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Which Douglas line are you researching? Dates and places help making connections.: My Great grandmother nee Emily Douglas

Who is your earliest known Douglas ancestor?: Alexander Douglas

alexander Douglas was a shoemaker in Logierait Perthshire. He married Margaret Macpherson of Nuide. The Macphersons of Nuide were the latest line of clan chieftains. Emily claimed close kinship with the Cluny macpherson but if this was true I expect it was illegitimately

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At 0:30 on March 5, 2012, Ken Douglas said…: Maybe we can speed up the process of this conversation by exchanging email addresses? BUT I don't want that info public. Is there some way we can exchange emails here in private ?

At 0:28 on March 5, 2012, Ken Douglas said…: Hi Sue,

Your info toes in nicely with what I know. My G grandfather, Donald, is listed as a steward of the Royal Scottish Society on my info showing the birth of my G Grandfather's. Wow! looks like you just added heaps to my search. I have been doing everything by the Net from Canada and Australia (we spend 6 months in each) and were planning on coming over to England to follow-up. Using the Net helps but is slow. I am 98% sure that J.D. is the same J.D. who came to Canada and died in Toronto. Buried, I believe, in Prospect Cemetary, Mount Pleasent (Toronto)

At 18:15 on March 4, 2012, William Douglas said…: Welcome to our Community Network, Susan.

Douglases of Logierait crop up from time to time here, but I have never managed to sort them all out.

Amy Walden is also searching similar lines.

You might find some helpful information on her page.

Yours aye,

William

At 12:55 on March 4, 2012, Ken Douglas said…: Sue,

On second thought, after reading your comment again, it is possible. I know John's father was Alexander Douglas. I know nothing else about him including his wife's name...

Ring a bell?

Ken

At 12:51 on March 4, 2012, Ken Douglas said…: Hi Sue,

I think your John Donald Douglas and mine are different people. Mine was married to Marie Louise Gouyn, not a McPherson. And my JDD was a steward in the Royal Scotish Society.

Cheers

At 9:49 on March 4, 2012, Susan Christie said…: sorry meant his mother was a macpherson

At 9:48 on March 4, 2012, Susan Christie said…: I joined this website as I have recently come across some history of my G Grandmother's family. Her maiden name was Emily Sarah Douglas and her father was Donald Douglas, b1813 in Logierait, Perthshire. He worked in London -in 1851 as steward of the Archery Club in Hanover Gardens Peckham. His wife was a McPherson of Nuid=probably illegitimately-and I wonder if her connections got him the job in London. My mother remembers Emily Douglas asa formidable old lady clad in black with a lace cap.

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