Author Topic: Absolom Johnson of Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, 1829-1857  (Read 1840 times)

Offline Jim Heathman

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Re: Absolom Johnson of Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, 1829-1857
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 08 August 24 22:50 BST (UK) »
Mary Ann Johnson Norcross was my g-grandmother.  Her parents were Absolom Johnson and Jane Stitt.  Their children were Mary Ann (Dolly), Ellen (Nellie) who married Jacob Elwood, and James E. Johnson.  Absolom Johnson and his brother William married sisters.  William Johnson and Mary Stitt helped raise Absolom's children.  Dolly was with another Stitt sister Eliza and husband Thomas Snowden in the 1860 census.  William and Mary also had a child named Absolom born in 1857 just months after brother Absolom died. The child Absolom Johnson died in 1862.  When the Stitt family (Elizabeth and her children) came to America, their surname was recorded as Still in The Famine Immigrants 1846-1851, and Jane's surname was recorded as Gaman.  Thank you for providing her marriage date and identification as Gorman.  Who were Absolom's and William's father and mother(s) in England? 

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Re: Absolom Johnson of Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, 1829-1857
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 17 October 24 16:00 BST (UK) »
Hi Jim
Sorry, only just seen your post.
Thanks for filling in Absolom's and William's later life.
Absolom and William were two of seven children of William Johnson and Elizabeth Harvey, baptised in Hartford, Wyton and Houghton in Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire).
My great-grandfather Edward was the youngest and moved to London to have his family.
I have family for Elizabeth Harvey but I have not had any luck at all with William senior as he does not appear in any census with his family and I cannot find a death for him.
Helen