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58:, presumably to continue his architectural career. On 24 July 1862 he married Emma Louise Wood and, two days later, the couple embarked on a journey of emigration to
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70:, Western Australia, establishing a practice there. In 1898, while at sea returning to Melbourne, Johnson contracted
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