• George and Frances sailed to America in 1862 on the ship Hope.  

  George initially traveled with the 1847 Brigham Young Company and was part of the 1st Company of Ten led by Wilford Woodruff. George was re-baptized in the the Salt Lake Valley on 8 August 1847 but immediately returned to Winter Quarters to get his wife. They traveled together in the Willard Richards Company in 1848. His wife's obituary mentions his travel to Utah in 1847 and 1848.

  George's date of birth was listed as 3 February 1820 in "John Brown's company of 10, report, 1848 June."

Brigham Young Vanguard Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 27

Willard Richards Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 28
• Head of Household

Sources

• Albert P. Rockwood journals, 1847-1853, Journal, 1847 April-July.
• "Another Pioneer Gone.  George Wardle Passes Away at Vernal," Salt Lake Tribune, 5 December 1901, 8.
• Brown, John Zimmerman, comp. Autobiography of Pioneer John Brown, 1820-1896 (Salt Lake City, 1941), 100.
• "Died," Deseret News, 23 Mar. 1881, 16.
• Heber C. Kimball journal in Heber C. Kimball papers, 1837-1866.
• John Brown's company of 10, report, 1848 June in Camp of Israel schedules and reports 1845-1849.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 20.
• "One More Pioneer Gone," The Vernal Express , 30 Nov. 1901, [3].
• Salt Lake Stake Record of Members, 1848-1917.
• Thomas Bullock correspondence and papers, 1837-1857.
• Thomas Bullock journals, 1843-1849, Journal, 1847 April-June.
• Wilford Woodruff journal, 1847 January-1853 December, 25-77.
• William Clayton diaries, 1846-1853, Folder contents: (2) Volume 2, 1847.