Johnson under pressure over jailed mum case, The five-star review that changed my life. order back issues and use the historic Daily Express Programme which shed light on exactly where Mr Johnson had come from. Basel in the 16th and 17th Centuries was a wealthy trading city; its port on the river Rhine was a key hub for moving goods across Europe, and it remains so today. Discover Boris Johnson's ancestry and family heritage online at Findmypast today. But what of Anna Catharina herself? But who was she exactly, and when did she die? The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. But that still left open the question of who she was. Ali Kemal (pictured with his first wife Winifred) fled to England in the years before the First World War. 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He was clearly delighted by the discovery of his ancestor. Express. His son and daughter, who remained living in London, took the name Johnson, potentially to avoid being bullied at school. Increasing instability within the Empire in the years before the First World War prompted Kemal to flee for his life to England where his wife Winifred gave birth to a son, Osman Wilfred Kemal, in Bournemouth, with the pair having already had a daughter called Selma. “I hope everybody feels happy - that’s my line.”. Wilfred would marry Irene Williams and the pair had a son: Stanley Johnson, Boris's father, who was born in 1940. Did she, to borrow a phrase from her seven-times great grandson, live a life of blameless domesticity? The Tory heavyweight took part in the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? Boris Johnson's paternal great grandfather was a journalist and liberal politician who was killed after being kidnapped on a charge of treason as the Ottoman Empire entered its final days. Explore how the celebrity world connects. He was born in 1964 in New York City to parents Stanley Johnson and Charlotte Fawcett. He married Anglo-Swiss Winifred Brun in Paddington, London, on September 11 1903. Three people were stabbed to death in Nice in what France says was an "Islamist terrorist attack".