The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: John
Surname: Hopla Sr.

Gender: Male

Birth date: 21 June 1820

Birth place: Pembrokeshire, Wales View Sources

Death date: 23 March 1892

Death place: View Sources

Burial date: March 1892

Burial place: Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States View Sources

Father: John Stephan Hopla
Mother: Elizabeth Bateman

Siblings

Edwards, Catherine (1819-1859)

Married 1 November 1845 in Pwllcrochan, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Children

Harriet Green (1826-1860)

Married 1 November 1860 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Children

Hopla, Catherine Green
Hopla, Harriet
Hopla, Infant Daughter

1841 UK Census	Pwllcrochan, Pembrokeshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1851 UK Census	Monkton, Pembrokeshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1860 US Census	15th Ward Gt. Salt Lake City, Gt. Salt Lake, Territory of Utah	Extract	Image
1870 US Census	Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah	Extract	Image
1880 US Census	Spanish Fork City and Precinct, Utah, Utah	Extract	Image

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 19 April 1856 aboard the ship Samuel Curling.
Arrived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachuetts, United States on 23 May 1856.

"Pioneer Overland Travel," database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org : accessed 6 January 2020), entry for John Hopla Sr., age 38, Edward Stevenson Company, 1859.

"Saints By Sea," database (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu : accessed 6 January 2020), entry for John Hopla, age 35, arrived 23 May 1856 in Boston on the Samuel Curling.

Monkton and the 'Mormons'

Hopla, John - Journal