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JOHNSTONS IN PERTHSHIRE 347
Robert Mackenzie, M.D., born 1856, Consulting Surgeon at the Edinburgh
Royal Infirmary, late Lecturer to the University of Edinburgh ; married Amy,
daughter of Henry Younger, D.L., of Benmore, Argyllshire ; author of papers
in various professional journals. William Campbell, W.S. Mary Jane.
Henrietta Milligan.
Of the Johnstons of Kincardine Castle and Montrose, James, born 1802,
eldest son of James Johnston of Kincardine Castle by Sarah Pelling, his wife,
succeeded 1807, and married Matilda Crowe of The Abbey, Co. Clare. He
entered the Royal Navy, but later went to the Edinburgh University, and was
called to the Bar. His son, James, born 1839.
James Johnston of Sands, Perthshire, born 18 12, was the son of Lawrence
Johnston by Mary Wellwood, his wife; succeeded 1838. Married Margaret,
daughter of the Rev. Christopher Nicholson, and had Laurence, now of Sands,
born 1856, married Mary Curtis, is J. P. for Cos. Perth and Fife. His brother,
Christopher Nicholson, born 1857, K.C., Sheriff of Perthshire, 1905, Procurator
of Church of Scotland, 1907. He married Agnes Warren Dunn, and contested
Paisley in the Conservative interest, 1882.
An Act of the Scottish Parliament under Charles II., Aug. 21, 1663,
states that on the petition " of Mr David Johnstoun alias Souter, student in
Divinity on behalf of himself and his Kinsmen of the name in Perth and
Forfar, Mentioning that the petitioners predecessor and his brother of the
surname of Johnstoun in the year 1460 (as they are informed) came from
Annandale to Scone in Perthshire upon some discontent, and there attended
the owner of that place for a long time and assumed to themselves the surname
of Souter, that they should not be noticed for the time. One of the brothers
dying without issue, the other surviving for his good deportment was married
to a Gentlewoman, from which marriage proceeded divers honest men who
are grown into considerable families, whereof the petitioners are descended,
and being desirous that they should be restored to their true and ancient
surname of Johnstoun . . . they are permitted to resume it." These were the
Soutar Johnstons to whom a monument is erected in the Perth burying-
ground, recording the names of every generation from James, who died at
Scone Palace in 1510, to John, who died in 1814— all burgesses, and some of
them members, of the Glover Incorporation in Perth.
Stewart Soutar Johnston, son of the above John, claimed the Annandale
titles at the election of a representative peer for Scotland in Holyrood Palace
in 1824, and, no opposition being made, his vote was recorded. He had been
an outrider to George IV. when the King visited Edinburgh ; but died s.p. in
Canada 1846. His papers were brought back to Scotland and handed over
to his cousin and nearest of kin, William Reid, a contractor in Meadowside,
Dundee His son, William Reid, F.S.A.Scot., of Meadowside, Dundee, presented
several interesting historical memorials of this now extinct branch to
thn Sandeman Museum of Perth in 1904.