WHO ARE WE?

The John Marriott Historical Society is a group of relatives of John Marriott, Sr. (1789 to 1849), christened in Roade, Northamptonshire, England. We also invite friends of the family to participate with us. We were organized in 1996 and officially incorporated June 11, 1998 in State of Utah as a non-profit corporation. By 1997 we had 625 members. On July 31, 1998, we organized the first family reunion since March 6, 1924, when the last Marriott reunion was held in Marriott, Utah. We held it in Ogden, Utah. We met at the Marriott Hotel and had 425 attendees .

Hermoine Jex, over a period of 35 years, did genealogical research and collected photos and biographies of hundreds of families who were descendents of John Marriott, Sr. In 1990 she completed her monumental work and published her 2 volume 1,927 page, "Red Books" titled The Marriotts: Workers of Flock and Field. These are available on the web site in our online store.

There have been several genealogical and Marriott historical research projects that have been sponsored and funded by the society, in cooperation with the Marriott Heritage Foundation, which is a federal tax deductible 501(c)3 charitable non-profit corporation, chartered in the State of Utah. This work has add several hundred new ancestors to our genealogy records, that were previously unknown.

We will soon re-start our quarterly newsletter, that ended in 1998, due to funding problems (a lack of postage contributions). We will publish it quarterly in this new web site, which will be our primary means of communication with our members. For those who do not have the internet, we will send newsletters to you quarterly for contribution of $5 per year, to cover postage. You can do this through our Contributions page.