When William James Johnston was born on 10 March 1868, in Elma Township, Perth, Ontario, Canada, his father, Alexander Johnston, was 33 and his mother, Mary Anne Connerty, was 23. He married Eliza Elizabeth McCutcheon on 15 July 1903, in Perth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in North Easthope Township, Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1871. He died on 25 November 1915, in Elma Township, Perth, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 47, and was buried in Elma Centre Cemetery, North Perth, Perth, Ontario, Canada.
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In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
Scottish: habitational name, deriving in most cases from the place so called in Annandale, in Dumfriesshire. This is derived from the genitive case of the personal name John + + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn). There are other places in Scotland so called, including the city of Perth, which used to be known as Saint John's Toun, and some of these may also be sources of the surname.
English: habitational name from Johnson Hall (Staffordshire), recorded as Johannestonc. 1233 and Joneston in 1314. The placename means ‘John's settlement’, from the genitive case of the Middle English personal name Johan, Jon (see John ) + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’.
History: As far as can be ascertained, most Scottish bearers of this surname are descendants of John, probably a Norman baron from England, who held lands at Johnstone in Annandale from the Bruce family in the late 12th century. His son Gilbert was the first to take the surname Johnstone and their descendants later held the earldom of Annandale.
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