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Thread #74217 Message #1293188
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
09-Oct-04 - 12:35 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Johnson Johnson is my name' A MYSTERY!
Subject: RE: Origins: 'Johnson Johnson is my name' A MYSTERY!
It does wander a little into epitaph territory at times: the following inscription is quoted at Inscriptions: by Rita Smith, from some time after 1838:
"Peter Ingray is my name England is my nation Bassingbourn is my living place And Christ is my salvation. When I'm dead and in the grave And all my bones are rotten Take up this book and in there look And see I'm not forgotten.
Signed, Peter Ingray"
That second part, too, was pretty common in one form or another.
As for "Johnson Johnson", there may perhaps be some connection (if only by analogy) with My Name Is Yon Yonson.