John Henry Brown

1816 - 1891  (74 years)

• Name	John Henry Brown
  Born	13 Dec 1816	West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
  Christened	23 Dec 1816	West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Mar 1891	North Odgen, Weber, Utah Territory, United States
  Buried	18 Mar 1891	North Odgen, Weber, Utah Territory, United States
  Person ID	I451	Staples-Record
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2016

  
  

  Father	Henry Brown,   c. 23 Dec 1792, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
  Mother	Ann Davis Goding,   b. 1790,   d. 12 Oct 1855  (Age 65 years)
  Married	5 Dec 1813
  Family ID	F758	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sarah Mead Mundy,   b. 4 Feb 1817, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 27 Feb 1850, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom  (Age 33 years)
  Married	3 Jun 1838	West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
  Children	+ 1. Harriet Brown,   b. 5 Oct 1838, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 20 Mar 1902, North Odgen, Weber, Utah, United States  (Age 63 years)   2. Mary Brown,   b. 5 Jan 1841, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 8 Feb 1841, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom  (Age 0 years)   3. William Brown,   b. 21 Jan 1842, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 22 Aug 1844, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom  (Age 2 years)   4. Sarah Brown,   b. 19 Jun 1844, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 7 Apr 1914, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom  (Age 69 years)   5. Eliza,   b. 30 Jan 1847, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 28 Jan 1929, Norh Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States  (Age 81 years)   6. Jane Brown,   b. 21 May 1849, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 10 Jan 1850, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2015
  Family ID	F154	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Jane Wilkinson,   b. 23 Nov 1825, Pottern, Wiltshire, England ,   d. 15 Mar 1851  (Age 25 years)
  Married	15 Mar 1851
  Children	1. George Brown,   b. 7 Jan 1852, West Lovington, Wiltshire, England  [Birth]
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2015
  Family ID	F760	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Boletta Monsen
  Married	3 Mar 1865
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2015
  Family ID	F791	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 13 Dec 1816 - West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom Christened - 23 Dec 1816 - West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom Married - 3 Jun 1838 - West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

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  Histories		Biography for John Henry Brown of West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom: 1816-1891
  		John Henry Brown Biography: 1860-1891 Written by Nephi Brown (Grandson). This document was shared at the 1995 Warren Campbell Family Reunion. It is shared by the permission of Leon W. Woodfield.

  
  

• Notes

  A Brief Biography of my mother, Eliza W. Brown" [daughter of John Brown and Sarah Munday.} written by Nephi Brown ...Her father, John Brown, was born at west Lavington December 13 1816, and grew up there as a plain, industrious, farm laborer, working for 25 years on the same farm at a wage of eight shillings a week, or about $2.00 in USA money. (at the time this history was written. In this quiet village at about the age of twenty one, he married Sarah Munday, a girl about his own age. To them three daughters were born, Harriet, Sarah, and Eliza. Three other children were born to them, but died in infancy. the mother died of sudden illness when only about 30 years old. [Eliza then, went to live with her grandparents. They were kind to her ... however, were not in a position to keep her very long. About a year later her father [John Brown] married Jane Wilkins. Mother, went home to live with them and when she was about five years old she began to go to school in a little thatched roof school house where the morning was spent in reading, writing and spelling. In the afternoon she was taught sewing. My mother [Eliza} and her father and her brother, George Brown, all took a very keen interest in the teachings of these missionaries. she was very anxious to emigrate to Zion. [ Jane Wilkins Brown , Johns' second wife also died before the age of 30 due to poor health] [ Eliza kept house for her father and brother after her step mother, Jane passed away] "A little more than two years slipped by and at the age of sixteen, the long looked for day arrived. On May 20, 1863 she with her father and brother, George, left England for Zion. Her sister Sarah remained in West Lavington. ...It took about two weeks to get to London and to make preparrations for the great journey. their ship, the "Amazon" was anchored in the Thames, and a company and a company of eight hundred and eighty two saints went on board that sailing vessel. The interest and curiosity of that great English novelist, Charles Dickens, was aroused and he went aboard the ship before it sailed; he wanted to know just why and where such a large group of emigrants were going and to find out what impelled them to go. Mr. Dickens directly interviewed quite a number of Saints, and among those were, my mother, Eliza Brown and her father, John Brown and brother george, and his impressions of what he saw and heard that day on the "Amazon" appeared in considerable length in his book "Commercial Traveler". On June 4, 1863 the ship set sail for the "Promised Land" under the direction of elder William Bramwell. .