Could Douglas have Saxon name origins?

[Mark Stephen Elliott]

[Mark Stephen Elliott]

Am matching Y-DNA this group of people which I feel the names Koons, Koontz, Kuntz, Cuntze and so on ar derived from Kuntze which show concentration in Lower Saxon. These would be names developed before written language, and before surname adoption. It is felt that my Y-DNA is of a Saxon nature.

[Mark Stephen Elliott]

[William Douglas]

There is Saxony and there is 'Old Saxony', the area inhabited by Saxons. Old Saxony corresponds roughly to the modern German states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and the Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia.

'Modern' Saxony has been a medieval duchy, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, a kingdom, and twice a republic. The first Free State of Saxony was established in 1918 as a constituent state of the Weimar Republic. After World War II, it became part of the German Democratic Republic and was abolished by the communist government in 1952. Following German reunification, the Free State of Saxony was reconstituted with enlarged borders in 1990 and became one of the five new states of the Federal Republic of Germany.

As the centuries have passed, so too have the boundaries, and the occupants have come and gone as history dictated.

Recording Douglases through time in this part of the world is not easy as one has to decide where the places lay then and now.  I have not made any attempt to standardise this, just taking the places as recirded by the sources available.

The Douglas Archives location map does not record any significant places in saxony, but there may be well be places listed in the genealogy database.
See:
•  Map at the foot of www.douglashistory.co.uk/history 
•  www.douglashistory.co.uk/famgen/places.php