Richard GARDNER

  General Notes:

Name: Robert GARDNER
Given Name: Robert
Surname: GARDNER
Sex: M
Birth: 12 Mar 1781 in Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland 1 2 3
Death: 20 Nov 1853 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah 4
Emigration: 1821 Scotland 2
Emigration: 20 Jun 1821 Greenock, Renfrow, Scotland 5
Emigration: 7 May 1821 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 6
Event: Apr 1846 Joliet, Illinois 7
Event: Bet Oct 1846 and 10 Jun 1847 Winter Quarters, Council Bluffs, Pottwatamie, Iowa, 8
Event: 1 Oct 1847 Salt Lake Valley, Utah 9
Event: Utah Pioneer 1847 Winter Quarters, Council Bluffs, Pottwatamie, Iowa, 1 3

Note:
Robert came to Canada with his son, William and daughter, Mary. His wife and Margaret and children, Janet; Archibald and Robert must have came later.

This record of the Hamilton Emigration Society is a recording of those that had paid their fare for passage on the Ship Commerce. Robert is listed with his son, William and daughter, Mary. It reads: Men's Ages= 40. Women's ages (blank). Ages of Male children= 18. Ages of Female Children= 13. Total = 3. First installment= 6.10.0. Second installment= 4.13.6. Total amount= 11.3.6. Full passage= 2 1/3.
Others listed in the society are: James Scott; Dugald Ferguson; Arch Thomson; Robert Chalmers; John Lowrie; John Crawford; Geo. McNeish; Will Barr; John Tully; Thos. Reid; William Brownlie; David Brownlie; John Stark; John Muir; and Thos. Muir.

Below the list reads the total Royal Bank Receipts, signed by Robert Chalmers, Pres. dated Glasgow, 7 May 1821. I hereby certify that the above list contains a full statement of families admitted on the Government grant as settlers in Upper Canada per Ship Commerce. Robert Lamond, Secretary to the Committee on Emigration from Scotland.

10 June 1847 was the date this group of Saints left Winter Quarters for the Salt Lake Valley. They left with the 2nd company of 1500 people under the leadership of John Taylor. They were part of the second 100 wagons under the command of Captain Edward Hunter, and The third ten with Archibald Gardner as Captain.

Member of John Taylor's First Pioneer Company: In the 2nd Hundred; Edward Hunter, Captain: First Fifty, Joseph Horne, Captain: 3rd ten, Archibald Gardner, Captain. Organized and departed Winter Quarters: 17 Jun 1847 and arrived Salt Lake Valley 29 Sep 1847.


Father: William GARDNER b: in Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Mother: Christine HEINDISTON

Marriage 1 Margaret CALINDER b: 23 Dec 1780 in Falkirktown, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Married: 25 May 1800 2 1
Children
William GARDNER b: 31 Jan 1803 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Mary GARDNER b: 5 Jun 1807 in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Janet GARDNER b: 1812 in Scotland
Archibald GARDNER b: 2 Sep 1814 in Kilsyth, Scotland
Robert GARDNER b: 24 Oct 1819 in Scotland

Sources:
1. Title: Roster of Pioneers of 1847. REF: 979.2 WPp, located in the LDS Church Historical Department, SLC, Utah. Also at: http://
2. Title: "A Brief Sketch or History of the Family and Life of Archibald Gardner, Pioneer of 1847, 1781-1858", by Delila Gardner.
3. Title: Kate B. Carter "Heart Throbs of the West". Daughters of the Pioneers, 1948. V9 . Ref: 979.2cah.
Page 425.
4. Title: "A Brief Sketch or History of the Family and Life of Archibald Gardner, Pioneer of 1847, 1781-1858", by Delila Gardner, page 60.
5. Title: Passenger Lists
Page: COMMERCE, left Greenock, Scotland 11 May 1821, arriving at Quebec 20 Jun 1821 with 422 pass
6. Title: The Lanark Society Settlers: "Ships' Lists of the Glasgow Emigration Society 1821" Found in the "British Isles Family History"
Page: Robert and his children were members of the Hamilton Emigration Society. Only he and his s
7. Title: "A Brief Sketch or History of the Family and Life of Archibald Gardner, Pioneer of 1847, 1781-1858", by Delila Gardner, page 54.
8. Title: "A Brief Sketch or History of the Family and Life of Archibald Gardner, Pioneer of 1847, 1781-1858", by Delila Gardner, page 54.
9. Title: "A Brief Sketch or History of the Family and Life of Archibald Gardner, Pioneer of 1847, 1781-1858", by Delila Gardner, page 57.
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1M0L-10Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1M0L-10

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alt. Death: Alt. Death, 21 Nov 1855, Mill Creek, Salt Lake, Utah.

Richard married Margaret CALLENDER, daughter of Archibald CALLENDER and Margaret EWEN, on 25 May 1800 in Falkirk Parish, Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland. (Margaret CALLENDER was born in 1777 in Scotland, christened on 11 Mar 1777 in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, died in 1893 in Mill Creek, Salt Lake, Utah and was buried on 30 Apr 1893 in Salt Lake Cemetary, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.)

  Marriage Notes:

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