Historical records matching Robert Gerald McKell
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About Robert Gerald McKell
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Robert was born in 1824 in Glasgow, Scotland, the youngest of 11 children. He was left an orphan at age 9. He helped his brother, John, in his business of making and bottling soda water, the first to do anything of that kind in Glasgow.
Then he worked carrying the mail, and then did blacksmithing. Then he became an apprentice to a coachbuilder in Dundee. He stayed with a family named Moncur. Mr. Moncur died, leaving a widow, Helen, and one child. Robert later married her at age 20.
They started a store in Dundee. He writes, "I put out my sign, 'Robert McKell, tea and coffee merchant.'" He had changed the spelling from McKail to McKell because of people teasing him. They had a bakery attached and hired 6 men to do the baking. One of the hired help was a Mormon girl who would drop tracts on the dining room floor. He wrote, "I read them once in a while, but oftener would light my pipe with them."
After he joined the Church his business declined. They immigrated to America in 1850. He sold out for $1500, $50 of which he paid into the temple fund. They sailed on the ship, "Argo." They were 9 weeks crossing and nearly wrecked off the island of Cuba. A tug boat took them up the Mississippi.
They finally got the Utah in 1852 and settled in Palmyra. His wife, Helen, died in 1856. He was to have married Elizabeth Boyack (in polygamy) about that time, so they went ahead with the wedding. He was 32 and she was 17 at the time. They moved to Spanish Fork where he was a blacksmith. They had 13 children. They had a set of triplets but only one survived.
He built a blacksmith shop and said he wanted to die at the anvil. He almost did, at age 81.
GEDCOM Note
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
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Robert Gerald McKell's Timeline
| 1823 |
February 23, 1823
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Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
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| 1852 |
June 1852
Age 29
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| 1855 |
1855
Age 31
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Deseret, United States
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| 1856 |
November 16, 1856
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Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah
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November 16, 1856
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Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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| 1858 |
May 25, 1858
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Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, USA
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May 25, 1858
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Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah, United States
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| 1860 |
January 1, 1860
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Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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January 1, 1860
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Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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