The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 50 No.1 | June 2023

Member’s article

they succeeded him as proprietor (HRO, 3A00W/B1/6). Thereafter, it was largely Herbert who carried the newspaper to a prosperous future. After his death in 1936, aged 80 and unmarried, the Jacob and Johnson business no longer included anyone from either of the founding families. For the next 62 years, however, the newspaper remained in private hands until in 1996 it started a public corporate journey. It is now owned by the Gannett Co, Inc, which is headquartered in Virginia, USA, and also publishes US Today and

Advertisement for William Johnson I’s shop, Gosport (Salisbury and Winchester Journal, December 10, 1804, researched by Philip Eley)

fact his grandson. More information on the Jacob family of Hampshire can be found at: https://www.myjacobfamily.com/jacobpedigre es/hampshire.pdf . Barry Shurlock (Member #15318) and Margaret Bowman (Member #00000)

much else. A useful source is Hampshire Chronicle: In Black and White, by one-time editor Steve Robinson, published in 1998 in Winchester, though it states in error that the brewer Charles Johnson was the son of the printer William Johnson I, whereas he was in

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