Link to They Came, Stayed and Prospered

A quick link to your pioneering ancestor

By clicking a link on morris.id.au you have sought further information about an ancestor of the Johnston or related families. Your ancestor may have married and/or remarried into the Crawford and Staines family lines in Kiama and then Lismore/Ballina areas of New South Wales. A separate website ‘They Came, They Stayed & They Prospered’ provides the information you seek. The site is a tribute to some of our pioneering ancestors, who immigrated to Australia between 1841 and 1883,

To find out more about your pioneering ancestor please substitute his/her details instead of those used in the David Johnston example shown below.

The following example finds information about David Johnston b. 9 October 1845, d. 27 December 1936:

• Go to the ‘They Came, They Stayed & They Prospered’ site and select J from the index of all surnames

  (https://www.theycametheystayed.com/surname_index.htm)

• Select Johnston from list of all surnames

• Select David b. 9 October 1845, d. December 1936 from list of Johnston surnames

• Congratulations, you have located the information about David Johnston.

Sometimes our embedded link on morris.id.au to the ‘They Came, They Stayed & They Prospered’ website failed to find the correct ancestor. This is caused whenever changes or updates are made to the ‘They Came, They Stayed & They Prospered’ site. But by following the above directions a link that failed to give the correct information is now avoided.

Most of all when searching for your forebear, remember to replace the identifying information used in the above example with your ancestors correct details.