Author Topic: Johnstone Family, Chirnside, Berwickshire, Scotland  (Read 17070 times)

Offline Peggy13

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Re: Johnstone Family, Chirnside, Berwickshire, Scotland
« Reply #27 on: Tuesday 11 March 25 22:11 GMT (UK) »
No, George married Jeanie Orr but his mother was possibly Elizabeth Fish, and his first daughter was Elizabeth Fish Johnston. And William is possibly his brother who was in Johnstown, Fulton Co., New York in 1850. William's last child was Margaret born Apr 23, 1848 and she married Alexander Nesbit Telford in 1872 in Chirnside before emigrating to New York in 1906 and she died in Hastings-on-Hudson in 1923. William's oldest child was Janet Fish Johnston, born in 1841, named after her grandmother Janet Fish, and she died in Feb 16, 1917 in Yonkers, Westchester, New York. William's daughter Elizabeth Logan died in 1913 in Yonkers. William's nephew William died in 1918 in Yonkers.
So 3 of 4 of William's children ended up in New York as did possibly William himself and William's nephew. So it could be possible that William and George are brothers. Yes, I think William left his wife in Scotland.
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