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the Johnson and Dearl
families
Second
Generation (great grandparents)
William
Johnson (1864- )
Born
16 May 1864 at Towersey, In Buckinghamshire.
His father was George Johnson, farm labourer and his mother Eliza
Johnson, formerly Chapman of Towersey. (source Birth
Certificate)
William
Johnson married Norah Williams on 26 Feb 1894 at the Parish Church Thame,
Oxfordshire. At time of his marriage, William Johnson was a labourer,
(father George Johnson, bricklayer of Thame), he married Norah Williams, widow
nee O’Shaughnessy of Thame (father John O’Shaughnessy, occ Tailor).
Witnesses were C Rust and Elizabeth Horland (source
Marriage Certificate)
[find
death after 1920]
Norah
(Nora) Williams (nee O’Shaunessy)
Born
Wexford in Ireland in about 1860, father John O’Shaughnessy, Tailor.
Her first marriage was to … Williams and they had a son John, born in
Warwick in about 1888.
[find birth and death]
In
1901 census,
the Johnson family lived at 6 Caroline Terrace, St Clement, Oxford [RG13/1380
f77]:
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William
Johnson, age 35, Bricklayers Labourer, born in Oxon Towersea (now spelt
Towersey)
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Norah
Johnson, age 41 born Ireland
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John
Williams, (son of Norah Johnson) age 13, printers apprentice, born Warwick
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William
Johnson, age 6, born Thame
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Nellie
Johnson, age 6, born Thame
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George
Johnson, age 3, born Thame
In
the 1920s the family was living in High Street, New Headington, Oxford
Norah Johnson pictured with (back)
Nellie and William, seated George and either Nora or Ethel, probably about
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Children
Of William and Norah Johnson:
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twins
William and Nellie Johnson (born 21 dec 1894 at Thame), [1895
mar thame 3a, 83]
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George
Johnson,
born about 1898 [?1897 dec thame 3a, 857]
– He was a Petty Officer in the Marines in WWI. Soon after his
brother William moved to Wales, George followed and also worked at
Duffryn Yard as a fireman. He
married Edith Pitt from Bargoed and they had three children –
Vincent (died in infancy), Kenny (who lived in Castle Street most of
his life, married Monica and had three children Patricia, Kevin and
Bernadette) and Gordon.
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Nora
Johnson,
(a Nora Johnson was born [1906 dec headington
3a, 1026] married … Rowles and had a son Billy
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Ethel
Johnson
(an Ethel Johnson was born [1903 mar,
Headington 3a, 992] lived in Rose Hill in Oxford |
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Thomas
Dearl(e)
He
must have been born before 1877 – we think in Clontarf, near Dublin.
He married
Annie before 1895
and they lived in Brian Boru Street in Clontarf.
Tom
Dearl was a merchant seaman and fought in WW1, (try
National Archives at Kew) when he was gassed.
He died in about 1934 in Ireland. [find
death]
Annie
…
Born
before 1877 in Ireland
and died
about 1948 in Clontarf
Clontarf
Castle Cemetery
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Tom
and Annie Dearl’s children:
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Kathleen,
born about 1895 in Clontarf
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Tom
(ran a Nursing Home with his brother Dickie at 23 Baggott St near
the Hospital), Tom was a Sergeant Major in the British Army in the
Medical Corps during WWI and after the war he married Jessie in
Dublin and they ran the Nursing Home – but she ran off with
another man so he had to give up the Nursing Home.
He became a private nurse for the owner of McAlpine Ltd.
He died in about 1960 in Aberavon and his funeral was at St
Joseph’s Catholic Church.
[find death]
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Christopher
(ran a Spa in Dollymount Road, Dublin)
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Richard
(Dickie), married May. They
had a baby born with a tubucular growth on his spine and tragically,
the whole family died of TB |
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Maria,
married Robert Pryce in Dublin and they had four children: Robert
(Bobby), Richard, Mary and Elizabeth
(Lily) (who died aged 15 or 16)
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Johnnie,
was Chief Caddie Master at Malahide Road Golf Course in Dublin and
lived in a cottage in the grounds |
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Dickie
and May’s wedding in October 1937 (with Tom and Annie, aged 17) |
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Robert
and Maria Pryce (standing right with Harry behind them), their sons
Richard and Bobby Pryce (standing centre) and daughters May and Lily
(standing front) |
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