Edmund Allen Johns

Edmund Allen was born on 31 May 1865 to Edmund Allen Johns and Clara Louisa Braginton.

See also BMD birth records.

He was born six months after the death of his father, also Edmund Allen, who died on 2 December 1864 (see above).

In the 1891 census, he is living with his half-sister Emmeline, at 8 Roman Road, Chiswick:

Name	Age	Relation	Marriage	Profession
Edmund A Johns	26	Head	Single	Living on own means
Helena E Langford	18	Half-sister	Single	Scholar
Fanny Gent	62	Servant	Single	Cook Domestic

The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891; Class: RG12; Piece: 1034; Folio: 83; Page: 31; GSU roll: 6096144. See the HEL 1891 census original image

There is only one marriage for an Edmund Johns in a search from 1880 to 1929. The marriage was in Bideford, in 1896, but the Edmund Johns from the corresponding certificate was 25 at the time, when Edmund Allen Johns would have been 29. There’s a matching birth record for this other Edmund Johns in 1869, in Bideford.

The 1911 census has Edmund Allen visiting his aunt’s husband Samuel Farwell Roe, with a profession recorded as “Private Means”.

There is a 1930 probate entry for Edmond Allen:

JOHNS Edmond Allen of Penhallam Great Torrington Devonshire died 26 November 1929 Administration London 31 January to Richard Braginton Johns solicitor. Effects £1747 7s 9d.

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 - Ancestry.com - 1,1904::0 - 1,1904::5409983

It’s difficult to know whether his probate means he had no surviving wife or children.