Great
grand
parents

Gen.=+6
Charles   Johnston
-1776 of Ballee, Co. Down
  Thomas   Smyth
1737-1824 Mayor of Liverpool 1799 of The Fence, Macclesfield
  Thomas   Smyth
1737-1824 Mayor of Liverpool 1799 of The Fence, Macclesfield
  Matthew   Pickford
1741-1799
               
m. m. m. m. m. m. m. m.
Margaret   Smith Elizabeth   Blagg
1740-1814
Elizabeth   Blagg
1740-1814
Hannah   Taylor        
Grand
parents

Gen.=+5
John   Johnston
b. ABT 1745
d. 24 DEC 1828 orig. of Tobago & of Scarborough? Capt. 62nd Regiment Joined brother Hugh's business (Corn Merchant & Banker). Bought Danson Park, Kent from Sir John Boyd. Built c1766 for Sir John Boyd, is one of the finest Palladian Villas surviving in the south east. After a varied history, the house was near ruin by the 1950's. It was described by English heritage in
m. Anna   Smyth
b. ABT 1767
d. 14 NOV 1860
Edward   Smyth
b. 1768
d. 1864 Had a command in the Light Cavalry at the storming of Seringapatam, Mysore, India in 1799. He fought in the Peninsular War in Spain 1802-1812 and reached the rank of Captain. Commander of Macclesfield squadron of Cheshire Yeomanry. Mayor of Macclesfield in 1816
m. Sarah   Pickford
b. 2 OCT 1783
d. AFT 1864 of the Pickfords Removals family. Had fourteen children, six of whom were alive in 1860's.
  m.     m.  
Parents
Gen.=+4
Hugh   Johnston
b. 16 MAR 1800
d. 18 AUG 1872 of Danson Park
m. Ann   Smyth
b. 1807 about, Cheshire about, Cheshire
d. MAR 1886 After her husband died she lived at Hyde End, Brimpton, Berks with her son Edward.
  m.  
Husband,
wife &
siblings

Gen.=+3
Anna Louisa 1831-1851 baptised 6.12.1831 buried 11.10.1851
Mary Elizabeth 1833-1916 baptised 8.8.1833
Helen Bourne 1835-1888 baptised 14.3.1835
Sarah Jane (Pussy) 1838-1886
Emily Susan 1841-1927 bap. 16.7.1841
Edward John (Ted) 1843-1900 bap. 8.4.1843 of Hyde End, Brimpton, Berks
Rev. Charles Smyth 1844-1910
Rev. Hugh William (Hugo) Johnston
b. 7 FEB 1837
d. 1 SEP 1918
Vicar .Rector of North Cray, Kent, Canon of Rochester
G3, ID=1145
m.
Catherine Pauline (Kate) Luxford
b. 29 JUL 1840
d. 27 MAY 1908
G3, ID=1718
Children
Gen.=+2
Hugh Arthur Charles
b. 17 APR 1869
d. 7 JUL 1950 childless
m.
Annie Barwick
Katharine Margaret (Margie)
b. 10 AUG 1870
d. 19 NOV 1949 childless
m.
Charles John Ridgeway
b. 14 JUL 1841
d. 28 FEB 1927 Bishop of Chichester 1908-1919
Marion Louisa (May)
b. 19 DEC 1871
d. 31 MAY 1931 Victoria BC

m.
Francis Henry, Dr Stirling
b. 13 MAR 1870 Le Havre
d. 3 JUL 1931 Victoria, B.C.
Edward Harold (Tig)
b. 24 JAN 1876
d. 22 DEC 1959
m.
Mary Dunbar (May) Harper-Smith
b. 14 JUN 1872 baptised 11.7.1872
Grand
children

Gen.=+1
    Marjorie Pauline (Marty) 22 NOV 1899-1977 died of Stomach cancer
Charles Norman, Sir 19 NOV 1901-APR 1986 28th of Cadder educ Wellington, and Corpus Christi Coll Oxford (MA 1965); British Ambassador to Chile and then Portugal then lived Alton then Farnham, Hants. Buried Farnham Cemetery.
Hugh Ian Mayne (Bun) 9 JUN 1906-12 JUN 1954
Barbara Pauline (Babs) 8 APR 1908-15 SEP 1982
Margaret Lorna (Bunty) 9 MAR 1910-7 FEB 1997
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