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Governor of Malacca. His brothers and sisters are Augustine Conway
Seymour, Godfrey, Louis, Ronald, Alexander Napier, Roderick, Charlotte,
and Mary. Their father's youngest brother, Frederick Erskine, R.N., born
Oct. 1817, married, 1855, Clementina Frances, daughter of Vice -Admiral
Henry Collier, C.B., and had seven sons and five daughters. He died 1896.
His surviving children are: Henry Francis, born 1857, Lieutenant 91st
Highlanders; Herbert, born 1862; Frederick and Bruce (twins), born 1864,
Captain R.A. and Captain R.E. ; Gordon, also Captain R.A., born Nov.
1866, married Aileen Lucy, daughter of Edward Courage of Shenfield
Place, Essex; Seymour, Captain K.O.S.B. (twin with Gordon), married Olive
Cecil, daughter of Sir James Walker, Bart. Louisa ; Charlotte, married W. H.
Trollope, son of the late General Sir Charles Trollope, K.C.B. ; Frederika
Maria ; Paulina.
A family of Johnstone in Lancashire came from Saughtrees in Wamfray,
where John and Nicol Johnstoun in Saughtrees appear in 1605. William
Johnstone in Saughtrees married Grizel McMillan, 1767, and had thirteen
children, some of whom are buried at Annan with their parents. The eldest
son, James, married Nicolas, daughter of Robert Maxwell of Castlehill, Provost
of Lochmaben. This James was a surgeon at Harrington, in Lancashire, where
he died 1S23. His son, William Maxwell, also a surgeon at Harrington,
married Jane Clark Nicholson, and died 1856, aged sixty, leaving James
Alexander Maxwell Johnstone, born June 16, 1844 (M.A., Cantab.), Vicar of
Astley, near Manchester. Married Catharine, daughter of the Rev. J. Birchall,
1873, and has two sons and five daughters.
Johnston of Beatok came off the Poldean group. Adam and his sons,
Herbert and John, appear in 1549, when they held the lands of Beatok
and Newpark, in Nether Kirkpatrick. Some of the name were at Dryfe
Sands, and took part with the clansmen in other battles. David Johnstoun
owned Beatok in 1703, and Adam Johnston received a charter of it in
1737. As the last was the defendant in numerous lawsuits, it is not
surprising that he is described as late of Beatok in 1753. He was sued in
1743 by Captain William Johnston of Corhead ; Lieutenant James Johnston,
his brother, and Sophia Johnston, their sister, relict of George Milligan, surgeon
in Moffat; by Thomas Proudfoot in 1744; by John Ewart by Ann Johnston
;
in Craufurd ; in 1745 by Robert Johnston, surgeon in Moffat ; in 1746 by
Jean Copland, widow of David Johnston of Beatok and by her daughter,
;
Rachel, in 1747, when he was living in Moffat. In 1753 Adam Johnston is
the plaintiff with Sophia and Margaret, daughters of the late David Johnston
of Beatok —their mother and their sister, Rachel, being dead—against William
Scott of Beatok. Adam was married at that time to Betty Carruthers, Sophia
to George Carruthers, and Margaret to Gilbert Johnston in Leadhills. A suit
was carried on separately in 1762
Adam Johnston, against William
represented.
by John Johnston, writer in Moffat, and
Scott of Beatok. The family is still
The Johnstouns of Rowantrieknowe, Rowantriebrae {see p. 43), or Round-