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Thread #74217   Message #2235641
Posted By: GUEST,Robbie Evans
13-Jan-08 - 04:39 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Johnson Johnson is my name' A MYSTERY!
Subject: RE: Origins: 'Johnson Johnson is my name' A MYSTERY!
I can add to the above list - I have just watched UK BBC TV adaptation of Flora Thompsons 'Lark Rise to Candleford Green' and a song was sung using similar wording.
Thus : My name is.......and England is my nation........ etc. etc.
This prompted me to check an old Quaker book that I possess (published 1676 by Francis Howgil) in which there is much ownership inscriptions.

Including this:

William Hodgson is my name
and England is my nation
Longborough is my dwelling place
and hop (sic) for haven (sic) to be my habation (sic)