John Bash Goding

John married Hannah Davis 31 Dec 1790. Hannah (daughter of James Davis/Davies and Mary Lemon) was christened 28 Sep 1767, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet]

Ann married Henry Brown 5 Dec 1813. Henry (son of Thomas Brown and Ann Blagdon) was christened 23 Dec 1792, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet]

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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. .

John married Sarah Mead Mundy 3 Jun 1838, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. Sarah (daughter of William Mundy and Elizabeth Mead) was born 4 Feb 1817, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; was christened 4 Feb 1818, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; died 27 Feb 1850, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; was buried 2 Mar 1850, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet]

John married Jane Wilkinson 15 Mar 1851. Jane was born 23 Nov 1825, Pottern, Wiltshire, England; died 15 Mar 1851. [Group Sheet]

John married Boletta Monsen 3 Mar 1865. [Group Sheet]

Ann married George Lane 24 Oct 1846. [Group Sheet]

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Sketch of the life of Harriet Brown Ward
Contributed By WardRodneyCyrus1 · 4 October 2013 ·

Harriet Brown Ward's parents were Henry Brown and Ann Barsh on her father's side and William Mundy and Mrs. Elizabeth Mundy, all of English descent. Her father, John Brown, was a son of Henry Brown and Ann Barsh, born at West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, December 13, 1816, where he grew to manhood and was married to Sarah Mundy, daughter of William Mundy and Mrs. Elizabeth Mundy and located at Lavington, where three children were born: Harriet, October 5, 1838; Sarah, June 19, 1844; and Eliza, January 30,1847. Harriet and Eliza emigrated and located in North Ogden, Utah; and raised each a large family, but Sarah married and remained in England, now in her 70th year and has had a family of 9 children. After the death of his first wife, Sarah Mundy, John Brown married Jane Wilkins, who bore him 2 children; at West Lavington: George, January 7 1852, who is a resident of North Ogden and an infant always very sickly and finally died in infancy. January 15, 1847 he was baptized by John Falliday and ordained an in 1852 in his native land. June 4, 1863 he sailed from London, England for America, on the ship Amazon, in a company of 882 saints, under the direction of William Bramwell, arriving at New York, July 18, at Florence a few days later leaving there for Salt Lake City, August 10 and arrived October 4, and four days later arrived in North Ogden, where he made his future home. March 28, 1870 was ordained a Seventy. He died at his residence in North Ogden March 15, 1891. Harriet Brown Ward was a daughter of John Brown and Sarah Mundy, and was born at West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, October 5, 1838 and at the age of 11, through the death of her mother, the care of the family devolved upon her at that tender age, until her father was married to Jane Wilkins (mother of George Brown of this place) she then went out to work for her living, mean while taking advantage of opportunities for an education at high school for 4 years. She was so desirous of an education on that when her father married the second time she decided to go to school. She had to work to pay her way. The work she got was washing steps every morning. Her hands got so cold from being in the water so much that she had cilblains all up her arms. About this time her father's second wife died necessitating her to the home to look after the family, with an increased number of children and with the dying request of her mother to have the children taught the Principles of the Gospel and baptized in the church, resting upon her and she succeeded in carrying out that request in being baptized herself in 1849 by William Charman and was confirmed by John Halliday, the later being the first elder in that locality and in 1855 her two sisters, Sarah and Eliza were baptized by Edward Hannam. Her responsibilities in the home continued until she was 23 years of age when she was married to James Ward, March 16 1861 and set sail for Utah April 23, 1861 from Liver Pool, England on the ship "Under Writer" in a company of 624 Saints under the direction of Milo Andrus, Homer Dunkin and Chas W. Penrose. They arrived at New York, May 22 1861. Then went to Florence, now Omaha. Later they left there July 1, 1861 for Utah and arrived in Salt Lake, September 13, 1861 in the Joseph Horn Company. Her husband having worked his way across the plains in the direction of the first transcontinental telegraph line to Utah, she was deprived of his companionship until she met with him again in Utah. They proceeded on to Ogden and located on what is now the George Smuin property on Washington Avenue, where her first child, Sarah Jane, was born December 20, 1961. They after wards sold out at a small figure and moved further north and located on the John Holmes property in North Ogden, where her second child, Elizabeth was born, July 13. 1863. On March 19,1864 they located on Washington Avenue in North Ogden in the place now occupied by George Simmins where other children were born as follows: James Henry, Aug. 22 1865; William, Sept. 8, 1867; John, Dec. 3, 1868; Albert G. Dec. 15 1871; Cyrus, Dec. 29, 1873; Joseph E. Nov. 25, 1875; Lorenzo, Feb. 14, 1877; Harriet E. April 13, 1880; Hyrum H. Oct. 6, 1889; and William who died, March 29, 1907. All except Hubert have been married in the temple. Two have served in Ward Bishoprics. One served the Superintendency of Sunday School and others have filled positions of honor and trust. She endured all the hardships incident to the settling in the new and sterile country, giving birth to her first child in a cabin without a roof, when it was raining for 21 days; laying in wey bedding and through the blessings of the Lord did not take a cod. It should have been noted that she had walked all the way across the olains in a delicate condition, (see James Ward's life sketch) and waded all the streams. She told of many times, when she held her second child, she would carry the baby and the oldest one would walk to where she would wash fora lady all day, over a mile away. Then she was through the lady would giver a small piece of butter for pay. She would tell how there were so many Indians and how frightened she was of them. She said one day while she was away the Indians went in the house and took all her baby's dresses, which were few in number due to the scarcity of cloth. In North Ogden, she has been almost continuously engaged in Relief Society work. serving as visiting Teacher and as member of the Board of Directors and assisting with the sick andto lay out the dead and officiated for many of her dead in the Temples of the Lord, working at one time for two months. She died March 20, 1902. This was written on March 12 1914. (person is currently unknown.)

Harriet married James Ward 16 Mar 1861, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. James (son of William Spackman/Spanswick and Sarah Ward) was born 12 Jun 1840, Pewsey, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; was christened 13 Sep 1840, Pewsey, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; died 29 Nov 1928, North Odgen, Weber, Utah, United States; was buried 2 Dec 1928, North Odgen, Weber, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Sarah married George Still 11 Oct 1862, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. George was born 1840, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; was christened 16 Oct 1842, West Lavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; died , Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet]

Eliza married John White 18 Nov 1863, North Odgen, Weber, Utah, United States. John was born 24 Jun 1835, Seend, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; was christened 12 Jul 1835, Seend, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; died 11 Feb 1869, North Odgen, Weber, Utah, United States; was buried 13 Feb 1869, North Odgen, Weber, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Eliza married Thomas B. Brown 9 May 1870, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. Thomas was born 27 Dec 1824, Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom; was christened 20 Feb 1825, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; died 18 Jun 1899, North Odgen, Weber, Utah, United States; was buried 20 Jun 1899, North Odgen, Weber, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

George married Barbara E. Beckstead 26 Feb 1876. [Group Sheet]