History of the Johnstones, 1191-1909, with ... - Electric Scotland

306 FRANCIS JOHNSTON'S DESCENDANTS
daughter of William Browne-Clayton of Browne's Hill, Co. Carlow, and has
Francis William and Patrick James ; 4, Caroline Margaret, married Richard
Heywood Heywood-Jones of Badsworth, Co. York ; 5, Violet Mary, married
Henry Offley Wakeman ; 6, Harriet Monica, married Captain Charles Wyndham
Knight, D.S.O. ; 7, Mildred Earle, married Ernest Perceval Alers-Hankey
8, Vera Cecilia.
Besides the above, there are existing descendants of James and Robert
Johnston (the last a minister), whose father, James, born 1701, married to Jean
Clark, was grandson of Francis, the bold Covenanter. The younger James
was born 1755 ; died 1828. He married Mary Spiers, and lived for forty years
in Dalquharran Castle as factor and land surveyor to the Laird of Dunore.
His poetical and literary tastes were developed amid romantic surroundings,
where his sons, Thomas and James, were born. Thomas is now represented
by Thomas Johnston of Balvaig, Dumfries. James was educated as a minister
in the Church of Scotland, but ultimately joined the Baptist sect, which
required almost as much courage as for his ancestor to become a Covenanter.
His son, Francis, born 1810, and brought up at the High School, Edinburgh,
followed in his father's footsteps, which, in spite of a brilliant University career,
checked the exercise of his talents in a wider sphere. He married Eliza Broad,
from Yorkshire. They had seven sons and two daughters. The eldest son,
James, died 1909, leaving five daughters, the eldest married to Dr John Balfour
of Portobello. The Rev. Francis Johnston's younger daughter, Helen Eliza,
married Mr Penman, and has one son—Frank Garfield Penman, B.A. Cantab.,
born 1884. Her father died 1880, and is buried in the Grange Cemetery,
Edinburgh.