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The first of the clan to be recorded was John Johnstone, whose son, Gilbert, is found in records after 1194. [3] Sir John Johnstone was a knight of the county of Dumfries . [ 3 ] He is found on the Ragman Rolls of 1296, swearing fealty to Edward I of England . [ 3 ]
James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun; James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell; James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of Annandale; John Hope-Johnstone (1796–1876) John Hope-Johnstone (photographer) John Hope-Johnstone (1842–1912)
He subscribed a bond of alliance with Lord James Johnstone, son of the slain Lord Johnstone, and for some time the two clans lived in peace. However, the feud was revived in 1593 when Johnstone of Wamphray who was a relation of Lord Johnstone, along with some friends, went to Nithsdale and took away a horse which belonged to Crichton of ...
The title therefore descended through the female line in the person of Lady Henrietta Johnstone (who married Charles the First Earl of Hopetoun) to Patrick Hope-Johnstone. The current earl holds the subsidiary title of Lord Johnstone (1662), in the peerage of Scotland. The family seat is Raehills, near Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire.
Lady Jane Douglas (c.1698–1753); a distant relative and family friend who helped Johnstone escape to France in 1746.. James Johnstone was born 25 July 1719, only son of Jeremy Boone Johnstone, an Edinburgh merchant; his mother was a distant relative of Lady Jane (or Jean) Douglas (c.1698–1753), later the centre of a famous inheritance case known as the Douglas Cause. [1]
William Johnstone, 2nd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, 1st Marquess of Annandale KT (17 February 1664 – 14 January 1721) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Annandale and Hartfell and Henrietta Douglas. He succeeded to the Earldom of Annandale and Hartfell on the death of his father in 1672.
The unusual name derives from its use to hide stolen cattle by the Border Reivers of the Johnstone clan who were referred to by their enemies as "devils"; it is also called Marquis of Annandale's Beef-Tub (or Beef-Stand) after the Lord of Annandale, chief of the raiding "loons" (here meaning "lads", rather than "lunatics"); the name may also refer to the resemblance the valley bears to a tub ...
The habitational surname Johnstone / Johnston is in most cases derived from the name of Johnstone located in Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.This surname is derived from the genitive case of the given name John and tone or toun ("settlement" in Middle English; tun in Old English), literally meaning "John's town".