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Which Douglas line are you researching? Dates and places help making connections.
None really. Scottish ancestors are supposed to have come back from the battle of Teba (1330). Later Walter Stutt left Roxburgh (?) went to France along with the Douglases in 1419 and settled in France. I am looking for documents or history about this period.

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At 11:34 on April 21, 2012, William Douglas said…

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In 1419 there landed at La Rochelle 150 men-at-arms and 300 archers, from Scotland. Over the course of the next six years 17,000 men would disembark from Glasgow to make the same journey. They formed the basis of the only armies the French could put in the field for the next ten years. Without them there would be no France.

The above is taken from the article on the Battle of Bauge, which was fought in 1421.  Following this,  Archibald, 4th Earl of Douglas was made Lieutenant-General of the French forces and had conferred upon him the title of Duke of Touraine.


You refer to Walter Stutt.  Might he be Walter Strutt?  It just seems more likely, but I regret i have no records about who migh have travelled with the 4th earl.

William

 
 
 

Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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