Brief Life History of Victoria Janet
When Victoria Janet Johnston was born about 1862, in Cornwall, Stormont, Upper Canada, British Colonial America, her father, Robert Osborne Johnston, was 41 and her mother, Miranda Shaver, was 31. She lived in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 27 June 1896, in Oregon, United States, at the age of 35.
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- Victoria Johnston in household of Osburn Johnston, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Victoria Johnston in household of Robert O Johnston, "Canada Census, 1871"
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1862 · The Homestead Act
The Homestead Act of 1862 gave each citizen 160 acres of land. The qualified applicants were required to build a home and cultivate the land for five years.
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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