This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Johnston Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JU.2ADI/506.1 Message Board Post: Just curious if you found out any more information on your John Caldwell Johnston as my John Caldwell Johnston is the more documented John Caldwell Johnston. From what I know is that about three or so Johnston brothers along with possibly their father immigrated from Ireland to the British Colony of America before the Revolutionary War possibly to Kentucky while another three or so Johnston brothers immigrated the the U.S. after the Revolutionary War from Ireland arriving in possibly Charleston, S.C. I think the majority of the brothers, although I am still researching, joined up and moved to Alabama in the 1830s or 1840s and remained in Alabama for a number of decades, mainly in Greene County, Clarke County, and Choctaw County, Alabama before some of he Johnston offspring moved to various places including my great grandfather and one or two of his brothers moved to Oklahoma. Why I am saying this is that I have noticed that in this Johnston family in was not uncommon for brothers to name their children after the exact same name of one of their other brothers. The original wave of Johnston brothers, the pre-revolutionary war immigrants, would have had to have moved either on their own or to meet their other post-revolutionary war immigrant brothers in South Carolina meaning that the pre-revolutionary brothers most likely came down through North Carolina to end up in South Carolina either as settlers before their other brothers immigrated or to meet their other brothers in South Carolina. It seems that the whole large Johnston clan moved to Alabama during the entire mid 1800 including pre and post Civil War. Do you think that our Johnston relatives are related as my John Caldwell Johnston who lived in Alabama but is a generation or so older than your John Caldwell Johnston. Maybe one of my John Caldwell Johnston's nephews was named John Caldwell Johnston, or a nephew of my John Caldwell Johnston name a son John Caldwell Johnston, but I am still researching non-direct blood relatives. One of my direct blood relatives is a Sarah E. Ezell born in North Carolina, ca. 1841, before she ended up in Georgia and then through Alabama to Texas. So, many things in genealogy seem to be coincidences which never amount to anything other than just a coincidence. Please let me know if you think that there could be a connection to my many Johnstons who immigrated from Ireland. Thanks. Mike Smith (Michael Johnston Smith), San Antonio, Texas [email protected]