Re: Ayrshire Families of Johnstoun IV
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Ayrshire Families of Johnstoun III
Marta Johns(t)on Patterson 3/01/01
Kilmore, the seat of Colonel G.H. Johnston, stands on a hill seven miles from Armagh.The house is a museum of art and historical relics, among which is the organ brought by Handel to Duyblin in 1741, on the occasion of his Oratorio-"Messiah-being performed.The family pictures include portraits of some of the Burney family, susan Burney having married colonel Molesworth Phillips, great-grand-uncle of the present owner of the estate; Sir Philip Crampton and Chief Justice Doherty, direct descendants of Captain John Johnston of Drumconnell; Nathaniel Weld Johnston, and William, son and grandson of William Johnston, who settled at Bordeaux; Hugh Hamilton, D.D., F.R.S., Dean of Armagh, and later Bishop of Osory; Major-General Robert Ross, the hero of Bladensberg; Walter Shirley, Bishop of Sodor and Man; George Hamilton, M.P. for Belfast, Solicitor-General for Ireland, a Judge of the Irish Court of Exchequer; Major-General Sir Edward Barnes, G.C.B., M.P.; Right Hon. Sir Henry King, Bart, M.P.; Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex; John Paulet, first Marquis of Winchester; and Sir John Seymour, meternal ancestors of the present owner,. There are also marble bust of the Marquis of Wellesley and the Duke of Wellington.
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The Johnstons of Drum, Co. Monaghan, come from Hugh of Killevan, who flourished in 1678. They appear to have died out in the direct male line, but are represented by female descendants.
The Johnstons of Carrickbreda and Knappagh, Co. Armagh, descend from James of Tremont, a Presbyterian minister who left two sons, James of Knappagh and Carrickbreda, who died 1728; and Joseph, who lived till 1778, and married Anne, daughter of Joshua M'Geough of Drumsill. Both brothers have living male descendants. The elder left two houses he had built in Armagh to his son James. His great-great-grandsons, James, born 1809, and Arthur, married respectively Anne, daughter of Charles Hudson, and Sarah Call, daughter of Thomas Whittier of Exeter. The third brother, John Joseph of Tremont, married and left two daughters. James Johnston's only son died at fourteen, but Arthur, who died in 1847, left James, born 1827, married Mary, eldest daughter of James Daly, of Castle Daly, Galway; and Sarah Maria, who married Arthur Alexander. Mr. Johnston, a J.P. and D.L. for Co. Armagh, was High Sheriff 1874-75. He was educated at Prior Park College and Edinburgh University. He died 1879, leaving James, born 1861, J.P. for Armagh; married the daughter of Charles G. Corbett, C.E., of Dublin. Mr. Joseph Atkinson, D.L., of Crow Hill, Co. Armagh, represents the Knappagh branch.
The ancestor of Sir William Johnson was Christopher Johnston of Kilternan, Co. Dublin, who died 1683, and whose name points to a probable relationshio to Andro Johnston of Beirholme and his Irving wife. Christopher's grandson, John, was Governor of Charlmont, Co. Armagh.
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A portrait of John exists in the possession of Colonel Wade-Dalton, Co. Yorks., a descendant of his nephew.
There were also descendants of Lockerbie Johnstons, Mungo, of Co. Monaghan, and George Johnston, in Fermanagh, about the date.
Mr. Joseph G. Johnston, of Rathmines, Dublin, tells a story which shows there was one point at least in which the Scottish settlers could sympathise with the native Irish. In the oulying districts the Irish distilled their nation spirit, poteen, without troubling themselves to pay the duty. The narrator's great-grandfather, Joseph Johnston, of Corran, or Cairn Hill, Co. Cavan, was a farmer, and heard that the Government officials were about were about to arrest a poteen distiller. He sent one of his boys to go as fast as possible to warn the man, and the boy passing the revenue officers on his return heard the exclamation: "We are undone, that's a young Johnston I know, from his loong nose and dress."
The Johnstones of Snow Hill descend from William Johnstone, a Scot, who married Prudence, daughter of William Goodfellow. Their son James, of Co. Fermanagh, married Joanna, daughter of Bunnis of Donegal. The sons of this Irish union-James of Snow Hill, married Anne, daughter of a Johnston of Leitrim, died 1808: and Christopher, a surgeon in the 17th Lancers, who was father of another Christopher, Colonel in the 8th Hussars. The elder brother James, died 1808, leaving John Douglas; Andrew, Lieutenant in 8th Hussars, died s.p. at Calcutta, 1810; Margaret, married Captain W. Johnston; and Mary, married Francis Lloyd.
John Douglas Johnstone, born 1769 married, 1798, Samina, daughter of Samuel Yates of Kildare, and died 1842, his eldest son, James Douglas, having predeceased him, leaving by his wife, Charlotte Devereux, a son, John Douglas, who succeeded his grandfather at the age of three. The next brother, Richard died in Canada in 1840. The third, John Douglas, born 1809, Major-General, C.B., served throughout the Crimean War, and lost an arm at the Redan, June 18, 1855.He married, 1830, Caroline, daughter of Rev. A.O. Beirne, D.D., and left a son, John Douglas of Snow Hill, born 1838, and two daughters, Samina and Caroline. His uncles and aunts were-Samuel Yates, born 1815, barrister-at-law, died s.p.; Anna Douglas, married her cousin, Francis Lloyd; Samina, married William Worthington.
Colonel John Douglas Johnston, J.P., married Hon. Augusta Anna, daughter of twelfth Lord Louth. He was High Sheriff of Fermanagh, 1899.
The first of the Johnstons of Ballykilbeg, William, married, 1760, Ann Brett of Killough, great-great-granddaughter of Francis Marsh, Archbishop of Dublin, a cousin of Edward Hyde, grandfather of Queen Mary and Queen Anne. William's son, another William, died in 1796, having married Mary Humphrey. Their son, John, married, in 1828, Thomasina, daughter of Thomas Scott, and left William, M.P. for belfast, late Inspector of Irish Fisheries. By his third wife, Georgina Barbara, daughter of Sir John Hay, Bart, he had Lewis Audley Marsh, married Emily Sophia, daughter of Rev. Thomas Jones, died at Hong'Kong, 30th September 1909; and Charles, married Vera, daughte of General Jelikovski.
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History of the Johnstones, 1191-1909
With descriptions of Border Life
By Catherine Laura Johnstone
Author of "Historical Families of Dumfriesshire."
W.& A. K. Johnston Limited
1909
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