Born in Butetown, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Daughter of Simon Vickers Johnson
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 82
[location unknown]
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Biography
Betty (Johnson) Campbell has Jamaican ancestors.
Betty (Johnson) Campbell has Barbadian Ancestry.
Rachel was born in 1934 to Simon Vickers Johnson and Honora O'Leary.
She won a scholarship to the Lady Margaret High School for Girls in Cardiff and became a community activist and the first black head teacher in Wales.
She married Rupert Campbell in 1953 and had four children including Elaine and Simon.
She passed away in 2017.
On 29 September 2021, a statue of Betty Campbell was unveiled in Cardiff. It was the first Monumental Welsh Women statue.
Sources
Birth
- "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVQC-6NMM : 1 October 2014), Rachel E Johnson, 1934; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
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