February 2014 Blog Posts (7)

WILLIAM

     I DID A QUICK RESEARCH ON THE LADY DOUGLAS'S I SUBMITTED. ALL OF THEM WERE DOUGLAS AS THEIR MAIDEN NAME. SUCH AS: MURIEL WAS THE DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM"LE HARDI" DOUGLAS, JOAN WAS THE DAUGHTER OF ANDREW DOUGLAS AND MARION WAS THE DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM DOUGLAS. THANKS FOR THE QUESTION.

With worldwide interest in the sport following the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, it seemed appropriate to print this extract from John Kerr's book 'The History of Curling', published by David Douglas in Edinburgh in 1890.

In a poem* written by Captain Paterson about the beginning of this century are duly celebrated the deeds of Thomas Haddow (who is said to…

IN THE RECENT MONTHS I HAVE DISCOVERED THE FOWLLING PEOPLE: MURIEL DOUGLAS 1282-1312, WILLIAM DOUGLAS 1414-1458, WILLIAM DOUGLAS 1225-1274, MARION DOUGLAS 1422-1500, WILLIAM DOUGLAS 1440-1464, CATHERINE DOUGLAS 1453-1499, SIR ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS 1239-1333GEORGE DOUGLAS 1429-1462, CATHERINE DOUGLAS 1483-1581 AND SIR WILLIAM DOUGLAS 1397-1437

Bristow-Douglass "The Rev. James Bristow and Sarah Douglass Bristow" Their Ancestors and their Descendants 1640-1961 Compiled by Julia J. Bristow

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Each year, the Museum of the Everglades hosts the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Festival to celebrate her life.

Rick Hirsch of the Miami herald writes about her time on the Miami Herald, here:…

The ink sketch is haunting: A roughly clad Scottish Highlander and his young wife on snowshoes, trekking alone in swirling snow 200 years ago near Hudson Bay.

He's wearing a highland bonnet, shouldering a musket. She holds a bundle wrapped in tartan to her heart.

The bundle is a baby, born hours earlier in a tent banked in…

The founder of Douglas Pharmaceuticals, Sir Graeme Douglas, has announced his retirement as the company’s managing director, effective February 1. He will remain as chairman of the Board and his son, Jeff Douglas, the current chief executive, will assume the role of managing director of the Douglas Corporate Group, New Zealand’s largest pharmaceutical…