George and Ann Galbraith

Family of George Galbraith & Ann Wilkie & John Hooper & Eliza Rollings MacKander, 1832-1918 (b. 1812)

Residence: Glasgow, Scotland; Hampshire, England; Bristol, England; Cornwall, England; Davis County, Utah; Weber County, Utah

Grandparents:

George and Margaret Galbraith

William and Margaret Wilkie

Descendants:

Henry and Margaret Manning

Oliver and Margaret Belnap

Mathias and Margaret Benson

Jim and Ruth Smith

Parents' Childhood

George Galbraith was born in 1812 to George and Margaret Galbraith in Glasgow, Scotland, the first of three children.

Ann Wilkie was born in 1813 to William and Margaret Wilkie in Glasgow, eighth in a large family of 12 children.

John Hooper was born in 1815 to John and Ann Hooper in Hampshire, England. His father was unable to work, so John began working on ships and apprenticed as a butcher.

George's brother, William, married Ann's sister, Jane, around 1831.

George and Ann Galbraith

George and Ann married in 1832 and were together for 8 years, until George died. They had 3 children.

1832	Married in Glasgow
1833	George born
1835	Margaret born
1838	William born in Grimsby, England
1838	Moved to London
1840	Traveled to Saint Kitts; George died, age 28
1841	Lived with William and Jane Galbraith in Jersey
1842	Moved to Southampton, England

George was an engineer whose government job required frequent moves. Between about 1837 and 1840, he spent time in Belfast, Grimsby, Antwerp, Brussels, London, and Saint Kitts. The family sometimes moved with him or visited.

In late 1840, Ann and the children traveled by ship to Saint Kitts, where George was working. George and Ann contracted yellow fever, and George died in December. On its return journey, the ship took Ann, who was still too ill to walk, and the children back to England.

The family moved to Jersey to live with William and Jane Galbraith during the following year.

Around 1842, Ann moved to Southampton and began working as a stewardess on a steamer (probably ferrying passengers to the Channel Islands and Normandy). George and William, about ages 9 and 4, went to live with their Wilkie grandparents, while Margaret, age 6, stayed with her mother.

John and Ann Hooper

Ann met John Hooper, who was also working on steamers, and they married in 1844.

1844	Married in Southampton, England
1845	Jane Wilkie born
1846	John born
1847	Moved to Bristol, England
1848	John died, age 1
1848	John Wilkie born
1849	Moved to Hayle, England
1853	Conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1854	Immigration to Davis County, Utah

Margaret and new children Jane and John were cared for by their grandmother Hooper while John and Ann worked on steamers.

In 1847, work took the family to Bristol, where ships traveled to Cornwall. George and William Galbraith, ages 13 and 8, joined the family there. Margaret was now 11, Jane was 1, and John was an infant. John died the following year. Another baby, also named John, was born in Bristol.

In 1849, the family moved to Hayle in Cornwall. There, the family met missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1853 and were baptized.

Life in Utah

1854	Immigration to Kaysville, Utah
1856	Joseph Edward born & died
c. 1857	Moved to Ogden, Utah
c. 1859	Moved to Hooper, Utah
1875	Ann died, age 62

John and Eliza Hooper

Eliza Low was a widowed English immigrant living in Hooper. She had 5 grown children. John and Eliza married and spent 28 years together.

1875	Married in the Salt Lake Temple
1903	John died, age 88
1918	Eliza died, age 94

Descendants

Henry H. Blood, governor of Utah 1933-1941, was a son of Jane Wilkie Hooper.

References

• Church History Biographical Database entries for Ann Wilkie, John Hooper, George Galbraith, Margaret Galbraith, William Galbraith, Jane Hooper, and John Wilkie Hooper
• Saints by Sea immigration record