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Welcome! This is a very much "in progress" web site reflecting my very much "in progress" (sometimes slow or none) efforts to identify the origins and all descendants of two brothers, Christopher Gibson and John Gibson, and of the second husband of the widow (Elizabeth Gray) of Christopher, Thomas Johnston. All three of these men were born in Northern Ireland and by the early 1840's were living in Pickering Township in what later became Ontario County, Ontario, but which in the early 1840s was in the Home District of Canada West, although many still referred to Canada West by its then-recently obsolete name of Upper Canada. This effort is ultimately designed to bring back together the far-flung descendants of these men. The reasons for that are both for the present re-connection of the family and also for the effort to learn more about the family's history in Northern Ireland. While she is not named in the title, the search also includes the search for the origins of Elizabeth Gray. In 1922, Public Record Office in Dublin was destroyed in the Battle of the Four Courts at the start of Ireland's Civil War. Most of the historical records of the centuries of the lives of all families across Ireland prior to the 1820s were suddenly gone. Thus it is my hope that the bits and pieces of family stories and photos and heirlooms that have survived in the various branches of our family, as well as genetic genealogy DNA test results of living descendants, can somehow bridge the gap that exists in the official paper trail. |
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Contact InformationSend E-mail to wwjohnston01@yahoo.com |