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- The following provided by Allan W. , owner of a business, based in Wales, selling British medals (apparently, he hired a researcher to find out about Henry Johnson): "HENRY CHARLES ROSS JOHNSON. born on 4th August 1830, the son of Alfred Johnson of Highgate Hill (London) educated at Highgate school until 1842. He entered the legal profession, and became a Barrister of the Inner Temple, London. He moved to India and lived at 1 Elysium Road, Calcutta, and had chambers at 1 Esplanade Row. He is shown in the Agra Fort Directory of 27th July 1857 as a Government Timber Contractor (A nice sideline for a lawyer?) He was a member of the Volunteer Militia Infantry, taking his part in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, taking part in the Battle of Agra on 5th July 1857. India must have taken its toll, as he died at Mysore on 16th April 1881 aged 50. (He was awarded the Indian Mutiny medal* without clasp.)" *"Indian Mutiny Medal: sanctioned by General Order No. 363 dated 18 Aug 1858 and No. 733 of 1859, to the troops engaged against the mutineers. General Order No.171 of 1868 (note lapse of time) extended award to all persons who had borne arms or had been under fire. The latter order may account for the large number of these medals, the last of the Honourable East India Company's, to be found without bars from the total of 290,000 awarded. Bars were awarded for Delhi, Defence of Lucknow, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow and Central India. Soldiers and sailors (the Naval Brigade) got bars, civilians generally did not...."
1830 - Entered Highgate School 4 Aug - Henry Charles Ross Johnson son of Alfred Johnson of Left
Highgate Hill. Left August 1842. [Highgate School Roll]
1841 census, Middlesex Highgate Hill, Southampton Villa: Henry Johnson, 10, not born in county; with parents, siblings
1842 - Aug - Left Highgate School.
1858 - 1st marriage in India to Louisa Sophia (Willson) Faithful, widow
1859 - 2nd marriage in England to Anne Dennis
1861 - appeared on Law List (Counsel), qualified 18 Nov 1861, per 1862 book.
1868 - same list had him on home circuit East and West Kent, Dover, Canterbury, Maidstone,
Rochester & Gravesend sessions.
1870 - 30 March, appears on passenger list, SS Java, Liverpool to NY: Henry Chas. Ross Johnson, 40, Male, Barrister; country to which he belonged -England; country of which he intended to become an inhabitant - USA (NARA Film M237, Reel 325, List 211).
1874 - licence to marry in South Africa to Maria Johanna Cornelia Restall
1878 - 26 Jan, son Lionel born Telicherry, Hyderabad, Madras, India
1879 - 12 Sep, daughter Violet born San Thome-Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
1881 - Burials at Mercara, Mysore and Ootacamund: "1881 - when died, April 16th - Henry Charles Ross-Johnson - 50 years - Mysore - Barrister=at=Law - when buried, 1881 April 16th - Drowned accidentally - by whom buried, W. Scott B.A. Chaplain" (G.S.521,869).
Searched Madras Probate Records, 1879-1882 - no will or letters of administration (G.S.506,916). Letters of administration were issued to Maria Ross-Johnson of Fir Grove, East York Road, Bournemouth, Southampton, "the lawful widow and relict", on 10 May 1883.
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