All Discussions Tagged 'Dalhousie' - The Douglas Archives2024-03-29T13:59:20Zhttps://douglashistory.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Dalhousie&feed=yes&xn_auth=noDouglases in Cockpen - 18th century and beforetag:douglashistory.ning.com,2012-08-24:3482022:Topic:526292012-08-24T13:26:12.442ZJenny Blainhttps://douglashistory.ning.com/profile/JennyBlain
<p><big><span class="font-size-2"><font size="-1"><big><font size="-1">Here's some of what I have on the Cockpen Duglass/Douglas people. At William's suggestion I'm putting this in a 'discussion' as there may be pieces that people want to follow up - I've seen several posts exploring this line.<br></br> <br></br> William Duglass and Janet Witherspoon had ten recorded children born between</font> <small>1695 and 1713. I have the baptism records for several, which show the parents in Dalhousie, in…</small></big></font></span></big></p>
<p><big><span class="font-size-2"><font size="-1"><big><font size="-1">Here's some of what I have on the Cockpen Duglass/Douglas people. At William's suggestion I'm putting this in a 'discussion' as there may be pieces that people want to follow up - I've seen several posts exploring this line.<br/> <br/> William Duglass and Janet Witherspoon had ten recorded children born between</font> <small>1695 and 1713. I have the baptism records for several, which show the parents in Dalhousie, in Cockpen parish, with the baptisms mostly recorded in Cockpen, one in Lasswade. Witnesses to baptisms, where I've seen the full record, include a John Witherspoon and one includes a William Duglass, one a George Duglass. In the Cockpen Kirk Session minutes for the 1690s and 1700s, William Duglass is the name of a Session elder, and from 1702 John Witherspoon is also named a session elder. There are various other Douglas and Witherspoon people about, including Margaret Duglass who married William Keddie and had several children - born in Dalhousie, and with baptism witnesses generally including William Duglass and John Witherspoon, two baptisms being in Cockpen, one at Newbattle and the earliest in Carrington.<br/> <br/> My speculation is that the witness William Duglass is either father or uncle of both William (married to Janet Witherspoon) and Margaret (married to William Keddie) - possibly more likely an uncle of William, as the name 'William' occurs quite far down William and Janet's children, though there could be other reasons for that. (Sorry about the plethora of Williams in that sentence!) There is a George Duglass in Wester Melwill (Wester Melville in Lasswade) who appears also as a witness in at least one other Cockpen record (a child of John Thomson) and who may be a brother, uncle or cousin of the William marrying Janet W.<br/> <br/> Of William and Janet's children, one, James born in 1697, became a tailor in Dalhousie and married May (or Mary) Marjorie Lindsay: my current thinking is that I'm descended from their son Robert (b 1736, Cockpen).<br/> <br/> I know that there has been a suggestion that William's father was another William (presumably in that case the session elder) but haven't seen anything to make this more than a speculation.<br/> <br/> Thoughts, queries, speculations, additions? I'll quickly add that I've only skimmed part of the Cockpen Kirk Session minutes, having only a short time at NAS in Edinburgh last time I was there. Would love to spend much longer with these.<br/> I'll post some details of the births, from OPR, later.</small></big></font></span></big></p>
<p>Jenny</p>