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Title: Finding death age for Joseph Fenton Johnson died 28 Aug 1916 New Jersey
Post by: tillypeg on Saturday 13 January 18 15:58 GMT (UK)
There is an entry in the England & Wales National Probate Calendar:  Joseph Fenton Johnson of 4 Station Square Rutherford Bergen New Jersey died 28 August 1916 Administration (with Will limited) London 26 June to Wyndham Theodore Vint Solicitor the attorney of Mary Agneta Johnson. Effects £256 11s 3d.

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, King's County, New York, Lot 24970, Section 201.

I do not know how to find out his age at death.  Green-Wood Cemetery offer research but at $30 an hour.

I am hoping this is the same person who was born in 1847, son of Thomas & Elizabeth Johnson, in Chorlton, Lancashire, England, and who married Sophia Richards in 1883 in Ontario, Canada.

Looking at the solicitor mentioned: From London Gazette 4 Jan 1924: Dissolving of partnership.  Charles John Vint, Frank Herbert Hill, Henry Killick & Wyndham Theodore Vint in partnership called Vint, Hill & Killick, Solicitors, Bradford, to be carried on in same name but without Henry Killick.

It seems hopeful as Ardwick, where JFJ was brought up, is about 40 miles from Bradford.
Title: Re: Finding death age for Joseph Fenton Johnson died 28 Aug 1916 New Jersey
Post by: hanes teulu on Saturday 13 January 18 16:07 GMT (UK)
1910 Census
Address 4 Station Square, Rutherford, Ward 1, Bergen, New Jersey

Joseph F Johnson, age 76
Mary A Johnson, age 72
Title: Re: Finding death age for Joseph Fenton Johnson died 28 Aug 1916 New Jersey
Post by: tillypeg on Saturday 13 January 18 16:16 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that hanes teulu, not the age I was hoping for!  Does the census entry state country of birth, please?

Makes things more complicated in some ways as there is a marriage 2 Nov 1876 Manhattan for Joseph Fenton Johnson age 43 and Susan Maria Angell 37.  If JFJ wasn't English, why appoint a solicitor in Bradford to administer his Will?

The plot thickens....
Title: Re: Finding death age for Joseph Fenton Johnson died 28 Aug 1916 New Jersey
Post by: *Sandra* on Saturday 13 January 18 16:26 GMT (UK)
He was a book - keeper born in England. Here is the link to the image (you need to be signed into family search to view it - but that's free anyway)
Marriage 1 for Joseph - Imm 1867 - NA - - Marriage 2 for Mary - Had 3 children and 2 survive

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRKH-JP7?i=68&cc=1727033

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding death age for Joseph Fenton Johnson died 28 Aug 1916 New Jersey
Post by: *Sandra* on Saturday 13 January 18 16:30 GMT (UK)
Mary Agneta Johnson - 7 April 1922  - FIND A GRAVE

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152701064

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding death age for Joseph Fenton Johnson died 28 Aug 1916 New Jersey
Post by: tillypeg on Saturday 13 January 18 20:56 GMT (UK)
Many thanks for those links Sandra, I forget about FamilySearch having the censuses. 

Oh well, back to the drawing board tomorrow.....