William Douglas's Blog – June 2013 Archive (5)

For those clansmen and clanswomen that wish to have a personalised Douglas email address, douglas.net is offering three plans to do just that.

I think I have enough addresses, so will be giving this a miss.

Looking for a personalised email address?  douglas.net is offering the opportunity for clansmen and clanswomen to have their own Douglas address.  

I think I have enough addresses already, so will give this one a miss.

Just had another request for membership.  I thought that I recognised the name from a previous encounter, so did a bit of checking, and found this...

When I was a schoolboy at school in Dunbar during one recess, my father took myself and my older brother in a rowing boat from the North Berwick harbour. He was a man of enormous physical strength, having been middleweight boxing champion of Scotland. He proceeded to row the small boat across a considerable expanse of sea to the island of Craigleith. We pulled the rowing boat onto the island and walked up to the top. And whilst there, to our astonishment the…

Reported in the paper of May 2Oth, 1757 :

" A young person, five feet high, aged about nineteen, who

entered in January last on board the Resolution privateer,

Capt. Barber, under the name of Arthur Douglas, proceeded

with the ship from London to this port (?Liverpool), went aloft to furl the

sails, &c. , when called upon, was frequently mustered amongst

the marines at the time they exercised the small arms, and in

short executed the office of a…