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Johnston Family History & Genealogy

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Early Johnstons

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Gilbert Johnston Sr. was born in 1700 at Scotland in UK, and died at age 75 years old in 1775 in North Carolina USA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gilbert Johnston Sr..
William Bryant Johnston
William Bryant Johnston was born in 1781. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember William Bryant Johnston.
Drucilla Johnston was born in 1790, and died at age 87 years old in 1877. Drucilla Johnston was buried at Nixville Cemetery in Nixville, Hampton County, SC. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Drucilla Johnston Shuman Trowell Prescott.
General Albert Sidney Johnston
General Albert Sidney Johnston was born Feb. 2, 1803 in Washington, KY. He was a Confederate General in the Civil War. On Apr. 6, 1862 he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh in TN, at age 59.
Margaret Johnston of Australia was born in 1811 to Margaret Johnston and David Johnston. She had siblings David Johnston, Robert Blacklaw Johnston, Robert Wylie Johnston, and Gracie Blacklaw Johnston. Margaret Johnston died at age 63 years old in 1874.
Jean Georgina (Johnston) Dunkinson of Richmond, City of Yarra County, VIC Australia was born circa 1812 in Glasgow, Glasgow City County, Scotland United Kingdom, and died at age 52 years old on August 5, 1865 in Richmond, City of Yarra County, VIC Australia.
Lois Johnston was born on July 18, 1813, and died at age 94 years old in August 1907. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lois Johnston.
Robert Johnston was born on September 3, 1814, and died at age 100 years old in September 1914. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Robert Johnston.
Jane (Johnston) Coad was born in 1815 in Ireland, and died at age 80 years old in 1895. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jane (Johnston) Coad.
James Addison Johnston of East Hill Australia was born in 1815, and died at age 68 years old in 1883 in East Hill.
Hannah Babington (Ring) Johnston was born in 1824, and died at age 75 years old in 1899 in Fitzroy, Yarra City County, VIC Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Hannah Babington (Ring) Johnston.
Walter Johnston of Australia was born in 1827, and died at age 53 years old in 1880.

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James Smith Johnston of Blackwood Australia was born in 1856 in Mt Blkwood, and died at age 45 years old on August 21, 1902 in Blackwood.
Dulcie Edna (Pevitt) Johnston was born in 1914 to Annie Matilda (Annett) Pevitt and Ernest Walter Pevitt, and had siblings Kathleen Dorothy (Pevitt) Roulston, Eunice Merwin Preece, Daphne Annie Jarrad, Gordon Ernest Pevitt, Harold Vincent Pevitt, Norman Leslie Pevitt, Ronald Stanley Pevitt, and Thelma Coral Pevitt. Dulcie Johnston died at age 84 years old in 1998. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Dulcie Edna Johnston .
Dorinda Helen (Johnston) Spaine of Youngstown, Niagara County, NY was born on October 9, 1912 in Niagara Falls, and died at age 80 years old on February 23, 1993 in Buffalo, Erie County. Dorinda Spaine was buried at Riverdale Cemetery Association in Lewiston, Niagara County.
Beryl Johnston was born in 1914 in England United Kingdom, and died at age 74 years old on January 21, 1989 in Cheltenham. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Beryl Johnston.
Alice Burt (Johnston) Elliott was born on September 10, 1917. She was married to Henry Frederick Edwin Elliott on May 10, 1947, and they were together until death separated them. Alice Elliott died at age 93 years old on July 2, 2011, and was buried at Fawkner Memorial Park in Hadfield, Moreland City Council County, VIC Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice Burt (Johnston) Elliott.
Ward Taylor Pendleton Johnston was born on September 23, 1982 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ward Taylor Pendleton Johnston.
Arthur Johnston was married to Alice Beatrice Cracknell, and they were together until death separated them. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Arthur Johnston.
April M Johnston
April Marie Johnston of Temple, Bell County, Texas United States was born on February 16, 1975 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember April M Johnston.
Thomas Jay Johnston
Thomas Jay Johnston of Riverview, Hillsborough County, Florida United States was born on June 30, 1951 in Battle Creek, Calhoun County, MI.
Emma R Johnston of Westminster, Carroll County, MD was born on November 6, 1917, and died at age 81 years old on July 16, 1999.
Caroline Hilda (Johnston) Orzabal was born on October 4, 1962 in England United Kingdom, and died at age 54 years old on July 24, 2017 in Chippenham, Wiltshire County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Caroline Hilda Orzabal.
Lynn Beverley Johnston
Lynn Beverley (Ridgway) Johnston was born on May 28, 1947 in Collingwood, Simcoe County, ON Canada. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lynn Beverley Johnston.
Katherine Elizabeth Johnston was born on December 31, 1977. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Katherine Elizabeth Johnston .
Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rod John Johnston.
Louisa Florence (Johnston) Mcinnes of Daylesford Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Louisa Florence (Johnston) Mcinnes.
Martha C Johnston of Tecumseh, Shawnee County, KS was born on February 24, 1915, and died at age 83 years old on April 16, 1998.
Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Wilma D Johnston.
Florrie (Johnston) Hosmer of VIC Australia was born circa 1884, and died at age 36 years old in 1920.
John A Johnston of Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT was born on December 5, 1919, and died at age 73 years old on August 6, 1993.
Vera Catherine (Johnston-Bailey) Stephenson of Bendigo, Greater Bendigo City County, VIC Australia was born on July 28, 1906 in Bridgewater, Loddon Shire County. Vera Stephenson was married to Eric Herbert "Bert" Stephenson in 1926, and died at age 88 years old on December 22, 1994 in Bendigo, Greater Bendigo City County.

Popular Johnston Biographies

Helen (Johnston)  Mohler Batemon
Helen (Johnston) Batemon was born in 1930 in Nesscity, Kansas United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Helen (Johnston) Mohler Batemon.
Norma Faye (Johnston) Woodruff
Norma Faye (Johnston) Woodruff was born on July 13, 1963 in Heath, Rockwall County, Texas United States. She was married to Dennis D Woodruff on June 16, 1982 in Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas, and they were together until death separated them. Norma Woodruff died at age 42 years old on October 16, 2005 in Royse City, Rockwall County, TX. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Norma Faye (Johnston) Woodruff.
Frances Benjamin Johnston
Frances Benjamin Johnston was born on January 15, 1864, and died at age 88 years old on May 16, 1952. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Frances Benjamin Johnston.
Diane M. (Krebs) Johnston
Diane Michelle Krebs married Daryl P Johnston on March 30, 1996 in Dallas Texas. Diane was 28 and Daryl was 30. They have 2 children, Aidan and Evan. Daryl has been the Executive Vice President of the United States Football League since 2022. When they met, Daryl Johnston was a running back (nickname "Moose" for his large size) for the Dallas Cowboys football team and Diane was a model. This is her account of their first meeting. (They were on location in December 1994): “We were shooting a Chevrolet commercial, ” says Krebs, who was booked for the job with Johnston. “I was the girl in the Camaro.” They both say it was love at first sight and they went on their first date a month later. Read about their relationship leading up to their marriage at Lassoing Daryl Johnston was easier than planning the wedding.. There is also a marriage record of Diane M Kreb, born in 1968 who was 25 when she married Bradley S. Schlachter (age 33) on July 18th 1993.
John A Johnston of Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT was born on December 5, 1919, and died at age 73 years old on August 6, 1993.
his real name is Charles Monroe Roden. he was married to Anna Schlater, and then Edna Ambrose. he had 6 kids.
Jane Collett
Jane was born in 1933 in Indianapolis, IN, to John Parret Collett and Mary Elizabeth Hamilton Collett. She attended Smith College, after which she met her first husband, Brad Johnston. Jane and brad were married for 25 years, and had three sons; Michael, Charles, and Scott (named after Dr. Scott, the pediatrician who got him through both prematurity and Erythroblastosis Fetalis). They raised their sons in Milwaukee, WI. Jane and Brad divorced in 1981. Michael (Mike) went on to become a writer and editor, focusing on photography. He has since been published multiple times in The New Yorker. Charles (Charlie) had a career as an Internal Medicine and Pediatric physician in Chicago. Scott was a clinical psycholgist in Rhode Island before his untimely death from cancer in 2021. Jane remarried, to John Woodward Thomas, in 1989. They were married until John's death in 2022, and lived in Cambridge near John's work as a professor at Harvard. Brad died from dementia in 2020, and is buried in Culpeper National Cemetary.
Reatha Jean Bretz
Reatha Jean (Johnston) Bretz was born on November 13, 1930. She was in a relationship with Richard Harvey Bretz, and had children Ann E. (Bretz) Bond and Richard Bryan Bretz. Reatha Bretz died at age 85 years old on January 19, 2016 at El Paso, TX, USA in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas United States, and was buried on January 19, 2016 at Fort Bliss National Cemetary in Fort Bliss.
Nora Belle (Sharp) Johnston
Nora Belle (Sharp) Johnston was born on May 14, 1872. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Nora Belle (Sharp) Johnston.
Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Linnie Johnston (Whittenberg).
Gary Johnston was born to Myra Waldhuter and Ernest Herbet Johnston, and has a sister Deidre Ann Evans. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gary Johnston.
Tilly Johnston was married to John D Johnston, and has a child Doug Johnston. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Tilly Johnston.
Stella Elizabeth (Tice) Johnston
Stella Elizabeth Johnston of Lawrenceville, Lawrence County, IL was born on March 21, 1901, and died at age 100 years old on November 15, 2001.
Charles Jackson Johnston
Charles Jackson Johnston was born in 1830. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles Jackson Johnston.
Ellen (Kyle) Johnston of East Melbourne, City of Melbourne County, VIC Australia was born in 1849 in Collingwood, City of Yarra County. She was married to William Johnston in 1875, and had children Florence Margaret "Florrie" Johnston, William John Johnstone, George Allan Johnston, Ellen "Nellie" Johnston, Albert Henry Sinclair Johnston, Ethel Jane "Ettie" Johnston, Alma Elizabeth Johnston, Ada Agnes Johnston, and Archibald James Johnston. Ellen Johnston died at age 70 years old on July 13, 1920 in East Melbourne, City of Melbourne County.
Leonard Johnston has siblings John D Pope and Priscilla Johnston. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Leonard Johnston.
Beryl Queenie Johnston of Australia died in Little Mountain, Australia County, QLD. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Beryl Queenie Johnston.
Lettie Mae (Collins) Johnston
Lettie Mae (Collins) Johnston of Houston, Harris County, Texas United States was born on July 15, 1911 in Lynchburg, VA, and died at age 84 years old on December 13, 1995.
Laurence Lendon Johnston of Oliver St, in Yea, Murrindindi Shire County, VIC Australia, died in July 2001 in Yea, and was buried on July 17, 2001 at Yea Cemetary in Yea.
Freda E. Johnston of Watkinsville, Oconee County, GA was born on March 7, 1920, and died at age 80 years old on September 14, 2000.

Johnston Death Records & Life Expectancy

The average age of a Johnston family member is 74.0 years old according to our database of 53,566 people with the last name Johnston that have a birth and death date listed.

Life Expectancy

74.0 years

Oldest Johnstons

These are the longest-lived members of the Johnston family on AncientFaces.

Verona C Johnston of Columbus, Franklin County, OH was born on August 6, 1890, and died at age 114 years old on December 1, 2004.
114 years
Aimee E Johnston of Westchester, Cook County, IL was born on November 7, 1888, and died at age 108 years old on February 14, 1997.
108 years
Susan (Johnston) Goodwinn-Johnson was born in 1891, and died at age 108 years old in 1999. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Susan Goodwinn.
108 years
Gladys M Johnston of Littleton, Douglas County, CO was born on June 19, 1896, and died at age 108 years old on December 24, 2004.
108 years
Rosalynde Johnston of Charlevoix, Charlevoix County, MI was born on December 26, 1902, and died at age 107 years old on June 28, 2010.
107 years
Bernice Johnston of Seattle, King County, WA was born on August 8, 1900, and died at age 107 years old on November 15, 2007.
107 years
Inez H Johnston of Glenwood, Cook County, IL was born on February 2, 1899, and died at age 107 years old on June 13, 2006.
107 years
Marguerite F Johnston of Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA was born on October 14, 1898, and died at age 106 years old on January 21, 2005.
106 years
Annie E Johnston of Brentwood, Williamson County, TN was born on January 30, 1900, and died at age 107 years old on November 22, 2007.
107 years
Iris C Johnston of Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA was born on November 3, 1899, and died at age 106 years old on January 15, 2006.
106 years
Emma M Johnston of Artois, Glenn County, CA was born on May 11, 1883, and died at age 105 years old on March 13, 1989.
105 years
Emma Johnston of Hyattsville, Prince Georges County, Maryland was born on January 24, 1872, and died at age 106 years old in July 1978.
106 years
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Kim Johnston, I wish I could help you but I dont have any information about William Wayne Johnston.
My name is Kimberly Johnston. My father is William Wayne Johnston. I had only seen him 1x n would like to k ow some of our family history
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