Johnson Harling

Brief Life History of Johnson

When Johnson Harling was born in 1841, in Todmorden, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Leonard Johnson Harling, was 36 and his mother, Martha Farrar Butterworth, was 43. He married Alice Towler on 20 July 1864, in Burnley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Habergham Eaves, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 7 June 1919, in Burnley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 78, and was buried in Burnley (Corporation) Cemetery, Burnley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.

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Family Time Line

Johnson Harling
1841–1919
Alice Towler
1841–
Marriage: 20 July 1864
John Leonard Harling
1865–1934
Sarah Jane Harling
1868–
Daniel Harling
1870–1958
Ellen Harling
1874–1937
Hannah Harling
1874–1937
Ada Harling
1877–1878
Alice Harling
1881–1886
Elizabeth Ann Harling
1884–1947

Sources (18)

  • Johnson Harling in household of Leonard Harling, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
  • Johnson Harling, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
  • Johnson Harling, "Find a Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842

The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

1863 · Lendal Bridge Opened

The Lendal Bridge was opened in 1863, after a previous failed attempt at building it Thomas Page was brought in to design it. It is an iron bridge styled with the gothic style popular in England. When it was first opened, it was a toll bridge but in 1894, it accepted it’s last toll.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from Harling in Norfolk. The placename means ‘(settlement of) the people of Herela’, from an Old English personal name Herela + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas.

English: variant of Harlin .

North German: habitational name from any of several places so named, from a derivative of an ancient Germanic personal name with the first element hari, heri ‘army’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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