When Jane Jean Johnston was born on 16 October 1842, in Tabusintac, Alnwick, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, James Johnston, was 46 and her mother, Mary Ann Campbell Blake, was 33. She married William Wishart Hierlihy on 30 June 1862, in Newcastle, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada for about 10 years and Alnwick, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada in 1931. She died on 16 January 1933, in Tabusintac, Alnwick, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 90, and was buried in Tabusintac Riverside Cemetery, Tabusintac, Alnwick, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada.
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The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
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July 4, 1901, the Hartland covered bridge was finished. It spans across the Saint John River, making it the longest covered bridge. Until it was built, the only way across the river was by ferry.
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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