Elizatown, Johnstone

[KAMA]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone had any photographs of Elizatown in Johnstone Parish, the hamlet has long since been demolished but would love to see what it looked like.  Unfortunately I cant get to the Ewart in Dumfries where they may have images.

Heres hoping

Kama

[Maggie1895]

Sorry, can't help with a photo.   My family were Johnstonebridge, but not Elizatown, and I don't have any photos of the farms they lived at either.

In the NAS (National Archives of Scotland) they have some interesting items on Johnstone catalogued, which I presume are available to view at NAS:

http://195.153.34.9/onlinecatalogue/place.aspx?code=PL498&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=y&tp=y&k=Scottish+Youth+Hostels+Association&ko=p&r=&ro=m&df=&dt=&di=y
 
RHP85723
Photocopy of `eye draught' of farm of Hartfield (Heartfeel) with the small possessions of Elizatown showing names of occupiers, with table of contents 
Only thing is it's for April 1798, and I don't know how long your family go back there.
Sorry if this is no use,
Maggie 1895

p.s. that's part of a family photo from there on the left

[KAMA]

Hi Maggie,

Thanks for that.  I really have to get to Edinburgh now - they seem to have loads of things on Johnstone that I didnt know about.
I am sure that my family have been in Johnstone since records began.  What are your family names in the area, I am sure they must have been neighbours at the very least

Kama

[Maggie1895]

Kama,
Paterson (one 't'), Rogerson, Boyes, Mundell, and Bryden or Brydon.  I can go back to around the 1750s with most lines but after that the trail tends to go cold.
Maggie 1895
 

[KAMA]

Hi,

we may well be connected - my ancestors are John boyes & Jean ritchie who married in Johnstone in 1808 if so I would be glad to swap any info I have.

Kama

[Maggie1895]

Kama, Looks like it - those are the names of my Great Great Grandparents

John Boyes b 07.04.1781, Dunscore, Johnstone, d 21.04.1835, Millinburn, Dumfries
m. Jean Ritchie at Blinburn in 1808.
Jean was born in 1769 in Johnstone, died at Pleasuregate, Johnstone on 14.01.1851

Their daughter Jean married James Rogerson, from which my family line comes

Same family?
Maggie

[KAMA]

Hello Maggie,

We are indeed talking about the same people.  I am descended fron Jeans sister Janet who married James Anderson.  I had not found the birth of John Boyes anywhere so I am interested to know where you found it - do you know his parents and wonder if Dunscore is actually the parish and not the house name

Kama

[Maggie1895]

My typo!

I get so used to typing 'Johnstone or Johnstonebridge' on everything that I obviously did it automatically.   Dunscore is a separate village, near Dumfries.  Boyes seems to be a very usual name there.

I do have a few more details, not a lot, and I've sent you a PM.

Maggie

[normatrees]

Hi there,
Read your posts about Elizatown with interest.
I have a James Thorburn born 1775 Elizatown to John Thorburn and Jean Beck and wondered if you had come across them in your searches.
I have acouple of photos of farms in Johnstone (that still exist) don't know if these would interest you at all?
Also do you know whereabouts Elizatown was?
cheers
Norma