• An alternate spelling is in Journal History. He was from Basingstoke, England. The company he traveled with was also noted in local church financial records.

John R. Murdock Company (1864)

• Age at Departure: 37
• Head of Household

Sources

• “Captain John R. Murdock Company (first mule train), manifests, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868. (CR 376 8, Box 1, Folder 10)
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 26 August 1864, 1A.
• "List of Passengers," Deseret News [Weekly], 10 August 1864, 361.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 398.
• Utah Death Certificates.