• The family sailed to America in 1859 on the ship William Tapscott.  The family consisted of: father, Lars, mother: Maren, and children: Johanna Marie,  Johanne, Maren, Martine and Mauritz. 

  The ship manifest shows their surname as "Mauritzen."

Robert F. Neslen Company (1859)

• Age at Departure: 6

Sources

• 1880 Utah Census.
• 1930 Utah Census.
• 1940 Utah Census.
• Denmark, Baptisms, 1618-1923.
• European Mission, [Emigration records, Scandinavian Mission] 1852-1920.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Miles, Johanne Kristine (Jane), [Reminiscences], in Carrie Mouritsen Jones and Jerald Olean Seelos, comp. and ed., The Mourits Mouritsen Family [1982], 432.
• New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957.
• Utah Death Certificates.