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Ellen Briggs Douglas Parker

7 November 1806—25 February 1888

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society

See “Douglas Parker, Ellen Briggs.”

1 Born at Downham, Lancashire, England; daughter of Isabella (Bella) Briggs. 2 Married first George Douglas, 1827; eight children. 3 Lived at Clitheroe, Lancashire. 4 Baptized in England, 1838. 5 Immigrated to the United States and settled at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1842. 6 Widowed, 1842. 7 Married second John Parker Jr., 1846; two children. 8 Lived at St. Louis, 1846–1852. 9 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1852; settled at Salt Lake City. 10 Contributed to the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward album quilt, 1857. 11 Appointed to settle in southern Utah Territory, 1862; settled at Virgin, Washington County, Utah Territory. 12 Served as president of the Virgin Ward Relief Society. 13 Died at Virgin. 14 (See Document 1.11, 2.3)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Ellen Douglass,” Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–2011 (closed to research), CHL. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: Dec. 10, 1845, to Feb. 8, 1846, p. 192 (1846), FHL microfilm 962798, item 1, FHL. Nauvoo Temple Sealings and Adoptions of the Living and Index, 1846–1857, FHL microfilm 183374, FHL. “Deaths,” Deseret News [weekly], Mar. 14, 1888, 16. Her cemetery headstone incorrectly lists her birth date as November 17, 1806.

  2. 2 “Ellen Douglass,” Patriarchal Blessings. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, p. 192 (1846). “Lancashire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812,” parish register of Downham, St. Leonard, Lancashire, England, baptisms, Dec. 7, 1806, Ellen Briggs, reference no. PR 3188/1/3; database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); citing Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers, Lancashire Archives, Preston, England. In the parish register entry for her christening, Ellen is noted as illegitimate and her mother’s name is listed as Bella Briggs. In the Nauvoo patriarchal blessings register, Ellen lists her mother’s name as Isabella Briggs and no father’s name is recorded.

  3. 3 “Lancashire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754–1936,” Downham, Lancashire, England, banns, Sept. 1, 1827, George Douglas and Ellen Briggs; database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); citing Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers, Lancashire Archives, Preston, England.

  4. 4 1841 England census, Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, book 2, p. 8, Ellen Douglas; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); citing Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841, PRO HO 107, National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey, England.

  5. 5 “Deaths,” 16. William R. Palmer, ed., “Memoirs of Alice Parker Isom,” Utah Historical Quarterly 10 (1942): 55.

  6. 6 “Deaths,” 16. Palmer, “Memoirs of Alice Parker Isom,” 55.

  7. 7 “Deaths,” 16. Palmer, “Memoirs of Alice Parker Isom,” 55. “Family Tree,” database, George Douglass L5XZ-H6B.

  8. 8 “Deaths,” 16. Palmer, “Memoirs of Alice Parker Isom,” 55. “Family Tree,” database, Ellen Briggs LZL8-RG6 and John Parker Jr. K2Q6-NPG.

  9. 9 “Deaths,” 16. Palmer, “Memoirs of Alice Parker Isom,” 55–56. Sheri Eardley Slaughter, “‘Meet Me in St. Louie’: An Index of Early Latter-day Saints Associated with St. Louis, Missouri,” Nauvoo Journal 10, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 89.

  10. 10 Palmer, “Memoirs of Alice Parker Isom,” 56. “Ellen Briggs Parker,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Apr. 2014. 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 14, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 199, Helen Parker; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Aug. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313.

  11. 11 Carol Holindrake Nielson, The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 1857: Stories of the Relief Society Women and Their Quilt (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004), 134–137.

  12. 12 “Deaths,” 16. Palmer, “Memoirs of Alice Parker Isom,” 59. 1870 U.S. census, Virgin, Kane Co., Utah Territory, p. 459B, Hellen Parker; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Aug. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 13314.

  13. 13 Palmer, “Memoirs of Alice Parker Isom,” 62.

  14. 14 “Deaths,” 16. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Apr. 2014), memorial no. 5799706, Ellen Douglas Briggs Parker; Virgin Cemetery, Virgin, UT. Douglas’s daughter Alice gives her death date as February 24, 1888. (See Palmer, “Memoirs of Alice Parker Isom,” 67.)