JOHNSTON, Janet ^{1 3}

   Other names for Janet are JOHNESTOUN, Jonat ⁴ and JOHNSTOUN, Jonet.²

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Janet married Robert HAMILTON of Newhaven, son of George HAMILTON of Fingalton and Preston and Barbara COCKBURN, 30 September 1606 (banns) married November 1606 in Prestonpans parish, East Lothian, Scotland.^{1 2} (Robert HAMILTON of Newhaven was born about 1572 ¹ and died in 1643 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"HAMILTON
ROBERT
JONET JOHNSTOUN/FR178 (FR178)
30/09/1606
718
10 / 327
Prestonpans"

from Index of Marriages




"Robert Hamilton of Newhaven. Married, 1606, Janet, daughter of John Johnston, second son of Andrew Johnston of Elphinstone, and had a son: -

(1) Thomas (No. 527)."

from Heraldry of the Hamiltons




"His (Sir Thomas Hamilton's) father, Robert, usually styled of Newhaven, after his marriage with Janet, daughter of John Johnstone of Elphinston, (November 1606,) among other provisions, received from his brother John, a right of annualrent out of the lands of Rossaven, (13th July 1607.) Besides his son, Sir Thomas, he had several daughters :

1. Margaret, married to John Aikman of Cairny, (November 1640.)

2- Mary, to Robert, father of Sir James Oswald, (October 1642;) and, (probably,)

3. Alison, to John Bennet of Liviland."

from Memoirs of the House of Hamilton ^{1 2 3}