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From: "Cliff. Johnston" <>
Subject: Re: [JOHNSTON-DNA] Johnston family - the Wee Three
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:35:05 -0500
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Terry,

Have you had your Y-DNA tested? I'd highly recommend it. There is a
Johnston cousin out there somewhere by the name of Virgil who made a paper
connection to another Johnston who , if I remember correctly, did have a
Y-DNA connection to us...get the test done!

Cliff.
"May the best you've ever seen,
Be the worst you'll ever see;"
from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry M. Johnston" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: [JOHNSTON-DNA] Johnston family - the Wee Three


> Hello Cliff
>
> Just wanted to add my two cents, allthough I have no idea if we are
> related.
> My name is Terry Johnston, I am also tall with red hair. 6'7 to be exact..
> My father who shares a name with you is 6'5 he is David Clifford Johnston,
> and my brother David also with red hair is 6'6. Our grandfather was also
> tall at 6'7 and had red hair, he was George Virgil Johnston and his father
> was Floyd Clifford Johnston and his father was George Vinson Johnston and
> his father was John Johnston, if you have any info on this line or if it
> is
> connected with your line please let me know, thanks...
>
>
> Terry M Johnston
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cliff. Johnston" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:13 PM
> Subject: [JOHNSTON-DNA] Johnston family - the Wee Three
>
>
>> Greetings from Sunny Texas,
>>
>> Y-DNA test results have come back confirming the suspected relationship
>> of
>> 3 Johnston brothers: Francis "Frank" (b. 1805), Robert "Red Robin" (b.
>> 1808) and Archibald "Archie" (b. 1815), all born in Ireland. I call them
>> the "Wee Three" with affection as all were taller than average with my
>> gggrandfather, Red Robin, coming in at 6'-5" (and red hair).
>>
>> According to oral family history their father may have been born in
>> Scotland. We do not know his name. According to old and ancient
>> Johnston/e family genealogy provided by a newfound cousin to whom we were
>> linked by the Y-DNA tests we belong to the Johnstons in Poldean and some
>> of our ancestors were members of the Old Gang of Wamphray (Danish Viking
>> ancestry - Poldean is a 2,000 acre holding which left the family in 1742.
>> It is some 4-5 miles south of Moffatt, Scotland). Our Johnston/e family
>> left Ireland in the mid-1820's. One or more died on the crossing to
>> Upper
>> Canada, possibly including their father. A married sister stayed behind
>> in Ireland with her husband. The 3 surviving brothers settled near what
>> is now Pendleton, Ontario, Canada. They were very close to other
>> families
>> in the Pendleton area, such as Anderson, Wylie and Derby who came from
>> the
>> Magherafeldt area in Co. Derry, and it is suspected that they too may
>> have
>> come from the same locale.
>>
>> 2 of my Dad's aunts visited Ireland to find kin in the 1920's. None were
>> found living. One aunt kept a detailed journal which included the
>> tombstone inscriptions of our kin - they did find where they were buried
>> and visited their graves. Unfortunately today no one knows where the
>> journal is or where in Ireland the sisters visited.
>>
>> I have been told that in Ireland the given name "Francis" was considered
>> to be a Roman Catholic name and as such not in common use among
>> Protestant
>> Johnston/e families. Our ancestors were Presbyterian/Methodist. It is
>> possible that the father of the Wee Three married a Roman Catholic woman.
>> We do not know, but interestingly a couple of other Y-DNA cousins in the
>> States with whom we have not been able to make a paper connection yet
>> also
>> have the name "Francis" used by their Protestant Irish ancestors.
>>
>> If anyone has any information on our Wee Three or recognizes something
>> about them from their research I'd appreciate hearing from you. I've
>> been
>> beating my head against those old Irish bricks for too long (since
>> 1979) -
>> something has to give, and I hope that it isn't me... ;-)
>>
>> Here is a link to some photographs of our ancestors, including my
>> gggrandfather & gggrandmother:
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/cjmax/johnston_family_album&page=all
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Cliff. Johnston
>> "May the best you've ever seen,
>> Be the worst you'll ever see;"
>> from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
>>
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