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    Mary Emmaline Haycock's mother was Eliza Jane Johnston.  She was born in Quebec, migrated to Ontario and came to Lakeport about 1883 brought, I'm sure, with her Haycock family courtesy of Thomas Haycock.  This is what I know about her part of the family.

James JOHNSTON was born in 1810 in , Ireland. He died in , Ontario, Canada.

    The name Johnston or Johnstone is prevalent in the south of Scotland.

    Note from Ken Haycock in June, '00: The last I knew no one had determined where the  Johnston family came     from in Ireland. I found the burial site for James Johnston in Lakeside Methodist Cemetery in Oxford Co., Ont. and it says he died on 12 Mar 1871 at age 59 yrs, 11 months and a native  of County SLIGO, Ireland.

James married Mary MORRISON. Mary was born in , Ireland.

    Morisons were early inhabitants of the Isle of Lewis and Harris and were associated  with the McDonalds.

James and Mary had the following children:
 

             William JOHNSTON.

             William married Emaline HAYCOCK, daughter of Otis HAYCOCK and Anna Eliza  PHILLIPS, in Feb 1861 in St. Mary's, Perth, Ontario, Canada. Emaline was born in 1832.

    Married in St. Mary's, Perth.  There is a St. Mary's in Perth Co. N.W. of Oxford Co.; Abram Meddaugh's second wife m. her first husband there.

             Eliza Jane JOHNSON was born in Quebec on 21 Mar 1841 and died on 10 Mar 1932.

    She was my g'grandma.

             Rebecca JOHNSTON was born in 1842 in , Quebec, Canada.

             Rebecca married George HAYCOCK, son of Otis HAYCOCK and Anna Eliza
             PHILLIPS, on 21 Oct 1861 in , Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. George was born in
             1837 in Burford, Ontario, Canada.

             Mary Anne JOHNSTON was born in 1845.

             Susan JOHNSTON was born in 1850 in , Quebec, Canada.

             James JOHNSTON was born in 1850 in , Quebec, Canada.

    A note on the ClanJohnston page says:

Ulster Johnston(e)s

During the early 1600s, many Johnston(e)s migrated to Ulster, which was then an unsettled frontier. It has been said that there are now more Johnston(e)s in Northern Ireland than in Scotland! Many of these Johnston(e)s subsequently migrated to America.

Here are links to the [Clan Johnston Heritage Page],  [the Clan Morrison Society,]  and the [Morrison Resource Center.]


An Aside

        My GG'Pa was Charles William Haycock.  He married Eliza Jane Johnston in Ontario in 1861.  I have not a lot of information on the family history.
    However, a couple of chance incidents led to some interesting insights.  These were first, my father mentioned once that an aunt told him that the family was related to the Stuarts (his only aunts were Haycocks) and second, when he bought me a lap robe for my first car (a '41 Dodge with no heater), he could not get a Stuart tartan but was happy to find a MacDonald tartan.
    A recent trip to Ireland and Scotland allowed us to get information that would be harder to find here.      First, Johnston is a very Scottish name; the t is intentional.  The Johnstons were from the area of the English border; Perth is said to at one time have been John'sTown.  The name shows up in Ireland in  Ulster or the "Scotch-Irish" or "Ulster Irish" area.  Migration to Canada was a minor event as they were both part of the British Empire requiring no formal immigration; I have not yet seen James on a passenger list.
    Second, Morison (one or two r's) is also very Scotch also showing up in Ireland as "Ulster Irish".  The Morisons had clan status on the upper part of the island of Lewis and Harris (yes, the Harris of Harris Tweed which come from the lower part).  The name is traced back to the Viking days.  The Morisons were the lawyers and judges for the MacDonald clan the MacDonald being the "Laird of the Isles".  I have seen where the Morisons fought along with the MacDonalds and, I believe, did so at the battle of Cullodin under Charles Stuart "Bonnie Prince Charlie" or "Balmy Prince Chuck" depending on how you look at it.  After losing at Cullodin, many of the Scots found it well to remove themselves to Ireland where they did not always fare better or to the new world.  There are records of Morisons in Quebec since the 1700s.

    The connection of course is still speculative.


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