Welcome to our group, Ian.
Adding detail to your James Douglas will make him stand out and easier for others to link to, and thus share information.

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.

You should consider joining the Irish group.

Yours aye,

William