• Evidence that he came in 1855 is confirmed in information found in Church financial records.

  Birth date is confirmed by Find A Grave web site.

Richard Ballantyne Company (1855)

• Age at Departure: 35
• Head of Household

Sources

• “4th Company of 50 report, 1855 June.” In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 39)
• Ballantyne, Richard, Diaries and reminiscences, 1852-1896, box 1, fd. 3, vol. 6.
• Baxter, Robert, Autobiographical sketch, in Biographical sketches, 1891- , reel 3, box 3, fd. 15, item 9.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Goodliffe, Arnold, [Autobiographical sketch], in Pioneer Pathways [1998- ], 1:82.
• "Immigration List," Deseret News, 12 September 1855, 214.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 86.
• Utah Death Certificates.