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Researching members of the Douglas family in Ireland is notoriously difficult. So many records have been destroyed, and the families often moved on to America, or elsewhere.
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Here, in Scotland, we have been enjoying a celebrity pilgrimage (You…Continue
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lived in carrick on shannon prison turnkey lived 90 main street married ann tolen//chjldren william/ elen robert ann ester/ann married polceman 1869 michael deerans from galwayContinue
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NEARLY 400,000 Irish Catholic parish records will be made publically accessible via a new genealogy resource website due to be launched this summer.People researching their Irish family tree from all corners of the globe will be able to search the records – which date from the 1740s to the 1880s – for free, thanks to a new National Gallery of Ireland initiative.http://www.irishpost.co.uk/news/significant-genealogy-project-makes...
Just saying hello, I'm part of a Douglas family from Ireland. Sadly not much is known about our history as, in honesty, I was always too young to be interested. Now I am older I am starting to get interested in the Douglas history.
The little I do know. My Mother and siblings were born into the family of James Hill Douglas and Anne Douglas. They lived in Sydenham in East Belfast. James was a local mechanic, although not professionally trained, people would come from all over Belfast to have him work on their car. His job, from what I recall, was in the Steelworks in Belfast called Sirrocco.
Sadly that is pretty much all I knew about this side of the family.
I received a couple of messages overnight which did not contain email addresses for a response.
1. Lurgan ancestry: family home donard view milltown roadoutside lurgan but family may have been from kinnego townland
2. a big family of douglases lived in kinnego at lough neagh moses douglas born 1740 had alot of sons one was called john the sons married and moved on its probably the same family. moses married hillary marsden and some marsdens still live in lurgan
Can anyone tell me more?
Another resource:
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/search.jsp?nam...
Some resources:
http://derry.rootsireland.ie/
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/derry/index.htm
http://www.igp-web.com/derry/index.htm
http://www.ancestryireland.com/
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nirldy/derrymr.html
http://www.ulsterheritage.com/forrest/derrybook.htm
http://www.findmypast.com.au/search?region=australasia&sourceca...
Apparently some pay to view sites are free in a public library.
Freemen of the City of Cork
Douglass Alexander Goldsmith 9/11/1770
Douglass James Esquire
Douglass William Col. 97th Regt. now in Cork. (1817)
Sarah,
How the Douglases came to be in Co. Wicklow in the 18th century, I dont know, but the Scots settled in Ireland as Undertakers part of the Plantation of Ulster, and William's family may be descended from them.
Research on the Douglases in Wicklow seems thin, espcialy in and around 1779, but there are a couple of interesting threads on later members of the family:
http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.britisles.ireland.wic.general...
http://boards.ancestry.com.au/localities.britisles.ireland.wic.gene...
Happy hunting!
The earliest record for our branch of the Douglas family in Co Wicklow is the baptism of William Douglas in 1779. I dont know when we came to this area or why we came here.
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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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