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- Which Douglas line are you researching? Dates and places help making connections.
- Grandmother Minnie Cunningham Rude; great-grandmother Lenora Douglas Rude; great-great grandfather Robbins Douglass Jr.; great-great-great Robbins Douglass Sr.; 4th great, John Douglass; 5th great, Asa Douglass Jr.; 6th great, Asa Douglass Sr.; 7th great, William, 8th great; William, 9th great, and William, 10th great-grandfather, my immigrant ancestor.
- Who is your earliest known Douglas ancestor?
- William Douglas, arrived in "colonies" in 1640
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Hi Barbara,
I'm very glad to see you here. I've been hoping you would join this discussion sometime because you posted some data about William and Anne Motley Douglass a number of years ago (on the Douglas board at Ancestry) that I would like to know more about.
"Here's a rundown of my "line" - you'll notice many of the names you mentioned in your reply. If you're interested in more information on these ancestors, I'd be very glad to share what I have with you.
Starting with the earliest I know of, then listing their sons from whom I descend:
- Robert Douglas, born June 8, 1588, in Ringstead, England or Edinborough, Scotland, unsure. His first wife's surname was possibly Heaton. His second wife, unknown name, was born about 1587-88 or 1592 in Scotland. One of Robert's marriages took place in 1609 in Ringstead.
- William Douglas, born in Scotland on Aug. 9, 1610 and christened Sept. 8 of the following year in Glasgow. He is said to have been born in Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright, Mosses of Cree, Galloway, Scotland (I love that address!) He settled in Boston in 1640, died in 1660 (some say July 20 or 26, 1682) in New London, Conn.
Married an Ann Mattle (born and christened in 1610 in Ringstead) in about 1635-6, in Ringstead or Scotland, and died Sept. 16 (1685 or 1691) in New London, Conn. Her parents were married in 1593 in Ringstead; her father Thomas was born and christened Oct. 5, 1575 in Ringstead; her mother, name not known, was born in 1573."
Where does the date of Robert's birth come from? And his m in Ringstead, Northants. Same for the source of the dob for William in 1610. If you have proof that we can work from, there are many Douglas descendants that would really like to see it. It will solve some problems we've encountered in finding William's ancestry.
Betsey H Howes (William, Robert, William, William, Abigail Douglass b 1747 NJ m James Lewis Mendham NJ)