Mary Queen of Scots' last official letters as Queen of Scotland show that both George Douglas & John Drysdale had possible pecuniary interests in helping her to escape from Lochleven Castle and regain the Scottish throne.BackgroundMary Queen of ScotsReign - 14 December 1542 – 24 July 1567On 24…
In a previous post I gave some background information on the Barony and lands of Dryfesdale:…
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_International_ChurchThe Scots International Church or the Scottish Church (Dutch: Schotse Kerk) is located in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.The church was first built in 1643 for the many…
The 1998 publication - 'History of Dollar' contains a lot of information concerning early Drysdale feuars & tenants in Dollar i.e. residents of Dollar prior to 1605 & thereafter:…
Hi all,Following on from William Douglas's recent comment:…
Hi all, As many of you will have discovered when researching historical ancestors electronically, oftentimes important records are missed because the surname is spelt in a slightly different way, indexes located within the publications themselves (when available) help to mitigate this problem but…
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_of_Holyrood#:~:text=The%20Raid%20of%20Holyrood%20was,King%20James%20VI%20of%20Scotland.The Raid of Holyrood was an…
The Dollar Magazine March, 1909 (Vol. viii., No. 29) contains an article entitled "The Drysdales of Dollar and their Dumfriesshire Origin" by R. Paul (1909)…
This unknown lady is Sonja Sauerbier. I did not arrive at this conclusion on my own, this is Wilma Hamilton van der Garde's Auntie Sonja Sauerbier. Mistery solved. Thank you Wilma !Comment by William Douglas on July 30, 2019 at…
Drysdale is considered a sept of the Douglas clan, but it is quite likely that this was a separate family which existed previous to when the three Douglas brothers adopted the Drysdale name. A sept is a family that can be related to a clan or larger family for various reasons. Usually this came about either through marriage or by a small family seeking protection from a larger and more powerful neighbour.