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Michelle Y Durand
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Ronald Drysdale left a comment for Michelle Y Durand
"Hi again Michelle, This publication seems to be the best sourced work on the Kilgour name:  Origin and History of the Ancient Name…"
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"Hi Michelle While all of the major online Genealogy sites seem to have the Douglas-Kilgour & Mouswald family lines listed, none of them appear to have any relevant source material which backs up those relationships. ScotlandsPeople -…"
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"James Kilgour was born on 18 August 1603, in Fife, Scotland, his father, Sir James Douglas Kilgour, 2nd Lord of Mouswald,, was 18 and his mother, Lady Janet Thyne Kilgore, was 14. He had at least 1 son with Lady Isabella Steele Lowe Kilgore. He died…"
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"Welcome to our community, Michelle. Do let us know when you hve identified your earliest Douglas ancestor. Yours aye, William"
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Which Douglas line are you researching? Dates and places help making connections.
Drumlanrig Castle, from the 9th century until now.
Kilgour/ Killgore/ Kilgower, ...
I was a Kilgore from the line that migrated to Down Ireland from Edinburgh, Abberdeenshire, and area.
I had absolutely no idea that my DNA showed Scottish, 27 percent, and 5% Prussian or German.
3 percent Irish, some Wales 1%, and the rest is British ancestry. I also have 0.09 % Black. A man, named David Ali is my 5th cousin, maybe 6th. He may have been adopted.
What are the issues with my ancestors, and claiming the Douglas family as their own.?
Seems that information has originally come from good sources.
I do have Scottish ties to the Royal family. The castle, Drumlanrig, was where my family is said to have lived for many generations.
I have a tree that traces it on familysearch.org.
Who is your earliest known Douglas ancestor?
I will check, and get back on that.
Tags/keywords - used to help people find you
Edi buKilgore Killgore Kilgour, James Douglas Kilgour,

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At 22:21 on July 18, 2025, Ronald Drysdale said…

Hi again Michelle,

This publication seems to be the best sourced work on the Kilgour name:

 Origin and History of the Ancient Name Kilgour

https://publiclibrary.cc/digitalcollections/files/original/12/13646/Origin-and-History-of-the-Ancient-Name-Kilgour.pdf

Best regards

At 15:31 on July 18, 2025, Ronald Drysdale said…

Hi Michelle

While all of the major online Genealogy sites seem to have the Douglas-Kilgour & Mouswald family lines listed, none of them appear to have any relevant source material which backs up those relationships.

ScotlandsPeople - nothing, Familysearch - nothing, Geni - nothing, Wikitree - some sources listed - but nothing relevant
etc

The first official record (transcript of a Scotlandspeople record) I've come across is copied below:

The following publication seems to have been used as a source for much of what is now online:

CHARLES KILGORE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN - A New History of The Kilgore Family

https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G003732.pdf

This name relationship was also looked at by the CDSNA see attached pdf.

CDSNA SEPTS 2011-07


Best regards and good luck with your research

At 9:23 on July 18, 2025, William Douglas said…

Thank you, Michelle, for giving us details of your ancestors.

I am having some trouble connecting 'Kilgour' with Mouswaldand will have to dig deeper.
Here is a reference:
https://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/downloads/Barony_of_Mouswald.pdf

Yours aye,

William

At 2:54 on July 18, 2025, Michelle Y Durand said…
James Kilgour was born on 18 August 1603, in Fife, Scotland, his father, Sir James Douglas Kilgour, 2nd Lord of Mouswald,, was 18 and his mother, Lady Janet Thyne Kilgore, was 14. He had at least 1 son with Lady Isabella Steele Lowe Kilgore. He died in 1700, in York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 97.
My earliest known ancestor.
Michelle Kilgore Durand
256-278-5902
At 14:09 on July 5, 2024, William Douglas said…

Welcome to our community, Michelle.

Do let us know when you hve identified your earliest Douglas ancestor.

Yours aye,

William

 
 
 

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Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

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'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.

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