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P.S. Two of those censuses show that James and Flora raised two Arnold children. The names of the boy, Franklin Douglass Arnold, leads me to think James/Flora may have had an older daughter married to an Arnold.
Multiple CT and NJ Douglasses and Arnolds married. Several Franklin Douglasses in my tree all seem to descend from Asa, who shares my GG Robert's father William, 1610-1682. William is the go-to given name for the hundreds of American families descended from William 1610.
Benajah and Martha (1762-1818) Arnold Douglass had a son, Dr Beriah, who had a son, Dr Franklin Douglass b about 1827 in New York. I don't know what became of him, but they all moved from various NY towns to Appleton WI. Could Beriah have had a son James and a daughter who married an Arnold cousin of his grandmother?
I haven't figured out all of these cousin clan yet, in part because of adoptions in central NJ (probably smallpox epidemic) and a murder in Knox County OH that left others orphaned and adopted out again. Certain religious non-conformities may have caused generational gaps, too.
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.
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