Lavinia Mitchell BROWN HORROCKS 1837-1905	Website Link Index
11th Wife of Captain James Brown of the Mormon Battalion    Lavinia Mitchell Brown Horrocks July 22, 1837 to March 16, 1905 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England to  Ogden, Weber, Utah Compiled by Lucy Brown Archer Lavina [Lavinia, Lovina] Mitchell was born 22 July 1837, at Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, a daughter of Hezekiah Mitchell and Sarah Mallinson. She was baptized 4 July 1847.  Lavinia came to America with their parents in 1848 and they settled in Ogden, Weber, Utah.  Lavinia Mitchell's Parents Sarah Mallinson Mitchell Hezekiah Mitchell Lavinia's Siblings Standing, L to R: Priscilla, Frederick, Lavinia. (Lavina is about age 38 years old.) Sitting, L to R: Sarah Ann, Elizabeth, Maria. Lavina married (1) Captain James Brown, 7 September 1856, in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were later sealed in the Endowment House [Logan?], 27 March 1857, by Heber C. Kimball. Captain James Brown wrote a letter from Ogden, Utah to Hezekiah Mitchell in to inform the family that he had married their daughter Lavinia. Children of Captain James Brown and Lavinia Mitchell Brown: 1.   Sarah Lavinia Brown, born October 21, 1858 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. Sarah married Joseph Drysdale 2.   Augustus Hezikiah Brown, born March 1, 1861 in Ogden, Weber, Utah; md. Eliza Harriet Plant (b. c.1866 at Walton, Northampton, England); d. March 29, 1916. After Captain Brown's death, Lavinia married (2) John Horrocks on 20 January 1865. Horrocks was born around 1833 and was from Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Lavina and John Horrocks had a son, Samuel Alexander Horrocks, born on July 17, 1873. in Ogden Samuel married Jean [Jane] Weir Purdie on December 2, 1896, born May 30, 1877 in Scotland. Samuel and Jean had a daughter, Verna Horrocks born in 1897. Lavina's sisters, Maria Mitchell Brown and Elizabeth Mitchell, married John's brother, Edward Gregory Horrocks. Lavina married (3) Captain James Beacon. Little is known about this marriage. [It seems that husband one and three could be the same person.] Lavina died 16 March 1905 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. She was buried the 18 March 1905, the headstone has not yet been located. Lavinia Mitchell's Pedigree http://www.lythgoes.net/genealogy/pedigree.php Lavinia Mitchell B:  22 Jul 1837    Sheffield, Yorkshire, England M:  7 Sep 1856 D:  16 Mar 1905    OGDEN, Weber, UT Family: 1 James BROWN ***   Family: 2 John HORROCKS   Family: 3 James BEACON, [Capt] same as number 1 above  Hezekiah Mitchell Lavinia's Father B:  31 May 1810    Simondsley Gloss, Derbyshire, England M:  7 Oct 1832    Manchester, Lancaster, England D:  25 Sep 1872    Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT Family: 1 Sarah Mallinson      Children   •  Martin Luther Mitchell     •  Frederick Augustus Herman Frank Mitchell     •  Lavinia Mitchell ***     •  Priscilla Victoria Mitchell     •  Martha Ann Mallinson Mitchell     •  Maria Mitchell ***   •  Elizabeth Mitchell   •  Ebenezer Israel Mitchell     •  Sarah Ann Mitchell   Family: 2 Elizabeth (Betsey) Bowers      Children   •  Brigham Henry Mitchell     •  Hezekiah Mitchell     •  Heber Mitchell     •  Margaret Salina Theresa Mitchell   Thomas Mitchell Lavinia's Paternal Grandfather B:  29 Aug 1777    Honley, Yorkshire, England M:  4 Nov 1804    Scholes, Yorkshire, England D:  8 May 1855    Yorkshire, England Family: 1 Sarah BERRY   Family: 2 Martha Haigh      Children   •  George Mitchell     •  Joseph Mitchell     •  Hezekiah Mitchell ***     •  Reuben Mitchell   Joseph Mitchell Lavinia's Paternal Great-Grandfather B:  28 Feb 1752    Honley, Yorkshire, England M:  15 May 1774    Saint Peter, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England D:  1830    Honley, Yorkshire, England Family: 1 Nancy Crowther    Children   •  Joseph Mitchell     •  John Mitchell     •  Thomas Mitchell ***     •  Joseph Mitchell     •  James Mitchell     •  George Mitchell     •  Mitchell     •  Isaac Mitchell     •  Joshua Crowther Mitchell   Nancy Crowther Thomas Mitchell's Paternal Grandmother Lavinia's Paternal Grandmother A:  5 Dec 1740    St. Peter, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England M:  15 May 1774    Saint Peter, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England D:  1824    England Family: 1 Joseph Mitchell      Children   •  Joseph Mitchell ***     •  John Mitchell     •  Thomas Mitchell     •  Joseph Mitchell     •  James Mitchell     •  George Mitchell     •  Mitchell     •  Isaac Mitchell     •  Joshua Crowther Mitchell   Family: 2 Flaxton Hill   Martha Haigh Lavinia's Paternal Grandmother B:  13 Sep 1771    Scholes, Yorkshire, England M:  4 Nov 1804    Scholes, Yorkshire, England D:  19 Oct 1843    Bolton, Lancashire, England Family: 1 Thomas Mitchell      Children   •  George Mitchell     •  Joseph Mitchell     •  Hezekiah Mitchell ***     •  Reuben Mitchell   Jonas Haigh Hezekiah Mitchell's Maternal Grandfather A:  25 Mar 1749    Holmfirth, Yorkshire, England M:  26 Dec 1769    Penistone, Yorkshire, England D:  Family: 1 Elizabeth Woodcock      Children   •  Martha Haigh ***     •  John Haigh     •  Abel Haigh     •  Sarah Haigh     •  Thomas Haigh     •  Ann Haigh   Family: 2 Sarah Hinchliff      Children   •  Elizabeth Haigh     •  Lydia Haigh   •  Rachel Haigh     •  Esther Haigh     •  Joseph Haigh     •  Benjamin Haigh   Elizabeth Woodcock Hezekiah Mitchell's Maternal Grandmother A:  12 Nov 1749    Penistone, Yorkshire, England M:  26 Dec 1769    Penistone, Yorkshire, England D:  Family: 1 Jonas Haigh      Children   •  Martha Haigh ***     •  John Haigh     •  Abel Haigh     •  Sarah Haigh     •  Thomas Haigh     •  Ann Haigh   Sarah Mallinson Lavinia's Mother B:  16 Nov 1810    Pitsmoor, Yorkshire, England M:  7 Oct 1832    Manchester, Lancaster, England D:  10 Apr 1883    Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT Family: 1 Hezekiah Mitchell      Children   •  Martin Luther Mitchell     •  Frederick Augustus Herman Frank Mitchell     •  Lavinia Mitchell ***     •  Priscilla Victoria Mitchell     •  Martha Ann Mallinson Mitchell     •  Maria Mitchell     •  Elizabeth Mitchell     •  Ebenezer Israel Mitchell     •  Sarah Ann Mitchell   John Mallinson Lavinia's Maternal Grandfather B:  7 Dec 1776    Grimesthorpe, Yorkshire, England M:  16 Jul 1797    Sheffield, Yorkshire, England D:  18 Dec 1844    Pillsmoor, Yorkshire, England Family: 1 Martha Short   Family: 2 Mary Shaw      Children   •  Maria MALLINSON     •  Joseph Mallinson     •  Elizabeth Mallinson     •  Ann MALLISON     •  Mary Mallinson     •  John Mallinson     •  Sarah Mallinson ***     •  Sarah Mallinson     •  Maria MALLISON     •  Ann MALLINSON     •  Elias MALLISON   Joseph Mallinson Lavinia's Maternal Great-Grandfather A:  25 Nov 1733    Penistone, Yorkshire, England M:  15 Jan 1758/1759    Sheffield, Cathedral Saint Peter, Yorkshire, England D:  Family: 1 Mary Birley      Children   •  Thomas MALLISON   •  Elias MALLISON     •  Mary Mallinson   •  Sarah MALLISON   •  Sarah MALLISON   •  Joseph MALLISON     •  Joseph Mallinson     •  Mary Mallinson     •  John Mallinson ***     •  Joanna Mallinson   •  Samuel Mallinson Mary Birley Sarah Mallinson's Paternal Grandmother A:  21 Jun 1741    Cathedral Saint Peter, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England M:  15 Jan 1758/1759    Sheffield, Cathedral Saint Peter, Yorkshire, England D:  Family: 1 Joseph Mallinson    Children   •  Thomas MALLISON   •  Elias MALLISON     •  Mary Mallinson   •  Sarah MALLISON   •  Sarah MALLISON     •  Joseph MALLISON     •  Joseph Mallinson     •  Mary Mallinson     •  John Mallinson ***     •  Joanna Mallinson     •  Samuel Mallinson   Mary Shaw Lavinia's Maternal Grandmother B:  13 Jul 1781    of Yorkshire, England M:  16 Jul 1797    Sheffield, Yorkshire, England D:  3 Oct 1853    Sheregreen, , England Family: 1 John Mallinson      Children   •  Maria MALLINSON     •  Joseph Mallinson     •  Elizabeth Mallinson     •  Ann MALLISON     •  Mary Mallinson     •  John Mallinson     •      •  Sarah Mallinson ***     •  Maria MALLISON     •  Ann MALLINSON     •  Elias MALLISON   Hezekiah Mitchell headstone - Salt Lake City, Utah Position #9 on map below (G-6). SALT LAKE CITY CEMETERY Hezekiah and Sarah Mitchell - Position #9 on map (G-6). Frederick Mitchell - Position #8 on map  Sources:  PAF - Archer Files  = Captain James Brown (11) Lavinia Mitchell. "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, Vol. II, International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers,  Publishers Press, 1998. Page 1415 (Horrocks)  ISBN: 0-9658406-1-1  http://www.lythgoes.net/genealogy/index.html http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/showphoto.php?personID=1350&tree=&ordernu... http://hometown.aol.com/boisebound/family/horrocksa/aqwg03.htm Copyright 2001 www.OrsonPrattBrown.org	GO TO BOTTOM OF PAGE RETURN TO HOME PAGE To SEARCH THIS SITE: Use the Google.com search engine Type....site:OrsonPrattBrown.org "TYPE NAME YOU ARE LOOKING FOR INSIDE PARENTHESIS"...Press ENTER A list with the search term will appear. Click here or click on Refresh to view the most current version of this website ORSON PRATT BROWN WEBSITE HOMEPAGE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BIOGRAPHIES ... 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Chronology of Captain James Brown - Phebe Abbott Brown Fife 1831-1915 - Colonel William Nicol Fife - Stepfather 1831-1915 ORSON'S GRANDPARENTS - James Brown of Rowan County, N.C. 1757-1823 - Mary Williams of Rowan County, N.C. 1760-1832 - Stephen Joseph Abbott of, PA 1804-1843 - Abigail Smith of Williamson, N.Y. 1806-1889 - John Fife of Tulliallan, Scotland 1807-1874 - Mary Meek Nicol, Carseridge, Scotland 1809-1850  ORSON PRATT BROWN'S 5 WIVES - Martha "Mattie" Diana Romney Brown 1870-1943 - Jane "Jennie" Bodily Galbraith Brown 1879-1944 - Elizabeth Graham MacDonald Webb Brown 1874-1904 - Eliza Skousen Brown Abbott Burk 1882-1958 - Angela Maria Gavaldón Brown 1919-1967 ORSON PRATT BROWN'S 35 CHILDREN - (Martha) Carrie Brown (child) 1888-1890 - (Martha) Orson Pratt Brown, Jr. (child) 1890-1892 - (Martha) Ray Romney Brown 1892-1945 - (Martha) Clyde Romney Brown 1893-1948 - (Martha) Miles Romney Brown 1897-1974 - (Martha) Dewey B. Brown 1898-1954 - (Martha) Vera Brown Foster Liddell Ray 1901-1975 - (Martha) Anthony Morelos Brown 1904-1970 - (Martha) Phoebe Brown Chido Gardiner 1906-1973 - (Martha) Orson Juarez Brown 1908-1981 - (Jane) Ronald Galbraith Brown 1898-1969 - (Jane) Grant "Duke" Galbraith Brown 1899-1992 - (Jane) Martha Elizabeth Brown Leach Moore 1901-1972 - (Jane) Pratt Orson Galbraith Brown 1905-1960 - (Jane) William Galbraith Brown (child) 1905-1912 - (Jane) Thomas Patrick Porfirio Diaz Brown 1907-1978 - (Jane) Emma Jean Galbraith Brown Hamilton 1909-1980 - (Elizabeth) (New born female) Webb 1893-1893 - (Elizabeth) Elizabeth Webb Brown Jones 1895-1982 - (Elizabeth) Marguerite Webb Brown Shill 1897-1991 - (Elizabeth) Donald MacDonald Brown 1902-1971 - (Elizabeth) James Duncan Brown 1904-1943 - (Eliza) Gwen Skousen Brown Erickson Klein 1903-1991 - (Eliza) Anna Skousen Brown Petrie Encke 1905-2001 - (Eliza) Otis Pratt Skousen Brown 1907-1987 - (Eliza) Orson Erastus Skousen Brown (infant) 1909-1910 - (Eliza) Francisco Madera Skousen Brown 1911-1912 - (Eliza) Elizabeth Skousen Brown Howell 1914-1999 - (Angela) Silvestre Gustavo Brown 1919- - (Angela) Bertha Erma Elizabeth Brown 1922-1979 - (Angela) Pauly Gabaldón Brown 1924-1998 - (Angela) Aaron Aron Saul Brown 1925 - (Angela) Mary Angela Brown Hayden Green 1927 - (Angela) Heber Jedediah Brown (infant) 1936-1936 - (Angela) Martha Gabaldón Brown Gardner 1940 ORSON'S SIBLINGS from MOTHER PHEBE - Stephen Abbott Brown 1851-1853 - Phoebe Adelaide Brown Snyder 1855-1930 - Cynthia Abigail Fife Layton 1867-1943 - (New born female) Fife 1870-1870 - (Toddler female) Fife 1871-1872 ORSON'S 28 SIBLINGS from JAMES BROWN - (Martha Stephens) John Martin Brown 1824-1888 - (Martha Stephens) Alexander Brown 1826-1910 - (Martha Stephens) Jesse Stowell Brown 1828-1905 - (Martha Stephens) Nancy Brown Davis Sanford 1830-1895 - (Martha Stephens) Daniel Brown 1832-1864 - (Martha Stephens) James Moorhead Brown 1834-1924 - (Martha Stephens) William Brown 1836-1904 - (Martha Stephens) Benjamin Franklin Brown 1838-1863 - (Martha Stephens) Moroni Brown 1838-1916 - (Susan Foutz) Alma Foutz Brown (infant) 1842-1842 - (Esther Jones) August Brown (infant) 1843-1843 - (Esther Jones) Augusta Brown (infant) 1843-1843 - (Esther Jones) Amasa Lyman Brown (infant) 1845-1845 - (Esther Jones) Alice D. Brown Leech 1846-1865 - (Esther Jones) Esther Ellen Brown Dee 1849-1893 - (Sarah Steadwell) James Harvey Brown 1846-1912 - (Mary McRee) George David Black 1841-1913 - (Mary McRee) Mary Eliza Brown Critchlow1847-1903 - (Mary McRee) Margaret Brown 1849-1855 - (Mary McRee) Mary Brown Edwards Leonard 1852-1930 - (Mary McRee) Joseph Smith Brown 1856-1903 - (Mary McRee) Josephine Vilate Brown Newman 1858-1917 - (Phebe Abbott) Stephen Abbott Brown (child) 1851-1853 - (Phebe Abbott) Phoebe Adelaide Brown 1855-1930 - (Cecelia Cornu) Charles David Brown 1856-1926 - (Cecelia Cornu) James Fredrick Brown 1859-1923 - (Lavinia Mitchell) Sarah Brown c. 1857- - (Lavinia Mitchell) Augustus Hezekiah Brown c. 1859 ORSON'S 17 SIBLINGS from STEPFATHER FIFE - (Diane Davis) Sarah Jane Fife White 1855-1932 - (Diane Davis) William Wilson Fife 1857-1897 - (Diane Davis) Diana Fife Farr 1859-1904 - (Diane Davis) John Daniel Fife 1863-1944 - (Diane Davis) Walter Thompson Fife 1866-1827 - (Diane Davis) Agnes Ann "Aggie" Fife 1869-1891 - (Diane Davis ) Emma Fife (child) 1871-1874 - (Diane Davis) Robert Nicol Fife (infant) 1873-1874 - (Diane Davis) Barnard Fife (infant) 1881-1881 - (Cynthia Abbott) Mary Lucina Fife Hutchins 1868-1950 - (Cynthia Abbott) Child Fife (infant) 1869-1869 - (Cynthia Abbott) David Nicol Fife 1871-1924 - (Cynthia Abbott) Joseph Stephen Fife (child) 1873-1878 - (Cynthia Abbott) James Abbott Fife (infant) 1877-1878 ORSON PRATT BROWN'S IN-LAWS - (Diana) Caroline Lambourne 18461979 - (Diana)  Miles Park Romney 1843-1904 - (Jane) Emma Sarah Bodily 1858-1935 - (Jane) William Wilkie Galbraith 1838-1898 - (Elizabeth) Alexander F. Macdonald 1825-1903 - (Elizabeth) Elizabeth Atkinson 1841-1922 - (Eliza) Anne Kirstine Hansen 1845-1916 - (Eliza) James Niels Skousen 1828-1912 - (Angela) Maria Durán de Holguin 1876-1955 - (Angela) José Tomás Gabaldón 1874-1915 INDEX OF MORMON COLONIES IN MEXICO INDEX OF MORMON MEXICAN MISSION INDEX TO POLYGAMY IN UTAH, ARIZONA, MEXICO INDEX TO MEX. REVOLUTION & THE MORMON EXODUS INDEX OF SURNAMES MAPS OF THE MEXICAN COLONIES BROWN FAMILY MAYFLOWER CONNECTION 1620 BROWN's in AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775-1783 BROWN's in AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 BROWN's in WARS AFTER 1865 GO TO TOP OF PAGE Contact Us: Orson Pratt Brown Family Organization P.O. Box 980111 Park City, Utah 84098-0111 OrsonPrattBrown@gmail.com