• The Wiltshire family emigrated from England in 1848. They sailed on the Sailor Prince, and arrived in New Orleans on 20 November 1848. William Whiltshire, George's father, died in 1850.  George crossed the plains in 1852 with his mother, siblings, and Charles Lapworth.

  Surname is spelled "Wilshire" on the ship passenger list and the McArthur roster,  "Wilcher" on 1850 Iowa census, "Wilkshire" on company roster, "Willsher" on the 1860 census, and "Wiltshire" on the 1870 census.

  In 1868, George was a teamster out of Beaver, Utah.

   

John Tidwell Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 9

Daniel D. McArthur Company (1868)

• Age at Departure: 25
• Out-and-Back Teamster

Sources

• 1850 Iowa Census
• 1860 Utah Census, Beaver County.
• 1870 Utah Census, Beaver County.
• “5th Company of 50 Report, 1852 September 14.” In Brigham Young Office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1850-1852. (CR 1234 5. Box 1, Folder 10)
• “Captain D. D. McArthur memorandum book, 1868.” In Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts 1862-1868. 
• Council Point Emigrating Company journal, 1851 November-1852 September.
• Dalton, Francis Harriet Wiltshire, Autobiographical sketch, in Genealogical Charts and Biographical Sketches of Members of the L.D.S. Church, Ogden Stake , 26 vols., 11:105.
• New Orleans, Passenger Lists, 1813-1963.
• Saints By Sea: Latter-Day Saint Immigration to America
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.