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From: "Cliff. Johnston" <>
Subject: Re: [UPPER-CANADA] JOHNSTON, Frances - Kin: Y-DNA Confirmation
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:28:31 -0600
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Peggy,

Yes, one big happy family!

Cliff. Johnston
"May the best you've ever seen,
Be the worst you'll ever see;"
from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy Gordon" <p&>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [UPPER-CANADA] JOHNSTON, Frances - Kin: Y-DNA Confirmation


>
> So Cliff, if you are related to Francis Johnston and Oliver Johnston and
> I
> are blood related to you, that means Francis is related to us as well I
> have kept an eye out for documentation on Frances but haven't really found
> anything.
> Peggy.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cliff. Johnston" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 5:11 PM
> Subject: [UPPER-CANADA] JOHNSTON, Frances - Kin: Y-DNA Confirmation
>
>
> > Greetings from Sunny Texas,
> >
> > Some 12 years ago when I first talked with my cousin Fred Presley in
> Ottawa (he doesn't have email unfortunately) I discovered that our
> Johnston
> family had originally settled in what is now N. Plantagenet Twp., Prescott
> Co., Ontario, and not the farm on Johnston Road in Clarence Twp., Russell
> Co., Ontario, as I had thought. It was the beginning of a new direction
> in
> my family research. Fred sent me copies of pages from the censuses for
> 1851, 1861 and 1871 with all of the Johnstons in the area. From these I
> found that 3 families were among the earliest. They were Robert "Red
> Robin"
> Johnston (b. ca. 1807), Archibald "Archie" Johnston (b. 1815), and Francis
> "Frank" Johnston (b, ca, 1805). All had been born in Ireland. All farmed
> within walking distant of each other. All were reported to be tall men
> with
> Red Robin coming in at 6'-5", so naturally I called them the "Wee Three".
> I
> had only the vaguest of oral family stories to link Red Robin and Archie.
> There were none to!
> > link them with Frank. Some years later another cousin helped me to
> obtain a copy of Francis Johnston's will, and it became apparent that
> Archibald Johnston and my ggggrandfather, John McQueen, were more than
> just
> neighbors as both of their names appeared in Francis Johnston's will.
> >
> >>From the Assessment Roll it would appear that Francis Johnston was in
> Upper Canada at least in 1827. It is the same land that a George Johnson
> [sic] appears with on the Assessment Roll in 1822; however, I've been
> told
> that Francis was the first owner of the farm, so this really clouds the
> issue now. Was George a Johnston with a misspelled last name? - a very
> common error with our surname unfortunately. Where did George Johnson
> [sic]
> come from? Who was he? Where did he go?
> >
> > On January 1, 2006, I was contacted by a lady who thought that she was
> descended from Francis Johnston. This really got my attention as she is
> only the 3rd person from that family line that I had come across, ever.
> Over the course of the next 10 months or so I talked her into having her
> brother have his Y-DNA tested. This week we have Y-DNA confirmation of a
> blood link between Robert "Red Robin" Johnston and Francis "Frank"
> Johnston,
> and better yet I have some newfound cousins!
> >
> > Unfortunately we do not have a location in Ireland for any of the Wee
> Three, but I am hoping that this will make our search somewhat easier as
> all
> 3 were born in Ireland and hopefully of either the same parents or at
> least
> on family farms close to each other.
> >
> > For those of you who haven't seen our Johnston Family Album recently,
> we've added a photo of John Johnston, first surviving son of Robert "Red
> Robin" Johnston. The photo album can be viewed at:
> http://www.pbase.com/cjmax/photo_restoration&page=all
> >
> > If anyone has any information on any of the above Johnstons, please,
> don't be bashful. Let's hear from you.
> >
> > Cliff. Johnston
> > "May the best you've ever seen,
> > Be the worst you'll ever see;"
> > from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
> >
> > ***********
> > see Upper Canada Genealogy & Resources at
> http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/
> >
> >
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