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We
devote
five
pages
to
this
family,
descended
from
George
Johnson
and
Sarah
Batchelor,
which
was
long
established
in
the
Stepney/St
George
in
the
East
area
of
London.
It
was
connected
over
several
generations
to
the
tobacco
cutting
and
rolling
trade.
They
had
links
by
marriage to the
Chapple
and
Parris
families.
The
Oxford
Dictionary
of
Family
names
describe
it
as
a
relationship
name
from
the
personal
John
and
the
patronymic
-son.
It’s
not
the
easiest
name
to
research
as
several
Johnson
families
lived
in
this
area
during
the
latter
half
of
the
19th
century.
We
cannot
find
any
common
ancestor.
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Steve and Pauline Jones’ Family History
If you don’t know where you came from,
you won’t know where you are going.
You have to study your history. Gil Scott-Heron
The Johnson Family of Stepney, London
Stepney was described in 1868 as
“A
parish
and
populous
district
of
the
metropolis,
in
the
Tower
division
of
Ossulstone
hundred,
and
borough
of
the
Tower
Hamlets,
county
Middlesex,
2½
miles
E.
of
St.
Paul's
Cathedral.
It
is
a
junction
station
on
the
North
London,
the
Blackwall,
and
Great
Eastern
railways;
it
lies
chiefly
between
the
Commercial-road
and
the
Great
Eastern
railway,
and
includes
the
populous
districts
of
Mile-End,
New
and
Old
Town,
and
part
of
Ratcliffe”.
The
parish
included
the
hamlets
of
Mile
End
Old
Town,
Mile
End
New
Town,
Ratcliff,
Whitechapel,
Wapping,
Bow,
Shadwell,
Spitalfields,
Bethnal Green, Limehouse and Poplar.
More about the riverside hamlet of Ratcliff
Steve & Pauline Jones’ Family History
If you don’t know where you
came from,you won’t know where you
are going.You have to study your history.
Gil Scott-Heron
© S M Jones
Content is free for most uses - see legal stuff. Last update 23 May 2020
The Johnson Family of Stepney, London
We
devote
five
pages
to
this
family,
descended
from
George
Johnson
and
Sarah
Batchelor,
which
was
long
established
in
the
Stepney/St
George
in
the
East
area
of
London.
It
was
connected
over
several
generations
to
the
tobacco
cutting
and
rolling
trade.
They
had
links
by
marriage
to
the
Chapple
and
Parris
families.
The
Oxford
Dictionary
of
Family
names
describe
it
as
a
relationship
name
from
the
personal
John
and
the
patronymic
-son.
It’s
not
the
easiest
name
to
research
as
several
Johnson
families
lived
in
this
area
during
the
latter
half
of
the
19th
century.
We
cannot
find
any
common
ancestor.
If
you
have
a
connection
to
any
in
dividual
or
family
featured
here,
or
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