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Office oft he President  District Commissioner Kabarole District Offices P.O. Box 38 Fort Portal + 256 770 954 9276 Musisa House, Boma, Fort Portal P.O. Box 38 Fort Portal - Uganda Staatswappen: The …

Office oft he President  District Commissioner

Kabarole District Offices

P.O. Box 38 Fort Portal

+ 256 770 954 9276

Musisa House, Boma, Fort Portal

P.O. Box 38 Fort Portal - Uganda

Staatswappen: The Republic of Uganda

Office oft he President of Uganda

Victoria Avenue

Kyagwe Rd. Kampala

P.O. Box 25497 Kampala

Kampala (Uganda)

U9th  November 2020

 

TO: WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

RE: RCOMMENDATIN…

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Added by Werner Conde Zurek de Grotów on January 29, 2022 at 12:42 — No Comments

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Added by Werner Conde Zurek de Grotów on January 29, 2022 at 12:40 — No Comments

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Added by Werner Conde Zurek de Grotów on January 29, 2022 at 12:40 — No Comments

Award from Uganda and the Kingdom Tooro

Added by Werner Conde Zurek de Grotów on January 29, 2022 at 12:39 — No Comments

Letter from Mary, Queen of Scots to the French Ambassador to England

This letter was sent to the French ambassador to England less than two months following Mary's daring escape from Lochleven castle on the 2nd May 1568, where she had been imprisoned following her forced abdication in favour of the infant James VI. Mary's escape from Lochleven was aided by George Douglas, the brother of the landowner,…

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Added by William Douglas on January 28, 2022 at 19:10 — No Comments

Elizabeth "Lizbeth" Baird - "Mother Douglass"

Elizabeth "Lizbeth" Baird was daughter of Lewis M. Baird's Zebedee B. who fought alongside 6+ of his brothers in the Civil War. She was the wife of Andrew Douglass and was affectionately known as "Mother Douglas" for her vital role in caring for her son, George Washington Douglas's six children after their mother, Ollie Marshall's, untimely death in Newcomb, TN in 1922 of viral infection at the age of 30.

Lizbeth is pictured with Jessie Esler (right) with brother…

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Added by William Douglas on January 12, 2022 at 16:30 — 1 Comment

Sir William Arbuthnot of Kittybrewster (1950-2021

The news of the death of Sir William Arbuthnot in October has only just reached me.

Known to many as Kittybrewster, he was a Wikipedian and genealogist, and it seems in his spare time, a London banker.

His brother James, Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, of Edrom in the County of Berwick PC, reported:

...he had awful Parkinson's Disease, and…

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Added by William Douglas on January 4, 2022 at 11:05 — 1 Comment

New Years Honours - 2022

BBC Wales - Colin Jackson's Raise Your Game - Training ground - Jill Douglas

Congratulations to:

*Jill Douglas who has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the  New Years Honours - 2022 for services to for services to Sport and Charity.

See: http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/jilldouglas.html ;

* Major James Alexander DOUGLAS, Adjutant General’s Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch) also appointed a Member of the…

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Added by William Douglas on January 3, 2022 at 13:00 — 1 Comment

Not to be confused with Drysdale

From  the  Kershaw  News  Era , Camden , SC Dec. 24 , 1948

 by Mrs. E. C. Croxton 

The name Truesdale is of English origin and is said to have been derived from the residence of its first bearer at a placed called Troutsdale in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. In the ancient records, it is found in many different forms: Troutsdale, Truesdell, Trewsdell, etc., down to the generally accepted ones in…

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Added by Russell Lynn Drysdale on January 3, 2022 at 12:51 — 3 Comments

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The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

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.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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