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December 2021 Blog Posts (4)

Is this a Douglas seal?

Found in central Scotland, this seal could be the winged heart of a Douglas family. But is it?

And if not, whose crest might it be?…

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Added by William Douglas on December 30, 2021 at 23:32 — No Comments

Could Douglas have Saxon name origins?

Added by Mark Stephen Elliott on December 27, 2021 at 1:23 — 3 Comments

Who is J. Boleyn Douglas?

Seaforth House, Simonstown.

“Captain Thomas Talbot Harrington, of the East India Company, was born in Wiltshire in 1780, and moved to the Cape in 1814 and built a house which he named after his wife's (Jemima Douglas 1784-1820) uncle, the Earl of Seaforth. The house was subsequently dismantled after his…

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Added by William Douglas on December 3, 2021 at 14:35 — 1 Comment

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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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