G’day to you all, My name is Bruce Johnston. I’m attempting to trace the lineage of my gf, William Joseph JOHNSTON, and at this stage I’m particularly interested in records for his family for about the past 100 years. What I have been able to obtain so far is that he was listed with several occupations in Belfast from 1898 to 1949. Known bibliography is as follows: William Joseph JOHNSTON (father James JOHNSTON, farmer) b. abt 1875, m. 30 Dec 1898 in Lisburn Rd RO to Ellen BLAIN b. 2 Oct 1880, d. 29 Oct 1918 at 213 Belmont Road. Elizabeth Jane JOHNSTON  b. 3 Jun 1900 at 14 Kilronan Street. Annie Ethel JOHNSTON  b.16 Aug 1903 at 52 Mountcollyer Street  d.21 Jan 1904. William Joseph JOHNSTON (my father)  b. 23 Feb 1905 at 52 Mountcollyer Street, m. Evelyn Isabel BILLETT in Manly NSW Australia, d. 13 Nov 1963 at St.Leonards NSW. Thomas John Albert JOHNSTON  b. 6 Sep 1906 at 52 Mountcollyer Street, d. 15 Apr 1934 at 31 Bloomfield Road. Ellen JOHNSTON  b.  28 Jun 1908 at 59 Gainsboro Drive. Agnes Florence JOHNSTON  b. 24 Feb 1910 at 68 Gainsboro Drive. James Andrew Stewart JOHNSTON  b. 22 Sep 1911 at 127 Belmont Road. William Joseph JOHNSTON Senior died 18 Jan 1949 at 207 Belmont Road aged 73 years. The house number had been changed from 213 to 207 during the period 1918-1949. He was buried in the City Cemetery Belfast and he was listed as the grave owner. His will dated 23 Sep 1927, which was drawn up just after my father came to Australia for a holiday and stayed only to be cut out of the will, was probated at Belfast on 7 Mar 1950. This document refers to Elizabeth Jane JOHNSTON  as his wife and includes another son James Clark Miller JOHNSTON and two more daughters Mabel JOHNSTON and Kathleen JOHNSTON. Properties bequeathed in the will are 207 Belmont Road, 36 to 40 Swift Street, 48 to 66 Swift Street, 37 Mount Street, 57 and 59 Woodstock Road, 112 to 118 Disraeli Street, premises in Montrose Street and Albertsbridge Road (no numbers given) 1 to 23 Deacon Street, and 32 to 68 Gainsborough Drive. His solicitor, James A CULBERT of 11 Chichester Street and John HARRISON, grocer, of 293 Newtownards Road, were Executors and Trustees. With the exception, naturally, of my father, William Joseph JOHNSTON Jnr, I do not have any knowledge whatsoever of the remaining family and what became of them, although I do have an old small snapshot which on the reverse states “Florence in Johannesburg” and naming her a my father’s sister. Any information would be very much gratefully accepted as at the moment there is a fairly sizable gap in that part of my family tree. Regards to everyone. Bruce Johnston