Michael Ferrier

Male

Colchester, Essex

United Kingdom

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Which Douglas line are you researching? Dates and places help making connections.
Archibald (sometimes called James) Douglas was, according to a handwritten family tree, my gt-gt-gt-gt grandfather. He married Margaret Flora Stuart (1771-1847) who was the daughter of Col. the Hon. James Stuart (1741-1808), the younger son of the 8th Earl of Moray. I have no birth or death dates for Archibald Douglas, but his elder daughter, Maria Esperanza was born in 1795 and at the time of his younger daughter's, Margaret Flora, marriage in 1818, he was referred to as the late Mr. Douglas of the West Indies. The handwritten family tree describes him as Black Douglas; whether that is referring to his racial ancestry or to distiguish him from the Red Douglases, I don't know. I wish to find out more about Archibald Douglas (dates etc).
Who is your earliest known Douglas ancestor?
see above

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  • William Douglas

    Some coincidences here?

    Jul 10, 2017

  • William Douglas

    Grave information for Margaret Flora Campbell (Douglas), located in the Inveresk (Saint Michael, Musselburgh) Cemetery, Musselburgh Scotland.

    Jul 10, 2017

  • William Douglas

    Lt Col Hon James Stuart, born 17 April 1741 ; captain 20th Foot, 24 February 1762; lieutenant-colonel Sutherland Fencible Regiment, 1793 ; deputy-governor of Fort George, 13 January 1777 ; captain North British Veteran Battalion, 21 April 1803. Died at Fort George 4 May 1808. He died unmarried.

    MARRIAGE: August 24, 1818. At Calcutta, Mr J. Campbell of the Bengal civil service, to Margaret Flora, daughter of the late Mr Douglas, West Indies, and niece of Major J. L. Stuart, honourable East India Company's service.

    West Indies connection 1: James Robert Douglas, born 1825, youngest son of Archibald Douglas, advocate, died Besquia, St Vincent, on 8 November 1849

    West Indies connection 2: Archibald Douglas, (1776-1860), was the son of John Douglas (1745-) and C (1745-) and Cecilia Buchanan (1740-) and a grandson of William Douglas of Leith. Archibald was in partnership with his two brothers, John and Thomas, who had sugar and cotton estates in the Guianas and the West Indies, on Berbice and Demerara. Together, they formed the Glasgow-based merchant house of J. T. and A. Douglas & Co.

    Jul 10, 2017