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THE PROVOST'S LAMP

A Provost was the chief magistrate of a Scottish burgh or town. In the nineteenth century the responsibility for lighting the streets and maintaining public order lay with the local council and the Provost was held responsible for the safety and security of the burgh. He was a prominent and honourable figure…

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.…

Chasing my Y-DNA part 28…

On my visit to Piacenza I searched for this armorial unsuccessfuly.

I was told that I was in the centre of the Douglas Scotti area of the city and that there were lots of family palaces - but that did not help!

Kicked off Wiki, Wikitree, and FTDNA. Great to be on Douglas's blog. Chief Margaret Eliott of Redheugh, whose land was gifted to the clan by "Bell the Cat" Douglas, is great not to be kicked off Douglas's blog.

Own and operate elwald.com, clancrozier.com, and gorrenberry.com. I guess they'll have to contact me to kick me off the blog.…

Buried deep in the Archives, I came across a history of this particular family, which I share:

A member of the Methven family recently shared their family crest.

I was not aware of a familial linkage so have done some research, which may or may not be accurate as the heart in this image is not 'flaming'.

Here's what I found:

The Methven coat of arms does not traditionally include a heart. While some Smith families (who are…

Rev JOHN DRYSDALE AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 1681-1991 by D C L Drysdale, is

the story of Rev John Drysdale (1681-1726), Minister at Kirkcaldy from 1712-1726, and

his famous descendants, by his wife, Anne Ferguson, daughter of William Ferguson,

Provost of Kirkcaldy. His third son, Rev John Drysdale (1718-1788), minister in

Edinburgh, was twice elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of

Scotland. Another son, William Drysdale (1717-1757), was merchant and…

ADAM DRYSDALE (1806-1886) OF MONTREAL, His Ancestors, Descendants and

Related Families (1987) by Alpin Ogilvie Drysdale, can really be sub-titled The

Drysdales of Dunfermline, Montreal, and Newfoundland, for the families were all

connected. The families can be traced back to Dunfermline to the Thomas Drysdale

who married Janet Walker. They had 3 children: Adam (b 1738), who married Margaret

Thomson in Inverkeithing in 1762; William (b 1740), who married…

We began the month as we ended June, with silly numbers of site visitors - 10 million in 10 days.



The numbers have reduced, but fluctuate wildly.



However, we have a quarter of a million daily visitor aveage!  Why is the Douglas Archives website so busy?…

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The use of Google, Facebook, Twitter etc has caused me to re-think my membership. I can't join the DNA group because it requires a "social media" login.

After 40 years in IT I refuse to use social media to continue my research.