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Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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Louisa Stephens

Female Abt 1818 - 1885  (~ 67 years)

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  • Name Louisa Stephens 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Female 
    Birth Abt Jan 1818  Dinedor, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Christening 20 Jan 1818  Dinedor, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Census 1841  West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Census 1851  Marylebone, Westminster, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Census 1861  Kensington & Chelsea, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Census 1871  Clifton, Bristol, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Census 1881  Kensington & Chelsea, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Count of Marriages 2 
    Death 18 Aug 1885  Kensington & Chelsea, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2021 

    Father Joseph Stephens
              b. Abt Apr 1778, Herefordshire, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 14 Feb 1837, Dilwyn, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 58 years) 
    Mother Susannah Beaumont
              b. 1785  
              d. 8 Jul 1844, Dilwyn, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years) 
    Marriage 1 May 1806  Onibury, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 

    Husband 1 Rev. Walter Rankin Johnson
              b. 11 Jul 1787  
              d. 27 Oct 1844, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years)  [12, 13] 
    Marriage 2 Dec 1840  Dilwyn, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13] 
    Age at Marriage Louisa was 22 years old - Walter was 53 years old. 
    Children 
     1. Maj. Walter Johnson
              b. 9 Aug 1842, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 9 Feb 1915, Redcar, Yorkshire North Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
     2. Isabella Anne Johnson
              b. 20 Dec 1843, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 25 May 1923, London, County of London, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Last Modified 29 Apr 2018 

    Husband 2 Phillip Smith Coxe
              b. Between 1754 and 1833  
              d. Between 1861 and 1871 (Age ~ 107 years) 
    Marriage 1849 
    Age at Marriage Louisa was ~ 30 years old - Phillip was ~ 95 years old. 
    Children 
     1. Fanny Coxe
              b. 1850, Marylebone, Westminster, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Between 1871 and 1949 (Age 21 years)
     2. Mary Coxe
              b. Abt 1852, London Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Between 1871 and 1951 (Age ~ 19 years)
     3. Phillip H Coxe
              b. Abt 1855, London Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Between 1881 and 1954 (Age ~ 26 years)
    Last Modified 10 Sep 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Louisa Stephens was probably born in January 1818 - her baptism was on the 25th of January of that year (though some records give the 20th instead. Her parents were Joseph Stephens and Susannah Beaumont.

      Family Life
      Louisa married first Walter Rankin Johnson, a vicar in the Buckinghamshire town of West Wycombe, on the 2nd of December 1840, at her home town of Dilwyn, Herefordshire. She would have been 22 at the time, whereas Walter was 53, making this quite an unconventional marriage.

      With Walter she had two children:

      1. Walter, born 1842, who married Margaret Florence Bell
      2. Isabelle Anne Johnson, born 1843, who did not marry

      Louisa's husband Walter died in 1844, just a year after the birth of Isabelle and only four years after their marriage. Louisa subsequently remarried a few years later (1849), to Phillip Smith Coxe and with him had three children:

      1. Fanny, born 1850
      2. Mary, born c. 1852
      3. Phillip, born c. 1855

      Death
      Louisa died on the 18th of August 1885, aged 67.

      In her will, Louisa makes no gifts to her children Walter and Isabella Johnson (children from her first marriage to Walter Rankin). This evidently caused some guilt, or perhaps raised an enquiry from those children, as she added the following as a codicil to her will1:
      I declare that I have not excluded my dear children Walter and Isabella from my Will or Codicil from any want of affection on my part but because I consider they are already provided for.


      Footnotes
      [1] Stephens, Louisa (Will)

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt Jan 1818 - Dinedor, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristening - 20 Jan 1818 - Dinedor, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 2 Dec 1840 - Dilwyn, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1841 - West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1851 - Marylebone, Westminster, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1861 - Kensington & Chelsea, London Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1871 - Clifton, Bristol, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1881 - Kensington & Chelsea, London Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 18 Aug 1885 - Kensington & Chelsea, London Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0058] Unknown, Anatpro.com, Louisa Stephens http://www.anatpro.com/index_files/f1.htm#f198.

    2. [S0121] Ancestry, England, Select Births & Christenings 1538-1975, (ancestry.com), 20 Jan 1818, Louisa Stephens; FHL Film Number: 992146.

    3. [S0307] FamilySearch, England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, (familysearch.org), 20 Jan 1818, Loisa Stephens; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKHQ-PPX : 23 March 2020), Loisa Stephens, 1818.

    4. [S0328] FamilySearch, England and Wales Census, 1841, (familysearch.org), 1841, Walter Rankin Johnson; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7Q2-GF6 : 28 May 2019), Rev Walter R Johnson, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http:.

    5. [S0311] FamilySearch, England and Wales Census, 1851, (familysearch.org), 1851, Louisa Cox; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGND-5FS : 9 November 2019), Louisa Cox in household of Philip Smith Cox, St Marylebone, Middlesex, England; citing St Marylebone, Middlesex, England, p. 31, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wale.

    6. [S0310] FamilySearch, England and Wales Census, 1861, (familysearch.org), 1861, Philip H Coxe; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7KC-MZB : 28 February 2020), Philip H Coxe in household of Philip S Cave, City of London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom; from "1861 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and imag.

    7. [S0333] FamilySearch, England and Wales Census, 1871, (familysearch.org), 1871, Louisa Coxe; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5RZ-4NL : 28 September 2019), Louisa Coxe, 1871.

    8. [S0139] Ancestry, 1881 England Census, (ancestry.co.uk), Class: RG11; Piece: 30; Folio: 85; Page: 1; GSU roll: 1341007.

    9. [S0312] FamilySearch, England and Wales Census, 1881, (familysearch.org), 1881, Louisa Coxe; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27S-1PMJ : 10 December 2017), Louisa Coxe, Kensington, London,Middlesex, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.

    10. [S0047] Winters Online, http://winters-online.net/MerH/g1/p3.htm#i141.

    11. [S0356] FamilySearch, England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898, (familysearch.org), 1 May 1806, Joseph Stephens / Susanna Beaumont; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W4BN-YR2M : 2 November 2019), Susanna Beaumont in entry for Joseph Stephens, 1806.

    12. [S0309] FamilySearch, England Marriages, 1538–1973, (familysearch.org), 1840, Johnson / Stephens; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJGG-FPR : 10 February 2018), Walter Rankin Johnson and Louisa Stephens, 1840; citing Dilwyn, Hereford, England, reference 2:39MTPZQ, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical S.

    13. [S0335] FamilySearch, British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices, (familysearch.org), 9 Dec 1840, Johnson / Stephens; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLS7-1PMH : 19 April 2019), Walter Johnson, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing United Kingdom, 9 Dec 1840, The British Newspaper Arc.