The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: John Prodger
Surname: Wright

Gender: Male

Birth date: 4 April 1838

Birth place:
English Spelling: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
Welsh Spelling: Wrecsam, Denbighshire, Wales View Sources

Death date: 3 January 1918

Death place: Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States View Sources

Burial date: 6 January 1918

Burial place: Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States View Sources

Father: William Rogers
Mother: Jane Wright

Siblings

Jones, Eliza Ann (1840-1863)

Married 31 December 1862

Isabelle Wardell (1848-1929)

Married 2 May 1864 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Children

Wright, Eliza Ann
Wright, Barbara Jane
Wright, Mary Isabelle
Wright, Rhoda Ann
Wright, Sarah Louise
Wright, Harriet Josephine
Wright, Norinda Cassinder
Wright, John Wardell
Wright, William Martin
Wright, Lucy Rowena
Wright, Emma Edna
Wright, Naomi C.
Wright, Joseph Hyrum
Wright, Julia

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Ann Elizabeth Rynearson (1859-1937)

Married 13 February 1879 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Children

Wright, Elvine
Wright, Martha Elizabeth
Wright, Charles Edward
Wright, Mable

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1851 UK Census	Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1870 US Census	Mill Creek Ward, Salt Lake, Utah Territory	Extract	Image
1880 US Census	Mill Creek Precinct, Salt Lake, Utah	Extract	Image
1900 US Census	Mill Creek Precinct, Salt Lake, Utah	Extract	Image
1910 US Census	Precinct 3, Salt Lake, Utah	Extract	Image

"New York, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1957," database and images (ancestry.com: accessed 19 July 2019), John Wright entry, age 16, arrived 16 May 1857 on the Queen of the South.

"Pioneer Database," database (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu: accessed 18 July 2019), John Prodger Wright entry, Warren Walling Company (1860).

Wright, John Prodger - Biography

Wright, John Prodger - Mission Journal
Wright, John Prodger 2 - Mission Journal
Wright, John Prodger 3 - Mission Journal

Departure: left Liverpool March 1857 (in the company of the man he had been apprenticed to. John finished his apprenticeship in Pennsylvania)