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This is a famous Anglo-Scottish patronymic surname of medieval origins. Recorded in the spellings of Jonson, Johnson, Joinson, Joynson and the incredibly popular Jones, although this is always treated as a separate surname, all derive from John. John is itself from the Hebrew name "Yochanan", meaning "God has favoured me (with a son)". This baptismal name with significant religious interest, has always enjoyed enormous popularity in Europe throughout the Christian Era, and was particularly associated with the famous Crusades to the Holy Land in the 12th century. In early British records John was usually Latinized as "Johannes", and in the Old French spellings of Johan, Jehan and Jean. By the beginning of the 14th Century, John rivalled William in popularity as a first name, which is rather surprising considering that King John of England (1199- 1216) may well rank as the nation's most unpopular monarch. Be that as it may John remains even in the 20th century an enduringly popular first name, along with its female versions of Joan and Jean. Amongst the very earliest of all surname recordings are those of Wautier Jonessone, in the charters known as the "Calendar of Documents", which relate to the government of Scotland in 1296, whilst William Johnson and Robert Johanson were recorded in the 1379 Poll Tax rolls of Yorkshire. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John Jonessone, which was dated 1287, in the register known as the "Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds", for the county of Surrey, during the reign of King Edward 1st, 1272 - 1307.
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Hubert Augustus Johnson |
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Hubert Augustus Johnson was m born to Robert Johnson about 1873 and died around 1943 in Dry Harbour, St. Ann, Jamaica. Hubert's mother is unknown. Hubert had at least nine children. Two with Susan Cunningham and seven with his wife Edith Maud Soares whom he married in Rio Bueno, Trelawny, Jamaica on December 28, 1898.
Hubert Augustus Johnson and Edith Maud Soares had four children between 1892-1897; Reuban, Edwin Luther and Rachel Elizabeth and an unnamed son, none of which survived to their first birthday. They then had three more children:
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Enos Nathaniel Johnson
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Enos Johnson was born to Hubert and Susan Tracey Cunningham January 26, 1889 in Thickets, Dry Harbour, St. Ann, Jamaica. Susan Cunningham was the sister of Cecelia Cunningham who married Amos Soares who became the brother-in-law of my Great Grandfather Hubert Johnson. Susan later married Charles Septimus Harrison.
On June 1, 1916 Enos was deported from Havana, Cuba on a ship called ''Mexico'' and arrived in New York June 5th in his way to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Unfortunately upon arriving in Canada, he was refused entry. The ship manifest for the ''Mexico'' identifies Enos as a carpenter and that he was ling at Hotel Cuba in Havana. Enos returned to Jamaica and as per a 1917 Gleaner newspaper notice, he was living in New York. CHARLOTTE AGATHA JOHNSON
Susan and Hubert also had a daughter Charlotte born on May 8, 1895 also in Thickets.
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Gleaner Newspaper Jamaica, September 8, 1917
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Jane Johnson
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Jane Johnson was born about 1899. She had two children:
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Eva Lucretia Johnson
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Eva Lucretia Johnson was born 19 February 1901 in Rio Bueno, Trelawny, Jamaica W.I.
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Ardel Fedelia Johnson
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Luna Victoria Cleghorne
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Ardel Fedelia Johnson
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Ardel Fedelia Johnson my grandmother was born 16 February 1903 in Rio Bueno, Trewlany, Jamaica, W.I. At age 20 she had a daughter named Luna Victoria Cleghorne in Rio Bueno and three years later she had another daughter, also a Cleghorne. I have not been able to confirm information regarding their father.
On March 19, 1933 Ardel married Edward Nathaniel Stewart in St. Ann, Jamaica . She was an excellent seamstress and sewed most of her children's clothes. After Edward's death Ardel moved to Montreal, Canada to live with her second son and his family. She later moved to New York and in her later years moved back to Jamaica. She died 18 September 1989 in Dry Harbour, Jamaica, W.I. For more on Ardel & Edward's descendants see the Stewart page. |
Birth registration for Ardel Fedelia Johnson