{"id":7842,"date":"2019-02-24T15:35:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T23:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=7842"},"modified":"2019-02-24T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T00:38:30","slug":"the-mysterious-lucille-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/the-mysterious-lucille-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"The mysterious Lucille Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As part of my New Year’s resolution to organize all of my family history materials, I’ve been going through and organizing boxes upon boxes of miscellaneous material I’ve been given over the years by family members to preserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This particular photo was one of two photo postcards that were mixed in with relatively recent photos from the 1980s and 1990s. I suppose that the person who gave them to me had a photo drawer and just put these much older photos in with everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, the photos were labeled by my grandmother, Harriet Eva (Askew) Prettyman and were apparently originally given to her mother, Gertrude (Scott) Askew. One of the photos was labeled “Loraine McCrea,” and as I have several photos of Loraine, I recognized her as Loraine. No mystery there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Loraine McCrea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The other photo was identified (by Harriet) as “Lucille Johnson,” a name I had never encountered before. Furthermore, Harriet had noted that Lucille was a cousin of her mother Gert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Lucille Johnson”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I was grateful for her clarification of the identity of the person in the photo, as I might otherwise have thought this was supposed to be a photo of Gert (Scott) Askew as a young woman\u2014even though it did not look much like her. I have only two photos of Gert as a young woman\u2014one of which is below (Gert is the young woman and the little girl is her youngest sister Eva, who is 10 years younger than Gert).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gert Scott and her little sister Eva Scott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had no “Lucille Johnson” in my genealogical database. I’m pretty complete with my genealogical database, recording the names of cousins, nieces, nephews, in-laws, and other family further from my direct lines because knowledge of these people can help me better understand the family lives of my ancestors. So did I miss someone, or is this person not actually Lucille Johnson? My grandmother has been known to make mistakes with the names of older family members that she never personally met, so I’m guessing that this person’s name isn’t exactly Lucille Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who are the possible candidates for this woman? “Lucille” is indeed a family name in the Scott\/Askew side of the family. In fact, Gert named her oldest daughter “Beulah Lucille Askew.” But from what I can tell, “Lucille” was a family name in her husband Clyde Askew’s family history, not her own. I haven’t yet found any blood relations of Gert’s named “Lucille” who were born before 1920 (when she gave her daughter the middle name Lucille).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about “Johnson?” One of Gert’s maternal great-grandmothers was named Marion Johnson (1795\u20131873), but I haven’t yet been able to trace out her siblings (if any) and their families. If any of Marion’s brothers had sons who then had sons, their Johnson children would have been Gert’s third cousins. I doubt this is where this particular woman’s origins lay, as Marion (Johnson) McAllister was born in Scotland and immigrated to Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, at some point between 1833 (when her youngest child was born in Scotland) and 1851 (when she is found on the Canadian census). Since she migrated as a married woman with six children, it’s possible the rest of her family stayed back in Scotland. In any case, a third cousin is stretching the boundary of how broadly we could expect Gert to keep in touch with her extended family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Johnson wasn’t her cousin’s maiden name, it could be her married name. Which women in Gert’s family married a Johnson? As it turns out, there were two:<\/p>\n\n\n\n