James Hall Johnson

Family Background:

Son of George and Nellie Edith Johnson (nee Hall); husband of Irene Burrow Johnson (nee Garrick), of Wetheral. Parents were married in 1914.  The 1921 Census shows James living with his widowed mother and her brother, a school teacher at St Stephen’s School, Carlisle. Later in 1921 Nellie married Andrew Lorimer.

Nellie was a tailoress before marriage in the tailoring department of the Co op. Her father (Isaac) was a Foreman Currier (leather trade). The family was from Scotby, Carlisle. 

George was one of 9 children and the family lived in Dearham. He was an Undermanager, Furnishings before enlisting in the First World War in December 1915. Private Johnson (Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment) died of wounds 24th October 1916, aged 26. He is buried on the Somme at Varennes Cemetery outside Albert.

On the 1939 Register James was living with Mum at Newcastle Street, Carlisle. Second husband, Andrew Lorimer died in 1929 aged 43.

James married Irene in 1941. Irene was also from Wetheral and had worked as a typist. She appears to have been raised by her grandparents, William and Eliza Burrow, at The Nook, Wetheral. Her grandfather was a tailor. Irene married again in 1947 (Alec Wilson) and lived until 1988.