Rachel Johnstone

RACHEL JOHNSTONE

Stirnet: Johnstone 04

Evidence from the Edinburgh Marriage Register

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11 January 1604: Jaksoune. John, merchant ; Rachel Johnestoun. Edinburgh Marriages 1595-1700: 355

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11 January 1604: Johnstone. Rachel ; John Jaksoune, merchant. Edinburgh Marriages 1595-1700: 366

Printed Evidence

The Register of Marriages for the Parish of Edinburgh, 1595-1700. Edited by Rev. Henry Paton, MA., General Register House (Scottish Record Society, Edinburgh, 1908), 770 pp.

Genealogy

1. The Bruces of Airth and their Cadets: 93
2. Stirnet: Johnstone 04
3. Bruce of Stenhouse
4. werelate

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WILLIAM BRUCE, obtained Stenhouse from his grandfather in 1611 and was created a baronet of Nova Scotia Sept. 29, 1628. Married 1st the daughter of General Middleton of Letham and 2nd to Rachel widow of John Jackson. He built Stenhouse in about 1622. They had William Bruce, b abt 1682 and Charles Bruce.

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bruce-754

Rachel Johnston was born 1588 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, daughter of Archibald Johnston and Rachel Arnot. She was the sister of Joseph Johnston, James Johnston and Janet (Johnston) Inglis.[1]

Rachel married Johnne Jaksoune on January 11, 1604 in the parish of Edinburgh, Midlothian.[2]

Rachel and John had at least one child baptised in Edinburgh:

• Elizabeth Jacksone (bap 10 Apr 1614)[3]

She married William Bruce in 1621 (to 1630) in Stafford England. William Bruce obtained Stenhouse from his grandfather in 1611 and was created a baronet of Nova Scotia Sept. 29, 1628. Married 1st the daughter of General Middleton of Letham and 2nd to Rachel widow of John Jackson. He built Stenhouse in about 1622.

William and his first wife had at least one child:

• Jonet Bruce who married a Michael Nasmyth in 1661[1]

William had at least six children with Rachel Johnstone, all baptised in Edinburgh:

1. Williame Bruce (bap 19 Aug 1621)[2]
2. Jeane Bruce (bap 22 Sep 1622)[3]
3. Rachel Bruce (bap 1 Feb 1625) [4]
4. James Bruce (bap 23 Jan 1628)[5]
5. Jonet Bruce (bap 6 May 1629)[6]
6. Archebald Bruce (bap 9 Jul 1630)[7]

William Bruce died in February 1630 and his will was confirmed in Stirling Commissary Court on 9 June 1630.[8][9]

References

• https://tompaterson.co.uk/bruce/BruceStenhouse.htm
• “The Bruces of Airth and their cadets.” Bruces of Stenhouse. Page 93 - 95. Archive.Org
• 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