Elizabeth Brough

2024 Booklet about Richard Brough (1786-1873) and his Descendants--including Elizabeth Brough

     In 2024 the Brough Family Organization produced a 26-page all-color perfect-bound booklet about Richard Brough (1786-1873) and his Descendants, including his three children--Thomas Brough and Elizabeth Brough and Samuel Brough--who were "Mormon Pioneers" and early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  This publication is available HERE.

Elizabeth Brough and Samuel Cartlidge and Enoch Tipton and their Descendants (2021 book, 56 pages, PDF)

History of
Elizabeth Brough (1834-1896)
and her two Husbands:
Samuel Cartlidge and Enoch Tipton

by Lezlie Ann Anderson and John M. Brough, July 2004.  Updated by R. Clayton Brough, September 2021 

     Elizabeth Brough was born on 17 May 1834 to Richard Brough and Mary Horleston in Lane End, Longton, Staffordshire, England. She was christened on 1 June 1834 in St. John's Parish Church (of England), Lane End, Longton. In 1840, Elizabeth Brough's father, Richard Brough, had joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), and when Elizabeth was 13 years old she decided to join her father's new-found religion and became the first child of Richard Brough and Mary Horleston to join the LDS Church. Elizabeth was baptized into the LDS Church on 17 May 1847 in the LDS Longton Branch.

     On 25 January 1852, Elizabeth married Samuel Cartlidge in St. Peter, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (Samuel Cartlidge was christened in 1832 in Longton, Staffordshire). By 1856, she and Samuel, along with her older brother Thomas Brough and his wife Jean (Jane) Paterson and their two children, prepared to leave their native England to emigrate to America, where they wanted to join the rest of the LDS "Saints" in Utah.

     On 25 May 1856, Elizabeth Brough and Samuel Cartlidge, along with Thomas Brough and Jane and their two children, left on the ship Horizon, from Liverpool, England. The Horizon was commanded by a Captain Reid, and the "Mormon company" aboard this vessel was under the direction of Edward Martin. Aboard the Horizon there were 692 adults, 136 children and 26 infants, totaling 854 passengers. Thomas and Jane and their children-and possibly Elizabeth and Samuel-paid their own fares and were therefore booked as ordinary passengers, while the majority of the Mormon immigrants aboard were funded by the Perpetual Emigration Fund of the LDS Church. The ship Horizon reached Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, on 30 June 1856.

     Shortly after arriving in the northeastern United States, Thomas's money ran out, and he and Jane were forced to stop in Pennsylvania where Thomas then worked just long enough in the surrounding coal mines to obtain enough money to get him and his family to Madison County, Illinois. It is possible that Elizabeth and Samuel went with Thomas Brough and his family to Pennsylvania because Samuel Cartlidge and Thomas Brough were both described as "Coal Miners" in the 1860 Census.

     By the middle of 1857, Thomas and Jane Brough had settled in, Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois. There Thomas rented a farm, and for the next seven years, from 1857 to 1864, he grew corn and raised hogs and other farm animals. Also in 1857, Elizabeth and Samuel moved to Illinois, where their first child, Mary Jane, was born on 14 December 1857 in Bellville, St. Clair, Illinois. Unfortunately, Mary Jane's health was very poor and she died the following year, in 1858.

     In 1860, Elizabeth and Samuel Cartlidge were living in the same area of Illinois as was Thomas and Jane Brough. According to the 1860 Census, both families were living in Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois on 11 July 1860. Two months after the Census was taken, Elizabeth gave birth to their second child, Josephine Cartlidge, on 7 September 1860, in Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois. Unfortunately, in February 1861, Samuel deserted his wife and daughter and reportedly returned to England. On 9 February 1864, Elizabeth filed for divorce from Samuel Cartlidge.  (Note: There is no record of Samuel Cartlidge ever joining the LDS Church.)

     On 20 February 1864, Elizabeth married Enoch Tipton in Madison County, Illinois. (Enoch Tipton was born in 1835 in Asterley, Pontesbury, Shropshire, England, and baptized into the LDS Church in April 1854. Enoch and his brother, Elijah, and Elijah's wife Emma and their one-year old daughter, Sarah, came on the same ship "Horizon" as did Elizabeth Brough and Samuel Cartlidge. In 1860, Enoch Tipton was residing--along with his widowed mother, Sarah Tipton--in Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois. In fact, it appears from the 1860 Census report that Elizabeth Brough and Samuel Cartlidge, Thomas Brough and Jean (Jane) Paterson, and Enoch Tipton, all lived in close proximity to each other while they resided in Bethalto, Madison, Illinois. Also, Thomas Brough and Enoch Tipton were living "next door" to each other while residing in Bethalto.)

     Sometime between 1864 and 1867, Elizabeth and Enoch Tipton left Illinois for Utah. (Note: Thomas and Jane Brough made the three month trip to Utah between 15 June 1864 and 18 September 1864.)  They are considered as being Mormon Pioneers because they arrived in Utah prior to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.

     Elizabeth Brough and Enoch Tipton had their first child, Eva Nell, on 2 October 1867 in West Porterville, Utah. In 1871, Elizabeth's younger brother, Samuel Brough, had moved his wife (Elizabeth Bott) and family from Porterville to Randolph. During the summer, Samuel Brough was a farmer and brickmaker, but during the winter he went to Almy, Wyoming to work in the coal mines. Like Samuel Brough, Enoch Tipton may have also done something similar, for Enoch is listed in the 1870 Census as a "Farmer" and in the 1880 Census as a "Coal Miner." On 1 October 1872, Elizabeth gave birth to their second child, William Enoch, in Almy, Wyoming.

     In the mid 1870's, Elizabeth and Enoch were still residing in Randolph, where their third and last child, John Tipton, was born on 26 March 1875. Unfortunately, John died two days later on March 28.

     In the 1880 Census, Elizabeth and Enoch are listed as living in Kaysville, Utah--where Enoch probably assisted Thomas and Samuel Brough at the Brough Brick Yard located in east Kaysville. Also, the 1880 Census reports that their family then consisted of three children: Josephine (Cartlidge), Eva Nell and William Enoch.

     Enoch Tipton died on 21 June 1888. Elizabeth Brough Tipton died on 15 February 1896. They were both buried in the center of the Randolph City Cemetery.

     More research on the descendants of Elizabeth Brough and her descendants, along with the ancestors and relatives of her two husbands, is presently being conducted by John M. Brough and R. Clayton Brough of the Brough Family Organization (BFO).

Enoch Tipton and Elizabeth Brough were Mormon Pioneers!  See the Pioneer Database, 1847-1868.

2021 updated information:  The above 2012 memorial stone states that "In 1863, Elizabeth and Samuel divorced", that "...they [Elizabeth and Enoch] traveled by wagon train across the plains to Utah".  However, based on research in 2021, these statements should be corrected to read as follows: "In 1861, Elizabeth and Samuel separated", that "...they [Elizabeth and Enoch] traveled to Utah sometime between 1864 and 1867".