- Jane was born the second child of John McManagle and Elizabeth Blain. Jane gave the date and place of her birth as 16 February 1804, Glasgow, Scotland on various LDS Church records. However, the Glasgow records and also a thorough search of all parishes in all surrounding counties by a descendant, Devon Harvey, has found some birth records on the film #1553486 has expanded Jane’s birth place adding the town of Greenock, Glasgow, Scotland. The family is found in the Glasgow, Barony parish, starting in 1808, with the fourth through the ninth children being christen there. It is assumed that the parents with the first three children went to Glasgow around 1808, from Northern Ireland. Jane was very young at that point, and may not have remembered, nor been told. McMannigle is an Irish name found in the county of Donegal in early histories.
Greenock (Grianaig in Scottish Gaelic) is a large burgh and a burgh of Barony in the Inverclyde Council Area in western Scotland, forming part of a continuous urban area with Gourock to the west and Port Glasgow to the east. It lies on the south bank of the Clyde River at the "Tail of the Bank" where the River Clyde expands into the Firth of Clyde, and is in what was the county of Renfrewshire.
Taken from the “Historical Atlas of Canada”, the sailing vessel “Brock” left Greenock, Scotland on July 9, 1820, with seven families, all members of the Transatlantic Society. These families landed in Quebec and traveled up the river on overland to settle in Lanark County, Ontario (then known as Upper Canada). Included in the seven families were John McNangle and James Blair (possibly a brother or uncle of Elizabeth Blain). So we find that when Jane was sixteen years old, her family left their native land and immigrated with her family to the British Colony of Upper Canada (now Ontario).
It was there that Jane met and married Nathaniel Stoddard in 1824, at the age of twenty years. To this marriage four boys were born, Arvin Mitchell, John Rufus, Sheldon and Albert Leonard. Nathaniel died about 1834, leaving Jane a widow with four small sons to raise. Nathaniel was still alive in the assessment rolls for 1834, but the rolls for 1835, say Widow, Jane Stoddard, 5 males under 16, 1 female over 16, total of 6 persons. We don’t know who the extra male is.
On the 20th April 1835, Jane married Arza Judd in Brockville, Ontario, Canada. He was a farmer whose wife, had passed away leaving him with six living children, (the three youngest had died as infants.) So the combined family made a family of ten children.
Jane apparently changed the spelling of her last name to McMann, possibly to anglicize it.
In the book Zadok Knapp Judd--Soldier, Colonizer, Missionary to the Lamanites by Derrel Wesley Judd, page 1, the following information was found:
“Arza Judd, Jr. found another mother for his children. In 1836, he married the widow Jane McMann Stoddard, who had four boys by her previous marriage. . . . Jane McMann Stoddard Judd must have been a wonderful woman with great capacity for love, for she not only was mother to her own four boys but opened her heart to the children of Arza. “
In the fall of 1836, John E. Dodd and James Blaksley, missionaries of the Mormon Church, came to their home and in the fall of 1836, Arza, Jane and the older children joined the Church and were baptized. The Canadian settlements were only a day or two’s journey from Palmyra, New York, and Kirtland, Ohio, and several recent converts were eager to share their new religion with relatives north of the border.
In the Journal of Zadok Knapp Judd, he states that Jane was kind and good mother to his father’s children. Shortly after she came to the Judd home, she was cooking breakfast and Zadok, who was standing nearby, was given a nice cake. He stepped to the other side of the house where his father was and was asked, “who gave you that cake?” Her boys had always called her Aunt Jane and he, of course, used the same name. He answered, “Father, Aunt Jane gave it to me.” His father, with rather a stern voice said, “No that won’t do; you must call her mother. Mother gave you that cake.” That was reminder enough for me. He never called her Aunt Jane again.”
His journal also is listed as a source stating that in 1838/39, Jane gave birth to a baby boy whom they named Samuel, he did not live very long.
“Because so many people in that area had joined the Church and had sold their possessions and were counting on starting to Kirtland, Ohio, in the spring of 1838. Owing to troubles arising between some party and the government, our folks thought it best to start sooner, and so in February of 1838 three families of the Judd’s left.”
They had six ox teams and wagons with some other cattle. The snow was deep and it took them four or five days to reach the St Lawrence River. When they arrived at the river they had to find a man who would pilot them across the river because they wouldn’t let them cross without one. He said that the man gathered an armful of pine bows and as he scouted the river he would drop bows the way they were to travel and traveled they couldn’t be closer than four to five rods with their wagons. This was because they must go around the thin ice or holes in the ice. They traveled about 5 miles from the river and found a place where they stayed for the rest of the winter.
“In our temporary location we were reasonably comfortable for campers -- three families all in one room, with one big fireplace; our stock all turned into our landlord’s barnyard or corral, as we now call it; and fed with his stock.” Sunday was a day of rest and all things prepared on Saturday so they could observe the Sabbath. He said that Sunday School and meeting was a must to attend.
As soon as it was somewhat warm, they begin their journey to Kirtland and there were now thirty wagons in their Canadian party. It was mid-summer before they arrived. Here Arza had sent money ahead and had purchased a house and small farm. Most of the people had left Kirtland because of the mob and there threats against the saints. So their stay there was short and they moved on and went to a place called DeWitt, Missouri where they arrived late in the fall. This was a new place just being started by the saints.
Here they began to prepare for winter, the tall grass was plentiful and so they started gathering it for winter feed and because there was plenty of timber, logs were cut in preparation for building a home. The mobs begin to gather to run them out of the country and the Prophet Joseph Smith sent a group of men to help them and have them all move to Far West, Missouri. The trip took five days and when they arrived there were no houses available so they had to live in their wagons, tents and shelters we could make with poles and brush laid on them. Food was scarce and so they lived on corn meal and Missouri pumpkins. It was here that the Mormons were required to give up there weapons and many of the men were taken prisoners and Judd family moved in with another family on the prairie. They spent the rest of the winter here.
In the spring of 1839, as soon as the snow melted they left and crossed the Mississippi into Illinois and settled on a farm a few miles below Warsaw on the Mississippi River bottom. They said the fog was so bad in mornings they could hardly see but a short distant and it would stay until about nine or ten o’clock. It was a sickly place and after raising one crop he moved the family to the town of Warsaw.
As winter came, Arza Judd went to Nauvoo and there started to build a house. He got the logs from a little island opposite Nauvoo and cut the logs and brought them across the ice and to the lot where he started the house. He became ill and went home to his family and after three weeks of illness he died on
February 2, 1840, in Warsaw, Illinois.
Zadok stated that after his father died, his stepmother who was Jane Stoddard Judd, having buried her second husband, gathered her family around her and made the decision to move to Nauvoo and finish the house, which they did. In the summer of 1840, they raised a fair crop on the lot they had, but in the winter of 1841, it was written that many times all they had to eat was potatoes with salt on them. We find Jane in the Nauvoo First Ward with John Rufus, Sheldon and Albert all listed under the last name of Judd. (Arvin was not listed).
We have been unable to find what they did in Nauvoo and where any of them worked because in 1841, the three boys mentioned were fourteen, eleven and nine years of age. From the journal of step-son Zadok Judd: “While living poor and enduring hard times, mother took me with her boys to the Patriarch Joseph Smith Sr. to get patriarchal blessings. She could not pay for all, but we boys each received a blessing which was not recorded. I remember some things that were said to me.” This took place in 1841.
Zadok Judd worked for a man, that must of been a short distant from where they lived in Nauvoo, and he decided to go home but the man told him that he was not wanted at home and his mother said he was only a nuisance and he had better stay but he went home anyway. On arriving at home he went to the back of the house without being seen. One of the boys happen to see him and went in and told Mother. She came out to see what was wrong and when he told her his feelings, she said that she had said no such thing and gave him many words of comfort and showed herself to be kind and affectionate. Quote: “Mother, which she always was to me, soon made me happy.”
On the Nauvoo film #0183376, 1843-1845, is found under Early Church Records, Nauvoo Temple Baptisms for the Dead. Jane Judd is found in book D. pgs, 11, 104, 145 and 194. She has been baptized for the following people:
Blackmon, Elizabeth, relationship: adopted daughter, pg 11 (this is new
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