Johnston, Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett

Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston, the eighth child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802–1872) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809–1890), was born 1 Jan 1851 at Mount Jerome in Dublin. By the age of six he could recite 23 poems, and was sent to Anglesey Collegiate school. At eleven years old he passed the Oxford Local Examination, and was the youngest of 330 successful candidates to pass with a star opposite their name. From Anglesey he went on to Clifton College. He married Maria Blanche Fuller at Clara Church in August 1874. They had a son named Charles Henry in 1875 who died as an infant, and a daughter named Constance Charlotte, born 13 Nov 1876. Dalkieth Holmes Plunkett-Johnston died 2 March 1885.

Johnston Genealogy
Charles Bolton Johnston (1802–1872), son of Charles Johnston (b.1780), was born 2 October 1802. On 20 April 1828 he married Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), fifth child of Bernard Shaw (1775-1826) and Sarah Forster. From 1830 to 1851 they had nine children: Frances Sarah (1830-1908); Agnes Maria (1831-1847); Charles Edward “Boxer” (1832-1900); George; Rhoda Charlotte (d. 1839); Florence (1842-1921); Madelaine Harriet (1843-1922); and Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston (1851-1885).

Frances Sarah Johnston (1830-1908), eldest child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802-1872) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), was born 14 Feb 1830. On 14 February 1846 she married Adam Murray Steward, and they had two daughters. He died 6 November 1855. Frances Sarah Murray remarried 6 February 1858 to John Baptist Cashel Hoey (1828-1892). Frances Cashel Hoey died in 1908.

Florence Johnston (1842-1921), fifth child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802-1872) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), was born 5 March 1842. She married Major George Francis Gamble (1837-1912), and they had one daughter, Cléonice Gamble (1884-1967), who in 1906 married Sir William James Norman Cooke-Collis. Major George Gamble died 22 February 1912. Florence Gamble died eleven years later on 28 February 1921.

Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston (1851-1885), eighth child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802-1872) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), was born 1 Jan 1851. In August of 1874, he married Maria Blanche Plunkett-Johnston (1848-1903). They had two children, Charles Henry (b. 1875), and Constance Charlotte (1876-1959). Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston died at the age of thirty-four in 1885.

Jennifer Lee, September 2018.