Johnson Family History
- Johnson Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: patronymic from the personal name John. As an American family name, Johnson has absorbed patronymics and many other derivatives of this name in continental European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 42,937,614 Historical Documents with Johnson on Ancestry
- 16,595,252 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,578,847 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,884,073 Military Records
- 1,088,906 Immigration Records
- 13,790,536 Member Trees
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Number of Johnson families
 8,588 - 17,173  2,863 - 8,587 |
 1 - 2,862  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Johnson families
|
1,402 - 2,802 468 - 1,401 |
1 - 467 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Johnson census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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