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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Johnston Family Dundee
« on: Monday 11 April 16 20:52 BST (UK)  »
Hi Happy to stay in touch, it is very interesting once you get a lead and hard to let it go.  It is also great to find relations, and to know where the family has gone in its journey, which is part of the reason we embark on this journey. A neice and nephew of your gggrandmother Jane returned to Australia from New Zealand and lived mainly in Perth.  Unfortunately the neice never married, she came with her brother who had two daughters who never married, they all died in Perth.  However the two daughters Vida Ida and Hazel Crawford were very musical and apppeared in quite a lot of the old papers in the area.  The nephew William Hogan Crawford was in kalgoolie for a while and had some money difficulties.  I am a journalist by trade and find it interesting to try and put the stories together to find out about the people.
Rhonda Wood,  I am also on facebook.


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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Johnston Family Dundee
« on: Monday 11 April 16 08:54 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: axelaust on Monday 11 April 16 06:18 BST (UK)

I had never found any marriage for Elizabeth and still can't......Frustrating!!

I believe they had 7 children. Two boys appear to have died prior to coming to Australia

I will be honest and state I have not looked at the Johnston's for a number of years for at the time the information was just to hard to obtain. Looks like I need to revisit and see what else I can find out on the Johnston's. But I believe I have a bit on the Australia side (well I suppose I should have as I am a direct descendant of one of James and Elizabeth's children)

Not sure where to go from here though

Elizabeth Addison Johnston

Details from Death Certificate. Died 7 December 1892 7 George St Dunedin aged 59 years of Cancer of both Mamoe. Father James Johnston Bootmaker. She was born in Dundee Scotland and had lived in NZ about 30 years. She was married to Alexander John Crawford at Ballarat Victoria when she was 24 years old.  At the time of her death her living children were 4 sons, 34,27,24,22 and 2 daughters 32,29. Elizabeth was buried Waikouaiti Cemetery she was Church of England.

She signed in her own hand as the informant on her daughter Jessie's birth cert in 1860.

Recorded on daughter Jessie's birth cert that Elizabeth was 27 years old  in 1860 and was born in Dundee,Scotland.

Records show that Elizabeth Johnston Bond Servant migrated to Australia on the Hornet abt 1885

Recorded on daughter Jessie's birth cert 1860 that Alexander was 28 years old, a miner, born in  Glasgow,Scotland.
at the time of Jessie's birth, Alexander & Elizabeth had two living children and one deceased.Jessie was born 1860 at Indigo Creek Ovens Victoria.
However it is uncertain whether Jessie was included as one of the living.  The other would be her brother John

Just some bits for you.
My husband is a descendant of Alexander Crawford and Elizabeth Addison Johnston.  They would have been his great, great grandparents, so James and Elizabeth Johnston were his great, great, greats.
The marriage date for Alexander Crawford and Elizaqbeth Johnston of  15 June 1857 at Geelong is on the birth record of Jessie who was born on December 8 1860 at Indigo.

Where abouts are you in Australia, my husband has two brotherw ho live there.  There are quite a few descendants in New Zealand.

Rhonda

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Johnston Family Dundee
« on: Monday 11 April 16 05:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi Auxelast

I can confirm that Elizabeth Addison Johnston is the daughter of James Addison Johnston and Elizabeth Bowman.  I have their details and records of when they came to Australia and their ancestors.  Elizabeth Addison Johnston married Alexander John Crawford at Geelong 15 Jun 1857.  They moved to NZ and had 7 children.
James Addison Johnston and Elizabeth Bowman had 5 children.  4 daughters and one son.
I am not sure what happened to the family that stayed in Aust.  Have deaths for parents David and Elizabeth but have not researched anything for the daughters.

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Johnston Family Dundee
« on: Saturday 02 April 16 22:06 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
my name is Rhonda Wood, I am researching my husbands Crawford Family, I am sure  a daughter of James and Elizabeth her name was Elizabeth Addison Johnston, married my husbands GG grandfather in Australia.  They came to New Zealand. My husbands name is Michael Wood we live in New Zealand.
Would love to make contact.
Rhonda Wood

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Elizabeth (Addison) Johnston b.c.1833 Dundee
« on: Sunday 05 June 11 12:18 BST (UK)  »
Elizabeth Johnstone married at Geelong Victoria 15 June in 1857 so not sure when she arrived
 

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Elizabeth (Addison) Johnston b.c.1833 Dundee
« on: Sunday 05 June 11 08:08 BST (UK)  »
Not at this stage but working on it.  I wonder why they were in the same house....is there some connection?

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Elizabeth (Addison) Johnston b.c.1833 Dundee
« on: Sunday 29 May 11 04:49 BST (UK)  »
Hi Didi

I am researching my husbands family history, he is descended from Elizabeth Johnston/Crawford in New Zealand.  It would be great if you could get in touch
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