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Birth |
30 Jun 1864 |
Sutton, , Surrey, England [1] |
- Name: Mother's Maiden Surname:
JOHNSON, GEORGE MAW ROBERTS
GRO Reference: 1864 S Quarter in EPSOM Volume 02A Page 3
First name(s) George Maw
Last name Johnson
Birth quarter 3
Birth year 1864
Mother's maiden name Roberts
District Epsom
County Surrey
Country England
Volume 2A
Page 3
Record set England & Wales Births 1837-2006
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Civil Births
Collections from Great Britain, England
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Christening |
27 Jul 1864 |
St Nicholas, Sutton, , Surrey, England |
- First name(s) George Maw
Last name Johnson
Birth year -
Baptism year 1864
Baptism date 27 Jul 1864
Baptism place Sutton St Nicholas
Relationship Son
Father's first name(s) George
Mother's first name(s) Mary Ann
Parent's occupation Assayer
Residence Warden Lodge, Benhilton
County Surrey
Country England
Record set Surrey Baptisms
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Parish Baptisms
Collections from England, United Kingdom
© West Surrey Family History Society
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Gender |
Male |
Census |
2 Apr 1871 (6 years) |
Albert Place, St Mary Northgate, Canterbury, , Kent, England [2] |
- First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Age Birth year Birth place Occupation
George Johnson Head - Male 33 1838 Middlesex, England -
Mary A Johnson Wife - Female 25 1846 Middlesex, England -
George M Johnson Son - Male 6 1865 Surrey, England -
Charles G Johnson Son - Male 5 1866 Surrey, England -
Helen Johnson Daughter - Female 4 1867 Kent, England -
Grove Johnson Son - Male 2 1869 Kent, England -
John F Johnson Son - Male 0 1871 Kent, England -
Harriet Buss Servant - Female 18 1853 Kent, England -
Caroline Cox Servant - Female 15 1856 Kent, England -
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Biography |
- Source: https://www.beercity.brussels/home/50-objects-le-petit-journal-du-brasseur
Once upon time, a young brewer's son from Canterbury in England became the godfather of modern Belgian beer. It all started on Sunday, 8 January 1893, with the appearance of edition one of Le Petit Journal du Brasseur. Only 10 pages long, its cover featured an advert for patented corn and rice malts, below which someone called George M. Johnson was identified as being available to visit interested breweries for a product demonstration. George M. (for Maw) Johnson also happened to be the paper's Founder-Editor, having arrived in Brussels three years previously with a missionary zeal to bring Belgian brewing into the modern, industrial age.
George's family were originally jewellers, until his father (also George) bought the Northgate Brewery in Canterbury in 1866. George Maw - eldest of 17 children - worked with his father for three years before turning up at Brussels' Brasserie Leopold in 1890. It was auspicious timing; Belgian brewers considered England one of the world's most advancing brewing nations, far ahead of their own. As head of Leopold's laboratory, Johnson failed at his first attempt at a brewer's journal. The Petit Journal du Brasseur was his second, a monthly publication released on Sundays that cost six francs annually. In his first editorial, he welcomed readers with the immodest expectation they would "greet with joy the new era of enlightenment and brewing progress which, without a doubt, will be born thanks to the….Petit Journal".
The Petit Journal was, Johnson said, "devoted to technical and industrial issues of interest to the brewery", and edition one established the paper's template. Articles on technical matters - edition one covered the aeration of hot and cold malts, chill haze affecting top fermented beers stored in cold cellars, and the issue of applying pitch and varnish internally or externally on wooden barrels - were joined by letters from brewers with technical questions and adverts for yeast suppliers, maltings, and surplus brewery stock.
There were also listings of the latest raw materials prices, Moldavian malt costing 21-23 francs/kilo in January 1893. Later editions would cover water's essential role in brewing, the potential impact of Irish Home Rule on British brewing (Johnson was anti-Home Rule), and the impact of changeable weather on Bavarian hop yields.
Johnson had found a financially successful formula, and with Belgium's breweries having few formally educated brewing engineers in the 1890s they came to rely on the Petit Journal for in-house technical support. In the next decade the Petit Journal shifted to a weekly schedule, absorbing a Belgian rival and their French counterpart.
Then, in 1914, publication stopped. Escaping war, George made it to England. Henri Codville, George's son-in-law and right-hand man ended up working in a munitions factory. Following armistice the pair returned to Brussels and a brewing industry transformed. In the immediate aftermath of WWI, brewers were less focused on expansion than on reconstruction, profitability, and efficiency. And they wanted to brew English beers. Something George Maw, returned to the Petit Journal's editorial chair, knew a thing or two about.
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Death |
16 Jul 1928 |
103 Avenue Eugene Demolder, Schaerbeek, , Brabant, Belgium |
- Name George Maw Johnson
Death Date 16 Jul 1928
Death Place Belgium
Probate Date 25 Mar 1930
Probate Registry London, England
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Burial |
18 Jul 1928 |
Schaerbeek, , Brabant, Belgium |
Probate |
25 Mar 1930 (65 years) |
London, , Greater London, England |
- Name George Maw Johnson
Death Date 16 Jul 1928
Death Place Belgium
Probate Date 25 Mar 1930
Probate Registry London, England
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_UID |
02CEA77BE6B4491CAFB94210BB27C9F74D3A |
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Headstones |
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Person ID |
I24659 |
The Family Maw |
Last Modified |
25 Mar 2023 |
Father |
Johnson, George b. Abt 1837, London City, , Greater London, England ![Find all individuals with events at this location](img/tng_search_small.gif) d. Between 1901 and 1911 (Age 64 years) |
Mother |
Roberts, Mary Ann b. Abt 1846, Bethnal Green, London, , England ![Find all individuals with events at this location](img/tng_search_small.gif) d. Aft 1911 (Age 66 years) |
Marriage Banns |
18 Oct 1863 |
St George, Deal, , Kent, England [4] |
- First name(s) George
Last name Johnson
Banns year 1863
Banns date 18 Oct 1863
Marriage year 1863
Marriage date -
Place Deal, St George
Spouse's first name(s) Mary Ann
Spouse's last name Roberts
Groom's parish Dorking Surrey
Bride's parish St George
County Kent
Country England
Archive Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Archive reference U3/67
Register year range 1852-1875
Page 45
Record set Kent Marriages And Banns
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Parish Marriages
Collections from England, Great Britain
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Marriage Banns |
25 Oct 1863 |
St George, Deal, , Kent, England [4] |
- First name(s) George
Last name Johnson
Banns year 1863
Banns date 18 Oct 1863
Marriage year 1863
Marriage date -
Place Deal, St George
Spouse's first name(s) Mary Ann
Spouse's last name Roberts
Groom's parish Dorking Surrey
Bride's parish St George
County Kent
Country England
Archive Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Archive reference U3/67
Register year range 1852-1875
Page 45
Record set Kent Marriages And Banns
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Parish Marriages
Collections from England, Great Britain
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Marriage Banns |
1 Nov 1863 |
St George, Deal, , Kent, England [4] |
- First name(s) George
Last name Johnson
Banns year 1863
Banns date 18 Oct 1863
Marriage year 1863
Marriage date -
Place Deal, St George
Spouse's first name(s) Mary Ann
Spouse's last name Roberts
Groom's parish Dorking Surrey
Bride's parish St George
County Kent
Country England
Archive Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Archive reference U3/67
Register year range 1852-1875
Page 45
Record set Kent Marriages And Banns
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Parish Marriages
Collections from England, Great Britain
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Marriage |
3 Nov 1863 |
St George, Deal, , Kent, England [5, 6] |
- First name(s) George
Last name Johnson
Birth year 1837
Age 26
Marriage year 1863
Marriage date 03 Nov 1863
Place Deal, St George
Spouse's first name(s) Mary Ann
Spouse's last name Roberts
Groom's age 26
Groom's father's first name(s) George Richard
Groom's father's last name Johnson
Bride's age 18
Bride's father's first name(s) John
Bride's father's last name Roberts
County Kent
Country England
Archive Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Archive reference U3/67
Register year range 1852-1896
Page 63
Record set Kent Marriages And Banns
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Parish Marriages
Collections from England, Great Britain
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Age at Marriage |
He : ~ 26 years and 11 months - She : ~ 17 years and 11 months. |
Family ID |
F8580 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |