History of Horace Brough (1892-1964) and Martha Lufkin Phippen
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & DescendantsHISTORY:
Horace Brough, eldest son of Samuel Richard Brough and Ann Eliza Carter was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on 16 Nov 1892.
His mother, Eliza, attended the dedication of the Salt Lake City Temple when Horace was just six months old, and she took the baby with her to attend this important event.
In the spring of 1893, Samuel Richard took Eliza and Horace to live in Wyoming where he had taken up some land. Eliza and the baby, Horace, first lived in Fort Bridger, Wyoming. Samuel Richard took up quite a lot of land in Lyman, Wyoming. He built their first house there for them, and they continued to reside there for many years.
Early years found Horace attending school in Lyman, Wyoming and some in Paris, Idaho.
While they were living in Lyman, Wyoming his father, Samuel Richard was bishop for twenty years, so that had some influence on his life.
While growing up, he did all the things a farm boy is required to do. Such as: tending sheep, feeding lambs, tending cattle, tending and milking cows, handling horses, chickens, plowing, etc. He helped his father also with raising the crops, haying, thrashing, and hauling wood from the canyon. Once on such a trip he got his foot crushed. Another time when little, he was playing in the hay in a manger, and a horse bit his face. That required several stitches. His father did the sewing his mother said she couldn't stand to be there, so she went to the house and waited until it was allover. Doctors were not easy to get those days.
He liked to play baseball and was a fast runner in foot races. He would have twenty-five cents to spend on the 4th of July, so was very careful how he spent it. Maybe it would go for five cent's worth of jelly beans or jaw breakers.
While a young boy he was taken to Yammerer, Wyoming to the Golden Rule Store, which is now J. C. Penney Co., to buy his first long pants suit, and it happened to be the FIRST BOYS LONG PANTS SUIT sold by the J. C. Penney Co.
He loved to go hunting sage hens or wild chickens, that made many good meals.
Later he went to the Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah with several of his friends from Wyoming. While at college he took up cabinet building.
He met and married Martha Lufkin Phippen who was also attending Brigham Young College. Martha was born 9 Nov 1892 at Logan, Utah. They were married in the Logan L.D.S. Temple on 19 Dec 1912.
They soon went to Lyman, Wyoming where Horace built them a house. Some of his brothers met them at the train with a white top wagon.
The canvas sides were rolled down to keep the cold wind out. There were quilts to wrap around them, but it didn't seem to help a lot. When they got to Horace's parents home it was so cold they had quilts and blankets hung at the windows and doors. These had frost at the edges, and when they stood by the cook stove you could see their breath. Everyone took bottles of hot water and hot bricks to bed with them, or would use them in their beds first to get them warm. Martha had her heel frozen while walking a short distance. Horace's father would come in sometimes from doing the chores with frost and icicles on his mustache. Sure was cold at times.
They lived there a short time, then moved to Logan, Utah where their first girl, Susan, was born. When their second girl, Margaret, was small he bought some land in northern California, with his father. While on the farm, Horace's brother Reed came to live with them for a while. It was at this time that Reed received his call to the 1st World War.
The farm was soon sold, and they came to Utah to live. They have lived in Bountiful, Utah most of their married life. Horace loved to go early with his family to the canyon and cook breakfast. It was usually Mueller Park, which is east of Bountiful.
Horace had four brothers and three sisters. His brothers were, Reed, Chester, Hyrum and Lester. His sisters were Viola, Eveline and Emily. They have all passed on now but Hyrum and Lester. All the family enjoyed spending time with each other, and they spent many happy hours as a family while growing up.
When four years old, Martha moved to Carey, Idaho with her parents in a covered wagon. Her father, Adelbert Smith Phippen and her mother, Susan Aseneth Lufkin Phippen. She had two brothers: George Adelbert Phippen and Guy Townsend Phippen. They too have passed on.
She lived on the farm in Idaho until 16 years old. Then they moved back to Logan, Utah to take care of her grandparents, George and Martha Lufkin.
Horace worked for Howard McKean, the Church Architect, who sent him to St. George to remodel the temple there. It was there that their last girl, Dixie, was born on 4 Dec 1937. She was named Dixie because of being born in Utah's Dixie. President Snow of the St. George Temple officiated when she was named. Later Horace worked on the Salt Lake and Manti Temples.
Brother McKean also sent him to Treasure Island in California, to build a replica of the Mormon Tabernacle for the World's Fair in 1939. Then when they had one in New York he was also asked to go there for the World's Fair to build another replica. Many of the churches and seminaries in the Salt Lake Valley and surrounding area were some of the buildings he erected.
When Brother McKean died, Horace did his own contracting and building. Sometimes he would have five or six projects going at the same time. I remember him awaking early to go to the garage to sharpen a saw, or finish a cabinet they needed in one of the buildings. He would then eat breakfast, and on to work for the day. Evening often found him in the garage doing more finish work.
Horace suffered a stroke on 6 Dec 1958, and until the time of his death on 13 Aug 1964, he spent his time at his home in Bountiful, Utah. He worked up until the time of his stroke, and was active in many church functions. He was president of the 70's Quorum for the Bountiful First Ward, a High Priest, also served with the Sunday School Superintendency. The 17th of August they held his funeral in the Bountiful First Ward, and he was interred at the Bountiful Memorial Park on Oak Street. He was 71 at the time of his passing.
Martha's early schooling was in Carey, Idaho in a one-room school house where they used a bucket of water and a long-handled dipper for everyone in the school. An old-fashioned school bell was used to call the children in for their studies and from recess. There were four grades in the one room. Later the younger grades had a room of their own.
In the winter, large sleighs and horses were used to haul people around. These were lined with straw and many times the horses had bells on them. Martha walked nearly a mile to school on country roads. There was lots of snow, and high drifts in the winter. She remembers picking armfuls of blue bells and other wild flowers for Decoration Day. She likes to do temple work, read church books, oil paint, do embroidery and crochet, etc.
Martha was secretary and librarian in Primary and taught for seven years. Secretary for the choir, and sang in it. Also, Mother's Choir, chorister in Relief Society, chorister in Daughter's of Utah Pioneers, and was Captain and held other positions in it. She was also a Relief Society teacher for many years.
Horace was a religious man and loved to read the scriptures. He and his wife Martha often went to the temple in Salt Lake City. They both held many church jobs that had responsibility with it.
Horace took pride in his work, and could be trusted to always do a good job. He and his brother Lester were building partners for a while. His brother Chester worked for them sometimes. Horace taught their son Rodney the trade, and he is now a contractor and builder like his father.
Martha still lives in Bountiful in the home he built for them. Horace and Martha had ten children. They lost two little girls while still babies, with the other eight still living. Horace and Martha have 25 grandchildren, 57 great grandchildren, and one great, great grandchild. They have had two daughters and several grandchildren go on missions. Some of them to foreign countries.
History of Franklin Reed Brough (1894-1965) and Della Beatrice Eschler
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & DescendantsHISTORY:
Franklin Reed Brough, the second son of the plural marriage of Samuel Richard Brough and Eliza Ann Carter, was born June 6, 1894 in Fort Bridger Valley in the area now known as Lyman, Wyoming. It was during this year that Samuel Richard Brough harvested his first crop from the homestead that he settled on in the spring of 1892.
During the first two winters of Franklin Reed's life, his father placed his mother, Eliza Ann Carter and sons Horace and Reed in a good home in Fort Bridger, just four and one-half miles from his homestead. He then returned to Porterville, Utah where his first family was. There he spent the winter months and early spring working in the timber and then each year late in the spring, he took seed and equipment and returned to his homestead in Wyoming to plant crops and to continue to clear his land for additional farm land and pastures.
It was on this homestead where Franklin Reed Brough grew up into young manhood. He was taught at an early age how to work and share responsibilities along with his brothers and sisters in helping his father and mother develop their homestead into a productive farm where eventually both wives and families were able to live together in love and harmony. It was at his mother's knee where he and his brothers and sisters were taught the gospel and learned to love the Lord and how to communicate with Him in their daily prayers.
Franklin Reed Brough obtained all of his education at the school in Lyman which only covered up to the eighth grade. About the only time he spent in school was during the months when the weather was too bad to be working on the land. Franklin Reed's mother saw to it that their education was continued at home after it was too dark to work outside. Many hours were spent with the children all together learning about the gospel and life at their mother's knees. Their father had many responsibilities which kept him occupied and away from the family much of the time, being called first as presiding elder of the saints in this scattered area
and then later on and for many years as the bishop of the ward.The story has been told that in order to keep meat on the table, Samuel Richard Brough would allow each one of his sons to take turns taking his l2 gauge shotgun to hunt for grouse and sage hens. If they failed to bring in a bird for each shell that they used, they would miss their next turn. This created quite a challenge for the boys and they really learned how to hunt and to become quite good marksmen. In order to get their limit and not have to miss a turn they would wait until they could get two birds together and then save the shell for the next time around when the hunting wasn't quite as good.
When Franklin Reed was twenty years old he was called on a mission to serve in the Western States Mission. He served a very successful mission and received his honorable release in July of 1916. During the early spring of 1917 his father and brother, Horace, went to California and purchased some land with the potential of moving to that area. In April his father contracted a rail car and sent Franklin Reed and Horace with two teams of horses, seed and equipment to begin farming in Eureka, California. Franklin Reed spent the summer as a foreman of a haying crew and in September returned to Lyman, Wyoming, as it was decided not to keep the land in that area of California.
On October 3, 1917 Franklin Reed Brough married Della Beatrice Eschler in the Salt Lake Temple and returned to Lyman to make their home. He first became acquainted with his wife when they were both serving as missionaries in Denver, Colorado. His wife Della was originally from Paris, Idaho. Just thirteen days after they were married Franklin Reed received his call to the military service. He had registered in California while working there during the summer, so by the time the call came to them, the company was ready to leave. He was able to telegraph and get permission to be sent from Uintah County, Wyoming, which delayed his call until April, 1918. He left on April 6, 1918 and was sent to Camp Lewis, Washington for training and then later to Fort Riley, Kansas. In November he was sent over seas and finally returned the following May of 1919. During his stay in the service, his wife Della stayed with her sister, Amelia, in Raymond, Idaho.
Franklin Reed then went to work for Fred Evans, a brother-in-law, in Raymond, Idaho and worked all that summer until November and then returned to Lyman, Wyoming where they lived with Franklin Reed's parents until January when his wife went to Logan, Utah to stay with her mother as she was expecting her first child.
Their first boy, Eugene Eschler, was born on February 16, 1920 in Logan, Utah. All during the winter of 1919-1920 Franklin Reed worked in the timber in Wyoming and then in the spring, went to work for a Mr. Kelly who had purchased his father's place in Lyman, Wyoming. He worked for Mr. Kelly until the fall of 1921. He then freighted coal all that winter.
On January 6, 1922 his second son, Robert Samuel was born in Lyman, Wyoming and in April it was discovered that Franklin Reed had an inward goiter. He sold one of his teams and with that money went to Salt Lake City, Utah where he was operated on. He had quite a miraculous recovery and three weeks later returned to Lyman, Wyoming where he went to work for Ernest Roberts, a rancher in that area, until the fall of 1923 when they moved to Green River, Wyoming, to accept a job with the Union Pacific Railroad.
On December 12, 1923 their third son, Rulon Reed was born in Logan, Utah, where his wife Della had gone to be with her mother when their child was born, and then they returned to Green River, Wyoming.
During the time that they lived in Green River, Franklin Reed served as a counselor in the bishopric and then on the Stake High Council. On April 24, 1926, their fourth child and only daughter, Ethel was born. During all of this time, Franklin Reed was steadily progressing while working for the Union Pacific Railroad; and in the spring of 1927 they offered him a job in Ogden, Utah, as Coal Chute Foreman at their big rail center there. He accepted and moved his family there during the summer of 1927.
Because of the long hours that he worked, seven days a week and twelve hours a day, Franklin Reed's church assignments were restricted to those that he could perform at night. He was given the assignment to work with the Senior Aaronic Priesthood members and was instrumental in bringing many of these brethren back into church activity. When his work assignment was changed to five days a week he was soon called to be bishop of the Ogden 27th Ward. He served as bishop for almost six years.
Shortly there after he was released and was called to serve on the Stake High Council and then on September 30, 1962, he was called and set apart as Stake Patriarch by Apostle Gordon B. Hinckley. This was his final church assignment as he passed away on the morning of October 2, 1965, while enjoying the great out-of-doors hunting with his oldest son and grandsons. He was one who really appreciated nature and its beauties. He taught his boys how to enjoy them and many hours were spent together with them and their families enjoying the blessings of this great country.
During the final years of their lives, both Franklin Reed and his wife were given many honors for their devotion to their church assignments. He was made an Honorary Master M-Man and she was made an Honorary Golden Gleaner. Many lives were affected for good by this devoted man and his equally devoted wife.
Ogden, Utah was their final home, for on October 23, 1965, he passed away, and just over nine and one-half years later his lovely wife passed away on June 26, 1975. Both are buried in the Altorest Mortuary in Ogden, together with their oldest son who preceded his mother's death by just three years.
In the 1900 U.S. Census, "Viola Brough" is listed as being "2" years old and born in December 1897, born in Wyoming, and residing with her parents, Samuel and Eliza Brough, and siblings, in Election District 7, Uinta, Wyoming.
In the 1910 U.S. Census, "Eliza V. Brough" is listed as being "13" years old (born about 1897), born in Wyoming, and residing with her parents, Samuel and Ann E. Brough, and siblings, in Lyman, Uinta, Wyoming.
The marriage of "Viola Elia [Elisa] Brough" and "Charles Millard Massey" is listed in the online BYUI Western States Marriage Record Index (ID# 606874), which states that they were married 6 Dec 1916 in Salt Lake County, Utah, and that "Viola Elia Brough" was "19" years old (born about 1897) and her residence was "Lyman, Uinta, Wyoming:", and that "Charles Millard Massey" was "24" years old (born about 1892) and his residence was "Vernal, Uintah, Utah". (Online source: http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/westernStatesRecordDetail.cfm?recordID=606874.)
In the 1920 U.S. Census, "Viola Massey" is listed as being "22" years old (born about 1898), born in Wyoming, married and residing with her husband, Chas. M. Massey, and their daughter, Winona, in Election District 3, Washakie, Wyoming.
"Viola B. Massey" died prior to the 1930 U.S. Census--which was taken on 25 April 1930--as that census lists her husband, "Charles M. Massey", as a "Widower", who was residing with his three children (Wynona, Melvin and Lloyd), in Election District 3, Washakie, Wyoming.
The gravesite of "Viola B. Massey" is listed in FindAGrave, Memorial # 8611363, as being located in the Bountiful Memorial Park Cemetery in Bountiful, Davis, Utah. The gravestone of "Viola B. Massey" lists her as being born on 18 December 1896 and having died on 9 February 1930--although the transcriber of her gravestone mistakenly recorded her as having died on 9 February 1936.
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History of Eliza Viola Brough (1895-1930) and Charles Millard Massey
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & DescendantsHISTORY:
Eliza Viola Brough was the third child and first daughter of Samuel Richard Brough and Ann Eliza Carter. Viola was born December 18, 1896, in Lyman, Wyoming.
Viola had a happy childhood growing up with her many brothers, sisters and parents. She was always active in all church and school activities. She often took the leading male part in plays. She played the organ and piano and was asked to accompany many individuals and groups.
Remarks taken from President M. Melvin Rollins, former bishop of Lyman Ward:
"I have been trying to recall in my mind Viola's early childhood days. It was my privilege to have lived a neighbor in her ward and to have become very closely associated with this good woman. I have known her since she was a girl and have also known the family for a number of years. I was a counselor to her father in the Lyman Ward and for several years before her marriage was her bishop.
"You will agree in every community there are men and women whose lives have enriched our lives and have played a great part in the life of the community in which they lived, because of the unselfish spirit that they possess and the willingness they have to serve others. Such was Sister Viola. I presume I will always call her Viola, her first name, because as children, we ran together and called each other by our first names. It was her lot and mine to have been raised in a pioneer community. I think that is one of the reasons, too, that this sister obtained the unselfish attitude she had because of the circumstances under which she lived and also the splendid parentage from which she came.
"It was her lot even as a child to help make the desert blossom like a rose because her own father was selected as a leader in the community where sagebrush grew, and where there were no fences and bridges; and a new community was made where a few years before there was a wilderness.
"I can think of no girl in the Lyman Ward, no young woman who was of greater service in the various organizations of the church and social activities in the community. No one was more greatly loved or more popular with all the people, both young and old, than was Sister Viola Brough. She had a very sweet disposition, and made friends with everyone. Particularly she seemed to be very successful with children, which was natural because of her nature, and children learned to love her. And I think she has a host of them now who have grown up and who are growing up who will always revere her memory, So I feel she was an extraordinary person even though she perhaps did not attain to high positions, neither in the church nor the community in which she lived, nor perhaps did she crave honor or position, but she was a real neighbor, a true friend to humanity.
"Because of these sterling qualities which she possessed, she was outstanding in the community in which she lived. So when I learned today that men and women, old and young, came fifty miles and more from the community surrounding where she lived just to view her body and express how much they loved her and what she meant to them in that community, I was not surprised. She meant a lot to the Lyman community, as even now many remember her as a Sunday School teacher, a Primary teacher and an officer in the M.I.A. She had a strong testimony of the gospel as anyone I have ever had the privilege to meet." (Viola's funeral February 16, 1930).
Viola married Charles Millard Massey December 6, 1916 in the Salt Lake Temple. Millard was a U. S. Surveyor so for a few years she lived with him wherever he was working. They neither one wanted this type of life, so he quit his job and they applied to homestead on a ranch in Wyoming on the North Wood River. Their two oldest children were born Winona and Melvin.
Winona was born December 19, 1918 at the height of the flu epidemic that swept America following World War I. Viola was so ill and weak that if without her mother Ann Eliza and her husband Millard's constant care, love and nursing she would never have lived. When Viola was well enough to leave, Ann Eliza took the small premature baby by train back to Lyman to take care of till Viola was strong enough to travel. Viola then came and spent months in gaining complete recovery. Ann Eliza came again when Melvin was born March 14, 1921. Viola's youngest child, Lloyd Brough Massey, was born at her parents' home in Bountiful on May 14, 1924.
Viola and Millard loved their children very much, and they lived a happy, wonderful life together even if their home was a humble, poor one. It was always filled with happiness and concern and care that their children were taught honesty, truthfulness and a high regard for education. Winona recalls that when trees were planted, her parents would remark, "The fruit we sell from these trees will help to pay for your college education." It was sad their hopes never came to pass, as Viola died of pneumonia February 9, 1930. Millard was very ill too; and though he lived to be 77 years old, he never seemed to recover and face life as he had before Viola's death. His plans always held forth to make it in mining so he could repay his sister Jessie who raised his three children his other brothers and sisters and Viola's family. As is so often the case he was never able to. He went to his death sad and unhappy that his hopes were only dreams.
Both Viola and Millard were kind, gentle loving people. They came from this type of people and family meant so much to them.
Winona attended Brigham Young University, graduating in June of 1942 with a B.S. degree and holding both elementary and secondary teaching certificates. She was privileged to have her loved relatives attend the commencement exercise-including her grandfather Samuel Richard Brough, Uncle Arthur and Aunt Eveline Bjorkman, Uncle Myron and Aunt Emily Holbrook, Aunt Jessie Massey Wall, Aunt Hazel Massey Gurr and daughter Joy. Winona was the first granddaughter of Samuel Richard Brough to graduate from college. Winona taught social studies in the Uintah School District for twenty-six years. Most of the teaching was at the high school and later the junior high school in Vernal, Utah. Enjoyable, wonderful full years of service. She left Vernal in June of 1969 and has lived in southern Utah the remaining years. First few months in Washington, then Hurricane, a year and a half in Salt Lake City, then they moved back to southern Utah to a home in LaVerkin across the Virgin River from Hurricane. She is married to Ivan Augustus Odle, known to all as Bud. They had no children.
Melvin Richard Massey lived in Montana most of his adult life. He was married to Elaine Schlachter. They had six children: Rance Leon, Shelley, Victoria (Vicky), Loralee, Milton, and Gayle Ann. Melvin was in the mining business. He was an exceptionally hard worker and was mechanically inclined. He operated large machinery. He was a good welder, thanks to Uncle Horace Brough's help to get this training.
Melvin died October 1, 1976. At the time of his death he was married to Charlotte Massey and they had one daughter, Ronalee. Melvin is buried in Sheridan, Montana in the beautiful Ruby Valley.
Lloyd Brough Massey married Marion Schmerbach and they have one daughter, Victoria Lynn (Vicky). They live in South Lake Tahoe, California. Lloyd has his own business "The Massey." He has done very well in his business. He has a lovely home in an ideal location within a few miles of beautiful Lake Tahoe. He undoubtedly has the most brilliant mind of the three of us. A proud sister's remark, isn't it?
As is the usual case in families, Viola's three children have looks and appearances, expressions and temperaments of both parents. They are proud of their heritage and feel so fortunate to have had stalwart ancestors. Both the Brough and Massey grandparents came west because of the church.
History of Chester Richard Brough (1898-1967) and Lula Robison
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & Descendants
Originally written by LeGrande Richard Brough in 1980HISTORY:
Chester Richard Brough was born October 6, 1898 in Lyman, Wyoming. His father was Samuel Richard Brough and his mother was Ann Eliza Carter. He had five brothers and three sisters: Horace, Reed, Hyrum, Golden, Lester, Viola, Eveline and Emily. His father was bishop of Lyman Ward for twenty years. His mother was the second wife of Samuel, his first wife being Phoebe Adeline Cherry. She had eight children.
Chester's father was a pioneer and settled the town of Lyman, Wyoming. Here my father grew up in a humble home and with what he referred to as a "heavenly mother." He was taught to work at an early age. He told stories to us as children of those early days. He loved foot races and he was good at this. He told about doing chores, mowing and hauling hay. He loved canned tomatoes and fruit from the field. He said they went sleigh riding down long dugways in winter and how much fun they had at school activities. I guess they had not much as they were growing up. He said they wore clothes a long time.
He learned many things from father Samuel. They raised and slaughtered pigs in winter and hauled them to Rock Springs for market in very cold weather. He was called at an early age to serve on a mission to the Central States in the years of 1919 to 1921 and labored mostly in Arkansas. He told of holding many street and cottage meetings and was "rotten egged" off one street corner in Little Rock. He walked many miles, washing collars of shirts in streams and carrying a small suitcase with all his belongings in it. I can still see the old suitcase as he carried it to the temple in Salt Lake City later, to do temple ordinances.
He served faithfully and his mission became a changing point in his life. His family moved to Bountiful in 1920 and bought two homes at 900 North Main, Bountiful, and 600 North Main Street. Both had about eight acres and each family settled here. His father then spent the next thirty years doing temple work during winter months. The farms became truck garden farms, and father learned this business and made it his life's occupation. He became a produce raiser, a peddler and produce salesman.
He bought an old Model T Ford and had a peddler's route up through Morgan, Utah and towns along the way. He there met Lula Robison and wooed and married her in the Salt Lake Temple on 15 Feb 1924. She was the daughter of David Alexander Robison and Rhoda Ann Smith. I was born April 1, 1925 and was called LaGrande Richard and it was said it was a rainy day on April Fool. Father worked at a Safeway Produce Store in the north part of Salt Lake, about 400 North. They lived at about 400 North. When I was six months old I was scalded with boiling water but was blessed with no scars.
Father became a very good salesman and told how he sold ripe bananas to everyone coming into the store. He made many friends here whom he later sold produce to. They moved to Bountiful, Utah some place on 200 North and 100 West, and from there to the basement of Horace Brough, his brother. Delmar Chester was born here and died at age six months, a very sad time for my parents, and I heard and felt their grief as I grew up. At this time my mother's uncle in St. George gave mother enough money to buy a house on 185 West Center. We moved there and father continued his produce peddling to Morgan and even out to Lyman and other towns in Wyoming. He also started to haul produce on commission to Salt Lake Growers' Market for other farmers. I accompanied my father on many trips. He owned several Model "T" and "A" and "B" Ford trucks and finally was able to buy an International Dualed Wheel, of which he was most proud.
During these years, Lula Marie was born, March 4, 1930. She now has ten children and is married to Dennis Elon Nielsen from Shelly, Idaho. Carole came later, and she has eight children and is married to Ned Allison Whiting from Mapleton, Utah. I married Julia Foy and we had six children. Julia was from Bountiful, Utah and the daughter of Florence Tuttle and Leslie T. Foy.
As we were growing up, these were proud days for Father and Mother. Father hauled his children everywhere in his truck. He was always making friends in his work and enjoyed discussing the gospel and bearing his testimony. This he enjoyed very much and many times I have heard his testimony.
He was a counselor to Haven Stringham in the Bountiful First Ward Sunday School. In 1937 Father purchased a 10-acre farm and everyone helped on it for many years. Father worked hard and paid his brother and farm off in eight years. It cost $5,000.00. He had worked hard on Center Street place. He had planted an orchard and garden and they built a grape arbor, barn, chicken coop, pig pen and a large double garage for produce. His neighbor complained and he had to stop raising animals so close, so that was moved to the new place.
We took canyon trips to· the mountains and other fun trips. We always walked to church and we had to walk fast with the pace dad would set. He was always busy. In winter he would haul coal and hay for people with his truck. He never spent many idle moments.
During the depression years of the 30's, father was out of work, and one winter spent all his time doing temple work in Salt Lake, riding the electric trolley called the Bamberger. We always visited relatives and go to Grandma Brough's house (Ann Eliza). We had many happy hours visiting and holding get togethers, especially at Christmas.
Father loved the out-of-doors and spent time hunting and fishing. One summer we all went to Yellowstone Park with Delbert Robison, and I watched dad fish on Yellowstone Lake and he almost tipped the boat over when they started to catch the fish, as reported by Delbert Robison, brother-in-law. We took trips to the top of Bountiful peak with the Myrle and John Ellis families. I rode with father one spring hauling water on the back of his truck to new trees planted on the new highway being built north of Bountiful. He worked at many odd jobs to supplement his income and was never too proud to stoop to any to earn a living. He hauled city garbage in Bountiful at one time to have work to do. He drove a church band through town on the 4th of July celebration. He would haul scouts to Grandaddy Lakes, or anything that was asked. After the depression one winter about 1934, he worked at the Market Wholesale Grocery in Salt Lake for $2.00 a day and felt so lucky to have a job. He raised chickens, milked a cow and raised calves and pigs to supplement food for the family.
His children had much sickness and went through quarantine periods where the family was separated. He and I lived in one room and would peek through the window of the house at mother and daughters with chicken pox. My father tried to be an example to others. He served in the Seventies Presidency and became Sunday School Superintendent in the Bountiful Third Ward. This job he held for many years and had many perfect records at stake meetings when all his teachers were present. Everyone loved him.
He spent many Saturdays helping his brother Horace who was a builder. Here is where I established my love for building. During Third Ward years we helped Uncle Horace build the Third Ward chapel and we all helped shovel a lot of snow. I was called on often to help. One day we helped pour a green-colored sidewalk for Harold B. Lee as I accompanied my father, and we used dad's truck to haul equipment.
Dad kept his children busy. When we bought a farm at 563 North Main, everyone in the family was pressed into service, and he ran a 10-acre truck garden farm besides hauling produce to market and selling it for 15 to 20 other farmers in town. Mother had house work and often we had to do house work and farm work too. He would write us all a letter every morning and tell us what to do that day. Feed the pigs, water the chickens, milk the cows, pull weeds, pick cucumbers and strawberries and help your mother wash, etc. etc. etc. He taught us to work and appreciate work as he set the example. He had a strong body and muscles. He used to wrestle on the floor in the front room with us children.
He would always get up at five in the winter time and build a fire and get the house warm before we got out of bed. He loved to go with our neighbor N. Lorenzo Mitchell and administer to the sick. He was a man of great faith and many sought for his administrations. He was good to his children and wife and always loved to share his good fortunes or wealth and often would visit his children who were married and leave them $20.00 or more without anyone asking. He was the head of the financial committee for the building of the 10th ward chapel and would say to the bishop, "Give me twenty faithful men and I will get the money." He did too. He supervised ward teaching in his later years as the growers' market was done away with.
Dad started a fruit stand at 563 North Main and did this faithfully until his death on July 27, 1967. His stand was always well kept for he would always say, "You have to watch your stuff." He meant keep things neat and straight and produce looking fresh and no bad produce. He knew how to use sacks to preserve the freshness, and this was hard because he had no cooler. He would carry everything down in our old basement to keep it fresh until morning. He took great pains to do this. He was a super salesman and learned how to move his produce and became a genius at this. I have often said, "He could sell anything and people went away friends and feeling good."
Dad had sugar diabetes for over ten of the last years of his life and suffered much. He had a prostate gland operation and died from pneumonia and emphysema. He was a great missionary. He served a stake mission in Bountiful.
When he visited his children in California, he went to Los Angeles market and got produce in his truck and went door to door peddling and telling people about the church. He fought a good fight and kept the faith, and it will yet be said of him, he was a great gospel produce salesman. Anyway, we who knew him and love him will ever be grateful for his teachings and example and his love and devotion to his family. May we all live to be worthy to enjoy his presence once again I pray, and may we emulate the life he stood for and lived for by the example which he set.
History of Eveline Jane Brough (1900-1958) and Arthur Edmund Bjorkman
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & DescendantsHISTORY:
Eveline Jane Brough was born January 15, 1900, a new year, new century baby. She was born and grew to young womanhood in Lyman, Wyoming. She was a leader in church and school activities, and had many good friends and happy times in Lyman.
In 1920 the Brough family moved to Bountiful where Eveline was employed at Barlow Dry Goods store for many years. She was very interested in dramatics, and took elocution lessons for quite some time. She rode the "Bamberger" electric streetcar to Salt Lake City for the lessons.
Eveline became well known throughout the area for her dramatic ability and willingness to share her talents. She gave readings all over the area and directed many church plays. In 1932 she directed the all-church winning play, which was a great achievement and honor.
Eveline loved good books and had a large collection of treasured volumes. She read widely and was well educated, even though she went only to the eighth grade. She felt a great lack that she could not have the formal education she so wanted. When the Brough family lived in Lyman, the public school offered only grades 1-8, then the students had to go away for high school.
She worked for many years, living at home with her parents, enjoying her brothers and sisters, their spouses and children.
When her sister Viola died, a friend of Millard's came to pay his respects to the family. This friend was Arthur Bjorkman. After his wife died, he remembered Eveline and came to call. Their courtship ended in marriage May 9, 1933 (Emily's birthday).
Arthur's first wife Viola Wathen died following the birth of their fifth child. The children were Leola, Doris, George, Hal and Keith. Keith was the baby and was one year old when Arthur and Eveline were married.
Arthur had a farm in Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah, where they began their life together.
Eveline and Arthur were married in the depths of the depression. Their maturity and experience helped them to survive and their love to deepen.
Arthur taught school. At that time, teachers could teach with a two-year "Normal Certificate." For some time the teachers were paid by the parents in produce - sacks of potatoes, bushels of apples. Finally the schools closed and Arthur had no work.
He returned to BYU to complete his BS degree, leaving Eveline in Heber City with the children, now including Marilyn, who was born July 3, 1934. He lived in Provo, coming home occasional weekends, sending money from his jobs on campus when he could. He graduated in 1936 and was very happy to get the position of educational director of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Castle Dale, Utah. While the family lived in Castle Dale, a second daughter, Gwendolyn, was born, December 10, 1937.
Arthur secured a position with Davis County Schools in 1939, and the family moved to Bountiful where he taught science at South Davis Junior High (later named Bountiful Junior High) until he retired in 1958 after 4 years of teaching. He loved teaching and was a beloved teacher. Carolyn was born March 4, 1940.
Eveline was a hard-working woman, busy with her family and active in the church. She held a number of church positions through the years and also sang in the choir. She was ward Relief Society President about 1951-1956. She was a great leader and organizer.
She died of cancer when she was fifty-eight years old, on August 28, 1958. She was missed by all who loved her.
History of Hyrum Carter Brough (1901-1987) and Erma Eurilda Andersen
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & Descendants
Originally written by Hyrum Carter Brough in 1980HISTORY:
I was born of goodly parents in the year of our Lord, April 6, 1901, in a little log cabin on Main Street in Lyman, Uinta County, Wyoming.
When my father came home from a four-year mission in England and Scotland, he filed on a homestead--one hundred sixty acres on the Lyman bench and built their log cabin, logs he cut and hauled from the nearby mountains. It had four rooms, but no plumbing. We lived in this cabin until I was six years old. Then father built a large home on another one hundred sixty acres of farm land. The home was a frame home painted white, with black willows and shade trees all around the home. We had to heat the water for our Saturday-night bath on a wood stove. We used a large tub to bathe in right in the middle of the kitchen floor. We had a splashing good time with water allover the floor. We drew the water from a well father dug in our back yard.
My father's name was Samuel Richard Brough, my mother's name was Eliza Ann Carter Brough. I had four brothers and three sisters.
I married Erma Eurilda Anderson in the Salt Lake Temple June 27, 1923. I was introduced to Erma September 10, 1922 at a dance at Latuda, Utah, a little town up Spring Canyon about six miles from Helper, Utah. I was working at Standardville, Utah, in the coal mine and Erma came here to teach school. We walked home together from the Dance at Latuda, and this is how it all started.
We had seven children given to us by our Father in Heaven. We lost two girls as babies living only a few hours. We lost our two sons when they were six months old. We have three daughters living: Beulah Bernice, Shirley Darlene and Sandra Janene Wood. We have ten grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
I enjoyed family life as a boy. My father was a farmer, and we all had our chores and work to do. When I was thirteen years old I did all the plowing and cultivating of the land and preparing it for planting, I had two dogs and a pony of my own. I would enjoy going with my father to check on our two ranches or farms, with me on my pony and father on his big bay horse. We worked long hours on the farms, but we enjoyed family life. I had an angel mother who taught me how to pray as a child, and my parents taught me the gospel of Jesus Christ.
My father was bishop in our ward all of my life until I was eighteen years old. At this time my father bought a home and small farm in Bountiful, Utah. In the spring of 1919 my brother Horace and family moved to Bountiful to plant our crops, as the rest of the family was not moving until fall. Horace went to work in Salt Lake City as a carpenter and this left me to run the farm. On this truck farm we would grow potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, cantaloupes and other vegetables. I would leave with our produce at four o'clock in the morning for Salt Lake City where we sold it on the Growers' Market. I went by team and wagon. This made a long day for me.
I worked for Safeway Stores, as a manager of a store in Mt. Pleasant, Utah, in Park City, Utah, and in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1929 we bought mother's home in Bountiful. Father was working in the temple and didn't have time to take care of the farm. For ten long years during the depression of the thirties, we had a hard time to pay the interest on the mortgage on the home and farm.
We would like to write much more, but it is all recorded in my life history.
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Note: In 1969, Hyrum Carter Brough founded the Samuel Richard Brough Family Organization (SRBFO). In 1982 the SRBFO merged with the Richard Brough Family Organization (RBFO) that is known today (2011) as the Brough Family Organization (BFO).
History of Chester Lester Brough (1904-1986) and Dora Alexandria Roth
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & DescendantsHISTORY:
Charles Lester Brough was born November 16, 1904 in Lyman, Wyoming, the twelfth and youngest son of Samuel Richard Brough and the eighth child of his plural marriage to Ann Eliza Carter. For just a little over the first eleven years of Lester's life, his father was bishop of the Lyman Ward, so his early life was definitely affected for good by the closeness that this family had with the church in this farming area.
In the fall of the year 1907 when Lester was three years old, he was taken very sick, and after several days the doctor was finally able to come and examine him. His illness was diagnosed as a typical case of typhoid fever. His father asked the doctor if it could be checked or broken up some way, but he was informed by the doctor that it would have to run its normal course, which amounted to some seven weeks. The doctor then left, leaving some medication, and said he would return the following day to check on him. Both Lester's father and mother were very concerned and felt that he was in a very serious condition.
His father was impressed to call upon their Heavenly Father in humble and earnest prayer. All of the children were called together around the sick bed. His father, mother and each one of the children took their turns praying to the Lord to destroy the disease and spare the life of this special son and brother. The Spirit of the Lord was with them and heard their humble prayers. Lester rested well all night and in the morning was much better. His fever was gone and his body was returned to normal.
The doctor came to check on Lester that morning and could not believe what he found. He even used a new thermometer thinking that his old one was broken. but there still was no sign of the fever and nothing to indicate that he had been so ill. The doctor told the family that he had never experienced this type of recovery before, but all of the family knew and were grateful that the Lord had heard and answered their prayers in Lester's behalf.
Lester was very active in the church, and during his Aaronic Priesthood years held almost every leadership position in each of his quorums. In 1920 when his family moved to Bountiful,Utah, he went with them and helped his father and brothers in the truck garden while finishing his schooling.
Lester became quite an accomplished carpenter and was known for the quality work that he did. Many homes in the Salt Lake area bear the result of his quality craftsmanship. During part of his working life he worked with his brother Horace who was also an outstanding carpenter.
On April 8, 1926 Charles Lester Brough married Dora Alexandria Roth in the Salt Lake Temple. They made their home in Salt Lake City, Utah. On February 7, 1927, a very precious little girl was born to them. This was to be their only child, and they gave her the name of Dorothy.
Lester and Dora, at the time this history was compiled, have five grandchildren and six great grandchildren. They have lived at their present home, 1176 Westminster Avenue, for over 35 years. During this time Lester served as a bishop's counselor to two different bishops, totaling some 12 years. He then served on the Stake High Council for three years. Shortly thereafter he was made bishop of the Sugarhouse Ward and served in this capacity for almost six years. He has been group leader of his High Priests' group and has continued his great service in the church without interruption up to this present time. At the age of 75 he is still working as a carpenter and intends to continue in this line of work.
How great an example he has been to his family and especially to those who have known him. He has followed his father's great example and left his great mark on this area, not only as a master craftsman, but also as a leader among men. Lester is one of the two remaining living sons of Samuel Richard Brough.
History of Emily May Brough (1907-1978) and Myron Frederick Holbrook
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & Descendants
Originally given as a funeral eulogy by Samuel Richard Holbrook on April 29, 1978HISTORY:
Emily May Brough was born in Lyman Wyoming on May 5, 1907, the youngest child of Samuel Richard Brough and Eliza Ann Carter. She had the privilege of being a daughter of one of the last to those special Latter-day Saint families to participate in polygamy.
The family of eighteen wonderful children, nine in each of two households, grew up in a family farm environment where each learned the value of good, honest labor and where they learned to create their own entertainment. They were also taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ by loving parents since their father served as bishop of Lyman for over 25 years.
The family moved to Bountiful, Utah in 1921, when Emily was 13 years old. They bought the farm of Enoch A. Holbrook, located on Ninth North and Main Street. Little did Emily know at that time that she would become a member of that Holbrook family just eight years later.
She completed her education in the Davis County Schools, following which she took voice training at the McCune School of Music in Salt Lake City. She also began what was to become a wonderful career with Mountain Bell Telephone Company.
Emily was always active in her church and rendered a continuous service from her childhood. It was through this service that she met, and eventually married, her wonderful mate. They became acquainted while participating in a three-act play at Mutual in the Bountiful 1st Ward. It was love at first sight, and she married Myron F. Holbrook on October 21, 1929, in the Salt Lake City L.D.S. Temple.
Their first child, Lois Mae, was born on their wedding anniversary day just one year later. Soon to follow was a son, Samuel Richard, and then another daughter, Elaine. Eleven long years passed before another daughter, Helen, was born.
During this time of having a family, Emily was active in many church positions. She especially loved the time she spent as Relief Society President and also her work in Junior Sunday School as coordinator and later as chorister.
Emily was blessed with a beautiful soprano voice and her brother Hyrum with a strong tenor voice. They were to share these beautifully matched voices with others for over forty years at church and civic functions and at funeral services everywhere. An excerpt taken from one of the many "thank you" notes sent to them is typical of what was expressed on many occasions:
"We appreciate the talents which God has given you and your willingness to share those talents with us. What perfect harmony! It was like the angels singing to soothe and comfort me. May He who gave your talents preserve them through the years that you may raise your voices in song to those bowed down in tears."
Emily was always an early riser and because of this she accomplished much each day. She made every move count, as was evidenced by her ability to pick twice as many berries as anyone else in the berry patch. She was a fast walker. Her short legs have caused many to almost jog to keep up with her. As a mother and homemaker she had many talents. She had the ability to make each meal a banquet with nothing more than a loaf of homemade bread and a quart of home-canned fruit. She could stretch money further, can fruit faster, straighten up a home quicker, take more calls as an operator, and find time to express love to everyone she met.
She especially loved flowers, her children and grandchildren, her beloved sister Eveline, the Jassamine Literary Club, the Telephone Pioneers, her husband, and the Lord, and doing things for others.
She despised diets, being called "Granny", "gossip", and anything else that wasn't good and uplifting.
Emily had great faith and believed very deeply in the power of prayer. She always had time to give a listening ear, whether it be husband, children, grandchildren or friends.
She is survived by her loving husband, her children, 15 grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, brothers Hyrum and Lester, and half-sisters Laura and Netti. She also claims as survivors her beloved sister Eveline's three daughters, Marilyn, Gwen, and Carrie, and sister Viola's daughter Winona and son Lloyd.
If we were to find one word to describe Emily, it would be LOVE. May that love which she gave to each of us continue to be a part of our lives and may we share it with others as she was so inclined to do.
The birth, christening, marriage, death and burial of Richard Brough was extensively documented by Marie B. Nielson and R. Clayton Brough, RBFO Genealogists, in the 1980's and 1990's.
The birth and death of "Richard Brough" is listed in the "LDS Temple Ordinances and Genealogical Records of Samuel Richard Brough" (1857-1947), which records are in possession of the Brough Family Organization. These records date from 1889 to 1915 and mention (on pages 1 and 11) that Richard Brough was born on 14 February 1786 in Trentham, Staffordshire, and that he died on 31 January 1873. (Note: Samuel Richard Brough is the grandson of Richard Brough, and Samuel served an LDS mission to the British Isles from 1886 to 1890.)
The christening record of "Richard Brough" is listed in the parish register of St. Mary & Al Saints church in Trentham, Staffordshire, England (FHL Book # 942,46, B4pr, V.39, page 291; FHL Films # 873647, 1526191 Item #17 and 7567143; and shown on FindMyPast), which states that he was christened on 24 June 1787 in Trentham, Staffordshire, and that his parents were "Richard and Ellen Brough" and that Richard Brough was a “Lab[ourer]" of "Trentham”.
The 1825 marriage of "Richard Brough" and "Mary Hurlinstone" is listed in the parish register of St. Peter, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, which states that they were married by "Banns" and "in this church" of St. Peter on 7 August 1825; that Richard Brough was a "Bachelor" and "Brickmaker" of "this Parish"; that Mary Hurlinstone of a Spinster of "this Parish"; that the marriage was performed by Benjamin Vale, Curate; and that the marriage was witnessed by Samuel Poulson. Also, this marriage is listed in the Bishop's Transcript of Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire (FHL Film # 435854, page 164), which states that they were married by Banns on 25 August 1825, that Richard Brough was a "Brickmaker", that they were both "of this Parish", and that the marriage was witnessed by Samuel Poulson.
1841 Census Report (taken on 6 June 1841, FHL Film # 474621, p.28):
Richard and Mary Brough were living at: 28 Sutherland Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England:
Richard Brough, age 55, Male, Occupation: Pen [Pensioner], Born: Staffordshire
Mary (Brough), age 45, Female, Born: Staffordshire
Ellen Brough, age 16, Female, Occupation: Potter Apps., Born: Staffordshire
John Hollison, age 22, Male, Occupation: Pott[er], Born: Staffordshire
Richard Brough, age 13, Male, Occupation: Miner Iron, Born: Staffordshire
William, age 11, Male, Occupation: Miner Iron, Born: Staffordshire
Thomas, age 9, Male, Occupation: App. Potter; Born: Staffordshire
Adra, age 8, Female, Born: Staffordshire
Elizabeth, age 7, Female, Born: Staffordshire
Mary, age 5, Female, Born: Staffordshire
Samuel, age 7/10 months, Born: Staffordshire
1851 Census Report (taken on 30 March 1851):
Richard and Mary Brough were living at: 109 Stone Road, Blurton, Trentham, Staffordshire, England:
Richard Brough, Head, Married, Male, age 63, Occupation: Pensioner, Born: Trentham, Staffordshire
Mary (Brough), Wife, Married, Female, age 51, Born: Trentham, Staffordshire
Thos. Brough, Son, Unmarried, Male, age 18, Occupation: Coal Miner, Born: Trentham, Staffordshire
Elizbeth Brough, Daughter, Unmarried, Female, age 16, Occupation: Potter, Born: Trentham, Staffordshire
M.A. [Mary Ann] Brough, Daughter, Unmarried, Female, age 14, Occupation: Potter, Born: Trentham, Staffordshire
S. [Samuel], Son, Unmarried, Male, age 11, Occupation: Coal Miner, Born: Trentham, Staffordshire1861 Census: Richard Brough was living on: Warrens Lane, Blurton, Staffordshire, England:
(Richard was residing with his unmarried daughter, Mary Ann Brough; and living next door to his son, Samuel Brough. Richard's wife, Mary, was not listed with him at the time the 1861 Census was taken.)
Richard Brough, Head, Married, Male, age 74, Occupation: Brick manufacturer, Born: Trentham, Staffordshire
Mary A[nn] Brough, Daughter, Unmarried, age 24, Occupation: Potters Transferrer, Born: Longton, Staffordshire1871 Census: Richard and Mary Brough were living at: 330 Russell Street, Dresden, Trentham, Staffordshire, England:
(Richard and Mary Brough were living next to their daughter, Mary Ann Brough, and her husband Robert Evans, who were residing at: 332 Russell Street, Dresden, Trentham, Staffordshire, England)
Richard Brough, Head, Married, Male, age 85, Occupation: Brickmaker, Born: Trentham, Staffordshire
Mary (Brough), Wife, Married, Female, age 74, Born: Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.Richard Brough died on 31 January 1873 in Warrens Lane, Trentham, Staffordshire. England. His death is documented in the book: "The Ancestors of Richard Broiugh and Mary Horleston" (RBFO, 1981, p.69), which references Samuel Richard Brough's LDS Temple Record Book (pages 5,17), and the GRO Civil Registration Certificate of his death (that is now online at FreeBMD)--which death was registered in January-March 1873 in Stone district, Staffordshire, and states he died when he was "86" years old (born about 1787).
The death certificate of "Richard Brough" was obtained from England in 2000 by the Brough Family Organization, and states that Richard Brough died of "Old Age and Bronchitus" on 31 January 1873 at Warrens Lane in Trentham, Staffordshire, England, that he was a "Brickmaker" and died when he was "86 years" old (born about 1787), and that the informant of his death was "Mary Ann Evans" (who was his daughter).
The following funeral announcement about "Richard Brough" is listed on FamilySearch Tree:
"In memory of the late Richard Brough, of Warrens Lane, Longton, who died Jan.31, 1873, aged 86 Years.
"You are respectfully requested to attend the funderal on Tuesday, Feb. 4th, at 2 o'clock. Interment at Dresden Church, at 4 o'clock. This Languishing head is at rest, I'ts thinking and aching are O'er, This quiet, immoveable breast, Is heaved by afflection no more."The burial of "Richard Brough" is listed in the parish records of the Church of the Resurrection in Dresden, Staffordshire, England (FHL Film # 1470944, page 23), which states that he was buried on 4 February 1873 in Dresden, that he was of "Warren's Lane", and that he died when he was "86" years old (born about 1787).
Richard Brough was baptized into the LDS Church on June 20, 1840 at Frooms Hill, Herefordshire, England, by Thomas Clark. He was later ordained a Teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood of the LDS Church on September 28, 1840, at Hanley, Staffordshire, England, by Wilford Woodruff and George Simpson. This information appears in the "Minutes of the Conference of the Staffordshire Potteries, September 28, 1840",and is taken from "Wilford Woodruff's Journal", printed in 1983 by Signature Books, Volume 1 (1833-1840), pages 393 and 522. The book is available in the LDS Church Historical Department in Salt Lake City, Utah. (For further information about the activities of some of the Apostles of the LDS Church in England during June 1840, see the book "A Century of Mormonism in Great Britain" by Richard L. Evans, 1937, page 137, FHL Book # 942, K2er.)
On 1 April 1856 and again on 1 February 1857, Richard Brough blessed two children in the LDS Longton Branch of Staffordshire, England. FHL Film # 0087016, pages 506-507.
In 1857-1858, Richard and Mary Brough had William Franklin Pace Sr. (1806-1876), a LDS missionary serving in England (1956-1858), stay at their home on the following days: October 25, 1857, December 23, 1857, January 6, 10, 27, 31, 1858, and February 6, 8, 1858. (Source: William Franklin Pace Sr., Missionary Journal, 1856-1858, FamilySearch PID# LZPW-H6N; online at: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets?id=78fad59d-3842-40c6-87d1-470c4f08e691&crate=0&index=0 .)
Richard Brough is listed in the 1829 Will of his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Hollison, as follows: The "Will" of "Elizabeth Horleston" (FHL Film # 96721--located about halfway through the microfilm), was probated in Newcastle, Staffordshire, on 27 October 1843, but was written on 13 December 1829. In her Will, Elizabeth Horleston states that "the whole of my estate...consists of nothing but a lease of a cottage at Whetley Moore [Wetley Moor]...which lease expires at the death of my son William Horleston, and the premises of the said cottage consists of two small dwelling houses with about three acreas of land...and the said land is divided into three small crofts". (Note: a "croft" is a small enclosed field or pasture near a house.) The Will of Elizabeth Horleston also named three children: her son "William Horleston"--who was a "Collier", her son "Richard Horleston", and her daughter, "Mary Brough"--who was the wife of "Richard Brough", a "Labourer"; and the Probate section of the Will stated that Elizabeth Horleston died on 14 October 1843. In addition, an "Estate Duty Death Reference" notice (FHL Film # 1485063), states that "Elizabeth Horleston" was "of Stoke-upon-Trent", that she died on 14 October 1843, that her Will was dated 13 December 1829, that she had a "Leasehold [of a] Cottage at Whetley Moor [Wetley Moor] which expires at the death of [her] son William", and that the Executors were: William Horleston--her son, Richard Horleston--her son, and Mary Brough--her daughter.
2004 Research Note: There is a "Alice Brough" listed in the IGI who was supposedly born in "about 1843" in "Longton, Lane End, St. John, Staffordshire, England" to Richard Brough and Mary Horleston. However, RBFO researchers have determined that this is not correct. For example, this "Alice Brough" is not listed in the 1851 Census, RBFO researchers have not been able to find an Alice Brough listed in any Longton church/parish records. Also, Samuel R. Brough's "Temple Records" do not include her name and she does not appear on any TIB records (in the Special Collections area of the Family History Library). Apparently, Alice Brough was mistakenly listed as "Sealed to Parents" on 5 January 1922 in an earlier RBFO book (published in 1981), and this encouraged someone to later submit her name (in 1990) for LDS ordinance work to the LDS Temple in Los Angeles, California, which now appears on the IGI.
2019 Research Note: There is a "George Brough" listed in the IGI who was supposedly born in "about 1837" in "Longton, Staffordshire, England" to Richard Brough and Mary Horleston. This listing in the IGI apparently came from a side notation written in the "LDS Temple Ordinances and Genealogical Records of Samuel Richard Brough" (1857-1947) which stated that a "George [Brough] abt. 1837" might have been a possible son of Richard Brough and Mary Horleston. However, BFO researchers have never been able to locate this individual in any church or civil record of the time and have therefore concluded that this listing is probably not correct. In March 2011, the RBFO obtained a copy of the birth certificate of a George Brough from Trentham, Staffordshire, England, which stated that this George Brough was born on 25 June 1838 at "Blurton, Trentham" as the son of "Thomas Brough", a "Cordwainer" of "Blurton", and "Sarah Brough formerly Myatt". The christening of this George Brough is listed in FamilySearch (FHL Digital Film # 7605022), which states that he was christened on 22 July 1838 in Blurton, Staffordshire, and that his parents were "Thomas Brough" and Sarah". Also, this George Brough is listed in the BFO Global Brough Database as Rin # 6842.
History of Richard Brough
Written by R. Clayton Brough and Marie B. Nielson, 2004. Updated by R. Clayton Brough in September 2020.
Richard Brough was born on 14 February 1786 in Trentham, Staffordshire. As a young man, Richard learned the trades of carpentry and brickmaking.
When Richard Brough was 19 years of age, he joined the British Army as a private, and served for the next "17 years and 184 days" in the 8th Battalion of the Royal Artillery Service. During most of Richard's military service, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland fought against Napoleon's "Greater French Empire" that dominated much of Europe.
Richard Brough's military career is well documented and has been summarized by Patricia E. Martin, a military genealogist and historian, as follows:
"Richard Brough was a tall man for the period, 5 ft 11½ inches in height with a brown complexion, brown hair and grey eyes.
"When [Richard Brough] enlisted for 'Unlimited Service' on 10 September 1805 at Newcastle, Staffordshire, he gave his age as 18 years, although, for whatever reason, this [was] not strictly accurate.
"Following his enlistment in 1805, Richard initially joined Captain R. Buckner's Company of 8th Battalion of the Royal Artillery 'From Adjutant's Detachment' in May 1806. At the time it was based at Chatham [located east of London and near the North Sea] but in August sailed to Plymouth [located on the southwest coast of England] before re-embarking on 13 September to sail to Sicily [Italy] where the Company mustered [or assembled] at Messina [on the northeast tip of the island of Sicily, Italy] on 6 December. Apart from the month of June at Milazzo, 1807 was spent at Messina.
"In 1808, the Company continued in Messina until May; but in June it mustered at Syracuse [now called Siracusa and located on the southeast tip of the island of Sicily, Italy] before returning to Messina in November. During the year the command of the Company passed from Captain R. Buckner to Captain J. S. Williamson.
"In 1809, the Company continued at Messina until it formed a detachment of Artillery consisting of 4 officers and 98 men as part of Maj-Gen Sir J. Stuart's force which embarked at Milazzo on 21 May and which sailed on 11 June for operations in the Bay of Naples resulting in the capture of [the islands of] Ischia and Procida [off the coast of Naples in southern Italy] by 1 July. The force returned to Milazzo on 29 July. The Company then embarked again on 23 September for Zante [an island off the west coast of Greece] arriving on 1 October and mustered there for the remainder of the year.
"The Company remained based in Zante throughout 1810 and 1811 until returning to Messina once again until the middle of 1812. However, in March 1810, Captain Williamson's Company provided a detachment of artillery to Brig-Gen Oswald's force that sailed from Zante on 21 March and captured Santa Maura (Leucada) [an island off the west coast of Greece which today is called Lefkada, Greece] on 16 April. The detachment consisted of Captain Williamson himself, another officer 2/Captain C. Gilmour, a sergeant and 56 rank and file. From [a copy of] a muster from that time it can be seen that Gunner Richard Brough was included with a number of men noted as 'On Command' and was therefore one of the detachment.
"In July 1812, the whole Company set sail again, this time for Spain and was mustered on board ship in Palomas Bay, Catalonia [on the coast of northeast Spain] on 1 August and at Alicante [on the coast of southeast Spain] in September.
"In 1813, it moved to Castalla for April and May and were in camp before Tarragona [in northeast Spain] in August, at Valls [in northeast Spain] in November and at Vendrelle [now called Vendrell and located in northeast Spain] in December.
"The Company remained in Eastern Spain until May 1814, whereupon it returned to Italy, this time to Genoa [now called Genova and located in northwest Italy]. At the end of the year Captain Williamson was promoted to Major and the command of the Company passed on Captain J. P. Adye.
"In 1815, the year of Napoleon's final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the company remained in Genoa apparently without incident, but moved on to spend the months of March to July 1816 in Malta [an island country south of Sicily, Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea], before landing in Corfu [an island off the northwest coast of Greece that is now called Kerkira, Greece] in August.
"The Company remained stationed in Corfu until 1822, by which time the command had been passed on once again, this time to Captain J. A. Clement. However, on 19 September it embarked on the troopship 'Intrepid' for the return home, arriving at Woolwich [which is located near London along the River Thames] on 13 December. It was significant that Richard went before the Pensions Board a few days later on 21 December.
"[Richard Brough's] premature discharge was 'in consequence of being unfit for Service from an old injury to the ankles and [he was] placed upon the Pension List at one Shilling per diem commencing the 1st January 1823.' [After Richard Brough was discharged from the British military, he receiving a pension for his military services up until his death in 1873. In addition, Richard was a 'Chelsea Pensioner' (as described in the 1851 Census), which suggests he performed his more than seventeen years of military service with excellence and/or unique braveness. In fact, his status as a 'Chelsea Pensioner'--which was not awarded to most men in the British military--entitled him in his old age to residential care at the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, London, if family members or people in his local community were not able to take care of him in his declining years. (See Ann Brough Hind Research Report, page 578, March 8, 2002.)]
"[When Richard Brough] was discharged at Woolwich he was given Marching Money for his return to his place of enlistment. ...This was calculated at on the basis of 1 shilling 8 pence per day for 16 days march at 10 miles per day. After deducting his daily pension of 1 shilling a day this worked out at 10 shillings and 8 pence.
"[Richard Brough's] total service [in the British military was] 17 years and 184 days."
(The above quoted comments by Patricia E. Martin were extracted from a detailed research report she sent to the RBFO on 30 October 2002. Additional comments, punctuation and/or geographical descriptions-which generally appear within brackets [ ]-have been added by R. Clayton Brough.)
Three years after leaving the military, Richard Brough married Mary Horleston on 7 August 1825, in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. At the time of their marriage, Richard was 39 years old and Mary was 30 years old (born about 1795). Prior to their marriage, Mary had already had two children: James Hollison (chr. 1816) and John Hollison (chr.1821). Following their marriage, and between 1825 and 1843, Richard and Mary had ten children: Ellen (chr. 1825), Jane (born 1826), Richard (chr. 1827), William (born 1829), Adry (chr. 1831), Thomas (born 1832), Elizabeth (born 1834), Mary Ann (born 1836), (Miss) Brough (born 1838), and Samuel (born 1839).
As a husband and father, Richard's primary occupation was that of a brickmaker. According to British census reports, Richard and Mary lived in Longton (at 28 Sutherland Road) in 1841, in Blurton, Trentham (at 109 Stone Road) in 1851, and in Trentham (on Russell Street) in 1871-where at 85 years of age Richard was still being identified as a "brickmaker."
By 1840, Richard Brough had decided to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--known as the "Mormons" or "LDS Church". He was the first "Brough" to join the LDS Church in England. Richard was baptized into the LDS Church on June 20, 1840, at Frooms Hill, Staffordshire. On September 28, 1840, he was ordained to the office of a Teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood by LDS Apostle Wilford Woodruff in Hanley, Staffordshire.
Richard was an active member in the LDS Church during the remainder of his life. In 1856-1857, he blessing at least two unrelated children in the LDS Longton Branch of Staffordshire, and Richard and Mary Brough had William Franklin Pace Sr. (1806-1876), a LDS missionary serving in England (during 1856-1858), stay at their home on the following days: October 25, 1857, December 23, 1857, January 6, 10, 27, 31, 1858, and February 6, 8, 1858.
After Richard Brough joined the LDS Church, five of his children eventually did the same thing: Elizabeth was baptized in 1847, Thomas was baptized in 1849, and Adry, Mary Ann and Samuel were baptized in 1857. In 1856, Thomas and Elizabeth and their spouses left England and emigrated to the United States to join other members of the LDS Church who were moving westward to the Territory of Deseret-now called Utah. Samuel and his wife left England for Utah in 1863. Thomas Brough married Jean (Jane) Paterson in 1851, Elizabeth Brough married Samuel Cartlidge in 1852 and Enoch Tipton in 1864, and Samuel Brough married Elizabeth Bott in 1858. Today their descendants number in the thousands and make up the majority of the membership of the Brough Family Organization (BFO)--one of the largest ancestral family organizations in the world.
Richard Brough and Mary Horleston's third child and oldest son, Richard (chr. 1827), married Rosannah Myatt in 1846. One of Richard and Rosannah's grandson's, Thomas Myatt (Brough), left England for Australia between 1881 and 1888, where he and his wife, Ellen France, raised a family of 10 children in New South Wales, Australia. Since 1988, some of Richard Brough and Mary Horleston's descendants living in Utah have been in contact with some of the Australian descendants of Thomas Myatt (Brough) and Ellen France.
Richard Brough died in 1873 in Trentham, Staffordshire, when he was "86" years old, and was buried in the "Dresden Church of the Resurrection" (an Anglican church of the Church of England) in Dresden. However, the specific location of his gravesite in the churchyard is not known. When officials of the Brough Family Organization visited the Dresden church in 2008 it was closed and part of its churchyard was overgrown. Today (2025) the Dresden church is known as the Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church (Parish of St. Michael), Red Bank, Dresden, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 4PD, Staffordshire, England (see: https://orthodoxinmidlands.blogspot.com/).
Mary Horleston died in 1879 in Longton, Staffordshire, when she was "80" years old, and was buried in St. John church in Longton. However, St. John's was demolished in 1979, and Mary's remains (along with those of many other people who were buried at St. John) were cremated and moved to a combined memorial site now located in the churchyard of St. James the Less and St. John in Longton.
In December 2016 members of the Research Committee of the Brough Family Organization (www.broughfamily.org) determined that "Mary Horleston" was probably born between 1792 and 1800--based on her age listed in the 1841, 1851 and 1871 census and the age listed in her 1879 death announcement and burial record. Also, BFO researchers decided to list her approximate birth year as "about 1795" as that year best fits among the births of her other siblings--such as John Hurlisson who was christened in 1793 in Bucknall and Richard Hollison who was born about 1797. In addition, although the 1851 Census states that Mary was born in Trentham and the 1871 Census states that she was born in Stoke-upon-Trent, it is possible that Mary was born in or near Bucknall--as that is where her brother John Hurlisson was christened in 1793 and her other siblings were born and/or from.
"Mary Horleston" was the daughter of "Elizabeth Horleston" and was probably born between 1792 and 1800. Mary's father is unknown and her christening record--"if" she was ever christened--has never been located. On 7 August 1825, "Mary Hurlinstone" and "Richard Brough" were married in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. In 1829, Mary was listed as the wife of "Richard Brough" in the Will of her mother, "Elizabeth Horleston"--who was christened as "Elizabeth Hollison" on 6 March 1768 in Bucknall, Staffordshire. In the 1841 Census, "Mary Brough" was listed as being 45 years old (born between 1792-1796) and born in Staffordshire; in the 1851 Census, she was listed as being 51 years old (born about 1800) and born in Trentham, Staffordshire; in the 1871 Census she is listed as being 74 years old (born about 1797) and born in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire; on 17 April 1879 she died at 180 Normacott Road in Longton, Staffordshire, at the age of 80 years old (born about 1799); and on 20 April 1879 she was buried at St. John's church in Longton, Staffordshire.
"Mary Horleston" was known and listed by several different surnames--including "Hollison", "Hurlinstone", and "Horleston". For example: In 1816 and 1821, Mary's first two (illegitimate) sons, James and John, was both christened with the surname of "Hollison". In 1825, when Mary married Richard Brough, her surname was recorded as "Hurlinstone". In 1829, Mary's mother, Elizabeth, wrote a Will in which her name was listed as Elizabeth "Horleston"; and in the late 1800's and early 1900's, some LDS church records listed Mary's surname as "Horleston".
The 1825 marriage of "Richard Brough" and "Mary Hurlinstone" is listed in the parish register of St. Peter, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, which states that they were married by "Banns" and "in this church" of St. Peter on 7 August 1825; that Richard Brough was a "Bachelor" and "Brickmaker" of "this Parish"; that Mary Hurlinstone of a Spinster of "this Parish"; that the marriage was performed by Benjamin Vale, Curate; and that the marriage was witnessed by Samuel Poulson. Also, this marriage is listed in the Bishop's Transcript of Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire (FHL Film # 435854, page 164), which states that they were married by Banns on 25 August 1825, that Richard Brough was a "Brickmaker", that they were both "of this Parish", and that the marriage was witnessed by Samuel Poulson.
"Mary Horleston Brough" is listed in the 1829 Will of her mother, Elizabeth Hollison, as follows: The "Will" of "Elizabeth Horleston" (FHL Film # 96721--located about halfway through the microfilm), was probated in Newcastle, Staffordshire, on 27 October 1843, but was written on 13 December 1829. In her Will, Elizabeth Horleston states that "the whole of my estate...consists of nothing but a lease of a cottage at Whetley Moore [Wetley Moor]...which lease expires at the death of my son William Horleston, and the premises of the said cottage consists of two small dwelling houses with about three acreas of land...and the said land is divided into three small crofts". (Note: a "croft" is a small enclosed field or pasture near a house.) The Will of Elizabeth Horleston also named three children: her son "William Horleston"--who was a "Collier", her son "Richard Horleston", and her daughter, "Mary Brough"--who was the wife of "Richard Brough", a "Labourer"; and the Probate section of the Will stated that Elizabeth Horleston died on 14 October 1843. In addition, an "Estate Duty Death Reference" notice (FHL Film # 1485063), states that "Elizabeth Horleston" was "of Stoke-upon-Trent", that she died on 14 October 1843, that her Will was dated 13 December 1829, that she had a "Leasehold [of a] Cottage at Whetley Moor [Wetley Moor] which expires at the death of [her] son William", and that the Executors were: William Horleston--her son, Richard Horleston--her son, and Mary Brough--her daughter.
In the 1841 Census, "Mary Brough" is listed as being 45 years old (born about 1792-1796) and born in Staffordshire.
In the 1851 Census, "Mary Brough" is listed as being 51 years old (born about 1800) and born in Trentham, Staffordshire.
In the 1871 Census, "Mary Brough" is listed as being 74 years old (born about 1797), and born in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.In September 2020 the Brough Family Organization (BFO) obtained the death certificate (below) of Mary (Horleston) Brough from the General Register Office (GRO) in England. The death certificate stated that she died of “Senile Decay” on 17 April 1879 at “180 Normacott Road” in Longton, Staffordshire, England, that she was the “Widow of Richard Brough” who had been a “Brickmaker”, and that she died when she was “80” years old (born about 1799). The informant of her death was her daughter “Mary Ann Evans”.
"Mary Brough" died on 17 April 1879 in Normacott Road, Longton, Staffordshire, England. Her death is documented in the book: "The Ancestors of Richard Brough and Mary Horleston" (RBFO, 1981, p.69), which references Samuel Richard Brough's LDS Temple Record Book (pages 5,17), and the online FreeBMD lists her death as being registered in April-June 1879 in Stoke-upon-Trent district, and states she died when she was "80" years old (born about 1799).
The following funeral announcement about "Mary Brough" is listed on FamilySearch Tree:
"In memory of the late Mary Brough, of 180, Normacott Road, Longton, who died April 17th, 1879, aged 80 years.
"You are respectfully requested to attend the funeral on Sunday the 20th, Instant at 10 o'clock. Interment at St. John's Church, at 10:30 o'clock.
"Gone from her home and the friends she loved best, But gone where the weary find undisturbed rest, Gone in her youth from earth's beauty and joy, Gone to Heaven's pleasure, which naught can alloy.""Mary Brough" was buried on St. John's, Lane End, Longton, Staffordshire, England (FHL Film # 1471147, Entry #1107, page 112), on 20 April 1879, when she was "80" years old. Unfortunately, by the time Monumental Inscriptions of St. John's Churchyard were recorded in the mid-1900's (see: FHL Booklet: British, Q Area, 942, A1, No.158), the grave of Mary (Brough) was not visible or recorded. St. John's was demolished in 1979, and Mary's remains (along with those of many other people who were buried at St. John) were cremated and moved to a combined memorial site now located in the churchyard of St. James the Less and St. John in Longton.
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The marriage of "Richard Brough" and "Mary Hurlinstone" is listed in the parish register of St. Peter, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, which states that they were married by "Banns" and "in this church" of St. Peter on 7 August 1825; that Richard Brough was a "Bachelor" and "Brickmaker" of "this Parish"; that Mary Hurlinstone of a Spinster of "this Parish"; that the marriage was performed by Benjamin Vale, Curate; and that the marriage was witnessed by Samuel Poulson. This marriage is also listed in the Bishop's Transcript of Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire (FHL Film # 435854, page 164), which states that they were married by Banns on 25 August 1825, that Richard Brough was a "Brickmaker", that they were both "of this Parish", and that the marriage was witnessed by Samuel Poulson.
Jane Brough was born in Lane End, Staffordshire, England, on 20 August 1826. This location is often referred to as "Lane End, Longton". For example: "Lane End, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: Confusion often arises over the location and names of Lane End and Longton. Originally they were two separate and contiguous townships which were incorporated in the Borough of Longton in 1865. Longton was adjacent to Longton Hall and encompassed the Longton Hall Colliery and Brickworks. Even in 1900 the area was mainly fields. Lane End was centered on the area around Market Street and the bottom part of Anchor Road and contained the Markets, Churches and main potworks." (Source: http://www.thepotteries.org/did_you/009.htm)
The birth and christening of Jane Brough is listed in the Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Longton, Staffordshire, England (FHL Film # 825393, Item # RG4-3298, Book 36), which states that she was born on 20 August 1826 and christened on 10 September 1826 as the daughter of Richard and Mary Brough of Lane End.
The death and burial of Jane Brough, BFO Research Note, February 2019: Jane Brough is not listed in the 1841 Census with her parents and brothers and sisters in Longton, Staffordshire, which suggests that she possibly died prior to the 1841 Census. In addition, the death of Jane Brough is not listed in the online GRO Index between July 1837 and September 1841, so she possibly died before July 1837. Interestingly, the parish register of "St. John, Longton, Staffordshire (FHL Film # 1471087, Item #10), lists a "Mary Brough" of "L[ane] E[nd]" who was buried on 25 February 1828 in St. John, Longton, and who died when she was "1 year 5 months" old--and therefore born about September 1826. In 1826 there were two christenings for Brough-surnamed girls that took place in the Wesleyan Chapel of Longton (FHL Film # 825393, Item #11): 1) A "Jane Brough" who was born on 20 August 1826 and christened on 10 September 1826 as the daughter of Richard and Mary Brough of Lane End; and 2) A "Mary Brough" who was born on 9 October 1826 and christened on 22 October 1826 as the daugther of "John and Hannah Brough" of Lane End--and who later married Samuel Dodd on 12 April 1846 in Fulford, Staffordshire. After extensive radius searches of available parish registers in and around the Longton area, the Research Committee of the Brough Family Organization (BFO) currently believes that the "Jane Brough" who was born in 1826 in Longton is possibly the same individual as the "Mary Brough" who died and was buried in 1828 in Longton.
1841 Census Report (taken on 6 June 1841, FHL Film # 474621, p.28):
Richard and Mary Brough were living at: 28 Sutherland Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England:
Richard Brough, age 55, Male, Occupation: Pen [Pensioner], Born: Staffordshire
Mary (Brough), age 45, Female, Born: Staffordshire
John Hollison, age 22, Male, Occupation: Pott[er], Born: Staffordshire
Ellen Brough, age 16, Female, Occupation: Potter Apps., Born: Staffordshire
Richard Brough, age 13, Male, Occupation: Miner Iron, Born: Staffordshire
William, age 11, Male, Occupation: Miner Iron, Born: Staffordshire
Thomas, age 9, Male, Occupation: App. Potter; Born: Staffordshire
Adra, age 8, Female, Born: Staffordshire
Elizabeth, age 7, Female, Born: Staffordshire
Mary, age 5, Female, Born: Staffordshire
Samuel, age 7/10 months, Born: StaffordshireResearch Note, 2018:
No marriage has yet been found for Jane Brough (b.1826) the daughter of Richard Brough. The following marriages of different Jane Brough's in Staffordshire between 1837 and 1861 have been listed in the FreeBMD, Staffordshire BMD, and/or FamilySearch, as follows:
1841: 30 August 1841, St. Peter, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Charles Templer and Jane Brough--whose father was William Brough. Source: FHL Digital Film # 101094664.
1853: 27 December 1853, St. Luke, Leek, Staffordshire, Thomas Sales and Jane Brough--whose father was Thomas Brough. Source: FHL Film # 1471068, Item #11.
1859: 10 February 1859, St. Michael, Stone, Staffordshire, Samuel Griffin and Jane Brough--whose father was Thomas Brough. Source: FHL Film # 1278887, Item #2.
1859: 5 September 1859, St. Werburgh, Kinglsey, Staffordshire, Edward Collier and Jane Brough--whose father was David Brough. Source: FHL Digital Film # 100910670.
William Brough was born in Lane End, Staffordshire, England, on 14 April 1829. This location is often referred to as "Lane End, Longton". For example: "Lane End, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: Confusion often arises over the location and names of Lane End and Longton. Originally they were two separate and contiguous townships which were incorporated in the Borough of Longton in 1865. Longton was adjacent to Longton Hall and encompassed the Longton Hall Colliery and Brickworks. Even in 1900 the area was mainly fields. Lane End was centered on the area around Market Street and the bottom part of Anchor Road and contained the Markets, Churches and main potworks." (Source: http://www.thepotteries.org/did_you/009.htm)
The christening of William Brough is listed in the parish register of St. John, Longton, Staffordshire, England (FHL Film # 1471086, Item #12), which states that he was christened on 3 May 1829 as the son of Richard and Mary Brough of Lane End, and that Richard Brough was a "Brickmaker".
William Brough is listed in the 1841 Census as shown below:
1841 Census Report (taken on 6 June 1841, FHL Film # 474621, p.28):
Richard and Mary Brough were living at: 28 Sutherland Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England:
Richard Brough, age 55, Male, Occupation: Pen [Pensioner], Born: Staffordshire
Mary (Brough), age 45, Female, Born: Staffordshire
Ellen Brough, age 16, Female, Occupation: Potter Apps., Born: Staffordshire
John Hollison, age 22, Male, Occupation: Pott[er], Born: Staffordshire
Richard Brough, age 13, Male, Occupation: Miner Iron, Born: Staffordshire
William, age 11, Male, Occupation: Miner Iron, Born: Staffordshire
Thomas, age 9, Male, Occupation: App. Potter; Born: Staffordshire
Adra, age 8, Female, Born: Staffordshire
Elizabeth, age 7, Female, Born: Staffordshire
Mary, age 5, Female, Born: Staffordshire
Samuel, age 7/10 months, Born: Staffordshire
In July 2007, the RBFO obtained a copy of the death certificate of William Brough from England. It stated that on 28 June 1848, William Brough, age "19 years" and a "Potter" residing at "Chapel Street, Lane End", died of "Phthisis" (or tuberculosis of the lungs). The informant of his death was "Hannah Boughey, Present at the Death [and of] Chapel Street, Lane End".
William Brough was buried on July 4, 1848 at St. John, Longton, Staffordshire, England (FHL Film # 1471087, p.86). His burial entry states that William was of "Lane End" and "19" years of age at the time of his burial.
In February 2013, the BFO obtained a copy of the birth certificate of "Girl" Brough (no given name listed) from England, which stated that she was born on 31 March 1838 in the "Parish of Stoke-upon-Trent", Staffordshire, and that her father was "Richard Brough", a "Brick Maker", and her mother was "Mary Brough formerly Hollison". The informant of this birth was "Mary Brough, her X mark, the Mother [of] Sutherland Road, Lane End", Longton, Staffordshire. Geographical Note: "Lane End" is often referred to as "Lane End, Longton". For example: "Lane End, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: Confusion often arises over the location and names of Lane End and Longton. Originally they were two separate and contiguous townships which were incorporated in the Borough of Longton in 1865. Longton was adjacent to Longton Hall and encompassed the Longton Hall Colliery and Brickworks. Even in 1900 the area was mainly fields. Lane End was centered on the area around Market Street and the bottom part of Anchor Road and contained the Markets, Churches and main potworks." (Source: http://www.thepotteries.org/did_you/009.htm)
In February 2013, the BFO obtained a copy of the death certificate of "Female" Brough (no given name listed) from England, which stated that she died at the age of "1 day" old on 1 April 1838 in the "Parish of Stoke-upon-Trent", Staffordshire, and that the informant of her death was "Mary Brough, her X mark, the Mother [of] Sutherland Road, Lane End", Longton, Staffordshire. Geographical Note: "Lane End" is often referred to as "Lane End, Longton". For example: "Lane End, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: Confusion often arises over the location and names of Lane End and Longton. Originally they were two separate and contiguous townships which were incorporated in the Borough of Longton in 1865. Longton was adjacent to Longton Hall and encompassed the Longton Hall Colliery and Brickworks. Even in 1900 the area was mainly fields. Lane End was centered on the area around Market Street and the bottom part of Anchor Road and contained the Markets, Churches and main potworks." (Source: http://www.thepotteries.org/did_you/009.htm)
Genealogical records on this family were provided by Marie B. Nielson, RBFO Genealogist, 2004.
The birth and christening of "Jean Watson" is listed in FamilySearch (via Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950), which states that she was born on 17 August 1800 and christened on 24 August 1800 in Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and that her parents were "William Watson" and "Jean McLachlan".
The "Watson" ancestry and relatives was originally submitted for LDS Temple work by Samuel Richard Brough in 1897-1901. Marie B. Nielson, RBFO Genealogists, has the original LDS temple record books personally kept by Samuel Richard Brough. R. Clayton Brough, RBFO President, has copies of the LDS temple records on the "Watson" ancestry personally kept by Samuel Richard Brough.
This child was probably stillborn.