Nephi Brough Family Organization (NBFO)

Family Organization
     On Friday, May 11, 2007, over three dozen descendants and relatives of the Broughs of Nephi, Utah, met and organized the Nephi Brough Family Organization (NBFO). On May 19, 2007, this organization was officially accepted as an independent family division within the Richard Brough Family Organization (RBFO). As such, the NBFO and its histories and genealogies will now be listed on the RBFO website, and a designated officer of the NBFO will be invited to attend future RBFO Annual Board Meetings. Further information about the NBFO will be posted on this website in the near future.
     The officers of the NBFO (as of May 2007) are as follows:
President; Rosemary Brough Dixon, 196 East 200 South, Payson, Utah, 84651
Secretary/Treasurer: Janet Brough Mora, 142 North 100 West, American Fork, Utah, 84003
Computerist: Shirlene Schofield, 2293 West 540 North, Provo, Utah, 84601
Genealogist: Jolene Christensen, 546 East 200 South, Nephi, Utah, 84648
DNA Participant: John Karl Brough, 1506 East Bruce Avenue, Gilbert, Arizona, 85234
     Anyone wishing to communicate with the NBFO may do so by emailing the NBFO Secretary at: janetbroughmora@hotmail.com

A Brief Summary of the Brough Ancestors of Nephi, Utah
     The ancestry of the Broughs of Nephi, Utah, extends back to Lincolnshire, England. In the mid-1600's John Brough (Bruff), described in the parish record of Toynton All Saints as a "laborer", married a lady by the given name of Mary. John and Mary Brough then had eight children, with their first son named Thomas Brough (Bruff), who was christened in Hareby in 1685. Thomas then married a lady by the given name of Martha. Thomas and Martha had three children, with their first son named Thomas Brough (Broof), who was christened in Spilsby in 1725.

     In 1773--and at the age of 48--Thomas Brough (Broof) married Elizabeth Seamon in Mareham Le Fen (after Elizabeth's first husband, William Trout, had died). Thomas and Elizabeth Brough eventually had two sons, with their second son named John Brough (Bruff), who was christened in 1776 in Mareham Le Fen. Like his great-grandfather, John Brough was also a "laborer", and late in his life he apparently had little material wealth as he was described at seventy-five years old (in the 1851 Census) as being a "lodger" who was "receiving parochial relief" in Horncastle, Lincolnshire.

     In about 1817, John Brough (Bruff) married Julia Marshall, and they eventually had five children--with three of these five children later joining The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church). As adults, these three children decided to leave England, whereupon they sailed to the United States and settled in Utah. These three children were:
     1) Harriet Brough was born in Horncastle in 1820, married James Thomas Snarr in 1844, arrived in Utah in 1852, was the mother of eight children, and died in Salt Lake City in 1901.
     2) John Brough was born in West Ashby in 1827, married Ann (Mary) Winter Fanthorp (Fauthorpe) in 1851, arrived in Utah in 1854, was a farmer and the father of nine children, and died in Nephi in 1909.
     3) Caroline (Carrie) Brough was born in West Ashby in 1830, married John Dawes in 1851, arrived in Utah in 1899, was the mother of thirteen children, and died in Nephi in 1911.

The descendants of the above three children--Harriet, John and Caroline Brough--now number in the hundreds and are scattered throughout Utah and beyond.