James Johnson

[Tessa Spencer]

I'm looking for the marriage of James Johnson, b.1845 Wellington, New Zealand to Caroline Unknown.
They had 3 daughters - Ellen Beatrice Johnson (whose additional surname on her marriage certificate was Bull??), b.1871, Lilian b.1877 and Alice b.1880. All 3 girls born in Wandsworth.
I can't find the family in 1891 but Ellen married Richard Lane in 1892 from 80 North St, Clapham, father James Johnson, gas fitter.
I can't positively identify a death for Caroline or James, and can't find Lilian and Alicce after 1881.
Can anyone help?

[wivenhoe]

St Pauls Southwark 2 Sep 1870 marriage
BULL William James Johnson, full age, bachelor, cordwainer, res St Pauls,
father William James BULL, cordwainer

DRABWELL Caroline, full age, spinster, father James DRABWELL, tailor
witnesses Thomas Charles BAXTER, Mary Ann HUGGINS

St Pauls Southwark birth 12 Oct 1871 christening 22 Sep 1872
Ellen Beatrice, parents William James Johnson BULL, cordwainer, 14 Webber St, and Caroline

[rosie99]

Possible death for Caroline 
December qtr 1888 
Caroline Johnson
age 39   
Wandsworth reg district    1d   430

[Tessa Spencer]

Many thanks for the information. I've now got to work out why the family dropped the surname Bull and went with Johnson of subsequent censuses!!

[avm228]

They are Johnson as newlyweds in 1871 as well - James's widowed father William Johnson (shoemaker, 61 b Hull) also with them.

RG10/710/46/7.

Address is 17 Stimpson's Cottages.  I see they were at 6 Stimpson's Cottages in 1881.

[avm228]

1851 census for Chatham, Kent:

William Johnson Head Mar 41 Chelsea Pensioner Yorkshire Hull
Eliza do Wife Mar 26 Ireland
James do Son 7 Scholar New Zealand

1861 census for St Pancras:

Wm Johnson Head Mar 50 Chelsea Pensioner Yorksh. Hull
Maud do Wife Mar 30 Ireland
Jas do Son 17 Shoemaker New Zealand Wellington

[avm228]

Selected Wandsworth registrations:

Ellen Beatrice BULL, birth Dec qtr 1871

William Johnson BULL, birth Mar qtr 1876: death aged 0 in Jun qtr 1876, buried Wandsworth aged 4 months

Lilian Johnson BULL, birth Dec qtr 1877 (baptised as Lilian JOHNSON, 28 Aug 1881)

Alice BULL, birth Jun qtr 1879 (baptised as Alice JOHNSON, 28 Aug 1881).

[josey]

More about Lilian & Alice's baptisms on same day 28 Aug 1881 St Anne's Wandsworth; baptised same day Lilian said to be born 9 Nov 1877, Alice 28 April 1878  must be 1879. Father James William Johnson now a lamplighter, mother Caroline and still at 6 Stimpson's Buildings. So occupation of father had changed between 1872 Ellen's baptism & 1881.

I found a newspaper report in 1878 that A William Bull had been threatened by a William Vaughan as William Bull, lamp manufacturer of 447 Strand - had previously been a witness against Vaughan in a Wandsworth Court. A name change may have been to escape further threats??. Edited as we  now know James was Johnson in 1878.

[josey]

1851 census for Chatham, Kent:

William Johnson Head Mar 41 Chelsea Pensioner Yorkshire Hull
Eliza do Wife Mar 26 Ireland
James do Son 7 Scholar New Zealand

1861 census for St Pancras:

Wm Johnson Head Mar 50 Chelsea Pensioner Yorksh. Hull
Maud do Wife Mar 30 Ireland
Jas do Son 17 Shoemaker New Zealand Wellington

So it was the William James Johnson Bull which were the additions to James' name between 1861 & 1871, not dumped after 1871..