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THE ANCESTRY OF BORIS JOHNSON

1 Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

b 19 Jun 1964, New York

Parents

2 Stanley Patrick Johnson, member of the European Parliament

b 18 Aug 1940, Penzance, Cornwall

m 20 Jul 1963, Marylebone

3 Charlotte Offlow Fawcett, painter

b 29 May 1942, Oxford

d 13 Sep 2021, London

Grandparents

4 Osman Wilfred Kemal, later Wilfred Johnson, of Winsford, Somerset, farmer

b 4 Sep 1909, Bournemouth

d 9 May 1992, Somerset

m 3 Oct 1936, Bromley

5 Yvonne Eileen Irene Williams

b 7 May 1907, Versailles, France

d 23 Nov 1987, Somerset

6 Sir James Edmund Sandford Fawcett of London and Oxford, lawyer

b 16 Apr 1913, North Hagbourne, Berkshire

d 24 Jun 1991, Oxford

m 7 Aug 1937, St Peter, Regent Square, London

7 Frances Beatrice Lowe

b 27 Aug 1913, Oxford

d 27 Oct 2001, London

Great-grandparents

8 Ali Kemal, journalist and interior minister of the Ottoman Empire

b 7 Sep 1869, Istanbul, Turkey

d 6 Nov 1922, İzmit, Turkey

m 11 Sep 1903, Paddington

9 Winifred Emma Mary Brun

b 6 May 1883, Warwickshire

d 3 Oct 1909, Bournemouth

10 Stanley Fred Williams of Bromley, underwriter

b 12 Jul 1880, Upper Norwood

d 1 Nov 1955, Hayle, Cornwall

m 24 Jan 1906, Versailles

11 Marie-Louise Caroline Helene de Pfeffel

b 16 Aug 1882, Paris

d 29 Nov 1944, Carbis Bay, Cornwall

12 Joseph Fawcett, clergyman

b 22 Sep 1878, Brough, Westmorland

d 29 Jun 1950, Combe Raleigh, Devon

m 9 Apr 1912, Paris

13 Edith Annie Scattergood

b 20 Mar 1874, West Bromwich

d 22 Nov 1942, Hastings

14 Elias Avery Loew, later Lowe, of Oxford, palaeographer

b 15 Oct 1879, Moscow

d 8 Aug 1969, Bad Nauheim, Germany

m 8 Feb 1911, Bern, Switzerland

15 Helen Tracy Porter, translator

b 15 Jun 1876, Towanda, Pennsylvania

d 27 Apr 1963, Princeton, New Jersey

Great-great-grandparents

16 Ahmet Hamdi Kemal, beeswax merchant

b ca 1815, Kalfat, Anatolia

d

m

17 Hanife Feride

b

d

18 Franz Julius Brun of Bloomsbury and of Lucerne, Switzerland, butler

b 22 Sep 1856, Kriens, Switzerland

d 20 Mar 1935, Lucerne

m 10 Jun 1880, St George, Bloomsbury

19 Margaret Hannah Johnson

b 13 Jan 1856, East Witton, Yorkshire

d 1942

20 Frederick George Williams of Upper Norwood, warehouseman

b 16 May 1854, Bloomsbury

d 16 Feb 1938, Bromley

m 5 Mar 1878, St George, Bloomsbury

21 Blanche Annie Dannit

b 6 Mar 1859, Bermondsey

d 5 May 1941, Droitwich

22 Baron Hubert Théodore Marie Charles Chrétien de Pfeffel

b 8 Dec 1843, Munich, Bavaria

d 13 May 1922, Versailles

m 21 Oct 1881, Paris

23 Hélène Arnous de Rivière

b 14 Jan 1862, Paris

d 27 Apr 1951, Paris

24 William Fawcett of Brough, yeoman

bap 11 Feb 1839, Brough

d 5 Jan 1900, Brough

m 31 Oct 1864, Brough

25 Annis Clark

b 24 Nov 1840, Brough

d 5 Mar 1918, Brough

26 James Scattergood of West Bromwich, manager of iron works

b 27 Apr 1831, Burton upon Trent

d 26 Dec 1908, West Bromwich

m 10 Feb 1872, Duddeston

27 Mary Ann Stamps

b 27 Jul 1835, West Bromwich

d 19 May 1909, Clifton, Gloucestershire

28 Charles Loew of Moscow and New York, embroiderer

b 10 Oct 1858, Moscow

d 6 Jun 1905, New York

m ca 1878

29 Sarah Ragoler

b May 1858, Russia

d 12 Oct 1927, New York

30 Henry Clinton Porter of Towanda, druggist

b 1 Feb 1851, Towanda

d 7 Jun 1922, Towanda

m 12 Nov 1872, Elmira, New York

31 Clara Holcomb

b 30 Jul 1848, Towanda

d 8 Jun 1927, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

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Richard Carruthers-Zurowski, Some Ancestry of London's Mayor Boris Johnson

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Cercle Généalogique d’Alsace: Boris Johnson (1964), Maire de Londres (2008-2016), Secrétaire d’État

Friedrich Schmid, “Boris Johnson, ein Sechzehntel-Schweizer”, Zentralschweizerische Gesellschaft für Familienforschung Mitteilungsblatt, 54(Sep 2021):3-12

The Guardian, 13 Sep 2021

The Times, 22 Apr 1912, 18 May 1922, 11 Nov 1922, 17 Feb 1938, 22 Jul 1963, 1 Nov 2001

The Telegraph, 14 Sep 2021

Bromley & West Kent Mercury, 9 Oct 1936

The Globe, 11 May 1907

Hastings & St. Leonards Observer, 14 Aug 1937

The Manchester Courier, 2 Feb 1906

The Morning Chronicle, 19 May 1854

Penrith Observer, 9 Jan 1900

Birmingham Gazette, 29 Dec 1908

The Cambridgeshire Times, 12 Apr 1912

The Bradford Reporter (Towanda), 14 Nov 1872

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Stanley Johnson, Stanley I Presume (London, 2009)

National probate calendars

1939 register

Leamington Spa parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

St Anne, Duddeston, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

GRO Consular Marriages (1849-1965) (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

1861 census returns, Darlington (National Archives, RG 9/3679, fol. 120)

1881 census returns, West Bromwich (National Archives, RG 11/2852, fol. 95)

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NB88-PYH)

Monumental inscription at West Bromwich

U.S., Consular Reports of Marriages, 1910-1949 (online at www.ancestry.com)

Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968 (online at www.ancestry.com)

New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948 (online at www.ancestry.com)

U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925 (online at www.ancestry.com)