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Record #3963

Name :: : Felix Peter JOHNSON (1909 - 1994)
aka : Peter
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 8 Jul 1909
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 11 Jan 1994 Notes : Pneumonia

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Hampshire, Southampton

1a Chilworth Road

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialEngland, Hampshire, Eastleigh, Southampton

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 23 Sep 1921
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Minnedosa
Placement Family: : Walkom, Staffa; Riley, Milford Bay, Musk

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): : Hospital
Agency: : Barnardos

NotesA birth registration was found for Felix Peter Johnson: Year of Registration: 1909; Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep; District: Southampton; County: Hampshire; Volume: 2c; Page: 51.

Felix and his eight month old sister, Violet, were admitted to Barnardo's [Southampton] in November 1913. She was sent there immediately on being taken into HM Hospital as she had an umbilical hernia. She was sent to a foster home in Suffolk afterwards. Felix went to Babies Castle in Kent, then spent three days at Stepney Causeway in transit to his foster home in Norfolk where he did make contact with his sister again.

Felix attended school in Norfolk, England, while fostered out. He appeared to be the only Barnardo child on the page of children listed in the admittance record. As he was seven when he arrived in Norfolk he is not on the page where most of his classmates would be, there is only one person who left the same day (end of July 1921) to go to Secondary School. So it seems that once he reached that point in his education Barnardo's decided to ship him to Canada instead of continuing his education.

Felix spent five years with the same family and then was sent 3,000 miles to an unknown future. He said he knew his mother was aware that he was being sent, as did his younger sister over the border in Suffolk. To the family's knowledge, his mother never tried to contact him in Canada. The address Barnardo's had for his mother from the admission papers to give Felix when he requested it a couple of years after his arrival in Canada was no longer of use, so it seems she did not keep up correspondence with Barnardo's to check on Felix's progress.

In 1921, Felix Johnson, 12, arrived at Quebec, Canada, along with a group of 134 children en route to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

His daughter, Beth, described her views on the journey to discover her father's life in Canada:

For myself the discovery of the family with whom my father stayed for fifteen years, and where he seems to have been happier than anywhere else, has given me the chance to fulfill a lifetime's wish. To see the places where he lived and worked was a possibility, to actually meet his 'foster' brother and sister and stay with them [on the same farm] awhile is beyond what I had ever hoped for. They have extended this kind offer knowing that we all need to discover why my father never contacted them after returning to England. These people had no idea that their father had contracted as employer to him, to them he was an older brother. living, eating, sleeping, going to school, church and the Boy Scouts as one of them. One of the first questions they asked me was whether he had ever spoken of ill-treatment. They were upset at recent publicity that suggested all Home Children were badly treated. For me the realisation that my father was not an isolated case [in being sent to Canada] caused me great distress, I too felt that there might be a less 'cosy' truth behind what he had made apparent.

[M]y father was extremely fortunate to have been placed with them - he might not have been so if he had stayed with the first farmer he was sent to. ... in my father's case he seems to have found a stable and loving home.

[He] never forgot them, he ensured that they were remembered through me.

I was shocked at the condition my father and sister were in when taken into Barnardo's care. For me that tells me that he may never have survived childhood, and so were it not for what happened, I might not be here now. "

Felix Peter Johnson returned to England in 1936. He died there in 1994.

ContributorsCreated : 2008-08-02 19:31:58 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-07-07 11:16:31 /

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
17777	JOHNSON, Albert	1895	ENG,	May 1908 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
21778	JOHNSON, Albert Edward	1899	ENG, , Highgate	May 1914 : Virginian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
27209	JOHNSON, Albert George Stanley	1922	ENG, SAL, Ludlow	May 1933 : Otranto	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
23033	JOHNSON, Alexander	1897	ENG,	Apr 1909 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
6126	JOHNSON, Alice	1878	ENG,	Jun 1894 : Mongolian	CAN	Maria Rye
8401	JOHNSON, Alice Maud	1880	ENG,	Jul 1886 : - Unknown -	CAN	Charlotte Alexander
7501	JOHNSON, Anne J.	1860	ENG,	Nov 1869 : Hibernian	CAN	Maria Rye
25632	JOHNSON, Annie Mary	1913		Feb 1924 : Euripides	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
9095	JOHNSON, Arthur	1915	ENG, , Bingfield	Jul 1928 : Duchess of Atholl	CAN	Barnardos
9766	JOHNSON, Arthur	1881	ENG,	Apr 1900 : Cambroman	CAN	Barnardos
17799	JOHNSON, Benjamin U.	1892	ENG,	Apr 1902 : Dominion	CAN	National Childrens Home
17469	JOHNSON, Cecil C	1897	ENG,	May 1907 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
17681	JOHNSON, Charles	1891	ENG,	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
20975	JOHNSON, D R	1927	ENG,	Oct 1935 : Otranto	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
19523	JOHNSON, Douglas Laurence	1910	ENG,	Jul 1926 : Celtic	CAN	Canadian Government Scheme
4625	JOHNSON, Elizabeth	1909	ENG,	Jul 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
10750	JOHNSON, Elizabeth	1863	ENG,	Jun 1880 : Sarmatian	CAN	Maria Rye
15441	JOHNSON, Elizabeth	1872	ENG,	Sep 1884 : Sarmatian	CAN	Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)
17798	JOHNSON, Ernest	1900	ENG,	Jun 1910 : Mongolian	CAN	Middlemore
8831	JOHNSON, Ethel May	1895	ENG,	Sep 1907 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3963	JOHNSON, Felix Peter	1909	ENG, HAM, Southampton	Sep 1921 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
8447	JOHNSON, Florence	1891	ENG,	Feb 1907 : Victorian	CAN	Louisa Birt
20036	JOHNSON, Frederick	1879	ENG,	Jun 1886 : Lake Superior	CAN	Barnardos
23025	JOHNSON, Frederick A.	1898	ENG,	Apr 1908 : Lake Champlain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
7871	JOHNSON, George	1917	ENG, LDN, London	May 1931 : Laurentic	CAN	Nova Scotia Government Party
15053	JOHNSON, George	1884	ENG,	Sep 1897 : Numidian	CAN	Unknown Catholic Group
21226	JOHNSON, George	1892		Apr 1905 : Kensington	CAN	Barnardos
9404	JOHNSON, Gwendoline	1910	ENG,	Jun 1920 : Scotian	CAN	Barnardos
21026	JOHNSON, H	1881	ENG,	Apr 1898 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
24168	JOHNSON, H.	1854	ENG,	May 1870 : Scandinavian	CAN	Boy's Home Great Queen Street, London
6199	JOHNSON, Hannah	1881	ENG,	May 1892 : Mongolian	CAN	Maria Rye
15372	JOHNSON, Henry	1862	ENG,	1872 : - Unknown -	CAN	Maria Rye
16751	JOHNSON, Henry John		ENG,	May 1884 : Sarnia	CAN	Barnardos	barbarasambridge
26510	JOHNSON, Herbert E	1896	ENG,	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
21042	JOHNSON, J R P	1926	ENG,	Oct 1935 : Otranto	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
24169	JOHNSON, J.W.	1854	ENG,	May 1870 : Scandinavian	CAN	Boy's Home Great Queen Street, London
16215	JOHNSON, Johannah	1913	ENG, MDX, Walthamstow	Oct 1928 : Montcalm	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
5302	JOHNSON, John	1913	ENG, LEI, Leicester	Aug 1930 : Duchess of York	CAN	British Immigration and Colonisation Association
12900	JOHNSON, John	1887	ENG,	Jun 1897 : Numidian	CAN	Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)
17682	JOHNSON, John	1890	ENG,	Jul 1900 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
26383	JOHNSON, John	1889		Mar 1900 : Parisian	CAN	Louisa Birt
27702	JOHNSON, John	1880	ENG, , London	Jul 1894 : SARDINIAN	CAN	Barnardo's	barbarasambridge
20073	JOHNSON, Joseph H	1870	ENG,	Jun 1886 : Lake Superior	CAN	Barnardos
22898	JOHNSON, Joseph H.	1892	ENG,	May 1906 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
21082	JOHNSON, L	1888	ENG,	Apr 1898 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
11737	JOHNSON, Lewis	1887	ENG,	May 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
4624	JOHNSON, Louisa	1910	ENG,	Jul 1923 : Minnedosa	CAN	Barnardos
16340	JOHNSON, Louisa	1864	ENG,	Jun 1877 : Sardinian	CAN	Maria Rye
27540	JOHNSON, M A	1861		Aug 1872 : Sarmatian	CAN	Macpherson Homes
20974	JOHNSON, M J	1929	ENG,	Oct 1935 : Otranto	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
23696	JOHNSON, Martin	1887	ENG,	Aug 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
10775	JOHNSON, Mary J	1867	ENG,	Jun 1880 : Sarmatian	CAN	Maria Rye
16752	JOHNSON, Maud		ENG,	Sep 1895 : Sardinian	CAN	Barnardos	barbarasambridge
2913	JOHNSON, May	1897	ENG,	Jun 1910 : Mongolian	CAN	Middlemore
5156	JOHNSON, Michael	1911	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Oct 1928 : Montcalm	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
24108	JOHNSON, Nellie	1901	ENG,	Jun 1915 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
22249	JOHNSON, R.G.E.	1888	ENG,	Apr 1899 : Dominion	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
8446	JOHNSON, Rachel	1895	ENG,	Feb 1907 : Victorian	CAN	Louisa Birt
27208	JOHNSON, Raymond Robert Thomas	1920	ENG, SAL, Ludlow	May 1933 : Otranto	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
25581	JOHNSON, Rose	1896	ENG,	May 1909 : Corsican	CAN	Barnardos
11776	JOHNSON, S. A.	1891	ENG,	May 1902 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
20527	JOHNSON, Sarah	1897		May 1908 : Corsican	CAN	Louisa Birt
19204	JOHNSON, Susan	1901	ENG,	Sep 1912 : Victorian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
10526	JOHNSON, Timothy	1905	ENG, , Lichfield	Oct 1920 : Scandinavian	CAN	Barnardos
18203	JOHNSON, Walter	1876	ENG,	Jun 1889 : Circassian	CAN
20216	JOHNSON, William	1882	ENG,	Jun 1897 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
21779	JOHNSON, William	1901	ENG, MDX, Highgate	May 1914 : Virginian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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