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William Augustus Johnson

1777–1864

Army officer. Son of the Rev. Robert Augustus Johnson, a member of the Lunar Society. Of Witham Hall, Lincolnshire. Married Lucy Foster of Dowsby, Lincolnshire, in 1835.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/2095/530/1)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 June 2021)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 June 2021)

England, select marriages, 1538–1973 (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 June 2021)

Uglow 2002, p. 478

Bibliography

Uglow, Jenny. 2002. The lunar men: the friends who made the future, 1730–1810. London: Faber and Faber.

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