The Douglas Archives
Interesting people
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Sheila Chisholm
Sheila Chisholm is the wife of my 5th cousin, twice removed.She wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, bedded a future king, was feted by London and New York society for 40 years, and died a Russian princess.Vivacious, confident, and striking, Sheila Chisholm met her…
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Angela Tremble
Deborah Harry [Blondie] was born Angela Tremble on July 1, 1945 in Miami, Florida. At three months, she was adopted by Catherine (Peters) and Richard Smith Harry, and was raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey .From what I gather Tremble is a corruption of Turnbull…
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Jane Horney
"Jane" Ebba Charlotta Horney (married Granberg), (8 July 1918 – 20 January 1945) was a Swedish woman, believed to have spied in Denmark for the benefit of Nazi Germany, and to have been killed by the Danish resistance movement on a fishing boat at Øresund, but it has never been confirmed for which…
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Mary Fairfax Somerville, 1780-1872, Scottish Mathematician
I was struck by this lady's achievements while investigating a Corbett-Somerville marriage. It turns out that my Corbett ancestor was not the one who married a Somerville. Mary Fairfax Somerville was a notable mathematician, at a time when females were not encouraged to participate in science. …
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Robert McKinstray - the Greatest Runner in Britain in his Day.
One of my Morrison ancestors married a McKinstray. Upon looking into the McKinstray family, I came across this story.http://www.maybole.org/notables/robert_mckinstray.htmOne of the earliest, and most famous, of all Maybole…
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Dimitri Tiomkin - Russian born film score composer
I stumbled across Dimitri Tiomkin when researching the Douglas of Bonjedward branch of the family.Dimitri's second wife was Olivia Cynthia Mary patch, who married secondly James Alastair Sholto Douglas, son of Major Henry James Sholto Douglas. Olivia was the great-granddaughter of Ralph Anstruther,…
