Bernard PERRY

                   Ann Deborah, born in 1834 and baptized in Betws yn Rhos Parish Church married Bernard, son of Thomas and Anne Parry of Parc, St. George, in St. George.  Parish Church on 17 September 1852.  It was this Barnard who had batpized William Henry [Waylett] into the Mormon faith.  The young couple settled in Chapel Street, Abergle, Bernard continuing to work as a stonemason.  They tragically buried an infant son aged 5 months, William Owen [Parry] on 3 December 1853.  They emigrated to Utah aboard the ship GOLCONDA on 4 February 1854.  Bernard contracted cholera and died on the plains in May of that year leaving a young widow of 19 years of age to continue her journey to Salt lake City where she was received and cared for by her brother William and his wife.  Bernard was buried on the plains (it is believed that he is buried in the vicinity of Fort Laramie, Wymong) and his story is particularly tragic as he was one of only two of the fifty Mormon emigrants from Abergele who died during the "Gathering to Zion" -- the Mormon emigration to Utah in the nineteenth century.  (William Henry Waylett by R. Fred Roberts)