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The surname Randall appears strongly is Norfolk then somewhat Yorkshire. Finding Randall Douglas, of York County, VA. Names in locality which end in 'ton', seem to have Yorkshire origins.…
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In 1826, Count Karl von Welsperg decided to sell the heavily indebted Langenstein estate including the towns of Eigeltingen and Orsingen. With Prince Karl Egon zu Fürstenberg, to whom he initially offered the property; the count did not reach a trade agreement. Finally, Grand Duke Ludwig of Baden took over the offered objects for 190,000 guilders. In the same…
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Us to using a different format, but the above is and example of lands, including an insert-map showing Braidlee, from Anglo-Saxon Broadlee, meaning a valley broad on the leeward side. Wolflee also Anglo-Saxon, meaning the valley of the wolf. Yes, there were wolfs in the region. They introduced them around here and the Navajo grandmas shoot them for…
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Example concerning lands Scot, Douglas, Elliot, distribution around Hoik, and William Douglas ownership of these lands.
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six best images from Google search. September 9, 2023 from three sites: elwald.com, gorrenberry.com and clancrozier.com. Scientist and genealogist check my site: search. The Russian-English direction goes from left to right and encircles the northern hemisphere.…
Added by Mark Stephen Elliott on September 9, 2023 at 15:22 — 4 Comments
West (Douglas - Glendinning - Glendonwyn - Redheugh) East
A lot of the Glendinning are of R-L193, and it is said by James V. Elliott admin Border Reiver DNA about 37% have this R-L193 in them.
It is felt that the name originated from place names of the same region. The Glendonwyn surname likely was first of the names which were from…
Added by Mark Stephen Elliott on September 5, 2023 at 22:30 — 2 Comments
Guess, the Douglas need to know about the Cowie of Gorrenberry, as story my family made up in 16th century Scotland, just west of the Hermitage Castle. It could have been those Armstrong neighbors on the west in Billhope which has a bad influence on us, of Mangerton and relatives to that Gilnockie.
Clementis Hob's was so bad…
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Been placing DNA images on this Douglas History blog, and web. It seems there has been an international interest. The speakers of Russian seem to be quite interested. Do not know how interested the English speakers are, but here are a couple of image uploads meant to be shared.
Mark S. Elliott…
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