Click here for other prime ministers.

 

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 ca 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 1872, Warwickshire

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 ca 1873

31 Clara Holcomb

   b 30 Jul 1848, Towanda

   d 8 Jun 1927, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

 

 

Sources

 

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

Philippe Burlet, Rolf Eilers and Christian Wolff, “À Propos de Gottlieb Conrad Pfeffel (1736-1809)”, Bulletin du Cercle Généalogique d'Alsace, 182(Jun 2013):99-107

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

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)

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)