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October 2025 Blog Posts (4)

Sorting the Douglas of Cavers family

Whilst continuing work on the Douglas of Cavers family, I am looking at several 'missing links' that now seem to be coming together.

The Posthumous Son

This story begins in the late 17th century with William Douglas, the 11th of Cavers, whose life ended in December 1676. His youngest son, Thomas Douglas, was…

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Added by William Douglas on October 9, 2025 at 16:00 — No Comments

Friends (Quaker) Meeting, Gordon Memorial Hall, St. Ninian Episcopalian Church Castle Douglas, Scotland

It is probably bad enough for those Grahams, that I think a lot of the Armstrong, an indigenous Scotland pitch-in people, that I'm a Quaker the type George Fox convinced of the Harden family which Walter Scot said in French was jailed in Edinburgh Prison. Probably don't gain status amongst the Douglas, but there is a Quaker Meeting at "Gordon" Memorial Hall, of Saint Ninian (Elwald) (Anglican) Episcopal Church, in CASTLE DOUGLAS, Scotland.…

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Added by Mark Stephen Elliott on October 2, 2025 at 19:42 — 2 Comments

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Making conections

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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