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Maj. Walter Johnson[1, 2]

Manager, Iron Works & Construction
Male 1842 - 1915  (72 years)


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  • Name Walter Johnson 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Born 9 Aug 1842  West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3] 
    Christened 11 Sep 1842  West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Education Between Apr 1856 and 1861  Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4] 
    Census 1861  Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Education 1861  Trinity College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Degree 1864  Trinity College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 6] 
    Residence 1871  Ladbroke Grove, Kensington & Chelsea, London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1881  Rounton Grange, East Rounton, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Census 1891  Rounton Grange, East Rounton, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Residence 1892  Rounton Grange, East Rounton, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Census 1901  Rounton Grange, East Rounton, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Occupation Manager, Iron Works & Construction 
    Residence Abt 1905  Arncliffe Hall, Northallerton, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 9 Feb 1915  Redcar, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Siblings 1 Sibling 
     1. Isabella Anne Johnson
              b. 20 Dec 1843, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 25 May 1923, London, County of London, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
     
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2021 

    Father Rev. Walter Rankin Johnson
              b. 11 Jul 1787
              d. 27 Oct 1844, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years) 
    Mother Louisa Stephens
              b. Abt Jan 1818, Dinedor, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 18 Aug 1885, Kensington & Chelsea, London Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 67 years) 
    Married 2 Dec 1840  Dilwyn, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13] 

    Wife Margaret Florence Bell
              b. 14 Sep 1847, Longbenton, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 27 Mar 1930  (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage Banns 6 Aug 1871  St John's, Notting Hill Gate, Kensington & Chelsea, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Married 10 Aug 1871  Chester le Street, County Durham, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 15] 
    Age at Marriage He was 29, she was 23  
    Children 
     1. Lieut. Col. Walter Lyulph Johnson
              b. 15 Jul 1872, Washington Hall, Washington, County Durham, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 24 Oct 1938, Ingleby Arncliffe, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     2. Ivor Lowthian Johnson
              b. 31 Jul 1873, Llandaff, South Glamorgan, Wales, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 16 Oct 1946, Nunthorpe, Middlesborough, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     3. Dorothea Margaret Johnson
              b. 1 Dec 1874, Halsey, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1953  (Age 78 years)
     4. Phyllis Mary Johnson
              b. Between Apr 1877 and Jun 1877, Redcar, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1949  (Age ~ 71 years)
     5. Florence Phoebe Johnson
              b. Apr 1879, Stokesley, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1938, Hatfield Peverel, Essex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 58 years)
     6. Phillip Hugh Johnson
              b. Mar 1885
              d. 12 Feb 1886  (Age ~ 0 years)
     7. Margaret Philippa Johnson
              b. 6 Apr 1887, Northallerton, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 10 May 1959  (Age 72 years)
    Last Modified 10 Feb 2019 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Walter Johnson was born on the 9th of August 1842 in West Wycombe, the first born and only son of Walter Rankin Johnson and Louisa Stephens. His younger sister Isabella Anne was born a year later in December 1843. His father died shortly after, in 1844.

      Walter went to Rugby School aged 14 in April 1856 and was there until 1861. Subsequently he went up to Trinity College in Oxford on the 4th June 1861; he obtained a BA in 1864 (see Alumni Oxonienses in the Sources list).

      Career
      After university, Walter obtained a commission in the Royal Scots Greys1 in October 1866. He was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1870 and retired by the sale of his commission on the 6th January 1872.

      By 1881, census returns show his occupation as an Iron Merchant (apparently in Middlesborough, according to Grace's Guide). Seeing as he married the daughter of a famous Victorian ironmaster in 1871, it seems likely that he was either persuaded to leave the army to more lucrative pursuits, or got fed up with the army and used his father-in-law to help him find an alternative career. Some years later he joined the Board of Bell Bros (the company started by his father-in-law), with which he was associated for 40 years. He was also a director of Messrs. Dorman, Long & Co., Ltd. He was for many years (1906-1912) chairman of the Middlesbrough Chamber of Commerce, and was a warm supporter of the volunteer movement, having been for some time in command of the two Middlesbrough Companies of the Durham Light Infantry, from which he retired with the rank of Major.

      He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1907 and was a member of the New University Club in London.

      Family Life
      Walter Johnson married Margaret Florence Bell, daughter of Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, in 1871 in Chester le Street. At the time he was still a Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys. They had seven children, six of whom survived to adulthood:
      1. Walter Lyulph, born 1872 and who married Alice Hilda Lupton.
      2. Ivor Lowthian, born 1873; a barrister, but also worked in the iron industry like his father and brother; he married twice, firstly Alice Palgrave Walford, secondly Mary Aileen Courage. From Ivor descend the US Johnsons, Andersons and Livelys, as well as possibly the Saviles.
      3. Dorothea Margaret, born 1874 married Harald [sic] Raylton Dixon and from them descend the modern-day Dixons and Whitwells
      4. Phyllis Mary, born 1877 and a spinster
      5. Florence Phoebe, born 1879 and who married William Astell Kaye
      6. Phillip Hugh, born 1885 but died in 1886 as an infant
      7. Margaret Philippa, born 1887 and who married Christopher York Pease and from whom descend the modern-day Selby Smiths of Australia

      Death
      Walter Johnson died on the 9th of February 1915 whilst visiting his daughter Dorothea (by then married to Harald Raylton Dixon and living in Redcar).

      Footnotes
      [1] The Royal Scots Greys full name was The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons)

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 9 Aug 1842 - West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristened - 11 Sep 1842 - West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEducation - Between Apr 1856 and 1861 - Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1861 - Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEducation - Matriculation - 1861 - Trinity College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDegree - 1864 - Trinity College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 10 Aug 1871 - Chester le Street, County Durham, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1881 - Rounton Grange, East Rounton, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1891 - Rounton Grange, East Rounton, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1892 - Rounton Grange, East Rounton, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1901 - Rounton Grange, East Rounton, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Abt 1905 - Arncliffe Hall, Northallerton, Hambleton, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 9 Feb 1915 - Redcar, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
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  • Histories
    Johnsons History    		Johnsons History
    A quick overview of my Johnson family of Yorkshire (originally of London)
    Brief family sketches    		Brief family sketches
    Quick summaries of the families of my 2x great grandparents.

  • Sources 
    1. [S0022] Facebook - Hutton Rudby Choral Society, Malcolm McPhie, (https://www.facebook.com/pg/Hutton-Rudby-Choral-Dramatic-Society-History-362375943845710/photos/?tab=album&album_id=936419166441382), Multiple.

    2. [S0056] Armorial Families (7th Edition), Arthur Charles Fox Davies, Johnson; Volume 2, page 1056.

    3. [S0307] England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Walter Johnson;(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5J3-F8V : 11 February 2018, Walter Johnson, 09 Aug 1842); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 919,260., 11 Sep 1842.

    4. [S0086] Rugby School Register (Volume 2; 1842-1874), Rev AT Mitchell, (Published 1902, printed by AJ Lawrence), II / p150 (p171 acr).

    5. [S0310] England and Wales Census, 1861, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Johnson; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7GM-MNC : 24 October 2019), Walker Johnson in household of Elizabeth Cooper, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1861 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findm, 1861.

    6. [S0127] Alumni Oxonienses, 1715-1886, Joseph Foster, (Parker & Co.), Page 758.

    7. [S0312] England and Wales Census, 1881, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Walter Johnson; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27B-G97N : 12 December 2017), Walter Johnson, East Rounton, Yorkshire,Yorkshire North Riding, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http:/, 1881.

    8. [S0319] England and Wales Census, 1891, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Walter Johnson; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7T9R-8N2 : 7 May 2019), Walter Johnson in household of Lowthian Bell, Sir, East Rounton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and image, 1891.

    9. [S0048] Oxford Men And Their Colleges (1880-1892), Edited by Joseph Foster, (James Parker & Co., 1893), https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Oxford_men_and_their_colleges.djvu/704.

    10. [S0303] England and Wales Census, 1901, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Walter Johnson; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSSZ-V8F : 21 May 2019), Walter Johnson in household of Lowthian Bell, East Rounton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, f, 1901.

    11. [S0037] Grace's Guide, (www.gracesguide.co.uk), https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Walter_Johnson.

    12. [S0309] England Marriages, 1538–1973, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Johnson / Stephens; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJGG-FPR : 10 February 2018), Walter Rankin Johnson and Louisa Stephens, 1840; citing Dilwyn, Hereford, England, reference 2:39MTPZQ, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical S, 1840.

    13. [S0335] British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Johnson / Stephens; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLS7-1PMH : 19 April 2019), Walter Johnson, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing United Kingdom, 9 Dec 1840, The British Newspaper Arc, 9 Dec 1840.

    14. [S0191] London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Walter Johnson / Margaret Florence Bell; London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: p84/jn/039, 6 Aug 1871.

    15. [S0126] England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Volume 10a, Page 593, 1871.