William Hello, How do I change my web address.

Thanks for the info William! I don't have any dates for them yet!

HI William, Thank you for allowing me to join the Clan. I am researching my ancestor Alexander Douglas, born 1812 in Caithness, Scotland. Son of George Douglas born 1772, 

 This is a good resource on the Col. Edward Douglass 1713 - 1795 line for interested researchers.  "Historic Sumner County, Tennessee", Jay Guy Cisco 1909

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/ciscobk.htm

Thank You for including me in your group. I will advise my sister of this site as she is an avid family historian.

Thank you for accepting me into your space!!

Robert Jennings Douglas 27 January 1895  RIP 23 January 1987.

Marjorie Mary ( Wallis) his first wife: 25 January 1899 to 21 May 1990

Thelma Kathleen ( Burt) his second wife 10 June 1916 to 15 February 2002.

If there is anyone out there who can help me with their families please let me know. I am also looking for a birth date and a married name for Joan Douglas who was the daughter of the foist marriage. 

Many thanks Carol

Charles, Jr. (Second Clerk of Court of Leesburg)

                        Married Hannah Douglass, daughter of Colonel William Douglass

buried Old Stone Church Cemetery in Leesburg, Virginia Married Hannah Douglass (see Douglass Family) 1768-1843            buried Old Stone Church Cemetery in Leesburg, Virginia

Colonel William Douglass married Sarah and they had 8 children:

Hugh Douglass, Patrick Douglass, Kitty Heale, Betty Douglass, Nancy Douglass, Hannah Douglass, & Peggy Douglass

Hi There

sorry I haven't been online for a while for family reasons but back to the drawing board now. I am after William Douglas / Duglas B 1710 Ruislip Middlesex England his parents and wife I have Elizabeth Gordon or Elizabeth Offut  odd name.. Hoping that you can help me search.

Cheers Karen Morey NZ

James Douglass of Voluntown had an ancestor (Lt. Douglass) who fought and was killed in the Seige of Derry in 1689 (he was a defender of Derry). We still have not been able to identify that Douglass specifically and the records of the Seige do not give his first name. James Douglass' first child, William, was born in Ireland in February 1728. The three of them (James, wife Janet, and William) arrived in Connectict in the summer of 1729. In CHJD's book he once refers to William (b. 1610) as James' cousin, but don't know if that is a true cousin reference or just because they both had surnames "Douglass". He came from Ireland after being there for only a short time.

Thank you William, he is my 4th GGrandfather.

and thanks for the interesting link William,  Hugh and his family did well in Australia, he was listed as a book seller in later years.

Right now I'm more interested in the three, James, Janet and William, who came to CT. What port in Ireland did they sail from and why were they in Ireland in the first place?

Hi William,

My Samuel of Newtownards is the father of Henry and Hugh.  His widow, Agnes, came to New York City with five sons and one daughter in 1850.  I am the first child in my line that was not born in NYC, being born in VT.  I have a lot of info on Agnes and her family in the US, but ran into a dead end in Northern Ireland.

Jim

Hi William,

Yes, Henry B Douglass the sword owner is one of the sons of Samuel Douglass of Newtonards.  The family left Northern Ireland in 1850 and based on birth-dates of the children it is likely Samuel perished due to famine/cholera  along with many others shortly before 1850 and is buried in unmarked part of the only local cemetery.

Jim

Hi William - Thanks for the greetings. I'm particularly interested in any members with connections to Annan and/or Cummertrees. 

Hi William,

I'm Wayne's mother and am answering for him as he wasn't sure.  Yes, we (Wayne's dad, Dan, and I) do have a picture of the original building -  but it's a photocopy and not that great.  The building still stands and is in pretty good shape.  I'm not sure if IOOF still owns the building.  The American Legion held meetings there for years.  Plus, it's had a couple other businesses in the building over that past several years.  One was a dance studio on the upper level which our youngest daughter was enrolled in for lessons.  I have a little more info on the building if you're interested. 

Regards,

Penny and Dan Douglass

Alpha Douglas was my father's grandfather, in Oskaloosa, Iowa--late 1800's and early 1900's.  He was married to Alice (nee Wing) Douglas. They raised a slew of children. I have the list in a drawer and I'll bring it out. I posted a lot of known connections on Ancestry.com; does this website do something similarly?  

Thank you for your welcome William. I discovered that Ronald and his family were listed as passengers on a ship going to New York in 1931but I don't know if he continued to travel between the UK and USA after that. He had a daughter called June. His father was George Daniel Wilson Douglas, born 1865 in Bradford; died 1935.

Elizabeth Douglas,Countess of Buchan

1385–1451

Thanks. The info on George's mother is new to me so adds another piece to the jigsaw. I'll check it out further.

By coincidence, I found this auction information also yesterday. Sad to see. I don't know who sold them but will make some enquiries; thanks.

Regarding Ronald: as he died in the USA its proving tricky to get information about his death/family out there. Maybe someone on here - his daughter June or her family? - will one day make contact :)

Thanks, William. Will check this out.

Yes William, that is my ancestor. I am very excited about this!  The information I have includes almost exactly what you sent to me.  I will send you the information I have; what I have deciphered so far.  The original is handwritten and I have a copy of the original and it has taken me awhile to figure out all that it says.  By the way, my brother's name is William Douglas Newman.  :)

Hi William, thanks so much for this but I really am interested in finding DOUGLAS in Ireland - Edenburt especially.  My Great Grandmother was an immigrant to Whitehaven from Edenburt, Lurgan, Co. Cavan. Her Brother John must have come with her because he turned up in Liverpool, Lancashire whilst she married Thomas BENNET in St Bees, Cumberland in 1835.  I found a Thomas BENNET in Edenburt too - he came up on the census at Whitehaven but born in Ireland.  She was kind enough to visit her brother on census night - otherwise I might never have found her.

Yes that is the same man, he did have a son William Eagles. Do you have a genealogy that includes Frank Johnson Douglas?

Kathleen

Following up some SRO enquiries re the Douglasses of Cockpen I was wondering if anyone had any more information regarding a Jonet Douglas born 1681 to John Douglas and Isobel Hardie. I think that this is the same Janet who married a Cochrane in 1707 (in Newbattle) but that is yet to be confirmed. The Doulas Hardie marriage had 9 children at around the same time as the Douglas/Witherspoon marriage mentioned previously.

It would also be useful of anyone had more info re this John Douglas - albeit there are quite a number.

Jim

Ancestry%20Douglas.xlsx

I think I may have now managed to attach a file of the Douglas birth data for Cockpen and Newbattle from 1650. An potentially interesting point is that prior to that date there are no Douglas births so either the records are not held at SRO or there were none to record. The fact that William married to a Witherspoon was born in Dumfries may indicate that the Douglas connection is after 1650 in that locality   

William

Just had a look at the update on the stub re Cockpen Douglas I would think that the key thing is sorting out the suggested relationship between William Douglas  Awith Grishild McK.

What is known is that a William Duglass and Janet Witherspoon  DID have six children between 1694 and 1706 (all Cockpen) and on that basis a birth date of 1668 and a marriage of 1694 does not seen unreasonable.

Clearly that could not reconcile with a Marriage to GMCK in Penninghame in 1693 with children being born from 1693 onwards.

The only provisional conclusion that I can draw is that there are two marriages there and that the GMK one is a bit of a red herring  

Douglas

Thanks. No probs I am up north towards Pitlochry for the next few days and I will pick up when I return.

It does strike me that what is known is that there were two or three Douglas families in Cockpen/Newbattle at the time. It is certain that a William D did marry a Witherspoon and if his DOB and marriage is correct I can see where that gels with the backstory.  That however does not explain the Penninghame angle, if there is one. It may be as simple as two Williams and two marriages getting conflated. 

Also it does not necessarily shed any light on the  John Duglass who, I suspect may be my direct ancestor. The birth dates of Johns and Williams first children are circa 25 years apart so we are probably dealing with an earlier generation and there may be no actual connection to William D/Witherspoon.

You will probably know this already but it would be good to know when Cockpen records started as a separate parish. Given the history with the Kers I suspect that Newbattle is older and in fact there is a marriage between James of Queensberry and Mary Kerr in 1692 - again probably down to the Ker base at Newbattle 

I have updated the spreadsheet to include the other births.Ancestry%20Douglas.xlsx

Thankyou William,

The F.A D. -April 1974 etc. Fairly sure he is not our branch.

The Frederick Austin and Elizabeth Ann nee Blake are my husbands (Robert John) parents.

They had four sons all born St Helens, Lancashire (Registered in Preston)

Francis Joseph D b28/10/38 d in NZ 21/4/2008; (my husband) Robert John, b 7/11/40; Austin Frederick D b 11/4/43-d in Kelowna BC 27/2/2008;John Christopher b 21/6/50-d in NZ 21/9/1997

That is my husbands (Robert John) father - Fred on the Banjo. (Probably posted by Anne Sherriff, a 2nd cousin,I think) We are looking for Freds older brother, Robert Francis Douglas

William.

Thanks.

Just back after the trip. I double checlked and the date of that marriage with a

Ker is 1692. The fact that all this was happening in Newbattle/Cockpen does gel with other bits of family history - geographically that is in that stretch of territory in an arc south of Edinburgh.  It may be that it proves impossible to find out more about John D but some other bit of evidence may be out there.

William.

Just picking up on some more information on the Cockpen people re the information in the stub.

It does appear to be the case that there were two William Douglasses alive, married and having children at the same time. One partnership was with Grissell Mckeand in Penninghame and the other with Janet Witherspoon in Cockpen/Newbattle. It would be remarkable if he could have managed  both - based on the dates!  - details as per the spreadsheet. I am not sure if this still means that the Cockpen William was born in or is connected to Penninghame.

Book1.xlsx

yes, this is the Samuel H Douglass born 1726 and I have in Albemarie Co. Virginia. He died 1755 in Chilhowee, Johnson Co., MO. I don't have any other information other than he married Mary ?Denison?/maybe Davis 2 Nov 1749 in New London, Campbell Co., Virginia. From this point on, I am confused as to his father and so on. I originally had Archibald, born 1695 in Scotland, but another shows a Capt. Richard Douglass, b. 1682 and died 26 Nov 1756 in Lancaster, PA. I sure would like to get to Scotland and confirm my Douglass lineage. Thank you Judy 

Thank you, William.  I don't use Facebook or Twitter or any other social media, so I don't really know how or where to add this information.  Can you give me suggestions? I have a family history, though I don't know how accurate it is, that I could post somewhere.

Thank you, William!  I'll try the forum first and see if that will work.  My sister and I plan to visit Scotland next September and would like to see some "Douglas castles" and any other pertinent sites.  If you could recommend some?  Thanks again!

Hi William

thankyou for the information. It seems the headstones in Hounam are of some of my direct ancestors. The George Douglas 1727 - 1794 and Agnes Robson 1733 - 1795 are my Great grandparents x 6.

I am coming up to Edinburgh on Thursday 7th July for 4 days so I don't know if I would be able to meet some current Douglas's and I will try to get out to Hounam.

I would appreciate any more information you can give me.

Thanks

Sharon 

William, Yes, that's my family, and I've written to Kentucky to see if they have

any 1797 local information.  I have some info about William and Hugh D or David Hugh being in the Civil War, although William obviously older. The wife is Caty or Catherine, Born 1799, married 15 Aug 1822, Adair, KY, and her father was Levi Conover.  My info on him goes back to John W Couwenhoven, born 1681, and Wm. Updike, born 1704.  Maybe you have this. Great to have another person to relate to.  I recently visited Douglas Brides mausoleum in Scotland.

Hello William,

I added to the forum some of the older info. I have from a relative's notes.  They start with the James Douglas of the 1700's and work back.  Do you have any suggestions how I can trace the lineage from James going back?  

Steve Dougals

It's on "my page".  Is there some other place I should put it?  I'm woefully unfamiliar with how these sites work.

William,

Were you able to find the info. I posted on my page?  If not, do you know how I can get that to you?

Steve

thanks William,

I have been able to work my way back a ways in the last month,  and I know have the following info as latest known Douglass:

John C Douglass  b.1856  Wife- Susie A.   b.1868     I also belive that his father was a T. E. Douglass I am assuming this is a Theodore Douglass ,  and i think he was born 1827 married to an Elizabeth born 1834.  unfortunately i cannot find much on T.E.  other then a 1850 census report showing him as born in NY and at 23 years old living in a multi family home with Connors and Whallans

Thanks a lot. Im very happy about your information.

Jens