See also

Family of Edward Thomas Johnson and Violet Emma Gillingham

  • Husband:

  • Edward Thomas Johnson (1895-1973)

  • Wife:

  • Violet Emma Gillingham (1904-1996)

  • Status:

  • Divorced

  • Marriage:

  • Q3 1927

  • St. Michael's Church, Church Street, Peasenhall, Suffolk, England1

  • Divorce:

  • 1938 (app)2

  •  

Husband: Edward Thomas Johnson

  • Name:

  • Edward Thomas Johnson1,3,4,5

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • thatcher's labourer then a small holder6,7

  • Birth:

  • 5 Aug 1895

  • Chelsworth, Suffolk, England3,5,6,7,8

  • Baptism:

  • 24 May 1896 (age 0)

  • All Saints Church, The Street, Chelsworth, Suffolk, England4

  •  

  • son of Walter Johnson (dealer) and Jane of Chelsworth

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 5)

  • Lindsey Road, Chelsworth, Suffolk, England8

  •  

  • son living with his parents Walter and Jane, sisters Annie, Bertha and Elsie, brother Martin and a relative David Elmer. Born in Chelsworth Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 15)

  • Rush Cottage, Lindsey Road, Chelsworth, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • unmarried son working as a thatchers labourer and living in four rooms with his parents Walter and Jane, brother Martin and sisters Elsie and Cissie. Born in Chelsworth

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 44)

  • Red House, Lindsey Tye, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • a married small holder and a disabled soldier living with his widowed mother Jane Johnson and his sister Cissie M Foster. Born on 5th August 1895

  • Death:

  • Q4 1973 (age 78)

  • Deben "Registration District", Suffolk, England5

Wife: Violet Emma Gillingham

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Violet Emma Gillingham

  • Name:

  • Violet Emma Gillingham1,9

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Albert Charles Gillingham (1866-1928)

  • Mother:

  • Rosetta Boulter (1865-1936)

  • Note:

  •  

  •  

  •  

  • Violet wrote her life story of which the first three pages are in her folder.

  • Birth:

  • 10 Aug 1904

  • Felixstowe, Suffolk, England9,10,11,12,13

  • Baptism:

  • 27 Nov 1904 (age 0)

  • St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Ferry Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England10

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 6)

  • 2 Brook Cottages, Brook Lane, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England11

  •  

  • daughter living in five rooms with her parents Albert and Rosetta, sisters Alice, Agnes, Doris, and Eddie, and brothers Arthur, Charles, Harry, George and Fred. Born in Felixstowe Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 35)

  • 36 Wood Green Estate, Aingers Green, Essex, England12

  •  

  • married doing unpaid domestic duties and living with her yet to be husband Edward. Born on 10th August 1904

  • Death:

  • Feb 1996 (age 91)

  • Colchester "Registration District", Essex, England13

Note on Husband: Edward Thomas Johnson

After divorcing Violet he married Rose V Green in Sudbury in 194214

Sources

1.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Blything 1927 quarter:3 volume:4a page:2881. Cit. Date: 2 June 2018.

2.

Harold Eric Wilkinson personal contribution.

3.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Cosford 1895 quarter:3 volume:4a page:777. Cit. Date: 10 April 2019.

4.

Suffolk Family History Society - Sudbury East Baptisms 1813-1904, (2015 SFK-BPI-04/P1 own copy). Chelsworth All Saints baptisms entry:647. Cit. Date: 10 April 2019.

5.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Deben 1973 quarter:4 volume:4b page:2718. Cit. Date: 10 April 2019.

6.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG14 piece:10571 class:RG78 piece:567 registration district:206 sub-district:1 enumeration district:4 schedule:20. Cit. Date: 10 April 2019.

7.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG101 piece:6668C page:5 line:24 letter code:TZCC. Cit. Date: 2 June 2018.

8.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG13 piece:1748 folio:42 page:4. Cit. Date: 10 April 2019.

9.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Woodbridge 1904 quarter:3 volume:4a page:1090. Cit. Date: 10 April 2019.

10.

Suffolk Records Office (Ipswich) - Parish Records. Suffolk Record Office (Ipswich), Suffolk Record Office, Gateacre Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

11.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG14 piece:10879 class:RG78 piece:587 registration district:214 sub-district:2 enumeration district:11 schedule:288. Cit. Date: 9 February 2017.

12.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG101 piece:1596E page:17 line:7 letter code:DDYB. Cit. Date: 10 April 2019.

13.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Colchester 1996 Feb district:4691A register:A66c entry:143 date:0296. Cit. Date: 10 April 2019.

14.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Sudbury 1942 quarter:2 volume:4a page:2915. Cit. Date: 10 April 2019.