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Birth: Jul. 29, 1824 Canterbury Kent, England Death: Feb. 10, 1890 Georgetown Kane County Utah, USA

Daughter of John Murch and Margaret Dora Simms.

Married Robert Charles Pinney, 1842, Exeter, Devonshire, England. He died in 1854 while coming to Utah.

Children - Marian Pinney, Matilda Pinney, Richard Charles Pinney.

Married John Hopwood Bleazard, 17 Jan 1855, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, later divorced.

Son - Thomas Murch Bleazard (Pinney).

Married Lewis Ogier Hardy, 12 Mar 1857.

Married Peter Shirts, 16 Nov 1859, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.

Matilda helped raise Peter's children. She had moved to Washington, Utah by 1862.

Pioneer Information: Two members of the Pinney family died in 1854, either in Missouri or possibly en route to Utah, including the father, Robert Charles Pinney and a daughter Marian Pinney. Their exact dates of death are not known. Matilda remarried in Utah in January 1855, proving that the family traveled to Utah in 1854.

From court records: Thomas Murch Blazzard was married and he was 36 years old when he testified in Court in the 1890s. At the time of the court proceedings he was living in Garfield County, Utah. Thomas was born on the last day of October in 1855 in Salt Lake City.

Thomas said that since his birth he had lived with "my brother most of the time", half brother H. C. Pinney (Charles Pinney). Thomas said his mother had also been living with him prior to her death. His mother, Matilda, died in Georgetown Yellow Creek, in Kane County, Utah.

According to Thomas, after his mother and John divorced, his mother moved to "Panguitch." Thomas said his mother told him at any early age that John Hopwood Blazzard was his father. He said that he had gone by the name of Thomas Blazzard sometimes, but was known as Thomas Pinney most of the time, and by at least age 21 his name was Thomas Pinney.

Thomas said his mother did not tell him when John Hopwood Blazzard died, and that he believed he was about 14 years old when his mother told him about his death.

Thomas said that he first heard about the will and the estate left by John H. Blazzard in October 1890. He said that he regarded the Plaintiffs in the Court action (Blazzards and Mariam) as his half brothers and sisters. He said he didn't know the Defendants personally, but he said he understood that they were his half brothers and sister.

Matilda Murch Penney

Mormon Trail Overland Travel, 1854

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Spouses:

• John Hopwood Bleazard (1803 - 1871)
• Lewis Ogier Hardy (1803 - 1895)
• Peter Shirts (1808 - 1882)*

Children:

• Richard Charles Pinney (1845 - 1929)*
• Thomas Murch Bleazard (1855 - 1900)*

Burial: Georgetown Cemetery Cannonville Garfield County Utah, USA --------------------

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868

Pinney, Matilda Murch

Birth Date: 29 July 1824 Death Date: 13 Feb. 1889 Gender: Female Age: 30 Company: Unidentified Companies (1854)

Pioneer Information: Two members of the Pinney family died in 1854, either in Missouri or possibly en route to Utah, including the father, Robert Charles Pinney and a daughter Marian Pinney. Unfortunately their exact dates of death are not know. Matilda remarried in Utah in January 1855, proving that the family traveled to Utah in 1854. Further research is needed to determine the name of the company they traveled with.

SOURCE: http://lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneerdetails/1,15791,4018-1-50789,00.html