William Johnston

Born [date unknown] in Ireland

Husband of Anne (Sproule) Holmes — married 1800 (to 1801) in Ireland

Died 1801 in Ederney, County Fermanagh, Ireland

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Biography

William Johnston married Anne Sproule in 1800 in Fermanagh, Ireland.^[1][2] They had one son, William.^[1][2] He passed away in 1801 in Fermanah, Ireland.^[1][2]

Research Notes

ANNE SPROULE OF CURRAGHAMULKIN was born in 1771 and she married three husbands. First she married LEONARD INCH in 1792. He was born in 1770 and died in 1798 in Ederney Bridge, Fermanagh, Irleland. (Buried at Drumquin). She next married WILLIAM JOHNSTON in 1800 and he died in 1801. Anne married JOHN HOLMES on 15 Oct 1802 in St. Marys Church, Ardess, Magheraculmoney. Both John Holmes and his wife Anne Sproule died in 1813.^[1]

"My father, Nathaniel Inch, was born at Ederney Bridge, County Fermanagh, Ireland on the 5th of November, 1797. His father (Leonard Inch) died a few months after the son's birth, and the mother (nee Ann Sproule) was left with three children, the eldest of whom was only 5 years old. Thus left a widow at the age of 26, she married a second time, in 1800, a man by the name of William Johnstone, who died in 1801 leaving an infant son named William. Three years afterwards she married a third time a man by the name of Holmes, by whom she had five children, all daughters. She died in 1813, and her husband (Holmes) died ten days afterwards. The eldest child (Elizah Inch) had died in 1811. The remaining eight children were left orphans when the eldest was only 18 years old and youngest only 2."^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Sproule Genealogy. The Genealogy of the Sproule family of Donegal and Tyrone. Kate Tammemagi. Blog post Tuesday, 3 June 2014.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} The Inch Family of Ulster, Ireland and New Brunswick, Canada. Compiled and Printed for the Members of the Family exclusively, by the youngest son of Nathaniel Inch, Sr. Sackville, N.B. April 1912.