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County architectural surveyor for County Clare and County Offaly.

Frances Sarah Johnston, eldest child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802-1872) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), was born 14 Feb 1830. She was the eldest of nine children. On 14 Feb 1846 she married Adam Murray Stewart (d. 1855). They had two daughters. In 1853 she started writing reviews and articles for the Freeman's Journal, the Nation, and other Dublin papers and periodicals. Adam Murray Stewart died on 6 Nov 1855, so Frances moved with her two daughters to London. There she started writing for the Morning Post, and the Spectator. In 1865, she began writing a story, 'Buried in the Deep' for the Chambers' Journal, where she continued to contribute articles until 1894. She wrote a total of eleven novels, five of which were published under the name of Edmund Yates. Frances remarried on 6 Feb 1858 to John Baptist Cashel Hoey (1828-1892), a writer and journalist. Her husband John died on 7 January 1892. Frances Cashel Hoey died on 9 July 1908, and was buried in the churchyard of the Benedictine church at Little Malvern, Worcestershire.

John Baptist Cashel Hoey, the eldest son of Cashel Fitzsimons Hoey, of Dundalk, County Louth, was born 25 October 1828. He attended St Patrick's College, Armagh. From 1849-57 he was the editor of The Nation newspaper. On 6 Feb 1858 he married widow Frances Sarah Stewart. In 1861 he was called to the bar at Middle Temple. From 1865-78 he was the sub editor for the Dublin Review. He the Agent General in London for the state of Victoria, Australia from 1872-3. The following year he became secretary to the Agent-General for New Zealand, which he remained until 1879. In 1880 he became secretary to the London committees for the Melbourne International Exhibition until 1888. During his life he became a Knight of the Order of Malta, the contemporary continuation of the medieval Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem. John Cashel Hoey died in London on 7 Jan 1892.