PIONEERS 1849-50 Robert Shipley 1816-1896 & Harriet Wright 1830-1913 Robert Shipley Birth: 8 October 1816 at Belton, Lincolnshire, England Death: 15 OCT 1896, Draper, Salt Lake, UTAH MARRIED: 3 Dec 1848, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England Harriet Wright Birth:20 January 1830, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England Death: 15 November 1913, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah Robert Shipley.was born at Belton, Lincolnshire, England, 8 October 1816. He was the 1st of 7 children born to parents Isaac Sykes and Mary Shipley. Robert Shipley was raised by an uncle who apprenticed him to a blacksmith. Later he apprenticed himself to a shoemaker. There he was treated well and taught a good Christian way of living. A couple of Robert’s friends invited him to the meeting of the LDS Church to see what they were involved with. He listened and was converted to the Latter-day Saints gospel becoming a member and baptized November 1847 at Crow, Oxfordshire, England, and was ordained an Elder in his native country. Harriet Wright was born January 20, 1830 at Wisbridge [or Weybridge] , England. She was the 3 rd of 9 children of parents: John Pannell Wright 1805-1886 and Mary Hill Fish 1804-1901. Harriet was raised in the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire. Among other things she learned at school was sewing. She always did her sewing with much pleasure and interest. All her sewing was done by hand. She also had much interest in plays and operas. Her father became a member of the LDS Church during 1845 and the rest of her father's family became members the Church within a few years. Harriet became a member of the LDS Church during 1847.
PIONEERS 1849-50 Robert Shipley 1816-1896 & Harriet Wright 1830-1913
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PIONEERS 1849-50
Robert Shipley 1816-1896 &
Harriet Wright 1830-1913
Robert Shipley
Birth: 8 October 1816 at Belton, Lincolnshire, England
Death: 15 OCT 1896, Draper, Salt Lake, UTAH
MARRIED: 3 Dec 1848, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
Harriet Wright
Birth:20 January 1830, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England
Death: 15 November 1913, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah
Robert Shipley.was born at Belton, Lincolnshire, England, 8 October 1816. He was the 1st of 7 children
born to parents Isaac Sykes and Mary Shipley. Robert Shipley was raised by an uncle who apprenticed
him to a blacksmith. Later he apprenticed himself to a shoemaker. There he was treated well and taught
a good Christian way of living. A couple of Robert’s friends invited him to the meeting of the LDS
Church to see what they were involved with. He listened and was converted to the Latter-day Saints
gospel becoming a member and baptized November 1847 at Crow, Oxfordshire, England, and was
ordained an Elder in his native country.
Harriet Wright was born January 20, 1830 at Wisbridge [or Weybridge] , England. She was the 3rd
of 9
children of parents: John Pannell Wright 1805-1886 and Mary Hill Fish 1804-1901.
Harriet was raised in the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire. Among other things she learned at school was
sewing. She always did her sewing with much pleasure and interest. All her sewing was done by hand.
She also had much interest in plays and operas.
Her father became a member of the LDS Church during 1845 and the rest of her father's family became
members the Church within a few years. Harriet became a member of the LDS Church during 1847.
Old friends shook their heads, but new friends, members of their faith, were often entertained in the
Wright family home. Among those was a young shoemaker of limited education, but of fervent faith,
Robert Shipley. Harriet saw in him the making of a good man and he was interest in her. Robert and
Harriet left Lincoln and were married at Hull, in St. John’s Parish, 3 December 1848. They were the first
of the family to leave their native land for the gospel's sake.
Robert and Harriet left Goole, England in January 1849 and went by boat to Liverpool and from there to
New Orleans in a sail ship. The journey across the ocean was a long and tedious one, covering nine weeks
from January to March their ship caught on fire but was put out before much damage was done. A child
died in mid-ocean and was buried at sea. At another time, two ships almost collided. One had lost its mast
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Last ame SHIPLEY First Name Harriet
Age 19 Gender F Occupation Mormon Laborer
“On the morning of April 5th, 1849, the emigrants left New Orleans on the steamboat Iowa, together
with a number of non-Mormon passengers, bound for St. Louis, Missouri. Soon after leaving New
Orleans, cholera -- which at this time prevailed in that part of the country -- broke out among the
passengers, and seven deaths occurred among the emigrants before the company arrived at Memphis;
two of these were Saints, who were buried on the island. When the boat arrived at St. Louis, Missouri,
April 12th, a number of the passengers were still sick, and three died on board the steamer the night after
reaching port.”
“From St. Louis the 'Mormon' emigrants continued the journey arrived at Kanesville, (Council Bluffs)
Iowa, May 17th, 1849 having suffered much from cholera while passing up the Missouri River to Council
Bluffs, Iowa. Then they joined the general emigration that crossed the plains for the Valley that year.”