• 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: 35

Sources

• 1870 Utah Census.
• 1900 Utah Census.
• Denmark, Baptisms, 1618-1923.
• "Denmark Marriages, 1635-1916."
• 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, 1820-1891.
• Parish Register of Vrejlev, Hjorring, Denmark.
• Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.