"Our Johnston / Botham Family Tree Home Page"

This Family page has been created to try to find and communicate with our family around the world, so that we can enter them in our "FAMILY TREE" for future generations to share. My husband’s side of the family (JOHNSTON) is mainly from Scotland, USA & Canada and my side (BOTHAM) are mainly from England and Ireland, although to my delight we have found a Scottish connection. Below are just some of the family names we are looking for.

JOHNSTON. FORSYTH. CURRIE. McDOUGALL. CASKIE. McDEARMID. PEARSON.

BOTHAM. FLINT. WETTON, SPRAKE. HORE. REDMOND. WILSON.

Ian and I were both born in Derbyshire, in England, and we were married in Whitley Bay also in England on 30th August 1966, we then sailed out to Australia three months later in November 1966 on the ship “Castel Felice”. When we first arrived we had two years in Melbourne, arriving in a heat wave, just in time for Christmas, a very different experience for us. Two years later we went to live and work in Papua New Guinea and were there for about eight years, also a very different and wonderful experience. Our time travelling and working all around PNG was the best time of our lives, an adventure in paradise. When our daughter Nicole was eighteen months old in 1974, we returned to Australia to live in Brisbane, another beautiful place, we can certainly pick the best places to live. We also had two years in Mt Isa, at the top of Queensland, an "Outback" paradise indeed! and now that we are retired, we live in beautiful Tasmania, the little Island at the bottom of Australia which is very much like Scotland and has temperatures almost the same sometimes.

Since the age of seventeen, I, Jennifer, worked as a hairdresser, I had two hairdressing salons of my own in Brisbane which I sold a number of years ago. My husband Ian joined the Merchant Navy at the age of sixteen and a half, and was at sea for almost five years. He then left the navy and joined the English Police Force. When we came to Australia he joined the Police here and later on was Officer in Charge of the Queensland Mounted Police until he retired in 2002; our daughter Nicole is also a Police Officer, now in the Mounties, doing general duties, parades and escorts etc just like her dad. She and her husband, also an Ian, had a beautiful baby boy on 2 May 2004, named Callum Alister Linton. The Alister is after her Dad, Ian Alister Johnston.

While I have been trying to find new branches and twigs for our "TREE" on the internet, I have found quite a few members of Ian's family in the USA & Canada (FORSYTH’s & CURRIE’s) we have shared some excellent information on our families, by email and snail mail. We hope one day to all get together for a reunion. I have recently found some members of my father’s side of the family too, (BOTHAM & FLINT) which was very exciting for me. I have also found (or they found me, through this web site) some of the relatives on my Mothers side of the family and I hope that will be very fruitful too...

We hope to find a lot more family members, or just help someone else to do the same. Please feel free to contact us if you think we can help each other with our search for more twigs and branches, even a few leaves will do! Check out the links below to see our Family Reports. Just click on the "coloured underlined numbers" to see each generation. The information has been "Privatized" to protect the family members who are still alive, but if you would like information on these members, please email me and I will try to help as much as I can. Also check out our family photos, you just might see someone who looks like you?

Nice talking to you all, and happy hunting.
Kind regards, Jenny (nee Botham) & Ian Johnston.

GEDCOM Trees (viewing trees requires 4.0 or later)

• Johnston/Botham Family Tree (252 KB)
  These are all the people in our Tree.

Family Photos

• The BOTHAM Grandchildren. (8 KB)
  This is Arthur Botham 1887 to 1971 & his wife Amelia Leah (nee Flint) Botham 1886 to 1960. These are all their grandchildren, from the back, L to R, Pat Botham, Andrew Burton, John Burton, Michael Botham, Leslie Botham, Front row, Jennifer Botham (me), John Botham (my brother), & Helen Botham.
• Nicole & Ian's wedding (37 KB)
  Saying their vows, 10th may 2003
• The Wedding of Ian & Jennifer Johnston 1966 (12 KB)
  The bridesmaids were, left, Marjorie Reay & Irene McCaulay, the little flower girl was Jeanette Rutterford, and the best man was my cousin, Michael Botham. The wedding was at Whitley Bay Congregational Church, Northumberland, England. 30th August 1966. The little girl on the left in blue is Morag Webster (nee Morrison).
• Nikki on her Mounted Police Horse "Prince" (45 KB)
  The Mounted Police Escort at Nikki & Ian's wedding.
• Our Wedding 1966 (21 KB)
  This is the photo that was in our local newspaper when we were married on 30th August 1966.
• John McDougal Johnston, Beth & Marion. (14 KB)
  This is Ian's paternal grandfather, with his sister Marion Currie (nee Johnston) Heaton on the right and Beth Myers on the left.
• The new family. (54 KB)
  John Botham, Sylvia Botham (nee Hore), Ian Johnston, Jennifer Johnston (nee Botham), Nicole Linton (nee Johnston) Ian Linton, Aaron Botham (John's son) hiden by hat, Alison & Alan Crook Nikki's God parents.
• BOTHAM & FLINT (56 KB)
  My Grandmother Amelia Leah Flint and Grandfather, Arthur Botham.
• The Currie/Caskie Family (10 KB)
  Four generations of the Caskie family. Standing is Kate McIntyre, sitting is, Catherine Currie holding Alistair McIntyre, & Margaret Caskie.
• Tapeweavers at work. (85 KB)
  1st, Henry (Harry) Botham. 4th, Ernest Botham. 5th George Botham. What a fantastic photo, I love it, I would love to have a date for it?
• John Hore (22 KB)
  John Hore was my maternal grandfather, born 1891 died 1947. He married my grandmother Hannah (nee Wilson) Hore.
• Callum and his granddad 1 Sept 04 (533 KB)
  Callum Alister Linton and Ian Alister Johnston his proud granddad, having fun.
• Jennifer Johnston (nee Botham). (138 KB)
  This is a slimmer version of me, at Christmas dinner 2000
• John Forsyth & Elizabeth Pearson (22 KB)
  These were my husbands maternal grandparents, John born 1874 and Elizabeth born 1875.
• John Botham & Helen Reid got married. (265 KB)
  24th September 2004, don't they look happy, they eloped.....
• BOTHAM & WETTON (12 KB)
  From left to right is, Mary Ann Botham (nee Wetton), Iris (Lilly's daughter), Lilly Cook (nee Hunt), Polly Hunt (nee Botham, married to Tom Hunt) Henry Botham. Mary & Henry are my great grandparents.
• The Caskie Family (17 KB)
  In the back row are, L to R Dougie, John, Archie, Neil, Donald, Tom & Harry Caskie. Sitting are, Margaret Caskie (ne Currie) Neil Murdoch Caskie & Kate McIntyre (nee Caskie). Donald Caskie wrote a book about his own life called "The Tartan Pimpernel" which was the name given to him during WWll.
• Sen Serg Ian Johnston & Constable Nicole Johnston (68 KB)
  In Queensland Mounted Police Ceremonial Uniform with thier troop horses, Toby & Prince. ANZAC Day 2002, the one and only big parade they did together before Ian retired that year.
• Jennifer & Ian Johnston (15 KB)
  This is the Police McDonald tartan, worn by the Queensland Police Pipe Band, not the Johnston tartan. Photo taken on New Years Eve 1998
• Family Christmas 2001 (195 KB)
  At Mum's in Brisbane, back row,L to R, John Botham, Ian Linton (Nikki's partner) Ian Johnston. Center, Nikki Johnston, Jenny Johnston (nee Botham), John Botham Snr & Sylvia Botham (nee Hore).

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• Genealogy Report: Descendants of John Johnston


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Peter Currie


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of William Edwin Flint


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of William Botham


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of James Hore (View PDF)