Yes, it's Neil, we all know him, he adopted me in my first weeks of researching 6 years ago and really got me started.
I live in York and so get up to the Edinburgh Archives on a fairly regular basis to research for me and Neil but I have never made it to Shetland. It was only in February this year at the archives that I found that Elizabeth Jessie Leask Johnson had remarried and finally found her death date - I could have asked you!
I did give that bit of information to a researcher called Bill (living in Edinburgh) who is researching Elizabeth for his wife's side of the family, he has an ancestry tree called alb25will and he is very helpful. His wife is the great granddaughter of Elizabeth, her son John married Margaret Shand Little, their son Ernest married Margaret Hannah Henderson and they had Bill's wife. How is your line worked out from Elizabeth?
So far I have been unable to find out about the family of Williamina Johnson, wife of Captain James Johnston. I like your thinking about James Crawford, I had heard that her father might have been an Englishman but that is as far as I had got. BTW I am not sure what you mean about 'any luck on Williamina's husband' wasn't that was the captain?
If you are on Ancestry I can send you access to my tree and you can see if there is anything there of interest.
I am taking a bit of an enforced research break at the moment, I have a work deadline on the 12th of June so am having to be disciplined but my reward is two days in the archives later in June.
Alison