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

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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 that 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 outlying districts the Irish distilled their national
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 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 long 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 Gunnis 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 Johnstone, 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,
and Charles, married Vera, daughter
died at Hong-Kong, 30th September 1909 ;
of General Jelikovski.