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Hello Cousin
Welcome. Chances are you stumbled across this website because you are in some way a Johnston who for some reason remembers an old family connection to a place called Turnberry Township, a rural community in the north-east corner of Ontario's Huron County.
 A group of old trees stand near the site where the Johnstons built one of their first log homes, Concession 10, Turnberry Township, Huron County, Ontario, Canada.
You're also probably interested in family history and hoping that you just struck gold by finding a website that will finally answer all those questions about your Turnberry ancestors. Questions like where exactly in County Fermanagh did the family come from and why did they leave so suddenly for Canada? Or, who was the “lost girl” and what in the heck ever happened to her?
Alas, this website doesn't have those answers. It does, however, scratch the surface of the family's history and reflects a thorough search of the Archives of Ontario, Canadian census records from 1850 to 1915, the Anglican Diocese of Huron archives and an unhealthy amount of time rummaging through the internet for clues.
 A glimpse of the old family land on Glenannon Road, with a remnant of the once dense forest the Johnstons cleared as settlers.
Behind this website is the belief that there are members of “the clan” disconnected by the events of several lifetimes who are simultaneously wondering about the same early past and in some cases actively looking for answers to the same questions.
This website is meant to serve us as a signal, meeting place and repository for the fragments of our collective memory. A long shot pehaps, but then again here you are.
Enjoy and please help reclaim and maintain the story of a proud, modest and early Canadian family by using this website to share old photographs, documents and biographical details about your kin, the Turnberry Johnstons.
Fair faa ye.
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