Janet Johnston

Not the same as Janet Johnston, of Hilton

Jonet/Janet Johnstone married (1) James Skene, (2) James Inglis.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Johnston-3305

Lady Janet Johnston was born about 1580 in Edinburgh Scotland, [the daughter of Archibald Johnston and Rachel Arnot. The sister of Joseph Johnston, James Johnston and Rachel (Johnston) Bruce. [1] ??]

Janet married Sir James, First Baronet Skene. They were the parents of:

1. Sir John (Skene) Skene of Curriehill 2nd Bt,
2. Rachel (Skene) Douglas,
3. Euphame (Skene) Inglis and
4. Helen (Skene) Erskine

Disputed Origins

“ His wife was Janet Johnston, daughter of Sir John Johnston of Hilton.”

Sources

• Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston, Lord Wariston Author: Scottish History Society; Constable, T. and A., Edinburgh; Warriston, Archibald Johnston, Lord, 1611-1663; Mar, John Erskine, earl of, 1675-1732; Grant, Anne MacVicar, 1755-1838. Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society 1896. Page: 1 to 33. Archive.Org When Sir James Skene, President of the Court, failed, notwithstanding the King's orders, to be present at the Kirk of Edinburgh on Easter Day 1619 to receive the Communion kneeling as prescribed by one of the Articles of Perth, his absence was ascribed by some ' not to conscience, but to dissuasions of his mother-in-law' (Rachel Arnot) ' and her daughter, his wife "* (Jonet Johnstoun), 'a religious gentlewoman.^ The other daughter, Rachel, was no doubt of the same way of thinking. Her eldest son. Sir William Bruce of Stenhouse, was a ruling elder in James Guthrie's separate Presbytery, which was composed of the most extreme or Remonstrant members of the party.- And Burnet wrote of his own mother, ' Guthry, the ' chief of their preachers, was hid in my mothers house, who ' was bred to her brother Waristoun's principles, and could ' never be moved from them.' ^ The steadfastness of some of Wariston's own children to his principles will be afterwards noticed. - Page n26
• peerage.com Janet Johnston, #527940
• “Memorials of the family of Skene of Skene, from the family papers, with other illustrative documents.” Page 113. Archive.Org