• Hugh and his family sailed to the United States on the ship Ellen.  His wife, Jane, and a son, William, died in Missouri. Hugh married Isabella Pelkington the following year. Hugh, Isabella, and surviving son, Charles, traveled to Utah in 1852.

Company Unknown (1852)

• Age at Departure: 30
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1860 Utah Census, Utah County.
• "Died," Deseret News [Weekly], 8 Oct. 1873, 576.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852" in Key to Migration Sources, Great Britain and North America: A Manual for Students Attending the Second Annual Priesthood Genealogical Research Seminar, June 19-23, 1967 (Provo: Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education, 1967), edited by Norman Edgar Wright. 
• Seventh Ward, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.
• Watt, Ronald G., Public Works Accounts Books Index , [1997].