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Reuben Simper

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Death: December 01, 1891 (45)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Place of Burial: Holladay Memorial Park, Holladay, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Immediate Family:

Son of Thomas William Simper and Elizabeth Simper
Husband of Martha Elizabeth Simper
Father of Esther Elizabeth Morgan; Thomas William Simper; Rueben Massey Simper; Walter Simper; John Simper and 5 others
Brother of Daniel Simper; Caroline Esther Elizabeth Fagg; Mary Jane Simper and Thomas Simper

Managed by: Gwyneth Potter McNeil
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About Reuben Simper

His baptism, birth, and death certificates show his name as Reuben Simper. There is not any middle name (not William nor Napier).

Baptism

Name: Reuben Simper Event Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 10 Aug 1846
Baptism Place: Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England
Parish as it Appears: Chedworth
Father: William Simper
Mother: Elizabeth Simper

Birth Registrations for Jul-Aug-Sep 1846

Name: Reuben Simper Registration Place: Northleach, Gloucestershire, England

Ship Registry

Name: Reuben Simper Gender: Male
Ethnicity/ Nationality: British (English)
Age: 18
Birth Date: abt 1847
Place of Origin: Great Britain
Departure Port: Liverpool, England
Destination: Utah
Arrival Date: 31 May 1865
Arrival Port: New York, New York, USA
Ship Name: Belle Wood

The Brenneman History p. 149

Reuben Simper and Martha Elizabeth Swain

City Directories and England and U.S. Census

Reuben Simper

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Reuben Simper's Timeline

1846
July 30, 1846
Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
August 10, 1846
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September 15, 1886
Holladay, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
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