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1847–1868

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Birth Date
1 January 1825
Death Date
1882
Gender
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Thomas Wadsworth Parkinson Sr.

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  • The Parkinson family arrived in New Orleans on 7 June 1853 via the ship The Camillus. First documentation to place them in the Valley is the rebaptism of parents, Thomas and Elizabeth, in the 10th Ward on 12 November 1853.

    It is likely they traveled with the John Brown Company. Many of their fellow passengers on The Camillus continued on with that overland company. Also, Pioneers and Prominent Men indicates that the family arrived in Utah on 17 October 1853, which was around the time that members of the John Brown Company arrived.

John Brown Company (1853)

  • Age at Departure: 28
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Elizabeth Parkinson (Age: 30)
  • John Parkinson (Age: 5)
  • James Wadsworth Parkinson (Age: 3)
  • Thomas Wadsworth Parkinson Jr. (Age: 1)

Sources

  • Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913), 1088.
  • Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
  • Tenth Ward, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.