chr 6 Sep 1782 Llanedi – 20 Dec 1853 Kentish Town, Middlesex), ?Methodist minister /draper. Father: 74 Rev. EDMUND LEIGH
md MARY FLEXNEY SMITH (born est 1782-85), dau of WILLIAM SMITH and SARAH FLEXNEY, on 23 Mar 1808 in St. Giles church, Camberwell, Surrey.
We are not certain of ELIEZER LEIGH’s profession. He was called "clerk in holy orders" at his son WILLIAM FLEXNEY LEIGH’s third marriage in 1876, but no documents of ordination could be found. He may have been very close to the Welsh Methodists in London and thus possibly served in a Methodist church instead of the Church of England. With his son JOSEPH’s birth in 1821 ELIEZER had been listed as a “draper,” so he must have been a part time lay minister. Two of his grandsons became Methodist ministers in America. See BIOGRAPHIES for his possible relation to the Welsh Methodist interests of his father 74 Rev. EDMUND LEIGH. ELIEZER’s death certificate lists him as “gentleman,” but this may have meant only that he had means to live on without working. At least six children survived to adulthood, and WILLIAM the eldest son (like ELIEZER) had a variety of occupations.
The FLEXNEY SMITH family of ELIEZER’S wife MARY were prosperous, and at their marriage she was quite a wealthy woman. In 1785 her grandmother had left her £100; in 1795 her uncle John Flexney left her a house adjoining 16 Cumberland Street and £200. In 1807 her uncle Isaac Ellis left her a freehold property in Peckham and £100 (she married ELIEZER in 1808 and was residing in Peckham at that time). In 1807 her Aunt Mary Ellis also left her a freehold in Cumberland Street, a cart, yard stabling. The FLEXNEYS owned property in Cumberland Street, Shoreditch. They seemed to run a cab company and had various apprentices over the years. They also had property in Mile End Old Town, Stepney and 2 leasehold properties in Sydenham, Kent. They leased the Crown public house in Dulwich. (This information came from various wills). MARY FLEXNEY SMITH’s sister Sarah married William Edden who died in Camberwell in 1842. In his will he left properties in Grove Lane Camberwell and Cumberland Street, Shoreditch to his wife Sarah, who duly passed them on to her nieces when she died in 1855, as mentioned below. ELIEZER’s line is being researched by descendant Susan Bloxham Fell, who furnished all of our information on this line.
107. WILLIAM FLEXNEY LEIGH (b.19 May 1809 chr 12 June 1809 Newington St Mary, Walworth, London – died 1 April 1890, All Saints, Birmingham) Silversmith, lecturer, Professor of Chemistry, electrician, photographist. Father 83 ELIEZER LEIGH
md (1) JANE LEE on 15 June 1835 at Manchester Parish Church.
This couple had 2 children, SELINA born 1 January 1840, Halifax and Jemima Sarah Flexney born on 11 January 1847 in Clerkenwell (London). Presumably SELINA was named in honor of Lady Selina Huntingdon, the benefactor of the Welsh Methodists. She married THOMAS ROBERT BUTLER CATTERALL on 11 March 1856. They had at least 3 children – WILLIAM ALBERT, Frederick Robert and possibly Charles (1871 census not clear). THOMAS R B CATTERALL was a clerk and died 19 December 1877 in Poulton, at that time being listed as a coal merchant. WILLIAM ALBERT became a seaman in the Royal Navy and married SARAH TULETT on 23 February1880 in Portsea. This couple had 3 children, Minnie, Thomas Albert and William H.
md (2) WILHELMINA GUNN before 1854 in ?Preston, Lancs.? (marriage not yet found). This couple had a daughter Williamina Mary born 22 June 1854 in Stockport, Lancs who died 22 May 1855 in Leeds (the informant on the death certificate was SELINA LEIGH, her 15-year-old stepsister) and a son named Eleazer Junior born 20 June 1855 in Preston.
md (3) ELIZA DENNIS on 1 May 1876 at the Register Office, Birmingham
Surprisingly, the first six of the nine children of this third wife were born before their wedding date shown on the marriage certificate. The nine were ALBERT, EMMA, LEAH, WILLIAM, ELIZA, ARTHUR, ELLEN, and twins born on 3 June 1878 who sadly died shortly after, named Ernest Flexney and Frederick Flexney. The seven adult children all married and had children. The youngest daughter ELLEN FLEXNEY LEIGH and her husband EDWARD RICHARD PRICE were the ancestors of our genealogist Sue Bloxham Fell.
Two of WILLIAM’s sons emigrated to the United States. ALBERT arrived in Boston, Mass. in 1889 and lived in Watertown with his wife KATE, whom he had married in 1881 in Birmingham UK. He was an engraver and in Boston worked all his life for the National Casket Company. He was a lay preacher in the Methodist Church for 65 years. This couple had at least 6 children – ERNEST, MABEL, Lillian, Ruth, Raymond, Harold. ERNEST married MARGARET WORDEN in 1916 and had one child Edith. He was a pattern maker and also proprietor of a tourist camp in Maine (1932). MABEL married GEORGE GRIFFIN, a fisherman, and lived in South Portland (1920/30). One daughter married John UTTING and another married Truman SAFFORD. Lillian LEIGH was single in 1947 when her father died. ALBERT died on 3 January 1947 in Portland, aged 87, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Falmouth. ARTHUR, the second son who emigrated, arrived in America on 20 February 1904. ARTHUR married MARION FILLEY TOWNSEND on 10June 1908 in Watertown, Middlesex, Mass. Rev. ARTHUR was a Methodist minister for 36 years working mainly in Maine, and was a Mason. ARTHUR and MARION had 2 children, ALICE and DONALD. ALICE married GILMORE W. SOULE of Rockland and they had 2 children David and Marie, and Dr DONALD T LEIGH had 3 – Sandra L, and twins Karen T and Sharon F. ARTHUR died on 9 July 1947 in Boston, Mass. and is buried in Lake View Cemetery, Wakefield, Mass. His wifeMARION died on 12 December 1946 in Belfast, Maine, and is also buried in Wakefield, Mass.
108a. EDMUND FLEXNEY LEIGH (chr 18 Nov 1812 St Anne’s, Blackfriars, London, died possibly June 1890 in Plymouth), Scale maker and latterly grocer/oilman (1871 census).
md FRANCES McGINNES on 15 October 1840 in Exeter, Devon.
This couple had at least 2 children. A son Eleazer Flexney was born in May 1845 but died 21 April 1847 in Walworth. Daughter SARAH JEMINA was born 21 April 1843 in Camberwell, and was with grandparents in Exeter during the census of 1851. SARAH married GEORGE SHELTON WHILE (WHITE) on 14 April 1870 at St Paul’s, Hammersmith. EDMUND was still alive in 1881 staying with SARAH’s family in Islington. GEORGE and SARAH had at least 3 children, George, Ernest and Mabel, and they were living in Thames Ditton, Surrey during the 1901 census.
108b. SARAH JEMIMA FLEXNEY LEIGH (b.abt 1817 in Shoreditch, d. 2 August 1855 at Great Russell Street aged 29).
md EDWARD ALFRED JONES on 11 June 1853 at St Giles, Camberwell.
Sadly Sarah died on 2 August 1855 only two years after her marriage. In the 1841 census she had been living in Grove Lane, Camberwell with her aunt Sarah Edden (sister of MARY FLEXNEY) so perhaps her mother had died. Her husband Edward Alfred JONES was a surveyor but on Sarah’s death certificate he was listed as a House Decorator, Master. When Sarah’s aunt Sarah Edden died she left property to Sarah and her sister ANN but nothing to any of the brothers.
108c. SAMUEL FLEXNEY LEIGH (b. abt 1819?-?), Oil and colourman.
md ELIZABETH PURCELL (widow) on 13 May 1838 in Gillingham, Kent.
108d. JOSEPH WILLIAM FLEXNEY LEIGH (1821 Hoxton, Middx, d. 18 July 1890, bur Abney Park Cemetery, London), Oilman.
md MARTHA HOLLIS on 17 July 1847 at Saint Dunstan, Stepney.
This couple had 4 children: Joseph Emmanuel, ALEXANDER F, Montague C, and Martha H. They lived in Whitechapel (1851 census), Carnaby Street, Westminster (1871 census), and Grays Inn Road (1881 census). Joseph married (1) Catherine Bennett in 1891 and (2) Alice Charlotte Pettit on 29 December 1902. Like his father he was also an oilman as well as a shopkeeper. ALEXANDER F LEIGH married Annie Maria Sexton in 1879, he was a cabman. They had at least 3 children, Archibald, Sidney, Gertrude. Montague LEIGH in 1891 was a chemist’s assistant living in Edgeware Road, London.
108e. ANN SELINA FLEXNEY LEIGH (born about 1830.)
md BENJAMIN STOODLEY NORTHCOTT, cashier, on 2 October 1850 at St Giles, Camberwell.
This couple had 7children: Benjamin, Selina, Frederick (1), Frederick (2), Sidney, Grace, Florence. They lived in Lambeth and BENJAMIN STOODLEY NORTHCOTT was a Cashier (1871 census). By 1881 he had died and ANN and 4 daughters were living in Hastings, Sussex. At her marriage ANN SELINA had been living with her Aunt Sarah Edden (sister of Mary FLEXNEY SMITH, wife of ELIEZER). When this aunt Sarah died in 1855 she left everything (properties in Grove Lane and Cumberland Street, Shoreditch) to ANN SELINA and her sister SARAH JEMIMA, but nothing to their brothers!Sources: Parish records of Camberwell, Surrey and surrounding parishes, copies of wills, 1841 – 1901 censuses, copies of birth, marriage and death certificates, records at London Metropolitan Archives. Ratings Service Records at Kew, London City Apprenticeship Abstracts (1442-1850), Family Records Centre, Guildhall Library, National Archives, various London directories. American sources were Obituaries in Portland Press, passenger records Ellis Island, and various trade directories and censuses up to 1930.
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