• Robert traveled overseas with his wife, Elizabeth and children, James, Elizabeth, and Caroline, on the ship Windermere, arriving in April of 1854. First documentation to place the family in Utah is a rebaptism performed for Robert in the Salt Lake 19th Ward on 17 February 1855. Further research is needed to determine the name of the company they traveled with. Birth date is taken from 19th Ward records.

Company Unknown (1854)

• Age at Departure: 32

Sources

• 1856 Utah Census.
• 1870 Illinois Census
• 19th Ward, Record of Members (CR 375 8, reel 4709)
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 125
• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America