Hoey, Frances Cashel

Person

Hoey, Frances Cashel

• Stewart, Frances Sarah
• Johnston, Frances Sarah

14 Feb 1830 - 9 Jul 1908

Frances Sarah Johnston, eldest child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802-1872) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), was born 14 Feb 1830. She was the eldest of nine children. On 14 Feb 1846 she married Adam Murray Stewart (d. 1855). They had two daughters. In 1853 she started writing reviews and articles for the Freeman's Journal, the Nation, and other Dublin papers and periodicals. Adam Murray Stewart died on 6 Nov 1855, so Frances moved with her two daughters to London. There she started writing for the Morning Post, and the Spectator. In 1865, she began writing a story, 'Buried in the Deep' for the Chambers' Journal, where she continued to contribute articles until 1894. She wrote a total of eleven novels, five of which were published under the name of Edmund Yates. Frances remarried on 6 Feb 1858 to John Baptist Cashel Hoey (1828-1892), a writer and journalist. Her husband John died on 7 January 1892. Frances Cashel Hoey died on 9 July 1908, and was buried in the churchyard of the Benedictine church at Little Malvern, Worcestershire.

Dublin, Ireland
Paris, France
London, England
Little MaIvern, Worcestershire, England

Charles Bolton Johnston (1802–1872), son of Charles Johnston (b.1780), was born 2 October 1802. On 20 April 1828 he married Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), fifth child of Bernard Shaw (1775-1826) and Sarah Forster. From 1830 to 1851 they had nine children: Frances Sarah (1830-1908); Agnes Maria (1831-1847); Charles Edward “Boxer” (1832-1900); George; Rhoda Charlotte (d. 1839); Florence (1842-1921); Madelaine Harriet (1843-1922); and Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston (1851-1885).

Frances Sarah Johnston (1830-1908), eldest child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802-1872) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), was born 14 Feb 1830. On 14 February 1846 she married Adam Murray Steward, and they had two daughters. He died 6 November 1855. Frances Sarah Murray remarried 6 February 1858 to John Baptist Cashel Hoey (1828-1892). Frances Cashel Hoey died in 1908.

Florence Johnston (1842-1921), fifth child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802-1872) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), was born 5 March 1842. She married Major George Francis Gamble (1837-1912), and they had one daughter, Cléonice Gamble (1884-1967), who in 1906 married Sir William James Norman Cooke-Collis. Major George Gamble died 22 February 1912. Florence Gamble died eleven years later on 28 February 1921.

Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston (1851-1885), eighth child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802-1872) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), was born 1 Jan 1851. In August of 1874, he married Maria Blanche Plunkett-Johnston (1848-1903). They had two children, Charles Henry (b. 1875), and Constance Charlotte (1876-1959). Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston died at the age of thirty-four in 1885.

Johnston Family

Johnston, Charlotte Jane (6 Jan 1809 - 22 Jan 1890)

Johnston, Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett (1 Jan 1851 - 2 Mar 1885)

Gamble, Florence

Hoey, John Cashel (25 Oct 1828 – 7 Jan 1892)

Shaw, Bernard

Shaw, Frances (Carr) (1781 - 9 May 1871)

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Jennifer Lee, July 2018

• English

Crawford, Fred D. Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Volume 18. Pennsylvania: Penn State Press, 1998, 12-19.