Author Topic: Trying to find John Johnson and Ellen Standing help please  (Read 785 times)

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Re: Trying to find John Johnson and Ellen Standing help please
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 17 June 18 22:21 BST (UK) »
This might be interesting?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X49Q-QDP

Note John is not 7, it says "service"

Ellen lists herself as widow

(Polly is a diminutive name for Mary)

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Re: Trying to find John Johnson and Ellen Standing help please
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 17 June 18 22:47 BST (UK) »
Yes I had just found that! She certainly isn’t a widow because John is boarding with another family and he states he has been married for 21 years and had two children and one had died. And I saw the “son” John said service and not 7. I don’t think this couple liked each other very much!

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Re: Trying to find John Johnson and Ellen Standing help please
« Reply #11 on: Monday 18 June 18 07:42 BST (UK) »
Looks like young 'John'  ::)
JOHNSON, RALPH       mmn STANDING     
1894  March Quarter in CHORLEY  Volume 08E  Page 522
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Re: Trying to find John Johnson and Ellen Standing help please
« Reply #12 on: Monday 18 June 18 11:50 BST (UK) »
No Ralph dies the following year. I think young John is some cover for old John. I have now found Ellen Standing on the 1901 census. She is with her mother who had remarried so is now Mary Bentham. This is even though her real husband escaped to Yorkshire. Ellen states she is a widow in 1901.