Person Sheet


Name Robert L JOHNSON, 149
Birth 1821, Grindley
Death 1917, Leek area Age: 96
Death Memo IoD 3Q1917 Leek 6b254
Occupation 1851, 1861: farmer. 1881: retired. 1891, 1901, 1911: retired farmer.
Father Joseph JOHNSON, 1706 (~1781-)
Mother Abigail BENNETT, 3269 (1791-1841)
Spouses:
1 Sarah MEAKIN, GGG Aunt, 148
Birth 1828, Meir Staffs
Christen 8 6 1828, Longton
Christen Memo VRI(B&C)
Death 1890, Congleton area Age: 62
Death Memo IoD 2Q1890 Congleton 8a195
Father James MEAKIN, 93 (1807-1852)
Mother Fanny COLCLOUGH, 94 (1807-1855)
Marriage 9 9 1851, Hope Staffs60
Marriage Memo IoM 3Q1851 Stoke on Trent17/187 #27
Children: Henry James "Harry", 345 (1852-1931)
Elizabeth Sarah (No children), 1359 (1853-1873)
Frances, 597 (1855-1888)
Robert Lewis, 347 (1856-1909)
Annie Meakin, 596 (1857-1922)
Frederick George, 346 (1858-)
Martha Jane (Died as Child), 1360 (1860-1862)
Alfred, 348 (1862-)
Notes for Robert L JOHNSON
Meakin Family Tree260197. Scandal has it that he was the coachman of James Meakin (93) who eloped with his spouse, Sarah (148). Pauline's trees: forename. FRC101100: census 1881. Online161102: census1901. FRC301202: census1861. MC: occ1851. FRC241106Ancestry: census1851. Ancestry260114: census1911. Ancestry290114: census1891. Ancestry040214: IoD aged95.
Census
Census1841 995/17/50/5: aged15-19, ass son at Grindley parish of Stowe Drointon. Census1851 2009/397/12: aged29, unmar, son at Blakeley (??) Draycott le Moors, PofB Grindley. Census1861 1952/52/6: aged 39, at New Building Farm Draycott le Moors, occ. Census1881 3536/106/24: aged 59 assYofB1821, at Woodlands Church Lawton, PofB, occ. Census1891 2847/102/14: aged 69, wid, hd at Lawton Road Alsager, occ, PofB Grindley Stowe. Census1901 2575/33/12: aged 79, widower, at Rose Cottage Oulton (next Oulton Rocks), occ, PofB. Census1911 16644/362/11/3: aged 89, mar 60yrs (children 8,4,4), widower, father at Westwood Hall Leek w Henry James Johnson (345), occ, PofB Grindley.
Census Notes for Sarah (Spouse 1)
Census1841 1006/15/20/8: aged13, ass dau at Heron Wood Farm Draycott in the Moors. Census1851 2009/408/12: aged22, unmar, dau at Totmonslow Draycott le Moors, PofB "Mear". Census1861 1952/52/6: aged 32, wife at New Building Farm Draycott le Moors, PofB Meir. Census1881 3536/106/24: aged53, at Woodlands Church Lawton, PofB Meir.
Misc. Notes
Meakin Family Tree 200197: 1st of12. Scandal has it that she "ran off with the coachman": note from MC that no family member was witness and that, from IoB, Harry born within 6 months of marriage. FRC101100: census1881. FRC301202: census1861. FRC190304: VRI(B&C). 1837Online111106: census1841. Ancestry131206: census1851. Ancestry030119: IoD aged61.
Notes for Robert L & Sarah (Family)
FRC050304: VRI(M) cfm.
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