Frederic John Johnson

  General Notes:

According to his daughter, Lena, he managed East Farm in Affpuddle following the death of his father-in-law in 1903. East Farm, which was acquired by James Frampton I in 1736, remained in the Frampton Estate until 1914, when it was part of a sale of part of the Estate to Ernest Debenham for £49,500.

Frederic evidently moved to Swanage following the sale, for the death records of his sons who died in WWI indicate such.

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Born at Corfe Castle (I have birth certificate).
Education: 1870 - Mr Stockley, Clapham Road, London. 1871 - Rev Gill, Heathfield House, Parkstone, Poole. ???? - Mr Winter, Neuvilly, Paris.
Residence: 1893 - Manor View, Hendford, Yeovil (£25/annum). 1893 - York Villa, Lingston, Yeovil (£35/annum). 1895 / 1902 Bishops Caundle (organist 1899 / 1902). ???? East Farm, Affpuddle. ???? Foston Grange, Dorchester. 1914 / 1918 - Ivanhoe, Swanage. 1941 - Flat 2, Glenair, Parkstone Road, Poole.
Occupation: apprentice to Mrs Parminter, draper, High Street, Dorchester. Mr Badcock, draper, Lymington. Lance & Co., ironmonger, Wareham. A & A Drew, ironmonger, Wareham. Venables, drapers, Oldgate, London. 1881 / 1883 - Tarn & Co., Newington. 7 Apr 1884 - R & R Williams, bankers, Weymouth. May 1889 - R & R Williams, Dorchester. Jul 1893 - R & R Williams, Yeovil. 1895 / 1914 - farmer.

Misc: initiated into the Masons, Oct 1891. Kept a diary between 1896 & 1898: given by Lena Bateman to Dan Gilchrist of NZ in 1979.

1881 Census (at Winfrith Newburgh with his sister, Clara Kent): Frederic J. Johnson (20, unmarried, visitor, draper, b. Corfe Castle). RG11/2102/102.

1891 Census (at Fern Bank, Fordington, Dorchester): Frederic (29, bank clerk, lodger). [1653/62/33].

1901 census at Caundle St, Bishops Caundle (possibly next door to a pub): Frederic J Johnson (40, head, M, farmer, b. Corfe Castle), Kate (35, b. Langton Matravers), Lena M (6, dau, b. Yeovil), John F (5, b. Yeovil), Alec C (2, b. Yeovil), Alfred A (1, b. Caundle Bishop), William A (1m, b. Caundle Bishop) plus 2 domestic servants.

Was Organist at Bishops Caundle, 1899 - 1903 approx.

1911 Census: Frederic John (49) in Dorchester.

FJ Johnson of Flat 2, Glenair Avenue, Parkstone died at Highfield Nursing Home, 129 Longfleet Road, Poole. Probate granted to his widow on 19 Mar 1942, valued at £128 1s ^53,116,117

  Events

• Census, 1871, Corfe Castle, Dorset, England. ¹¹⁸ Market Place, Corfe Castle

• Probate: to Frederick John Johnson and William James Spicer, Farmers, 28 Sep 1903, London, Middlesex, England. ⁸⁰ Effects: £4330 11s. 1d. (in the neighborhood of a half a million US dollars)
In the final division accounting, £3006 was divided between four of the beneficiaries with £751 10s each to Alice, Maude, Will and Henry. That final accounting is dated Sept 1, 1903.

• Census, 1881, Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset, England. ¹¹⁹

• Census, 1901, Bishop's Caundle, Dorset, UK. ¹⁰¹ Farmer - Employer. Two servants, a domestic and a cook.

• Church: Appointed Churchwarden, 25 Apr 1905, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ¹²⁰ William Shirley vicar.

• Census, 1911, Charminster, Dorset, England. ¹⁰³ Forston Grange, Dorchester postal address. Fourteen room house with one general servant. Lena is not on this census.

• residence: 2 Glenair Ave, 1939, Poole, Dorset, England. ¹⁰²

• Probate: to Kate Johnson, widow, 19 Mar 1942, Landudne, England. Effects: £128 1 s. 1d.

• Death: Highfield Nursing Home: Poole, Dorset, England. ¹⁰⁴

Frederic married Kate Spicer, daughter of Henry Spicer and Kitty Branston, 10 Oct 1893 in Affpuddle, Dorset, England. (Kate Spicer was born 4 Aug 1866 in Langton Matravers, Dorset, England, christened 12 Sep 1866 in Langton Matravers, Dorset, England,^89,99 died 21 Feb 1957 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England ⁵⁶ and was buried 26 Feb 1957 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England.)