• Hector came from Scotland in 1855 on the ship Siddons.

  His surname is "McQuire" on the 1860 Utah census and his birth date is confirmed by the death certificate and Find A Grave website.

Richard Ballantyne Company (1855)

• Age at Departure: 20

Sources

• 1860 Utah Census, Weber County.
• “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)
• "Death Calls Pioneer of Utah's Dixie Land," Washington County News, 18 November 1920, 1.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• "Immigration List," Deseret News, 12 September 1855, 214.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 86.
• Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
• Utah, Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946.
• Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949.
• Utah Death Certificates.