Person:William Griffin (17)

OCCUPATION: farmer

!BIRTH: GS #465281 Flyford Flavel Par. Worc., England LDS Membership Records, Clarkston Ward, Clarkston, Utah GS#025607

!MARRIAGE: Certified Copy of Marriage

!MARRIAGE #2: Endowment House Sealings GS #183398

!DEATH: Clarkston, Ut. City Cemetery GS#176054 Flyford Flavel Par. Reg., Worcs., Engl. GS #465281

!BAPTISM: GS #25607 Clarkston, Utah Ward Records p.17 Temple Index Bureau William was baptized by E. L. Smith in England.

!ENDOWMENT: Temple Index Bureau

!SEALING (wife-husb.): IGI (Int. Geographic Index) Endowment House Sealings GS #183396

!SEALING (wife-husb.) #2: Endowment House Sealings GS #183398 (time only)

!SEALING (child-parent): IGI (Int. Geographic Index) GS #455037 Logan Temple Sealing of Children to Parent Archive Sheet

PEDIGREE CONNECTION: 25607 p.17 Clarkston Ward Record, William lists his parents as John Griffin & Fanny Barnes 183398 p.433 EH Sealings gives his birthplace as Flyret Favilla, Worcs., Engl.

   John and Fanny Griffin owned 82 acres of farm land in Flyford Flavel.  Flyford Flavel is a small parish in the center of Worcestershire, England.
   William married Mary Pitts, who lived in Inkberrow, just a few miles from his home.  She was also a convert to the L.D.S. Church.  After their marriage they moved to a small farming community two miles from Flyford Flavel, called Naunton Beauchamp, where William worked as a farm laborer.  Here seven children were born to them.  The family lived there at Naunton Beauchamp as members of the L.D.S. Church from about 1840 until 1866.
    Theophenia and John came to America in about 1861.  William Jr. came two years later and the rest of the family came about 1866.
    In 1866 William Griffin and his wife, Mary, and family members Caroline, Walter and Thomas left England for the trip to Zion. (The other children had all come over in years before). On April 30, 1866 they sailed from Liverpool, England on the ship "John Bright".  There were about 747 saints on board under the direction of C. M. Gillet.  The company landed at Castle Garden in the New York harbor on June 6.  They traveled by way of New Haven, Connecticut; Montreal, Canada; Detroit, Michigan; Chicago and Quincy, Illinois; and  St. Joseph Missouri by cars, and then by steamboat up the Missouri River to Council Bluffs, Iowa.  Here they joined the L.D.S. emigrating company for the trip across the plains.
   Upon arriving in Utah, they made their home in Clarkston, a small town near the northern border of Utah (Cache county).
   William Griffin married Eliza Penelope Thompson Coucher, a widow, on May 19, 1873.  This was a plural marriage.  Her first husband, William Coucher, had died and left her a widow with three small children.

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1. ↑ Microfilm.

   GS film #465281 Flyford Flavel Par. Worc., England

2. ↑ Microfilm.

   LDS Membership Records, Clarkston Ward, Clarkston, Utah GS#025607

3. ↑ Valeen Bitter, ""Our Griffiths, Clark, Griffin Thompson Lines"," ; a book, ((sc)address for private use(/sc)),
   she believes the birth is 16 Sep 1816 - no source cited.
4. ↑ International Genealogical Index - Online.

   Batch #C041211; film #0465281 for Flyford Flavell Parish.

5. ↑ Family records.

   kept by Valeen Bitter of Bountiful, Utah.