RIP ~ Heather Irene Craft nee Johnson

Johnson/Lancaster Line

Heather Irene Craft

nee Johnson

29th July 1920, Paddington, NSW

20th May 2015, Maryborough, Qld

Aged 94 years, 9 months, 20 days

Heather Irene (Johnson) Craft, 94, died Tuesday, 19 May 2015.

Born on Thursday, 29 July 1920, she was the daughter of the late John Joseph (James) Johnson formerly of Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia and the late Jessie Aileen (Lancaster).

On Friday, 30 November 1984 she was preceded in death by her husband of 38 years, Andrew John Craft, son of the late Andrew Australia Craft, and the late Elizabeth Magdalena Mary (Goodwin).

Heather Irene is survived by one son, John Graham; (and possibly) one sister, Norma Dorothy (Patsy) (Johnson) Preen; three granddaughters, Jacqueline (Wadey) Fanto and her husband Larry Fanto, Tina (Wadey) Rouchotas and her husband Peter Rouchotas, and Georgina; five great grandchildren, Liam, Benjamin, and Noah Fanto, Elan and Olivia Rouchotas.

Heather Irene was preceded in death by one daughter, Suzanne Maree; two siblings, Jean Mary (Johnson) O'Brien, and John (Jack) William Johnson; four grandparents, William Lancaster, Emily Jane (Hatch) Lancaster, William Caleb Johnson, and Mary Ellen (Reeves) Johnson.

She is deeply mourned and lovingly remembered by her family.

WikiTree performed how it's meant to for Heather Johnson

An absolute marvel happened and WikiTree performed the way it's meant to.  I've been neglectful in entering Heather's family tree into WikiTree and thought I should give it a go and start utilising her Family Tree Family Finder DNA results.  So along I plodded entering her direct line got to her great-great-great grandmother Jane Grono who married Robert McKenzie and WikiTree was doing it's little check to make sure I wasn't duplicating people and SHEBANG!  She was there! And her husband, whom I had and at least another 3 generations I hadn't known about, all documented.  The power of WikiTree is AWESOME!  <3

Heather's Maternal line

updated live from WikiTree

Heather's Paternal line

updated live from WikiTree

William C Johnson & Mary Ellen Reeves

John JOHNSON and Elizabeth Smyth

The Johnson family were predominately based around Tamworth and Manilla in New South Wales. As you can see I have very little information on them, are you the person to help us out?

Heather's mother died when she was a lass and she was sent to an orphanage, during her youth she had contact with her mother's family and has fond memories of them, more so than her father's family, which the Johnson's are.

Updated 24 Jan 2015
Because Heather is still with us at 94, 95 this year, I thought it prudent to get her DNA done, to start with I purchased Family Finder, as I have no direct need for mtDNA I will not be upgrading it at this time, however to assist family members, should you wish to upgrade her kit she is part of our "Family Project" and you are welcome to make a donation to her kit to upgrade it, here is the link: https://www.familytreedna.com/public/argdna/

Heather's Family Finder DNA kit is up on Gedmatch, her number is F353615.

Craft and Johnson Family

Welcome to our CRAFT GENEALOGY

This book incorporates the maternal and paternal line of John Craft ie Andrew John CRAFT and Heather Irene JOHNSON, it is being pursued for our daughter Georgina Craft who has taken an interest in her heritage and has even done a school assignment on Matthew James Everingham, ah how easy was that when mum had all the info?!

Dear G.G.G.G.Grandma Lydia by Glynis Wheeler

"Dear G.G.G.G.Grandma Lydia,"


I have recently returned from visiting the beautiful parish church in Madron, Cornwall, England where you were christened in September, 1811. My husband & I walked around the grounds of this church where you and your big brothers - William, b.1807 and Charles, b.1807 played.

Isaac Lancaster and Mary Ann Shaw

A Little Lancaster History

This page is a work in progress which I recently started for my daughter Gina and her grandmother Heather.

On Heather's birthday in July 2002 she asked me to see if I could find any of her siblings who she was estranged from in 1931 following the death of her mother Jessie. This led me to the following information.